BEFORE THE ENVIRONMENTAL APPEALS BOARD UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. ____________________________________ In re: ) ) Granite Shore Power Merrimack LLC ) NPDES Appeal No. 20-05 and ) and GSP Merrimack LLC ) NPDES Appeal No. 20-06 ) NPDES Permit No. NH0001465 ) ____________________________________) CERTIFIED INDEX TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD As Ken Moraff, Director of the Water Division, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 1, I hereby certify that the attached index constitutes the Certified Index to the Administrative Record of NPDES Permit No. NH0001465, issued to GSP Merrimack LLC for Merrimack Station, in Bow, New Hampshire. _________________ _______________________________ Date Ken Moraff Director Water Division EPA, Region 1 ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD INDEX Merrimack Station1 - NPDES Permit No. NH0001465 I. PERMIT DOCUMENTS Administrative Record Documents Doc. # Date Type Description Author Recipient Granite Shore Final NPDES Permit for Merrimack Station, Bow, NH, signed by Kenneth Moraff EPA, 1886 05/22/2020 Final Permit Power Merrimack on 5/22/2020 (PDF) (59 pp, 884 K) Region 1 LLC Commenters, Responses to EPA's Responses to Comments Public Review of Merrimack Station NPDES Permit EPA, 1885 05/22/2020 GSP, and the Comments No. NH0001465 Final Permit (PDF) (750 pp, 7.5 MB) Region 1 Public Joint Public Notice of the Reopening of the Public Comment Period for the Draft National Pollution Discharge Elimination System Permit for Merrimack Station in Bow, NH. The Comment Period Is Being Reopened Pursuant to 40 C.F.R. Section Joint Public EPA / PSNH and Other 1533 08/02/2017 124.14(b) to Allow Additional Comment to Address Certain Data, Information and Notice NH DES Interested Parties Arguments that Pertain to Certain Aspects of the Permit and Became Pertinent Since Issuance of the Draft Permit in 2011 and the Revised Draft Permit in 2014 (PDF) (3 pp, 244 K) Statement of Substantial New Questions for Public Comment (Discussion of Substantial New Questions and Possible New Conditions for the Merrimack Station PSNH and Other 1534 07/24/2017 Statement EPA Draft NPDES Permit that are Now Subject to Public Comment During the Comment Interested Parties Period Reopened by EPA Under 40 C.F.R. Section 124.14(b) (PDF) (70 pp, 742 K) Attached Public Notice announcing Revised Draft Permit - to Public Notice Team 1134 04/17/2014 Email EPA Public and NH and MA email groups (PDF) (1 pg, 57 K) 1 A searchable, electronic Administrative Record is available online at: https://www.epa.gov/npdes-permits/merrimack-station-administrative-record. Additionally, each record can be accessed electronically by selecting the link provided as the “Description” of the record in the index above. 1 Administrative Record Documents Doc. # Date Type Description Author Recipient 1135 04/18/2014 Draft Permit Revised Draft Permit Fact Sheet (PDF) (57 pp, 1 MB) EPA Public 1136 04/18/2014 Draft Permit Revised Draft Permit (PDF) (29 pp, 612 K) EPA Permittee 1137 04/18/2014 Public Notice Revised Draft Permit Public Notice (PDF) (2 pp, 68 K) EPA Public Merrimack Station Draft NPDES Permit Fact Sheet (316(a), 316(b), FGD, Other) 608 09/29/2011 Fact Sheet EPA Permittee (PDF) (60 pp, 475 K) Merrimack Station Draft NPDES Permit (316(a), 316(b), FGD, Other) (PDF) (29 609 09/29/2011 Draft Permit EPA Permittee pp, 374 