Changes at IDEM Since EQSC House Environmental Affairs Committee January 28, 2009 Thomas W. Easterly, P.E., BCEE, QEP Commissioner IN Department of Environmental Management 1

Performance Metrics Jan We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment Quality of Hoosiers' EnvironmentResultTargetComments % of Hoosiers in counties meeting air quality standards 84%100%80% 2 counties & 981,839 of 6,345,289 above standard % of CSO Communities with approved programs to prevent the release of untreated sewage 93%100%20%90+9 (99) out of 98+9 (107) Permitting Efficiency Total calendar days accumulated in issuing environmental permits, as determined by state statute Land 16,64766,56586, permits 317 permits 24 permits Air 72,845207,000385,000 Water 29,71248,000200,000 * Places emphasis on back logged permits Compliance Total percentage of compliance observations from regulated customers within acceptable compliance standards Inspections 96.22%97%75% Self reporting 94.93%99%95% Continuous monitoring (COM) 99.85%99.90%98.95% * Tracks observations and not just inspections Organizational Transformation Budgetary agency dollars spent on key outside contracts for core agency functions. Dollars spent on outside services per year $1,500,000$0$3,447,017 $1.5 OLQ

Performance Metrics June We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

New Drinking Water Metric Percent of Hoosiers Drinking Safe Water – Percentage of Indiana population that receives drinking water from facilities that are in full compliance with safe drinking water regulations – Federal (EPA) Goal is 90% – Indiana Goal is 99% – Indiana Current Actual is 98.2% 4 We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

How Does IDEM Protect the Environment? Develop regulations and issue permits to restrict discharges to the environment to safe levels Inspect and monitor permitted facilities to ensure compliance with the permits Enforce against people who exceed their permit levels or violate regulations Educate people on their environmental responsibilities 5 We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

Total Permit Calendar Days 6 We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

Air Permits Branch Rapid Improvement Activities Lean/Kaizen Methodology to improve efficiency – Significant Source Modifications (Construction Approvals) 9/07 Event Process time reduced from 220 days to 121 days avg. – Permit Renewals 12/07 Event Process time reduced from 678 day avg. to all those issued in ’08 within 270 days allowed (calendar days) Eliminate backlog of administratively extended permits – 1/1/ permits – 1/7/09 only 9 remaining 7 We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

Agency Accomplishments All 97 State lead CSO Communities and 2 of the Federal lead Communities have entered legal agreements to address their CSO issues. We are working with USEPA to speed the progress on the remaining 8 Federal lead CSO communities. 8 We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

Agency Accomplishments Entire State met the 0.08 ppm Ozone air quality standard for the period , and we are working with USEPA to have Lake and Porter Counties designated attainment. Entire State also met the Ozone air quality standard for the year All but Clark County met the PM 2.5 Air Quality Standards for the period We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

Agency Initiatives Virtual File Cabinet—electronic filing system with 40,000,000 pages now online TEMPO—Enterprise wide electronic integration of all IDEM information—part of the to receive and process electronic permit applications and reports – Two programs accepting electronic submittals, 401 Certifications and Community Right to Know 10 We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

Agency Initiatives Returned enforcement function to the air, water and land programs and eliminated the separate office of enforcement. Provide consistent Statewide air quality permitting, monitoring and enforcement services by directly managing the air program functions previously contracted to: Anderson, Evansville, Gary, Hammond, Indianapolis, and Vigo County. 11 We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

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Reasons for Enforcement Change No improvement in compliance rates in 4 years EPA HQ told me both enforcement models (separate office or in program) are used effectively Enforcement was regularly “waiting on program staff” under the control of other managers Unpublished enforcement policies resulted in unexpected actions—too timid and too aggressive 13 We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

Compliance and Enforcement Response Policy (CERP) CERP was last revised in 2003 and was an internal IDEM document. In order to meet our goal of transparency we decided to update the CERP and publish it as a Non Rule Policy Document under IC Draft signed for 45 day public comment period on 10/31/ We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

Compliance and Enforcement Response Policy (CERP) The 45 day review period ended in Mid December, but because of the changes to the enforcement structure the CERP will be revised and posted for another 45 day comment period before being presented to the Air, Water and Solid Waste Boards. 15 We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

Local Agency Contracts Continuation of IDEM’s goal to use efficiency gains to reduce contracting out of core environmental protection functions. – $3 Million/year in Air Permit Contracts with $1.1 Million in IDEM Resources while improving service. – 1.5 Million/year in Leaking Underground Storage Tank Clean ups with $0.7 Million in IDEM resources while improving service. 16 We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

Local Agency Contracts IDEM spends just over $2 Million per year on Local Agency Contracts: – Anderson $66,642 – Evansville $177,498 – Gary $24,000 – Hammond $375,100 – Indianapolis$1,124,139 – Vigo County $266, We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

Local Agency Contracts IDEM believes that it can provide the same or better level of environmental protection for about $0.5 Million/year freeing up resources to address remaining air quality issues in Indiana. Local Agency Air Quality Services include: – Permitting – Inspections – Complaint Response – Air Quality Monitoring 18 We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

Permits Permit IssuerNumber of PermitsAverage Days per Permit Evansville (2006)2874 Hammond5382 Indianapolis40232 Vigo County (2007)9293 IDEM We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

Permitting Speed 20 We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

Complaints Hammond 2007Indianapolis (8 Mo) IDEM 2008 Particulate Matter Open Burning Odors Smoke3212 Asbestos1337 Noise121 Total Air Complaints We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

Inspections TOTALUSED CAR LOTSAIR EMISSIONS Indianapolis Other Local Agencies 1410 IDEM17110 TOTAL We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

Air Quality Monitoring ContinuousPM2.5TOTAL Evansville14*6*20* Indianapolis14519 IDEM TOTAL We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

Summary of Local Agency Contracts Change IDEM will provide the following services for Anderson, Evansville, Gary, Hammond, Indianapolis and Vigo County: – Permitting – Inspections – Complaint Response – Air Quality Monitoring 24 We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

Grant and Loan Suspension All Grants and Loans from the following non- reverting funds to entities that had not returned award paperwork by December 19 have been suspended: – 2580 Recycling Promotion Assistance Fund – 2530 Solid Waste Recycling Fund – 2640 Waste Tire Fund 25 We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

Questions? Tom Easterly Commissioner Indiana Department of Environmental Management We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment