March 24, 2004 Draft DENR/DAQ Mercury/CO2 Workshop Agenda
Monday April 19, 2004
8:00 AM: Coffee and Informal Networking
Introduction Formalities and Informalities
8:27:
Introduction and Welcome Keith Overcash Director, Division of Air Quality (DAQ)
Background and Significance of Clean Smokestacks Act - Brock Nicholson, Deputy Director,
DAQ, Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)
8:52:
Purpose and Charge for this Workshop, Logistics, etc. - Jim Southerland, Environmental
Engineer, Planning Section, NC DAQ
Review of Basis for Issues To Be Addressed: CO2 and Mercury – Moderator, Sheila Holman, Chief,
Planning Section, NC DAQ
Question to Review: Why are we (and the Legislature) concerned with CO2 and Mercury?
9:00:
Review of the science and concerns for climate change in North Carolina - Ryan Boyles Associate State Climatologist, State Climate Office of North Carolina at NC State University
9:25:
History and Transitions of the Global Warming Program and Policies in the US – Wiley
Barbour, Environmental Resources Trust
9: 50
Development, Components and Status of the NC State Energy Plan – Larry Shirley, Director,
North Carolina State Energy Office, Department of Administration
10:25:
BREAK
10:50:
Health Effects of Methylmercury and North Carolina's Advice on Eating Fish - Dr. Luanne
Williams, Toxicologist, NC DHHS
11:05 Recent NC Water Quality Mercury Monitoring Results - Michelle Woolfolk, Water Quality
Engineer, NC Division of Water Quality
11:30 Update on DAQ’s Air Quality Measurements and Mercury Studies - Steve Schliesser and Todd
Crawford, Toxic Protection Branch, NC DAQ
11:50 BREAK For Lunch
12:00
Buffet Lunch Line Opens (Registered attendees)
12:25 Lunch Speaker – Importance and Impacts of CSA Sections 12 and 13 and Your Input for
the Future of North Carolina- Secretary William Ross, Department of Environment and Natural
Resources (DENR)
1:30 - General Mercury Topics and Issues Session (Hg-1) – Moderator- Michael Abraczinskas,
Environmental Engineer/Meteorologist, NC DAQ
Question to Answer: Can we understand the science of mercury and the associated technical gaps and
issues?
1:30
Voluntary Mercury Reductions: NC Champions – Norma Murphy, NC Division of Pollution
Prevention (P2), DENR
1:50
State of Science/Ability to Measure Mercury in Smoke Stack Environments – Barrett Parker –
US EPA
2:25
Developing a Tool for Estimating Mercury Emissions and Reductions from Coal-Fired Utilities –
Jeff Cole and Clark Allen – Research Triangle Institute
2:55
BREAK
3:20
Atmospheric Modeling and Deposition of Mercury from Stack to Sounds and other Water
Bodies – O. Russell Bullock, Jr. - Meteorologist - NOAA Air Resources Laboratory (on assignment to
the EPA Office of Research and Development)
4:00
Historical Scientific Examination of Mercury Deposition to the Florida Everglades Over the
Past 100 Years, Thomas D. Atkeson, Fl DEP, Tallahassee, FL and Robert K. Stevens, FL DEP at USEPA,
RTP, NC
4:45
End of Day Discussions, Announcements and Reminders
Adjourn for Day
“Our standards should be as aggressive as we can technically justify.” - Mike Leavitt, Administrator USEPA, before House Budget
Committee, C-SPAN, March 2003
Tuesday, April 20
8:00:
Coffee and Networking
8:28NC-Specific Mercury Topics and Issues – Session 2 - (Hg- 2) – Moderator – Steve Schliesser, Senior
Environmental Engineer, NC DAQ
Question to Be Answered: What Mercury reductions are possible, and what makes sense in NC?
8:29
USEPA’s Proposed Mercury MACT and Alternate Proposals for Mercury Reduction Trading
Options - A Summary of Options and Schedule for Comments and Final Regulations: Bill Maxwell/ Bob
Wayland, USEPA (subject to daily developments)
9:15
Performance and Costs of Mercury Control Technology for Bituminous Coals –Dr. Michael Durham, President,
ADA Environmental Solutions
9:45
BREAK
10:15 Achieving CSA System-wide Reductions in (NOx & SO2) Emissions at Duke Energy Facilities
and Reactions to Achieving EPA’s MACT/Trading Proposals for Mercury (Including limited comments
on options for new technologies, etc.) - George Everett, Duke Energy
10:40 Achieving CSA System-wide Reductions in (NOx & SO2) Emissions at Progress Energy
Facilities and Reactions to Achieving EPA’s MACT/Trading Proposals for Mercury– Ben White, Progress
Energy
11:05 Estimated Emission Reductions in NC from Co-control as a Result of CSA, Using EPA Tool to
Estimate NC Coal Fired Power Plant Mercury Emissions– Paul Grable &Steve Schliesser, Environmental
Engineers, NC DAQ
11:20 Developing Policy Options That Can Result in Integration of CO2 and Mercury Reductions and
State Implementation Plan Credits; Alden Hathaway, Environmental Resources Trust, Inc.
