NARUC
Moderator Julie Fedorchak is NARUC President and a commissioner at the North Dakota Public Service Commission. Joseph Goffman is Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator at the EPA Office of Air and Radiation. Eric Blank is Chair of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. Jim Huston is Chair of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. Charlotte Lane is Chair of the Public Service Commission of West Virginia.
On November 9, 2023, U.S. EPA issued final updates to its Implementing Regulations under section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. These set timelines and other requirements for state plans to limit pollution from existing sources.
The Implementing Regulations apply to states that must submit plans for sources covered by specific emissions guidelines, which do not impose requirements directly on sources. Instead, they establish a framework for states to develop plans that establish, implement, and enforce standards of performance for designated facilities, the term EPA uses for existing sources.
Based on the comments received on the proposal, EPA is finalizing the following changes, among others: providing additional time for states to submit plans; providing additional clarity and flexibility to states; extending the timeline that triggers consideration of increments of progress for state plans; and streamlining the process for considering sources' remaining useful life and other factors to apply a less-stringent standard of performance.
A NARUC panel, EPA Rules and Reliability: Meeting the Challenges, moderated by NARUC President and North Dakota's Julie Fedorchak discussed what is to come with EPA Office of Air and Radiation Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator Joseph Goffman. The panelists were Colorado Chair Eric Blank, Indiana Chair Jim Huston, and West Virginia Chair Charlotte Lane. Excerpted here are their remarks.