OREGON’S WATER QUALITY STANDARDS PROJECT

Rulemaking Work Group: Non-NPDES Source Issues #3

March 31, 2010, 10:00 – 4:00

Location: EPA 5^th Floor Conference Room

Portland, OR

Call-in Line: 866-299-3188

Code: 503-326-5873

AGENDA

10:00  Welcome and Introductions (Donna Silverberg)

Goals for this meeting

•  Review where we are in terms of process, where we are headed given direction from EQC

•  Some process input (pretreatment)

•  Some informational (sediments & toxics)

•  TMDLs some of both

10:10   Updates/Announcements (All)

10:20  Future Direction for DEQ (DEQ)

➢  EQC Meeting Feb. 18

➢  Stakeholder Work Group Meetings: *Work Plan and *Monthly Work Group Agenda Items

*Documents will be sent out prior to meeting

Things we need to address as part of this agenda

•  Overview of EQC meeting, their direction to DEQ, our approach to meeting mid-2011 date (NM)

◦  Note memo to the workgroup summarizing EQC direction and EQC workplan forwarded on to group (NM)

◦  Emphasize this is a continuation of same rulemaking work (will not be revisiting scope or other decisions already made)

◦  Address M. Campbell’s proposal to do As, Fe, Mn, earlier (NM)

▪  Highlight resource implications

▪  100% agreement from this group to consider

◦  Review overview of approach to meetings, etc. (incl. location, schedule) (JW)

▪  Emphasize need to finalize scope by end of April stakeholder meeting

◦  Scope: Group discussion will focus on those items to be included in rulemaking for which EQC has authority. Things outside authority will be parking lotted (JW)

•  How we will conduct the meetings to accomplish these goals (JW)

◦  Identify goals and objectives for each meeting and for each agenda item

◦  Note assignments coming out of meetings

◦  Clearly parking lot items that take us too far off central topic and/or outside of scope of work (e.g., recommendations to EQC, items outside of scope of rule)

◦  Work toward resolution of issues (highlight issue papers)

▪  Bring issue papers to provide basis for discussion

▪  Issue papers drafted to capture topics discussed and under consideraton

•  Today’s topics & scope of non-NPDES discussions (JW)

◦  Review meeting with non-NPDES volunteers on 3/24 re: scope of non-NPDES elements

◦  Evaluate those important/critical items identified by that group (statutory roadblock? Not appropriate for rulemaking? Relevant but doable/not doable.

◦  Resolve at April 27 meeting.

•  EPA’s upcoming action on 2004 Toxics

◦  Review scenarios (approval/disapproval) (JJ)

◦  DEQ committed to process—right thing to do (NM)

◦  Reinforces our perspective that it’s critical DEQ stay on schedule(NM)

◦  Commitment from group to work through issues (NM)

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11:15  Pretreatment (Rick Williams, Clayton Brown, ACWA Pretreatment Committee and Tiffany Yelton Bram, DEQ) –will be introduced by David Klewier

Description: Presentation on current Federal/State approved Pretreatment programs, subcommittee's example of a Local Program, and Pollution Prevention Tools.  This stakeholder group would like to work on ideas that work towards reducing or eliminating toxic pollutants at the source.

Objectives: Work collaboratively with the Workgroup on ideas for addressing Pollution Prevention tools used together with Federal and State Approved Pretreatment Programs and Local Programs.

*Materials sent via e-mail with agenda

12:00  LUNCH

1:00  Overview of Sediment and Toxics (DEQ)

Description: DEQ will present a programmatic and scientific overview of sediment and toxics to prep work group members for future discussions.

Objectives: To provide work group members with a fundamental understanding of sediment delivery mechanisms and toxics transport processes. Work group members will also gain knowledge on use of sediment benchmarks, using sediment as a surrogate for toxics TMDLs, and current work on revising the turbidity standard.

2:00  Implementation-Ready TMDLs (DEQ)

Description: DEQ will explain how toxics are currently addressed in TMDLs, how they are implemented, and the changes DEQ is proposing.

 Objectives: Prepare the rulemaking work group for future discussions.

3:30  Wrap Up/Next Steps  

•  Review action items, including assignments/progress expected to be made prior to next meeting

•  Review next month’s agenda, including objectives for each agenda item

◦  Any critical info needed to reach objectives that not already considered?

4:00  Adjourn

Note: We’ll take breaks as needed by workgroup members