Cozad, David, U.S. EPA Region 7, EPA Enforcement and Next Generation Compliance, at 2014 Missouri Hazardous Waste Seminar, November, 4, 2014, Columbia, MO
The document discusses the EPA's Next Generation Compliance strategy, which aims to modernize environmental enforcement and promote compliance through more effective rules, advanced monitoring technologies, electronic reporting, and increased transparency. Some key aspects of the strategy include using real-time monitoring to detect pollution issues early, developing innovative monitoring tools, transitioning to electronic reporting systems to reduce burden and increase data access, and leveraging transparency of compliance information to drive improved performance. The strategy also explores incorporating Next Generation approaches into enforcement settlements by including advanced monitoring or public reporting requirements.
David Cozad, US EPA Region 7, EPA Enforcement and Next Generation Compliance,...Kevin Perry
The document discusses challenges with environmental compliance and enforcement due to factors like declining budgets and information gaps. It proposes that advances in monitoring technologies can help address these challenges by making pollution more visible in real-time, informing the public and driving compliance through transparency. Specifically, it describes how next generation compliance tools like advanced electronic monitoring, reporting and transparency measures have been included in EPA enforcement actions and regulations to modernize compliance.
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The document discusses the EPA's efforts to modernize environmental protection programs through electronic reporting, advanced monitoring, and transparency. It outlines 5 principles and 16 tools to improve the ability to implement programs with limited resources and ultimately reduce pollution. This includes making paper-based reporting electronic, using advanced monitoring for better pollution data in real-time, and increasing transparency to improve compliance and accountability. The goals are to streamline data collection and sharing, target oversight more effectively, and enhance protection of public health and the environment through 21st century approaches.
CANSA’s focus on water baseline analysis in fracking process
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http://www.cansa.org.za/fracking/
What does the future hold for low cost air pollution sensors? - Dr Pete EdwardsIES / IAQM
- Low-cost air pollution sensors have the potential to revolutionize air pollution measurement by enabling more widespread monitoring. However, several challenges must be addressed including sensor-to-sensor variability, complex interference from other pollutants, and factory calibrations not being applicable to real-world conditions.
- New calibration methods using machine learning algorithms that account for multivariate responses show promise in addressing these challenges. One study used support vector regression and random forest to calibrate NO and NO2 sensors, achieving accurate results with errors below 5 ppb after deployment in urban areas.
- For low-cost sensors to provide reliable data, calibration and evaluation methods must ensure data quality is sufficient for the intended application. Significant progress has been made
Breathe London - Hyperlocal Air Quality Monitoring Network - Jim MillsIES / IAQM
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The Elements of Water Security with Whitewater Security And Darlot Consulting...saulbrandt
Water Security technologies and strategies are growing in importance today in the face of increasing disasters, contaminants and attacks. Whitewater Security, in partnership with Darlot Consulting and NICE, presents the critical elements of a water security solution
This document discusses the importance of accurate air emissions inventories. It notes that emissions inventories are used for air quality modeling, health impact assessments, and developing pollution control strategies. However, emissions are often uncertain by a factor of two or more. Inaccurate data can lead to ineffective pollution control plans. The document examines sources of error in emissions estimation methods and factors. It emphasizes that accurate emissions data is needed to underpin effective air quality management and that a collaborative effort is required between all stakeholders to improve emissions estimation methods and ensure data quality.
David Cozad, US EPA Region 7, EPA Enforcement and Next Generation Compliance,...Kevin Perry
The document discusses challenges with environmental compliance and enforcement due to factors like declining budgets and information gaps. It proposes that advances in monitoring technologies can help address these challenges by making pollution more visible in real-time, informing the public and driving compliance through transparency. Specifically, it describes how next generation compliance tools like advanced electronic monitoring, reporting and transparency measures have been included in EPA enforcement actions and regulations to modernize compliance.
Terriquez, Joe, US EPA, Next Generation Compliance, Missouri Air Compliance S...Kevin Perry
The document discusses the EPA's efforts to modernize environmental protection programs through electronic reporting, advanced monitoring, and transparency. It outlines 5 principles and 16 tools to improve the ability to implement programs with limited resources and ultimately reduce pollution. This includes making paper-based reporting electronic, using advanced monitoring for better pollution data in real-time, and increasing transparency to improve compliance and accountability. The goals are to streamline data collection and sharing, target oversight more effectively, and enhance protection of public health and the environment through 21st century approaches.