K) Draft Permit Freshwater Chronic Toxicity Test Procedure and Protocol (FGD, Other) (PDF) (7 610 09/29/2011 EPA Permittee Attachment A pp, 50 K) Draft Permit 611 09/29/2011 Monitoring Location Map (316(a), 316(b), FGD, Other) (PDF) (1 pg, 272 K) EPA Permittee Attachment B Draft Permit Part Part II Standard Conditions of Draft Permit (316(a), 316(b), FGD, Other) (PDF) (25 612 09/29/2011 II Standard EPA Permittee pp, 116 K) Conditions Fact Sheet Attachment A to Fact Sheet- Merrimack Station Map Location (Other) (PDF) (1 pg, 613 09/29/2011 EPA Permittee Attachment A 357 K) Fact Sheet Attachment B - to Fact Sheet -Merrimack Station Map Location of Outfalls (316(a), 614 09/29/2011 EPA Permittee Attachment B 316(b), FGD, Other) (PDF) (1 pg, 443 K) Fact Sheet Attachment C to Fact Sheet- Merrimack Station Schematic of Water Flow (316(b), 615 09/29/2011 EPA Permittee Attachment C 316(a), FGD, Other) (PDF) (1 pg, 813 K) Fact Sheet Attachment E to Fact Sheet- Flue Gas Desulfurization Wastewater Treatment 616 09/29/2011 EPA Permittee Attachment E System Determination (FGD) (PDF) (52 pp, 597 K) Fact Sheet Attachment F to Fact Sheet - Discharge Monitoring Report Summary (316(a), 617 09/29/2011 EPA Permittee Attachment F Other) (PDF) (11 pp 218 K) Fact Sheet Determinations for the Thermal Discharge and Cooling Water Intake Structures at 618 09/29/2011 EPA Permittee Attachment D Merrimack Station (316(a), 316(b), Other) (PDF) (391 pp, 2.2 MB) 2 Administrative Record Documents Doc. # Date Type Description Author Recipient Final NPDES Permit for Merrimack Station, Bow, New Hampshire (316(a), 316(b), 236 06/25/1992 Permit EPA Permittee Thermal-BAT, and/or WQS, Other) (PDF) (23 pp, 3.7 MB) Final NPDES Permit for Merrimack Station (Duplicate of AR-236.) (316(a), 316(b), 580 06/25/1992 Final Permit EPA Permittee Thermal-BAT, and/or WQS, Other) (PDF) (23 pp, 3.6 MB) Final NPDES Permit for Merrimack Station (Duplicate of AR-236.) (316(a), 316(b), 410 06/25/1992 Permit EPA Permittee Thermal-BAT, and/or WQS, Other)) (PDF) (16 pp, 2.6 MB) Final NPDES Permit for Merrimack Station (Duplicate of AR-236.) (316(a), 316(b), 480 06/25/1992 Permit EPA Permittee Thermal-BAT, and/or WQS, Other) (PDF) (16 pp, 2.6 MB) PSNH dba Response to Exhibit 22 – Response to Comments, Reissuance of Permit No. NH 0001465, EPA 1570 06/24/1992 Eversource Comments PSNH, Merrimack Station, Bow, NH (PDF) (11 pp, 713 K) Region 1 Energy Merrimack Station Fact Sheet (for the existing 1992 permit) (316(a), 316(b), Other) 112 12/02/1991 Fact Sheet EPA Permittee (PDF) (20 pp, 5.7 MB) Final NPDES Permit for Merrimack Station (Permit No. NH0001465) (316(a) and 15 09/30/1985 Final Permit EPA Permittee 316(b)) (PDF) (16 pp, 646 K) 483 09/30/1985 Final Permit NPDES permit for PSNH, Merrimack Station (316(a), 316(b), Other) (PDF) (18 pp, EPA Permittee 756 K) 488 06/25/1979 Final Permit NPDES permit for PSNH, Merrimack Station (316(a), 316(b), Other) (PDF) (20 pp, EPA Permittee 4.1 MB) 3 II. OTHER SUPPORTING MATERIALS Administrative Record Documents Doc. # Date Type Description Author Recipient 1 07/01/1971 Report Merrimack River Thermal Study (316(a)) (PDF) (192 pp, 5 MB) Philip H. Wightman EPA Entrainment and Impingement Studies Performed at Merrimack Normandeau 2 10/01/2007 Report Generating Station from June 2005 through June 2007 (316(b)) (PDF) EPA Assoc., Inc. (383 pp, 50 MB) Merrimack Station Fisheries Survey Results of 2004 and 