Mirant Potomac River Generating Station

• Plant Information
• City Council Actions
• Permit & Consent Orders
• Studies
• Legislative and Regulatory Information

Plant Information

• Mirant Contacts
• Mirant Fact Sheet
• Mirant in the Community
• Mirant Environmental Technologies: Making Electricity Cleaner
• State Operating Permit

City Council Actions

No formal action has taken place with City Council since 2005, although several executive sessions have been held to discuss pending issues regarding the Mirant Potomac River Power Plant. Since 2005, the Mirant Community Monitoring Group has met regularly to discuss all issues regarding the Mirant facility.

• 9/13/05 - Update to the City Council on Mirant 
• 12/14/2004 - Planning Commission actions of December 7, 2004 on revocation of Special Use Permit 2296 and 2297, granted in 1989, to Mirant Potomac River Generating Station
• 11/4/2004 - Docket Item - Planning Commission Regarding amendment to the non-complying use regulations applicable to coal fired power plants.
• 10/25/2004 - City Council Docket Item concerning City Comments on the proposed revised Mirant State Operating Permit and consent decree
• 11/13/2004 - Docket Item - City Council - Regarding amendment to the non-complying use regulations applicable to coal fired power plants
• 10/25/2004 - 2004-10-25 City Council Docket Item concerning City Comments on the proposed revised Mirant State Operating Permit and consent decree
• 6/21/2004 - Alexandria EPC Resolution
• 6/22/2004
  • Presentation at City Council Meeting
  • Action Docket Council Action
    City Manager’s Memo to Council dated June 17, 2004 Re: Issues related to Mirant Potomac River Generating Station
    City Manager’s memo to the City Council dated May 10, 2004
    City Attorney’s Memo to the City Council Dated June 18, 2004
    Environmental Policy Commission Resolution concerning Mirant dated June 21, 2004
    City’s letter/comments to Virginia Department of Environmental Quality concerning Draft State Operating Permit, dated 4/12/2004
• 2/7/2004 - City Attorney to EPC (Plant Closure)

Permit & Consent Orders

• 2008-07-31 PRGS State Operating Permit 
• 2008-07-02 VDEQ Consent Order on S02 NAAQS Violations on 02-23-07 and Coal Perimeter Fencing Malfunctions 
• 2006-06-26 - The City's comments in response to DOJ's Notice of Lodging of the Proposed Amended Consent Decree
• 2006-04-20 - Amended/Final Consent Decree for 2003 NOx violation at Mirant
• 2006-04-20 - Appendix to Amended/Final Consent Decree for 2003 NOx violation at Mirant
• 2004-11-08 - City to USDOJ - Comments on CD
• 2004-10-28 - City of Alexandria Comments on the Revised Draft State Operating Permit
• 2004-10-03 Public Hearing by Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Report on October 28, 2004 on Proposed Revisions to Mirant's State Operating Permit.
• Draft Revised State Operating Permit
• 2004-9-29 Report on Mirant Potomac Power Plant (Memo from City Staff to City Council dated 09/28/2004) summarizing the consent decree and agreement along with follow up on other related areas.
• Text of the Consent Decree filed in federal Court by Federal Regulatory Agencies and Mirant
• Consent Order between Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and Mirant Regarding Downwash Study
• 2004-09-27 - Fact Sheet on Consent Decree
• 2004 Consent Decree
• Environmental Projects in Consent Decree
• 2004-09-24 - Draft Revised State Operating Permit
• 2004-09-23 - Consent Order - Downwash Modeling
• 2004-04-12 - Moran Comments - Draft State Permit
• 2004-04-12 - City Comments - Draft State Permit
• 2004-03-09 - Draft State Operating Permit
• 2004-01-22 - EPA to Mirant - NOx NOV
• 2003-09-19 - Mirant to VaDEQ - NOx NOV
• 2003-09-10 - VaDEQ to Mirant - NOx NOV
• 2001-07-03 - Agreement of Understanding
• 2001-03-14 - NPDES Permit
• 2000-09-29 - State Operating Permit
• 2000-06-05 - State Permit - RACT
• 1998-12-15 - Phase II Acid Rain Permit
• 1998-07-31 - Consent Agreement - NOx RACT

Studies

• 4/11/06 - Stack test protocol to perform PM10 testing on Units 2,3,4, and/or 5.
• 1/17/06 - Mirant submitted to DOE Supplement Number 2 summarizing trona and Columbian coal test results and Updates 5 and 6 to the downwash modeling analysis.
  • Supplement Number 2
  • Update 5 
  • Update 6 
  • Trona Test Report Summary
• 8/31/05 - Executive Summary of the City's Modeling Study of Mirant; AERO Engineering Report - Ambient Air Quality Analysis (7MB pdf file) 
• 7/01/05 - Settled Study Protocols proposed by Mirant (required under still to be finalized consent decree)
  • Microscopical Methods for Determining Coal Concentration in Settled Dust
  • Strategy and Method for Passive Sampling of Settled Dust
• 4/12/05 - City comments on Revised Protocol for Modeling the Effects of Downwash from Mirant's Potomac River Power Plant 
• Ambient Air Quality Data
• City Comments on Modeling Protocol 
• Dr. Levy's Study 
• Letter to DEQ Followup 03-02-05 
• Modeling Protocol 
• MWAQC - PM Health Effects 
• Sullivan Modeling 
• The City seeks the community's input on the protocols proposed by Mirant for Downwash Study Modeling. See copy of the proposed protocols

Legislative and Regulatory Information

• 2006-01-06 - Mirant Chapter 11 Case
• 2003-11-20 - House Bill on NOx Trading 
• Upcoming Federal Regulations