UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCYFederal Facilities Compliance Agreement • August 11th, 2011 • Tennessee Valley Authority • Electric services • Alabama
WHEREAS, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued an administrative compliance order to the Tennessee Valley Authority (“TVA”) pursuant to Sections 113 and 167 of the Clean Air Act (“Act”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 7413, 7477, alleging that TVA violated, inter alia, the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (“PSD”) and Nonattainment New Source Review (“Nonattainment NSR”) programs of the Act, its implementing regulations, and the federally approved and enforceable State Implementation Plans (“SIPs”) for Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee at several of the coal-fired electric generating units that TVA owns and operates when it made certain physical changes without obtaining the necessary permits and installing the controls necessary to reduce emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOx), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and particulate matter (“PM”);
