Description

Manufacture Alabama Environmental Committee Meeting
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 | 10 am
Introductions and Anti-Trust Statement- Chairman Mike Conlon

AIR – Colin McCall

• Rules at OMB (Cost-Benefit, Biogenic CO2)
• PM2.5 and Ozone NAAQS
• HAP Gap Legal Action
• NSR Reform Update
• Environmental Justice and Climate Policy

LAND – Buddy Cox

• CCR public hearings
• Alternative Daily Cover - Alabama Supreme Court ruling
• Dec. 11 EMC meeting to consider revisions to Division 13 (Solid Waste) and Division 14 (Hazardous Waste)
• EPA update

GUEST - ADEM Water Division Chief Jeff Kitchens  11:00 am

WATER – JP Martin

• Arsenic standards
• PFAS status/changes, especially 3M Interim Consent Order, Guin water system issues, test results on groundwater
• Staffing status and trends
• Any updates on the Metalplate Galvanizing lawsuit (was argued in September), and can he speak to any permitting changes which will happen as a result of that lawsuit
• The presence of bis (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (i.e., BEHP or DEHP) and other common lab contaminants in NPDES permits and how to deal with them
• Mercury (and other persistent and ubiquitous chemical) TMDLs--approach and status
• Coal ash pond closure hearings – anything of concern to Water Division?
• What are your biggest issues and how can we help address them?

GENERAL 

• What we might expect with a Biden administration

2021 Schedule

• March 23      ADEM Land Division
• May 19          ADEM Air Division
• August 18     ADEM Director
• December 8 ADEM Field Ops or Permits and Services
• Annual Conference November 17-18

Dates and speakers are tentative, dependent on location and speaker availability

ADJOURN                                                                                                                 12:30 pm