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The Need for Clean Air Act Reform

The Need for Clean Air Act Reform. Myra Reece, Bureau Chief, BAQ ICAC Annual Meeting April 22, 2015. PRESENTATION OVERVIEW. Why Modernization & Simplification of the CAA is Needed…”1 pollutant at a time” Clean Power Plan aka 111(d) Proposed 2015 Ozone Standard “Next Steps” for Air Toxics

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The Need for Clean Air Act Reform

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  1. The Need for Clean Air Act Reform Myra Reece, Bureau Chief, BAQ ICAC Annual Meeting April 22, 2015

  2. PRESENTATION OVERVIEW • Why Modernization & Simplification of the CAA is Needed…”1 pollutant at a time” • Clean Power Plan aka 111(d) • Proposed 2015 Ozone Standard • “Next Steps” for Air Toxics • Where do we go from here?

  3. Message is ‘Nothing New’ • Jan 2004: National Research Council’s Air Quality Management in the United States” report • 2005, 2007, 2008 Clean Air Act Advisory Committee’s Air Quality Management Workgroup reports • 2009 Southeast SIP Summit, Columbia, SC • NACAA, ECOS SIP efforts

  4. ---“I hate that each sector has 17 to 20 rules that govern each piece of equipment and you've got to be a neuroscientist to figure it out”. ---Gina McCarthy, U.S. EPA Administrator

  5. RESPONSES TO “TOUCHING THE CAA” • Environmental groups: only if it makes the air cleaner • Big corporations: only if costs less. • CAPCA conference……. • SC: Now is the time for us to improve our air quality management approach and modernize the CAA. Not a matter of if but when!

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