EPA and the Department of Justice announced today a consent decree with Arizona Public Service Company, Southern California Edison, El Paso Electric Company, Public Service Company of New Mexico, Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District, and Tucson Electric Power Company, (collectively) including the following documents.
1. Settlement Resources
2. Press Release
3. Consent Decree
4. Overview of Company
5. Violations
6. Injunctive Relief and Pollutant Reductions
7. Health Effects and Environmental Benefits
8. Environmental Mitigation Projects
9. Civil Penalty
There is a 90-day comment period.
Defendants represent a group of public and private entities that together own FCPP. The two unit, 1,540-megawatt Four Corners (Navajo) Power Plant, located on the Navajo Indian Reservation west of Farmington, New Mexico, is operated by APS. APS is Arizona largest and longest-serving electric company, providing more than 1.1 million retail and residential customers in 11 of 15 Arizona counties.
The EPA began an investigation of the FCPP in 2009, as part of the EPA Power Plant Initiative. Four NGO also began investigating the FCPP and filed a complaint with violations of the New Source Review and Prevention of Significant Detorioration program in 2011 specifically alleging that APS made modifications to FCPP Units 4 and 5 in 1985, 2007 and 2008 that triggered PSD review. These NGO collectively were Dine CARE, the National Parks Conservation Association, To Nizhoni Ani, and Sierra Club, of course.
SCE will spend $3.2 to sponsor a wood-burning and coal-burning appliance replacement and/or retrofit project. This Project will replace or retrofit inefficient, higher-polluting wood-burning or coal-burning appliances with cleaner-burning, more energy-efficient heating appliances. The project must be implemented in the Navajo Nation territory, plus others.
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