BIG CASE.
The Compliance Agreement between EPA and TVA secures injunctive relief at all of TVA's coal-fired power plants across three states to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act New Source Review provisions. Additional information on the entire settlement, as well as the Compliance Agreement, is available at http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/cases/civil/caa/tvacoal-fired.html
The compliance agreement includes the following injunctive relief:
An obligation to address 92 percent of TVA's coal-fired system between 2011 and 2018 with either the installation of state-of-the-art pollution controls such as selective catalytic reduction (SCR) or flue gas desulfurization (FGD), retirement, or repowering to renewable biomass:
- For NOx, 60 percent of TVA's coal-fired system will be equipped with SCR, 16 percent will be retired, and 16 percent have the option to retire, retrofit with SCR, or repower to renewable biomass;
- For SO2, 51 percent of TVA's coal-fired system will be equipped with FGD, 16 percent will be retired, and 25 percent have the option to retire, retrofit with FGD, or repower to renewable biomass;
- Permanent retirement of 18 coal-fired units equating to about 16 percent of TVA's coal-fired electricity generating system;
- Continuous operation of all new and existing SCRs and FGDs;
- Optimization studies for existing PM controls to maximize PM emission reductions;
- Compliance with annual descending system-wide tonnage caps for NO