CANSA’s focus on water baseline analysis in fracking process
The Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) announced a campaign to promote the professional analyses of drinking water in farms in the Karoo due to the risk of water and environmental contamination with carcinogens due to the fracking process.
http://www.cansa.org.za/fracking/
What does the future hold for low cost air pollution sensors? - Dr Pete EdwardsIES / IAQM
- Low-cost air pollution sensors have the potential to revolutionize air pollution measurement by enabling more widespread monitoring. However, several challenges must be addressed including sensor-to-sensor variability, complex interference from other pollutants, and factory calibrations not being applicable to real-world conditions.
- New calibration methods using machine learning algorithms that account for multivariate responses show promise in addressing these challenges. One study used support vector regression and random forest to calibrate NO and NO2 sensors, achieving accurate results with errors below 5 ppb after deployment in urban areas.
- For low-cost sensors to provide reliable data, calibration and evaluation methods must ensure data quality is sufficient for the intended application. Significant progress has been made
Breathe London - Hyperlocal Air Quality Monitoring Network - Jim MillsIES / IAQM
Google cars are equipped with sensors that measure multiple air pollutants like NO, NO2, O3 every second as they drive through cities, recording over 10,000 measurements per hour. The data is transmitted in real-time to be analyzed. The AQMesh network in London uses over 100 static sensor pods across the city to monitor air quality at a high temporal resolution. Each pod contains multiple sensors that take readings every minute, resulting in over 2.6 billion readings analyzed per year. This big data is used to inform the public and politicians, encourage behavior change, evaluate policy interventions, and replicate air quality monitoring in other cities.
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This document discusses the importance of accurate air emissions inventories. It notes that emissions inventories are used for air quality modeling, health impact assessments, and developing pollution control strategies. However, emissions are often uncertain by a factor of two or more. Inaccurate data can lead to ineffective pollution control plans. The document examines sources of error in emissions estimation methods and factors. It emphasizes that accurate emissions data is needed to underpin effective air quality management and that a collaborative effort is required between all stakeholders to improve emissions estimation methods and ensure data quality.
This document provides an introduction to ultrafine particles (UFPs), which are particles smaller than 100nm. UFPs make up over 90% of particle numbers but only a small portion of total particle mass. Primary sources include traffic, industry, agriculture, and cooking. Secondary sources are formed from chemical reactions in the atmosphere. UFPs can deposit deep in the lungs and may be more toxic than larger particles due to their small size and large surface area. While no regulatory standards currently exist for UFPs, they are measured using devices like condensation particle counters and scanning mobility particle sizers. Levels typically follow traffic patterns and decline with distance from roads. Health effects are still being researched.
This document describes a project to establish an integrated water monitoring system in Dublin Bay using multiple sensors and visual sensing technologies. The goals are to improve water quality monitoring, identify security threats and health hazards, and produce baseline water quality datasets. Sensors have been deployed at sites in Dublin Bay to continuously measure water parameters. Over 500,000 sensor measurements and 2.5 million images have been collected. Data analysis uses machine learning methods to detect events like turbidity increases and predict variables. The network has improved understanding of Dublin Bay, but challenges remain regarding coverage, biofouling, costs and translating data into actionable information.
Regulatory Governance in the Water SectorOECDregions
The document discusses regulatory governance in the water sector. It provides details on Anna Pietikainen's work assessing water regulators in Ireland and Scotland. It also shares data from the OECD's 2018 survey of 26 water regulators in 38 countries. The survey found that a majority of water regulators are independent, but they receive more guidance from governments than some other utility regulators. Water regulators also generally have narrower scopes of action than regulators in sectors like energy and telecommunications.
This document presents the results and objectives of a project analyzing water quality in the Red River Basin in Texas. It identifies the top 5 polluting facilities based on an impairment index calculated using compliance history data and average discharge flows. Maps show the locations of permitted facilities and a hot spot analysis identifying clustered problem areas. Future work could analyze other river basins and locate confined animal feeding operations.
This document proposes developing a predictive maintenance management system to monitor and manage the spread of airborne infection in healthcare facilities. It discusses how infection spreads through ventilation and air conditioning systems and various intervention methods like filtration, air purification, and UV technology. The goals are to assess integrating an intelligent predictive system using BIM to monitor infection spread and generate an accessible knowledge base for facilities managers. Benefits would include proactively addressing duct cleaning needs, better understanding infection spread mechanisms, and a predictive infection criticality model to manage hotspots and risk levels through sensors.
