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APPENDIX I: METHODOLOGY AND DATALIMITATIONSWe identified 386 operating coal-fired power plantsusing the EPA’s Clean Air Markets Program database.Using EPA’s Enforcement and Compliance HistoryOnline (ECHO) database, we reviewed effluent limitsand monitoring requirements for arsenic, boron,cadmium, lead, mercury, and selenium and expirationdates for each of the coal-fired power plants. Ourreview focused on these pollutants because they arealmost always found in coal ash and scrubber wasteand are particularly harmful to health or aquatic life. Inaddition, we reviewed whether each power plant dischargedinto impaired waters and included the causeof impairment if it was identified in the ECHO database.Our review focused on these pollutants becausethey are almost always fund in coal ash and scrubberwaste and are particularly harmful to health or aquaticlife. Where available, we reviewed individual permitsfor coal-fired power plants to identify waste streamsdischarged at the plant and any effluent limits andmonitoring requirements for arsenic, boron, cadmium,lead, mercury, and selenium. Where data related to effluentlimits and monitoring requirements in the ECHOdatabase conflicted with the plant’s current permit, thedata in the plant’s permit was used in the analysis. Wedid not have access to permits for all 386 plants.In some cases, multiple power plants are regulated undera single permit. For example, the HMP&L Station 2,R.D. Green, and Robert Reid power plants in Kentuckyare regulated under one discharge permit. Thesepower plants are identified as three separate plants inour analysis (as opposed to one plant).DATA LIMITATIONS: The information contained in thisreport is based on company self-reported data obtainedthrough publicly accessible U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency websites and Freedom ofInformation Act requests. Occasionally, governmentdata may contain errors, either because informationis inaccurately reported by the regulated entities orincorrectly transcribed by government agencies. Thisreport is based on data retrieved in March of 2013, andsubsequent data retrievals may differ slightly as somecompanies correct prior reports.30 Closing the Floodgates
APPENDIX IIUS COAL-FIRED POWER PLANTSSTATE COUNTY FACILITYNAMEOPERATORNAMEPLATECAPACITY(MW)NPDESPERMIT IDPERMITEXPIRATIONDATEPOLLUTANTSMONITOREDPOLLUTANTSWITH A LIMITCOALASH ORSCRUBBEROUTFALL?IMPAIREDWATERCAUSE OF IMPAIRMENTAL Mobile Barry Alabama PowerCompany1770.7 AL0002879 10/31/2013 Arsenic,MercuryArsenic,MercuryAshAL Washington Charles RLowmanPowerSouth EnergyCooperative, Inc.538 AL0003671 2/28/2010 Lead None Ash &ScrubberTombigee RiverAL Colbert Colbert Tennessee ValleyAuthorityAL Shelby E C Gaston Alabama PowerCompanyAL Etowah Gadsden Alabama PowerCompanyAL Walker Gorgas Alabama PowerCompany1350 AL0003867 5/31/2010 Arsenic, Lead None Ash2012.8 AL0003140 6/30/2012 Arsenic Arsenic Ash138 AL0002887 1/31/2008 Arsenic Arsenic Ash Coosa River(Neely HenryLake)1416.7 AL0002909 9/5/2012 Arsenic Arsenic AshPh; PhosphorusAL Greene GreeneCountyAL Jefferson James HMiller JrAlabama PowerCompanyAlabama PowerCompany568.4 AL0002917 9/30/2012 Arsenic Arsenic Ash2822 AL0027146 1/31/2012 None None AshAL Jackson Widows Creek Tennessee ValleyAuthority1968.6 AL0003875 3/31/2010 Arsenic None AshAR Benton Flint CreekPower PlantSouthwesternElectric PowerCompany558 ARR00B277 6/30/2014 None None Ash Swepco Lake Ph; Phosphorus; TotalSuspended SolidsAR Independence Independence EntergyCorporation1700 AR0037451 6/30/2017 Arsenic,Cadmium,Mercury, Lead,SeleniumNoneAsh &ScrubberAR Mississippi Plum PointEnergyStationPlum Point EnergyAssociates, Inc.720 AR0049557 1/31/2012 Selenium None AshAR Jefferson White Bluff EntergyCorporation1700 AR0036331 6/30/2017 None None AshAZ Cochise ApacheStationArizona ElectricPower Cooperative408 AZ0023795 2/21/2005 Arsenic,SeleniumNoneAZ Navajo Cholla Arizona PublicService Company1128.8 AZ0023311 8/10/2003 None NoneAZ Pima IrvingtonGeneratingStationTucson ElectricPower Company173.3 AZS000013 None None NoneAZ Coconino NavajoGeneratingStationSalt River Project 2409.3 AZU000010 None None NoneCO Denver Arapahoe Public ServiceCompany ofColorado152.5 CO0001091 12/31/2012 Mercury, Lead,SeleniumSelenium Ash South PlatteRiverCO Adams Cherokee Public ServiceCompany ofColorado676.3 CO0001104 4/30/2014 Boron,Cadmium,Mercury, Lead,SeleniumCadmium,Lead,SeleniumAshSouth PlatteRiverCadmiumCO Pueblo Comanche Public ServiceCompany ofColoradoCO Moffat Craig Tri-State Generation& TransmissionCO Routt Hayden Public ServiceCompany ofColoradoCO Prowers Lamar Lamar UtilitiesBoard1635.3 CO0000612 10/31/2013 None None St. CharlesRiver1427.6 COR900399 6/30/2017 None None Unnamedtributary-Johnson Gulch438.6 COR900429 6/30/2017 None None MarshallRoberts Ditch-Yampa River43.5 COR900436 6/30/2017 None None Arkansas RiverSeleniumCO El Paso Martin Drake Colorado SpringsUtilities257 CO0000850 10/31/2010 Lead, Arsenic,SeleniumNoneFountain CreekCO Montrose Nucla Tri-State Generation& Transmission113.8 CO0000540 10/31/2011 Mercury,Lead, Boron,ArsenicNoneSan MiguelRiverCO Larimer RawhideEnergyStationPlatte River PowerAuthority293.6 COR900559 6/30/2017 None None Boxelder CreekSouth PlatteRiverCO El Paso Ray D Nixon Colorado SpringsUtilities207 COR900550 6/30/2017 None None UnnamedTributary - LittleFountain CreekCO Boulder Valmont Public ServiceCompany ofColorado191.7 CO0001112 10/31/2017 Cadmium,Boron,Mercury,ArsenicNone Ash Tributaries toSt. Vrain CreekSeleniumClosing the Floodgates31
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