Washington, DC
11:50 BREAK For Lunch
12:00 Buffet Lunch (Registered attendees)
12:20 Lunch Speakers–
Environmental Activities and Expectations from Within the Utility Sector for Future Regulations
on a National Scale – C.V. Mathai – Pinnacle West, Phoenix, AZ
Insights from Economic Analyses of the Impacts to the Utility Industry from Mercury and CO2
Controls, Anne E. Smith, Vice President, Charles River Associates, Washington, D.C.
1:45
Mercury Reduction Programs in Other States – Martha Keating (Chapel Hill, NC), Project
Manager, Clean Air Task Force, Boston, MA
General CO2 Topics and Issues - (CO2–1) – Moderator – Phil Bisesi, Project Manager, NC State
Energy Office
Question to Answer: Can we understand the technical scope of the causes and means for reducing CO 2
from coal-fired utility boilers?
2:05
Potential Impacts of the NC State Energy Plan on Emissions of CO2 with Technical Procedures
and Assumptions Upon Which These Plans Were Developed – Dr. Jeff Tiller, Appalachian State
University
2:35
Technology, Energy Efficiency, and Renewable Energy for Emission Reduction – Ward Lenz,
Energy Programs Director and John Morrison, Vice President, Advanced Energy
3:05
Break
3:25
The People, the Planet and the Pocketbook: How a Green Builder Program Can Avoid
Emissions Using Solar Energy, Dona Stankus AIA, NC Solar Center
3:50
Potential in NC for Extraction of Wind Energy – Dr. Dennis Scanlin, Professor, Technology
Department, Appalachian State University
4:20
Past, Present and Projected Participation in Climate Wise by North Carolina Companies, James
Haven, Global Warming Initiatives INC
4:45
Comment and Discussion Period – Any Monday or Tuesday topic
Adjourn for Day
Wednesday April 21
8:00
Coffee and Networking
NC Specific CO2 Topics and Issues – Session (CO2-2) – Moderator – Jim Southerland
Question to answer: What steps can/should we pursue in North Carolina, and on what basis?
8:26
Review of Real/Practical and Projected Options for CO2 Reductions at a Coal-Fired Generating
Unit – Kevin Johnson, URS
9:00
Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) Technology; carbon sequestration and cost
implications, Joe Chaisson, (Harpswell, ME), Clean Air Task Force (Boston, MA)
9:30
Forestry and Agriculture as Real Options to Increase Carbon Sequestration in Vegetation and
Soils. Dr. William H. Schlesinger, Dean, The Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences,
Duke University
10:05: Break
10: 30: NC Animal Waste as a Potential Resource for Reducing CO2 and Methane Emissions, Dr. Mike
Williams, Director, NC Animal Waste Research Center, NC State University, Raleigh
10:55 Industry Experiences in Reducing CO2 and GHG Emissions – A Case Study of International
Proportions– Bill Bailey, DuPont, Charlotte, NC
11:25 What Other States Are Doing or Considering Regarding Reductions of CO2 From Coal Fired
Utilities – With an Update from Milan and Introduction to STAPPA/ALAPCO’s Software – Amy Royden
of STAPPA/ALAPCO
11:50 BREAK For Lunch
12:00 Lunch Served
12:20 - Lunch Speaker: Levers, Pulleys and Clean Air, Michael Shore, Environmental Defense
Potpourri of Mercury & CO2 Topics, Issues and Discussions – Moderator, Jim Southerland
Question to Answer: What is the bottom line?
1:20
Overview of the Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership, Gerald R. Hill, Ph. D,
Senior Technical Advisor, Southeastern Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership,
1:45
Effects of Hg and CO2 Reductions on Customers/Rate Implications in North Carolina–Elise
Cox, NC Utilities Commission
2:10
Discussion Period and Suggested Ideas for Final September 2005 Report
2:45
Closing Comments by Keith Overcash, Director, DAQ, then
Adjourn
"Who are you gonna believe," Groucho Marx asked. "Me or your own eyes?" Your own eyes, it turns
out, as in the notion that when a theory conflicts with the facts on the ground, the facts, not the
theory, win out.
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