Health effects of PM2.5. Is there anything new to add? - Dr Ian MudwayIES / IAQM
This document summarizes the key findings from numerous studies on the health effects of PM2.5 published between 2006-2019. It notes that thousands of new health studies and reviews have found that PM2.5 contributes significantly to the global burden of disease, with effects seen even below WHO guideline values. Specific topics covered include the impacts of primary combustion pollutants like diesel and biomass burning, the effects of prenatal exposures and impacts across the lifespan, and the use of alternative pollution metrics like black carbon to help disentangle health effects. The document questions whether a mass-based approach or targeted actions on specific components and sources may be most effective for improving health outcomes.
Are ultrafine particles important? - Paul S. MonksIES / IAQM
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The document discusses requirements for obtaining reimbursement from FEMA for increased mosquito control costs following a disaster. It emphasizes the importance of thorough documentation, including 3 years of mosquito surveillance data, operational records, and proof of increased control efforts and costs. Proper record keeping is vital to demonstrating that additional funding is needed to address higher mosquito levels beyond local/state capacity.
The First Mile Project -- Rotary Club of ToledoJerry Wicks
This document proposes developing a global water quality monitoring network called the First Mile Project. It would address the need to expand monitoring, especially in watersheds experiencing stress. Volunteers organized by Rotary clubs would collect field measurements using inexpensive test kits. Smartphones and mobile networks would allow real-time reporting and mapping of test results, locations, and photos. Scientists at Bowling Green State University would lead the project and create apps and websites for data collection and sharing. The goal is a low-cost, real-time water monitoring system that could be replicated worldwide.
Overview of the Federal Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest RuleAll4 Inc.
Neal Lebo of All4 Inc. presented an Overview of the Federal Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Rule to the Association of Battery Recyclers Spring Meeting held on May 14-16, 2014 in Longboat Key, Florida. This presentation discusses the history behind the rule, the logistics of completing the e-manifest, and the rule's implementation schedule.
The document discusses the development of a global sensor network for natural disaster warnings. It describes how sensors can detect disasters like earthquakes, floods, and tsunamis and transmit that information to save lives and property. However, most countries still rely on human senses to detect disasters rather than extensive sensor networks. The document outlines challenges to developing a global sensor network like difficulties sharing information across borders and lack of standardized systems. It highlights progress by organizations like the Open Geospatial Consortium to develop open standards to facilitate sensor data sharing and hopes this will lead to sensor networks that reduce disaster impacts worldwide.
1) As a result of a catastrophic explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas in 2013, OSHA is considering revisions to its Process Safety Management standard.
2) Two key areas OSHA may clarify are exemptions for flammable liquids in atmospheric storage tanks and using New Jersey's Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act as a model, which defines "catastrophic release" more broadly.
3) The revisions could affect aboveground tank owners by expanding coverage, requiring stricter staffing levels, and defining equipment deficiency timelines.
Hazardous Waste Manifest - the new eManifest RuleAbby Ferri
The EPA is transitioning the paper-based hazardous waste manifest system to a national electronic system (e-Manifest) by October 2015. The e-Manifest system will track hazardous waste shipments electronically from generators to disposal facilities. A rule establishing user fees to fund the system will be finalized in 2014. Generators, transporters, and disposal facilities should prepare for the transition by communicating with EPA and each other, and monitoring the EPA's website for updates.
This document summarizes the important considerations for evaluating the quality of data from low-cost air sensors for different applications. It discusses how the needed data quality depends on the intended use of the data. For example, identifying sources of pollution may require high precision, while personal exposure monitoring could use lower precision. The document then provides examples of how low-cost sensors have been used successfully for research, supplementing regulatory monitoring, and education with data of sufficient quality for the intended purpose.
Data-Driven Selling and The Value of Data In The Water IndustrySunit Mohindroo
Slides from Peter Gallant's talk at the Feb 18, 2014 Event: Going Beyond The Spreadsheet - A Lunch & Learn co-hosted by WatrHub Inc. and WaterTAP Ontario.
Overview of the NRC Report on a Nationwide Network of Networks by Rit Carbone, Science Advisor and Senior Scientist in the Earth Observing Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research,
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Detection of Wastewater Pollution Through Natural Language Generation With a ...Shakas Technologies
Detection of Wastewater Pollution Through Natural Language Generation With a Low-Cost Sensing Platform.
