PA Nutrient Trading Program

Nutrient trading is a market-based program that provides incentives for entities to create nutrient reduction credits by going beyond statutory, regulatory or voluntary obligations and goals to remove nutrients from a watershed. The credits can be traded to help others more cost effectively meet their obligations or goals. The primary purpose of the Nutrient Credit Trading Program is to provide for more efficient ways for National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permittees to meet their effluent limits for nutrients. Currently, the focus of the program is on the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

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The PENNVEST Nutrient Credit Clearinghouse Auction Schedule for the 2011 -2012 Compliance Year is as follows:

Forward auctions
- March 21, 2012
  - To participate in this auction, the pollutant reduction activity will need to be certified by February 8, 2012.
- June 13, 2012
- September 12, 2012
Spot auction
- November 7, 2012

PENNVEST held a “spot” auction on November 2, 2011 for the sale and purchase of nutrient credits in the Susquehanna and Potomac watersheds. The public results are as follows:

Public Results for Pennvest Spot Auction November 2nd 2011
Credit: SU-N-11
Bid/Offer	Quantity Won	Winners:	Total Quantity Traded	Final Price ($)
BID	20,859.00	Harrisburg Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility	20,859.00	3.10
OFFER	5,059.00	County of Lycoming
OFFER	500	Electrocell Technologies Inc.
OFFER	15,290.00	Elizabethtown Borough
OFFER	10	Mercuria Energy America, Inc.
Credit: SU-P-11
Bid/Offer	Quantity Won	Winners:	Total Quantity Traded	Final Price ($)
BID	700	The Mountaintop Area Joint Sanitary Authority	700	4.73
OFFER	238	County of Lycoming
OFFER	462	Electrocell Technologies Inc.

For additional information please visit:

http://www.pennvest.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/nutrient_credit_trading/19518 or
http://www.markit.com/en/products/environmental/auctions/pennvest.page

The information outlined on this website is intended to supplement existing requirements. Nothing on this site shall affect regulatory requirements. The information herein is not an adjudication or a regulation. There is no intent on the part of the Department to give the information on this website that weight or deference. This information establishes the framework, within which the Department will exercise its administrative discretion in the future. The Department reserves the discretion to deviate from this statement if circumstances warrant.

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