2005 and Normandeau 3 05/01/2006 Report Historical Trends Analysis of 1967 to 2005 Surveys (316(a) and 316(b)) EPA Assoc., Inc. CBI Released (PDF) (11 pp, 2.1 MB) Supplemental Alternative Technology Evaluation PSNH, Enercon 4 10/01/2009 Report Impingement/Entrainment Reduction Assessment (316(b)) CBI Redacted EPA Services, Inc. or Removed (PDF) (108 pp, 5.7 MB) Letter & Response to Information Request in Support of NPDES Permit 5 07/07/2010 Linda Landis EPA Report Reissuance (316(a)) (PDF) (64 pp, 16.5 MB) Response to U.S. EPA CWA § 308 Letter See AR 237 for 308 Public Service of 6 11/01/2007 Report Information Request Letter (316(b)) CBI Released; see AR-260 (PDF) EPA NH (375 pp, 18.4 MB) Merrimack Station Thermal Discharge Effects on Downstream Salmon Normandeau 7 05/01/2006 Report Smolt Migration (316(a)) PSNH ltr dtd 01/24/07 removed CBI; See AR- EPA Assoc., Inc. 265 (PDF) (9 pp, 1.4 MB) An Examination of Fish Catch Between Trap Nets With 0.75-In. and 2.00-In. Mesh Sizes Deployed in Hooksett Pool of the Merrimack River Normandeau 8 06/01/2006 Report EPA During 2004 and 2005 (316(a) and 316(b)) PSNH ltr dtd 01/24/07 Assoc., Inc. removed CBI; See AR-265 (PDF) (9 pp, 1.5 MB) Report Merrimack Station Quality Assurance Plan and Standard Operating Normandeau 9 10/01/2006 (claimed as EPA Procedures for Entrainment Monitoring (316b) (PDF) (5 pp, 713 K) Assoc., Inc. CBI) 4 Administrative Record Documents Doc. # Date Type Description Author Recipient A Probabilistic Thermal Model of the Merrimack River Downstream of Normandeau 10 04/01/2007 Report EPA Merrimack Station (316(a)) (PDF) (40 pp, 11.4 MB) Assoc., Inc. Merrimack Station Fisheries Survey Analysis of 1967 through 2005 Normandeau 11 04/01/2007 Report EPA Catch and Habitat Data (316(a) and 316(b)) (PDF) (352 pp, 98.7 MB) Assoc., Inc. Biocharacteristics of Yellow Perch and White Sucker Populations in Normandeau 12 06/01/2009 Report Hooksett Pool of the Merrimack River (316(a) and 316(b)) (PDF) (84 pp, EPA Assoc., Inc. 23 MB) Steam Electric Power Generating Point Source Category: Final Detailed 13 10/01/2009 Report Study Report (FGD) (partial document provided, full document available EPA EPA at EPA Region 1) (PDF) (75 pp, 22.1 MB) EPA Letter to PSNH re company's requested changes to biological 14 09/23/1987 Letter EPA Permittee monitoring at Merrimack Station. (316(b)) (PDF) (3 pp, 156 K) Technical Treatment Technology Summary for Critical Pollutants of Concern in Electric Power 16 01/01/2007 Public Update Power Plant Wastewaters (FGD) (PDF) (88 pp, 18.5 MB) Research Institute What are detection limits (DL) and reporting limits (RL) (FGD, Other) 17 04/28/2011 Web page Placer Data Library Not Specified (PDF) (2 pp, 527 K) Swansea Water 18 08/17/2007 Fact Sheet Fact Sheet for MA0103390 (FGD) (PDF) (13 pp, 4.2 MB) EPA District Other - Page Regulation of Deep Well Injection -- (one page from article by Herbert Other - Herbert Not Specified - 19 01/01/1996 from Scientific Earle, full article is in Index at AR # 134) (FGD) (PDF) (1 p, 302 K) Earle (public) Paper Environmental Ecotoxicological Implications of Aquatic Disposal of Coal Combustion 20 03/14/2002 Report Monitoring and Sharon DeMeo Residues in the U.S.: A Review (FGD) (PDF) (24 pp, 4.5 MB) Assessment Unique Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) System for Treatment of 21 12/10/2010 Web Page Other Not Specified Wastewater from Coal-Fired Generation.