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#11/A 2nd East Main Road,
Gandhi Nagar,
Vellore - 632006.
Mobile : +91-9500218218 / 8220150373| land line- 0416- 3552723
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Sierra Energy uses gasification technology to convert waste into energy. Their FastOx gasification system converts solid waste into syngas at high temperatures without moving parts. The system has benefits like producing no process emissions, handling complex waste streams, and generating saleable byproducts while requiring minimal waste processing and maintenance. Sierra Energy has demonstrated this technology at a project in California and is working to commercialize it globally through technology licensing and engineering support partnerships.
This document provides an introduction to ultrafine particles (UFPs), which are particles smaller than 100nm. UFPs make up over 90% of particle numbers but only a small portion of total particle mass. Primary sources include traffic, industry, agriculture, and cooking. Secondary sources are formed from chemical reactions in the atmosphere. UFPs can deposit deep in the lungs and may be more toxic than larger particles due to their small size and large surface area. While no regulatory standards currently exist for UFPs, they are measured using devices like condensation particle counters and scanning mobility particle sizers. Levels typically follow traffic patterns and decline with distance from roads. Health effects are still being researched.
This document describes a project to establish an integrated water monitoring system in Dublin Bay using multiple sensors and visual sensing technologies. The goals are to improve water quality monitoring, identify security threats and health hazards, and produce baseline water quality datasets. Sensors have been deployed at sites in Dublin Bay to continuously measure water parameters. Over 500,000 sensor measurements and 2.5 million images have been collected. Data analysis uses machine learning methods to detect events like turbidity increases and predict variables. The network has improved understanding of Dublin Bay, but challenges remain regarding coverage, biofouling, costs and translating data into actionable information.
Regulatory Governance in the Water SectorOECDregions
The document discusses regulatory governance in the water sector. It provides details on Anna Pietikainen's work assessing water regulators in Ireland and Scotland. It also shares data from the OECD's 2018 survey of 26 water regulators in 38 countries. The survey found that a majority of water regulators are independent, but they receive more guidance from governments than some other utility regulators. Water regulators also generally have narrower scopes of action than regulators in sectors like energy and telecommunications.
This document presents the results and objectives of a project analyzing water quality in the Red River Basin in Texas. It identifies the top 5 polluting facilities based on an impairment index calculated using compliance history data and average discharge flows. Maps show the locations of permitted facilities and a hot spot analysis identifying clustered problem areas. Future work could analyze other river basins and locate confined animal feeding operations.
This document proposes developing a predictive maintenance management system to monitor and manage the spread of airborne infection in healthcare facilities. It discusses how infection spreads through ventilation and air conditioning systems and various intervention methods like filtration, air purification, and UV technology. The goals are to assess integrating an intelligent predictive system using BIM to monitor infection spread and generate an accessible knowledge base for facilities managers. Benefits would include proactively addressing duct cleaning needs, better understanding infection spread mechanisms, and a predictive infection criticality model to manage hotspots and risk levels through sensors.
Health effects of PM2.5. Is there anything new to add? - Dr Ian MudwayIES / IAQM
This document summarizes the key findings from numerous studies on the health effects of PM2.5 published between 2006-2019. It notes that thousands of new health studies and reviews have found that PM2.5 contributes significantly to the global burden of disease, with effects seen even below WHO guideline values. Specific topics covered include the impacts of primary combustion pollutants like diesel and biomass burning, the effects of prenatal exposures and impacts across the lifespan, and the use of alternative pollution metrics like black carbon to help disentangle health effects. The document questions whether a mass-based approach or targeted actions on specific components and sources may be most effective for improving health outcomes.
Are ultrafine particles important? - Paul S. MonksIES / IAQM
Ultrafine particles (UFPs) are an air quality challenge due to their small size and complex behavior in the atmosphere. While their health impacts are not fully understood, epidemiological studies suggest UFPs may independently affect health beyond other regulated pollutants like PM. Combustion sources like traffic are major emitters of UFPs. Measurements show high spatial variability of UFPs and that controlling larger particles does not necessarily reduce UFP levels. More research is needed to better characterize UFP emissions, exposures, and impacts to potentially regulate them specifically.
Are ultrafine particles important? - Paul S. Monks
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The document discusses requirements for obtaining reimbursement from FEMA for increased mosquito control costs following a disaster. It emphasizes the importance of thorough documentation, including 3 years of mosquito surveillance data, operational records, and proof of increased control efforts and costs. Proper record keeping is vital to demonstrating that additional funding is needed to address higher mosquito levels beyond local/state capacity.
