Letter to the EPA Inspector General

The Environment - Mercury

Attachments To The Letter To The EPA Inspector General On The Proposed Mercury Rule

Attachment A – Los Angeles Times March 16, 2004

Attachment B - Latham and Watkins memo “A Global Compliance Extension for Electric Utility Steam Generating Units – Legal and Policy Basis”

Attachment C – Sample pages from Docket Item number OAR-2002-0056-0107. Facsimile comments from Interagency review

Attachment D – Page 365 and 366, December 11, 2003 draft of the preamble to the proposed rule

Attachment E – EPA August 8, 2002 presentation to the Utility Toxics Working Group

Attachment F – West Associates memo “Multivariable Method to Estimate the Mercury Emissions of the Best-Performing Coal-Fired Utility Units under the Most Adverse Circumstances which can Reasonably be Expected to Occur”

Attachment G – side-by-side language comparison of EPA proposed rule and industry memos/reports

Attachment H – Jeffrey Cole, Research Triangle Institute to Bill Maxwell, U.S. EPA, August 28, 2002 

Attachment I – Latham and Watkins memo “Legal and Policy Basis for use of West Associates Proposed Mercury MACT Floors” 

Attachment J – Latham and Watkins memo “A System-Wide Compliance Alternative for Mercury Emissions from Electric Utility Steam Generating Units – Legal and Policy Basis.” 

Attachment K – August 1, 2001 EPA presentation #1 to Utility MACT Working Group

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Attachment L – Latham and Watkins memo “Legal and Policy Basis for EPA to Forego the Regulation of Non-Mercury HAP Emissions from Utility Boilers” 

Attachment M - December 13, 2001 letter from the environmental group stakeholders on the Utility MACT Working Group to the Working Group co-chairs

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Attachment N – InsideEPA April 5, 2004