DNR Update AWMA Wayne Gieselman Environmental Services Division Administrator Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2003

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DNR UpdateAWMAWayne GieselmanEnvironmental
Services Division Administrator Tuesday, Jan. 7,
2003
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Update Topics

• DNR Reorganization
• Directors vision
• whats best for the resource
• customer service
• local leadership
• Air Quality
• Water Quality
• Other hot topics

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DNR and Iowa Businesses

• Environmental protection, resource conservation
  and economic development are NOT mutually
  exclusive
• Iowa cannot meet economic development goals
  without
• Proper and effective resource management
• Outdoor recreation
• Quality of life

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Iowa Needs

• To attract and retain young professionals and
  workers
• Quality recreation opportunities
• Scenic areas and more public lands
• Clean water, air and land
• To be competitive with other areas of the nation
  in attracting businesses and professionals

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DNR Reorganization

• Seven divisions to three

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DNR Reorganization

• 21 bureaus to 16
• 5 bureaus in Environmental Services

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DNR Reorganization

• Enables better coordination of similar functions
• Eliminates four division administrator positions
  and five bureau chief positions

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Decentralization

• Direct contact with Iowans and issues
• Promotes better resource planning and
  decision-making
• Promotes better customer service
• Goal of moving more positions from Des Moines
  across Iowa
• Use vacancies and turnover

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Environmental Service

• Assisting Iowa businesses with compliance
• Providing guidance and expertise for local
  improvement and compliance
• Education and assistance, not solely rules and
  regulations
• Voluntary participation can make dramatic
  differences

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Service Examples

• In 2000, DNR received 7,000 assistance calls by
  plant staff

Of 17,000 field responses to complaints,
inquiries, inspections and compliance assistance
calls, only 1 resulted in Administrative Orders
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More Service Examples

• DNR Pollution Prevention (P2) Program
• Rockwell Collins and Winnebago repeat
  participants
• Engineering, chemistry, environmental management
  and economic students
• 32 Iowa Companies work with 34 students for
  common goal
• REDUCE, ELIMINATE WASTE AND SAVE

Tones Spice
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Environmental Service

• Assist five meat processors in joint DNR-UNI
  effort under EPAs Sustainable Industries Program
• Design and implement an environmental management
  system
• First in the nation effort

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Air Quality

• New bureau chief
• Scott and Clinton County currently at 94 and 93
  percent of ozone standards. Particulates also a
  concern
• Recent highest monitored ground level ozone
  levels in Iowa
• DNR regional modeling to help determine causes
• Good air quality management necessary to avoid
  future nonattainment

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Air Quality Initiatives

• Establish collaborative development of regulatory
  guidance for new and expanded ethanol plants
• Implement fast-track permitting for co-generation
  energy projects
• General permits developed for asphalt, concrete
  and aggregate plants for quick issuance

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Air Permit Challenges

• Issued 202 of 299 Title V permits
• Met with ABI to prioritize PSD issues. Attempt to
  resolve one issue by defining contiguous and
  adjacent
• Record PSD permits more than most industry
  states
• PSD permits
• Issued 10 this year
• 11 under review
• 4 to 10 anticipated this fall

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Cross Media Initiatives - EthanolAir - Energy -
Water - Animal Feeding

• Develop regulatory guidance for new and expanded
  ethanol plants
• Stakeholders
• Regulators
• DNRs goal
• to provide compliance assistance and education
• to serve as a resource in the early stages of
  plant planning

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Iowas Biomass Potential
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Ethanol

• More than 170 million
  bushels of Iowa corn are
  processed annually into
  ethanol
• Iowa produces 441.5 million gallons of ethanol
  each year
• Proposed projects will add another 300 million
  gallons to Iowas production capacity

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Ethanol

• In 2000, 778.5 million gallons of ethanol blended
  fuel was sold in Iowa
• Ethanol production
• Generates more than 1.7 billion in economic
  activity
• Adds 730 million to the value of the states
  corn crop

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Financial Incentives

• Ethanol Based Fuels Sales Tax Exemption
• Ethanol Blended Gasoline Tax Credit

USDA
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Water Quality - Issues

• Silt
• Nutrients

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Land Use Predominate Cause
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Political and Economic QuestionIowa Water
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CAFOs

• Draft rules for H2S ammonia ambient air
  standards and monitoring protocols
• Viewable at iowacleanair.com
• Comment Sept. Oct.
• Statewide standards - not just for CAFOs

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Water Quality

• Water monitoring in lakes, rivers, beaches
• Impaired waters list
• Special monitoring above and below major
  communities
• Directors focus on local environmental
  leadership lake protection groups at Storm
  Lake, Clear Lake
• Economic study

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Farm Bill

• Increased funding for EQIP to help fund pollution
  control practices
• Increased funding for ethanol production
• Increased funding for conservation - NPS

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Budget Cuts

• State General Fund FY 01-03

- 8.6
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Budget Cuts

• Ag and Natural Resources Appropriations
• FY 01-03

- 46
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Budget Cuts

• One Time Reductions FY 02 - 03

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Iowa Geological Survey

• Bedrock mapping
• Mapping surficial features in growth areas and
  complex geology
• Helps business with planning, zoning, siting,
  environmental decisions and development

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Infrared Photo Project

• More than 30 cooperators - strong public/private
  partnership
• Project cost 1.38 million
• Applications include resource management,
  economic development and emergency planning

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Thank You