The First Mile Project -- Rotary Club of ToledoJerry Wicks
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The document discusses the development of a global sensor network for natural disaster warnings. It describes how sensors can detect disasters like earthquakes, floods, and tsunamis and transmit that information to save lives and property. However, most countries still rely on human senses to detect disasters rather than extensive sensor networks. The document outlines challenges to developing a global sensor network like difficulties sharing information across borders and lack of standardized systems. It highlights progress by organizations like the Open Geospatial Consortium to develop open standards to facilitate sensor data sharing and hopes this will lead to sensor networks that reduce disaster impacts worldwide.
1) As a result of a catastrophic explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas in 2013, OSHA is considering revisions to its Process Safety Management standard.
2) Two key areas OSHA may clarify are exemptions for flammable liquids in atmospheric storage tanks and using New Jersey's Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act as a model, which defines "catastrophic release" more broadly.
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This document summarizes the important considerations for evaluating the quality of data from low-cost air sensors for different applications. It discusses how the needed data quality depends on the intended use of the data. For example, identifying sources of pollution may require high precision, while personal exposure monitoring could use lower precision. The document then provides examples of how low-cost sensors have been used successfully for research, supplementing regulatory monitoring, and education with data of sufficient quality for the intended purpose.
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Mobile : +91-9500218218 / 8220150373| land line- 0416- 3552723
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This document provides an abstract for a thesis submitted to GITAM University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science. The thesis proposes developing an intelligent framework for air pollution monitoring using Internet of Things and machine learning techniques. It discusses using various sensors and an Arduino board connected to a WiFi device to monitor air quality levels. The data would be displayed on a mobile app or LCD. Various deep learning models like LSTM, RNN, GRU and CNN are explored to accurately predict air quality index and determine the optimal model. The objectives of the research are outlined as developing forecasting models using weather data and sensor density to analyze large datasets and predict pollution levels in cities.
The document provides an overview of control systems security from the perspective of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. It discusses critical infrastructure sectors, risk drivers like modernization and globalization, vulnerability lifecycles, findings from control system assessments, and several cyber incidents involving control systems that impacted industrial operations. The department works to improve control system security through assessments, training, partnerships with industry, and developing guidance on topics like cyber forensics and firewall deployment.
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Cozad, David, U.S. EPA Region 7, EPA Enforcement and Next Generation Compliance, at 2014 Missouri Hazardous Waste Seminar, November, 4, 2014, Columbia, MO
1. EPA Enforcement and Next
Generation Compliance
Missour i Hazardous Waste Seminar
Dave Cozad, U.S. EPA
November 4, 2014
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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2. Why Next Generation Compliance?
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Noncompliance
Information on compliance often not readily
available
Government resources not adequate to
address large regulated universe relying
exclusively on singe facility inspection
enforcement model
Not getting all the benefits expected from our
rules and permits
3. Technology Paradigm Change
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Credit: CitiSense Air Quality Monitoring Mobile Sensors, University of California, San Diego,
Jacobs School of Engineering. See:
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/small_portable_sensors_allow_users_to_monitor_expos
ure_to_pollution_on_thei
4. 1. More effective rules and permits
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Rules structured to promote compliance
Simplicity
Designed to make
compliance the default
Market mechanisms –
efficiency and clarity
Transparency as
accountability tool
Self and third-party
certifications
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5. 2. Advanced monitoring technologies
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Real-time monitoring –
knowing about pollution
as it’s happening
Facility feedback loops –
preventing pollution
before it happens
Fenceline monitoring
Community monitoring
Remote sensing
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Passive diffusion tubes can be placed at a facility’s
boundary and is a low-cost way to measure air
toxics
6. Advanced monitoring
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Making the invisible visible
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9. Example - Using Advanced Monitoring To Persuade & Prove
Passive FTIR Open-Path Monitor
Testing of flares to
determine combustion
efficiency
PFTIR works by
measuring flare plume
gases
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10. Advanced monitoring
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An example from flaring enforcement
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11. 3. Electronic reporting
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Information technologies
make new solutions possible
Smart tools and 2-way
communication
Private sector reporting tools
Ohio NPDES e-reporting
success story
Could e-reporting yield
benefits for CERCLA &
RCRA financial assurance?
