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Compliance and Enforcement Annual Results:
FY2005 Supplement Environmental Projects Highlights
FY2005 Annual Results Topics
Supplemental environmental projects (SEPs) are environmentally beneficial actions that a violator agrees to perform as part of an enforcement settlement. SEPs go beyond compliance and provide significant benefits to public health and the environment. EPA enforcement settlements concluded in FY2005 include 207 cases requiring defendants to implement SEPs with a value of over $57 million. The following three settlements are examples of FY2005 cases that include innovative SEPs:
Chevron Products
In December 2004, Chevron Products agreed to implement a supplemental environmental project that involved procurement and installation of a fuel cell to provide electricity at Moody Gardens in Galveston, Texas, one of the largest publicly-owned tourist attractions in the Houston-Galveston area. The fuel cell will be part of a pollution prevention and reduction system in which Moody Gardens will use an anaerobic digester to reduce solid waste that would otherwise be sent to a landfill. Biogas from the digester will be used to power the fuel cell, and heat from the fuel cell will go back to the digester to make it operate more efficiently. Moody Gardens will use the electricity generated by the fuel cell, reducing its reliance on an existing boiler and reducing air emissions. In addition, Moody Gardens uses treated wastewater from the city to irrigate its rain forest exhibit. Organic matter from the irrigation will also be used in the digester. Moody Gardens will experience some emission offsets from its boilers because it will use some of the fuel cell heat to offset producing steam from the boiler. The fuel cell will be an important part of a multi-media project designed to reduce pollution through alternative energy, reuse and recycling principles.
AK Steel
In January 2005, AK Steel agreed to implement three supplemental environmental projects designed to improve air quality and reduce hazardous wastes. The company will retire over 159 tons of NOx credits. It will also purchase and install equipment to enable at least 17 refrigeration units to use refrigerants with lower ozone depleting potential. Also under the consent decree, AK Steel conducted a refrigerant recycling program in Butler County, Pa., in which appliances containing refrigerants were picked up and brought to the recycling plant, where the appliance refrigerants were removed and disposed of properly.
CamWest, Inc.
In August 2005, EPA entered into a consent decree with BP America Production Co., CamWest Inc. and CamWest Limited Partnership resolving alleged violations of the Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, and Oil Pollution Act on the Lander and Winkleman Dome Oil Fields in Fremont County, Wyo., within the boundaries of the Wind River Indian Reservation of the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes. As part of the settlement, Camwest and BP agreed to implement supplemental environmental projects on the Wind River Indian Reservation that will provide significant environmental improvements to the drinking water systems of the Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes. The projects involve the purchase and installation of piping and other equipment to upgrade water treatment facilities, providing better quality and quantity of drinking water to tribal members. The Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribal governments, respective utility organizations, tribal attorneys, and the Wind River Environmental Quality Commission provided extensive cooperation on the supplemental environmental projects.