
MEMORANDUM   

DATE:		April 7, 2015
TO:		Clean Power Plan for Existing Power Plants; Docket Id: OAR - 2013-0602
FROM:		Kathleen Aisling, EPA Region 6
SUBJECT:	April 1, 2015 Conference Call Regarding Proposed Clean Power Plan for Existing Power Plants 
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SUMMARY
EPA HQ held a conference call with the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ), Arkansas Public Service Commission (PSC), Arkansas Economic Development Commission (AEDC), and the Office of the Governor on April 1, 2015 in order to brief the new Director of the ADEQ, Becky Keogh, on the Clean Power Plan for Existing Power Plants.  The call was at the request of the ADEQ.  EPA Region 6 was also on the call.
Topics discussed included Arkansas issues regarding:
   * Affordability of power under the CPP NGCC generation calculations and methodology 
   * Stranded assets
   * Re-dispatch
   * State plan challenges
   * Coordination with Regional Haze Plans
      
ATTENDEES
Arkansas DEQ
Becky Keogh			Director
Stuart Spencer			Legal Policy Advisor
Tammy Harrelson		Interim Air Division Chief
Tony Davis			Air Planning Branch Manager

Arkansas PSC
Ted Thomas			Chairman
Eddie Moore			Policy Advisor

Arkansas EDC
Mitchell Simpson		State Energy Office, Deputy Director
Chet Howland			Energy Program Manager

Arkansas Office of the Governor
Tori Gordon			Policy Advisor

US EPA
Kathleen Aisling		Air Program Branch, EPA Region (R6)
Mark Hansen			Chief, Air Program Branch (R6)
Clovis Steib			Air Program Branch (R6)
Wren Stenger			Director, Multimedia Planning and Permitting Division (R6)
Kevin Culligan			Associate Division Director, SPPD, OAQPS
Joe Goffman			Senior Counsel/Associate Assistant Administrator for Climate
Julia Miller			Climate Protection Partnerships Division, OAR
Andrea Barbery		Office of Intergovernmental Relations, AO