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100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
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6000
4000
2000
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NPDES DMR Compliance in Ohio
FY 2009 - 7/08-6/09
Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
Reporting Month
% eDMR usage
Permit Violations
Facilities using eDMR
12. E-Manifest
By converting from paper, e-Manifest could reduce burden
by 300,000 - 700,000 hours, with annual savings of ~ $75
million for approximately 160,000 waste handlers.
Region 6 has established a cross check system using data
from Texas’s e-manifest system and EPA permit information
to find out:
(1) Is the facility receiving the hazardous waste permitted to
receive such waste?
(2) Does the receiving facility have the appropriate treatment
methods indicated on their permit associated with the
incoming waste?
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13. 4. Increased transparency
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Evidence that effective
transparency drives performance
SDWA Consumer Confidence
Reports
Restaurant health inspection
grades
SDWA: Mailed report on
compliance resulted in:
Total violations: down 30-44%
Health violations: down 40-57%
*Bennear & Olmstead, Journal of
Environmental Economics and
Management (2008).
14. Leveraging Transparency for Compliance
Example: NY State Sewage Pollution Right-To-Know Act
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New state law will require POTWs to electronically
report sewage discharges to government and the
public within four hours:
15. 5. Innovative Enforcement
Save EPA resources from CD
implementation and increase
incentives on defendants to
comply with CD
Enhances public transparency
Pilots monitoring and
transparency approaches that
could spread to other venues:
Helps establish these new best
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practices as basis for incorporating
into regulations and permits
16. Example - Incorporating Next Gen in Settlements
CAA settlement with Shell Deer Park (Texas)
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Next Gen tools included
in settlement:
◦ Innovative technology to
reduce pollution from
flairs
◦ Enhanced in-plant
monitoring for benzene
◦ Regular tank inspections
with infrared camera
◦ Fence line monitoring for
benzene
◦ Report fence line data on
public web site
17. Example - Incorporating Next Gen in Settlements
CWA Settlement with Metro. Sewer District (St. Louis, Mo.)
Flow monitors on SSO
outfalls
Consent Decree
submissions must be
posted to District website
for three years
Must post discharge
locations to District
website
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18. Incorporating Next Gen in Settlements – Example
CWA settlement with Roquette America (Iowa)
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EPA-approved contractor
must complete annual 3rd
party audits for O&M
plan, SWPPP, and
NPDES permits
Reports will identify non-compliance,
steps to
address, and schedule to
correct
Audit reports will be
given to EPA and
Roquette at same time
19. Path Forward
For more information, see the Next Gen Strategic
Plan for FY14-17 at
http://www2.epa.gov/compliance/next-generation-compliance-
strategic-plan-2014-2017
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Editor's Notes
Think about where we were 40 years ago and where we are today, we know we have made incredible progress in last 40 years. What we have done in improving the environment, as Administrator McCarthy put it recently, is one of the great comeback stories ever.
Also know - through our ambient monitoring of air and water, and our inspection and enforcement work, that we have some significant problems left, and that we have sectors where noncompliance is pretty high.
We also know that there is a lot about compliance rates that we don’t know. Because, frankly, our rules aren’t really well designed with ensuring compliance in mind. They are old, mostly. They are complicated, arguably overly so.
The model is largely this. Largely self implementing by regulated sector, where facilities step forward to get a permit, get limits or have to develop a plan of some sort, and then decide on their own how to meet those limits or what should be in that plan; than all their own monitoring and recordkeeping. Typically infrequent end of pipe monitoring, very little ambient monitoring, not much reporting, and what little there is is almost never reported in real time. Not much is available to public. Regulated entities essentially do their thing and wait for an inspector to show up, maybe.
Don’t really know who is in compliance and who isn’t, nor do we or the public know what pollutants are present in the community.
That model isn’t the greatest to start with. Add in that govt resources at state and federal level declining. EPA down 15% in last three years. Might be more depending on what happens at polls today. Model that relies on single facility in person inspections is not sustainable.
But we think advances in technology offer an opportunity to do things differently.
Citizen hand-held sensors coupled with smart phones:
Handheld citizen air Quality Monitor
Digital Environmental Sensors for Temp, Humidity,
Pressure, with GPS
Electrochemical sensors for:
CO 1ppm
NO2 20 ppb
O3 10 ppb
Real time environmental data in public’s hands
Quite a change from once a month data collected by a facility, recorded on a piece of paper, and put in a drawer until an inspector shows up.
