Draft Mercury Emission Reduction Strategy
November 2008
Comments Solicited
Dear Great Lakes Stakeholders,
The GLRC Executive Committee directed that a Great Lakes Mercury Emission
Reduction Strategy be developed with a goal of producing institutionalized
activities to sustain mercury emission reductions from unregulated sources,
and regulated sources with potential for additional reduction. The Strategy
should produce recommendations for state action, or available options for
state action. It also directed that the group developing the strategy
solicit input from stakeholders on an ongoing basis using the existing Great
Lakes Binational Toxics Strategy mercury workgroup.
A workgroup was formed in April 2008 to develop the Strategy. The
workgroup has made significant progress towards the development of the draft
Strategy, including developing a detailed table of contents, developing a
detailed discussion about mercury emission sources, and the criteria for
selecting source sectors that will be addressed in detail in the Strategy.
The Strategy Team is seeking input from Stakeholders on these documents
developed so far.
The work group members selected source sectors based on the criteria
communicated in the June 17, 2008 memo to stakeholders. Selection was based
on the following criteria:
- Total emissions within the Great Lakes states
- Potential for high deposition within Great Lakes Basin (due to
speciation profile) or high local emissions impact (because of big
individual sources)
- Current availability of measures to achieve reductions. Potential
for future emissions growth from the sector
Sources were further evaluated based on the following criteria:
- Are mercury emissions from the sector already being adequately
addressed?
- Do states have the ability to achieve reductions beyond what will be
accomplished through existing/forthcoming regulations/programs?
- Are there cost-effective opportunities for additional reduction?
The Great Lakes Mercury Emissions Reduction Strategy workgroup would
appreciate stakeholder input on the draft outline, the criteria document,
and the source sector document. Please email your contributions to Alexis
Cain at cain.alexis@epa.gov and to
Deb Jacobson at
djacobson@istc.illinois.edu.
Input would be most helpful if
submitted by
December 19, 2008.
Documents to Review
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