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IRP Program/ Regulatory Specialist- Portland, Oregon #107139 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

March 28, 2022
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General Purpose

Provide regulatory, legislative and project management support including for the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) and associated stakeholder and regulatory process, active regulatory dockets supporting commercial and resource acquisitions, and legislative activities impacting modeling and planning inputs and assumptions.

Responsibilities

  • Draft comments and contribute to testimony and other regulatory filings in the IRP dockets and other related rulemakings and legislative activities.
  • Respond to discovery requests from state commissions and stakeholders.
  • Develop an IRP project plan with the project scope and objectives, major activities, and timelines for completion.
  • Oversee IRP projects, maintain the project plan, and monitor progress against the plan. Communicate with the Director regarding project status.
  • Contribute to development of the IRP document.
  • Perform analysis as needed supporting commercial resource acquisition and valuation, development of the annual integrated resource plan, and associated studies.
  • Prepare and develop tables, figures and charts supporting analysis.
  • Oversee stakeholder public input meeting logistics, issues tracking and distribution of materials.
  • Maintain the IRP mailbox, distribution list, and track and respond to stakeholder feedback forms.
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[UPDATED] EPA Sets Schedules for Long List of Power Plant Regulatory Actions 

May 26, 2019
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will act on a spate of power plant rules over the next year, its newly released agenda of regulatory and deregulatory actions shows.

The May 23-released “Spring 2019 Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions” lists 35 new actions, along with 57 actions that it considers “deregulatory.” The list includes new rules governing coal ash, new insights and timelines for final effluent limitations guidelines and mercury rules, action on “boiler MACT” rules, monitoring and record-keeping clarifications for the mercury and other rules, changes to New Source Review permitting, and an amendment to a rule governing stationary combustion turbines at power plants. 

Rule

First time on agenda

Proposed rule

Final rule

Effluent Limitations Guidelines (ELG) and Standards

June 2019

August 2020

Rules Governing Definition of “Waters of the U.S.”

July 2017 (supplemental in July 2018)/February 2019

August 2019/December 2019

Coal ash: Amendments to the National Minimum Criteria (Phase 2)

July 2019

December 2019

Coal ash: Federal Coal Combustion Residuals Permitting Program

Yes

July 2019

May 2020

Coal ash: Revision of cease receipt of waste deadline for CCR surface impoundments; response to court

Yes

July 2019

December 2019

Coal ash: Alternative demonstration for unlined surface impoundments/ request for comment on legacy units; response to court

Yes

July 2019

December 2019

MATS: Reconsideration of Supplemental Cost Finding and Residual Risk and Technology Review

February 2019

November 2019

MATS technical corrections, reporting revisions, clarifications

November 2019

NESHAP:Stationary Combustion Turbine Residual Risk and Technology Review

April 2019 (comment period ends on May 28)

January 2020

(Boiler MACT):NESHAP: Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Boilers and Process Heaters Amendments 

September 2019

Review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter 

March 2020

Project emissions accounting under PSD and non attainment NSR

July 2019

Standards of Performance for Stationary Compression Ignition (CI) Internal Combustion Engines Amendments

June 2019

Direct final rule, June 2019

Technical Revisions to the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule 

December 2019

December 2020

Clean Air Act Benefit-Cost Reforms 

Yes

December 2019

Revisions to the Petition Provisions of the Title V Permitting Program

August 2016

August 2019

Financial responsibility requirements for power sector

July 2019

December 2020

Accidental release prevention requirements

May 2018

August 2019

General revisions to emissions monitoring and reporting requirements for fossil generators

November 2019

April 2020

The agenda shows “continued progress in reducing regulatory burden” envisioned by President Trump’s proposed regulatory reforms, the agency said in a statement.…

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THE BIG PICTURE: Trump’s Regulatory Targets

September 4, 2018
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President Trump campaigned on a promise to reduce regulation and control regulatory costs. One of his first actions after taking office was to issue an executive order calling for the elimination of two existing regulations for every one new regulation issued. Toward that end, the Trump administration has acted or sought to reverse more than 70 environmental rules. Among them are several Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations governing air, water, and waste emissions from the nation’s power plants. Here’s where those rules stand today. Notes: FIP = federal implementation plan; SIP = state implementation plan. Sources: Environmental Integrity Project, Environmental Law at Harvard, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School  

1. Clean Power Plan 

The EPA released a proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan in October 2017, saying the rule “exceeds the agency’s statutory authority.” In July 2018, the EPA sent a replacement plan to President Trump for review, saying it would seek public comment on the new measure after a White House review is completed but it did not provide a timeline.…

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Japan Regulatory Group Gives Conditional Support for TEPCO Restart

September 14, 2017
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Japan’s nuclear watchdog agency has given Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) conditional approval to restart two reactors at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant. The units were taken offline after the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown in March 2011.

The country’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) on September 13 said TEPCO could restart the units after it provides a detailed plan of how it can ensure the operational safety of the boiling-water reactors, the same type that operated at Fukushima, which was crippled after an earthquake and tsunami struck the region, resulting in flooding at the nuclear plant. The Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported the NRA’s action.

A district court in March of this year ruled that TEPCO and the Japanese government were aware of risks at Fukushima and could have taken action to avoid the meltdown of three reactors.

TEPCO Under Scrutiny

Units 6 and 7 at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture were among 54 nuclear facilities in Japan—the country’s entire nuclear fleet—ordered to shut down after the 2011 earthquake.…

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Trump’s Regulatory Rollback May Hit Roadblocks

February 15, 2017
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President Donald Trump’s drive to roll back federal regulations, especially from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), will not be simple or smooth, a veteran Washington, D.C., attorney said at a utility conference on February 8.

Speaking at the Energy, Utility, and Environment Conference (EUEC) in San Diego, Calif., Thomas Lorenzen, a partner with D.C.–based law firm Crowell & Moring, told attendees that the roadblocks standing in the way of a rapid rollback are many and varied.

One of Trump’s signature moves, his January 30 executive order that requires two rules to be repealed for every new rule published, isn’t going to be anywhere near as simple as it might appear, Lorenzen said.

“It’s really going to depend on the enabling statutes,” he noted, since many regulations exist because of mandates from Congress. “Many of these laws have not been revised in decades.”

Without changes in the law, the administration’s hands are often tied.

“It’s not clear how effective this order is going to be,” he said, pointing out that withdrawing or revising an existing rule requires a new rulemaking process.…

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