Idea of Next Generation Compliance is to use advances in monitoring and IT that make it possible for us to make progress in dealing with pollution without increasing our resources. Technological revolution in last twenty years. High time our environmental protection enterprise took advantage of that.
We know three big things: (1) All kinds of new pollution monitoring tools available, accurate, real-time data. (2) Ability to collect, process, and share information is radically better today than in the past. (3) Transparency is a powerful behavior driver. When you think about addressing pollution through putting those three tools together: advanced monitoring, e-reporting, and transparency – there is potential for transformational change.
Happening all around us in other parts of life.
Simple example. I have two teenage daughters. My family’s cell company continuously monitors our data usage. And we all get a text when we are approaching our limits. They know I know. It changes their behavior. It’s real time data, e-reported, it’s accurate, and its transparent.
Same thing with my wife and my checking account. We don’t balance our checkbook anymore with a hand-written ledger. . We use debit cards, not cash, the bank monitors our usage with every transaction and reports our balance to us on an app on our phones. We both have the app. We both know exactly how much money we have at eveyr moment.
Education.
Food nutritional labeling, in grocery stores and restaraunts.
Design more effective regulations and permits that are easier to implement, and thus result in higher compliance and improved environmental outcomes.Regulations that are easier to understand so the regulated community is clear on what they need to do to comply. Build compliance drivers into rules. Make it easier to comply than not. Examples:
Gas pump nozzles that are physically engineered to only fit certain vehicles (and not in others). Compliance is automatic, and guaranteed.
EPA’s co-proposal for the coal combustion rule (CCR) in 2010 includes, under the Subtitle D option, includes elements to make it more likely that the provisions of this rule will be implemented, like maintaining a web site to make documentation of compliance available to the public, and third party certification re stability of impoundments. These provisions to make more information available to the public and to provide a degree of oversight on facility operations should improve the chances that the protections envisioned in the rule actually happen.
Just as the Internet has transformed the way we communicate and access information, advances in information and emissions/pollution monitoring technology are setting the stage for detection, processing and communications capabilities that can revolutionize environmental protection.Opportunities for companies to avoid noncompliance, save money, be good neighbors. Opportunties for regulators to protect communities and helps focus government on the biggest environmental problems.
Talk about a few of them.
In this example, invisible benzene vapors from a solvent storage tank become “visible” only due to new detection technology that uses equipment that’s about the size of a video camera
New England Regional Laboratory.
Solar-powered buoy takes water quality measurements every 15 minutes. Results are uploaded to a website.
Parameters measured include: temperature, conductivity, pH, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, chlorophyll, and phycocyanin. Phycocyanin measurement used to estimate the level of cyanobacteria, a Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB).
EPA Region 1 owns and maintains the buoy. They actually have two -- the one above and an identical one in the nearby Mystic River.
How data is reported: As part of a complete package, the buoy vendor maintains a web site and database for each customer. The data is reported to a secure web site. EPA sets up a pass code and can provide the pass code to whomever we want to have access to the data.
This is a Geospatial Measurement of Air Pollution (GMAP)
Can be used to estimate amount and location of methane and VOC emissions.
Driver around a facility like a tank farm and see hot spots. On-the spot produce a map of the results, on the rigfht, where red/yellow show emission detections. Screening tool, help identify problems.
“FTIR” stands for Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, a type of monitor used to measure flare combustion efficiency. “Passive” means there is no emitter telescope. The flare is the “emitter” of an infrared (IR) signal.
This technology is not something that EPA possesses. We used CAA information requests, in the context of case development, negotiations and settlement, to require Marathon, Flint Hills Resources, Shell, and other companies to contract the use of the Passive FTIR to measure emissions of VOCs at their facilities.
Initially there was only one such instrument available from one consultant. There are now other consultants offering this service and its use is becoming widespread. This increased availability has driven down the price of Passive FTIR monitoring so that it is now not that much more costly than conventional stack testing.
The instrument has been tested against other EPA reference methods by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and found to be accurate.
Here’s what happened when this tool was used at two refineries.
In both of these cases, the facilities assumed a 98% combustion efficiency and reported the estimated VOC emissions of 453 and 123 TPY (in BLUE on the chart).
PFTIR monitoring showed that actual emissions (in RED on the chart) were 25 times higher at Marathon and 10 times greater at BP Whiting than the estimates by the companies due to lower actual combustion efficiencies.
As people pay more attention to data, its quality and accuracy tend to improve.Once companies know how their information is shared, compliance increases.
E-reporting would give us more information about the whole universe, and help us to identify / target the biggest problems. Better, more accurate data, with fewer errors introduced through data entry. Provide higher-quality data, faster, to improve accessibility and transparency to the public, so they can more clearly understand the environmental challenges in their own neighborhoods.For example, the graph shows the decrease in permit violations after requiring NPDES permittees to electronically reporting discharge monitoring reports.
As e-DMR reporting usage increased, violations decreased by 50% in the first year after implementation.
Data errors went down from 50,000 to 5,000 per month
As the need for data entry and error checking diminished, Ohio EPA was able to move almost five full-time personnel in to other types of work.
Turbo Tax – example of private sector reporting to government regulator
Non-economic benefits include:
- improved access to higher quality and more timely waste shipment data for regulators;
- nearly real-time shipment tracking capabilities for users;
- more rapid notification and responses to problems or discrepancies encountered with shipments or deliveries;
- greater access for emergency responders about the types and sources of hazardous waste that are in movement;
- one-stop manifest copy submission to EPA and to all interested states through the Exchange Network architecture;
- greater transparency for the public about completed hazardous waste shipments to or from their communities;
- new data management possibilities that could ultimately simplify the RCRA biennial reporting requirements and
consolidate various federal and state reporting requirements for domestic and transboundary shipments.
This is a New York state law which took effect on May 1, 2013.* This law provides, among other things, that “no later than four hours from discovery of the discharge, the [POTW] shall notify the local health department . . . . . [and] the general public . . . .through appropriate electronic media, including, but not limited to, electronic mail or voice communication as determined by the department.” At least one other state has passed similar laws, e.g., Connecticut’s The Public’s Right to Know of a Sewage Spill Act (Public Act 12-11).
* http://www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/90315.html
Second Phase of Sewage Right to Know Act
DEC is developing regulations for the second part of the law that requires publicly owned treatment works and publicly owned sewer systems to directly notify the public of discharges. DEC plans to release the draft regulations this fall for public comment.
To help municipalities implement the law, DEC is seeking a permanent solution that can be universally accessed by elected officials, adjoining municipalities, and the public to receive notification of discharges of untreated and partially treated sewage within 4 hours of discovery.
Remember the Shell Deer Park case that we used as an example of the FLIR camera and mentioned as a user of PFTIR?
Well, not only did R6 and OECA make use of advanced monitoring in the inspection and development of the case. They also incorporated Next Gen tools within the settlement, which was lodged in late 2013, to better drive compliance.
As a result of the settlement, the company will spend at least $100 million on innovative technology to reduce harmful air pollution from industrial flares used to burn waste gases.
In addition, much like in BP, the Shell settlement requires 1) increased frequency of leak detection and measurement, 2) use of PFTIR for measuring flares, 3) use of the FLIR camera as an integral part of self-monitoring to detect leaks, 4) a state-of-the art fence line monitoring system to measure benzene from the refinery and chemical plant, and 5) reporting of fence line data on a public website.
In this CWA settlement, reached in 2011, the St. Louis Sewer District is required to make extensive improvements to its sewer system and treatment plants to eliminate illegal overflows of untreated raw sewage and reduce pollution levels in urban rivers and streams (at an estimated cost of $4.7 billion over 23 years). MSD is also required to invest at least $100 million in an innovative green infrastructure program focused in environmental justice communities in St. Louis.
The Consent Decree requires MSD to post all of its submissions under the CD on the MSD public website for a period of 3 years. Prior Administrative Compliance Orders issued in 2007 and 2008 require MSD to post its discharge locations on its website.
Other examples of enforcement cases with Next Gen components can be found on the Next Gen Intranet Site that you will hear about in just a few minutes.
Next Gen is not just for Air Cases.
Region 7 brought this CWA case against Roquette America for CWA violations at its grain processing facility in Keokuk, Iowa. As a result of a settlement announced in late 2012, the company is required to upgrade its wastewater treatment plant, complete a sewer survey to identify possible discharge locations, undertake sewer improvements, and perform enhanced effluent monitoring.
In addition, Roquette will obtain annual, independent, 3rd-party audits of its compliance with the Consent. Required annual reports will identify non-compliance, along with steps and schedules to address any violations, and will include the 3rd-party audits.
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/645D50E068FF777185257AB50083932A