Problem Personnel turnovers and a loss of institutional knowledge at the site created problems when the facility needed to make changes to their air permit. Not understanding the RACT requirements that come into play for permit modifications in non-attainment areas, they reached out to Array for help. Solution Array reviewed the facility’s historic information, […]
Problem Our client’s Title V and NSR air permits contained a general permit condition that did not align with the original intent of the text and created stack testing requirements that were difficult to meet. In fact, to meet the capacity required during stack testing, additional equipment had to be permitted to supplement the throughput. […]
Colorado’s following APEN, permitting, and annual fees have been updated. Type of fee Amount Effective Date APEN Submittal Fee $191.13/APEN July 1, 2018 Permit Processing Fee $95.56/hour July 1, 2018 Annual APEN Fee – Regulated Pollutants $28.63/ton November 2018 (est.) Annual APEN Fee – Hazardous Pollutants $191.13/ton November 2018 (est.) Here is the […]
I attended an A&WMA webinar on TANKS 4.09D today; and among all the great information that was presented, here are the three most important takeaways: EPA enforcement has stated that reliance on TANKS 4.09D is not an effective defense even if a state agency has approved and/or required it. As such, EPA can over-file if […]
Did you know that Colorado has a Smoking Vehicle Hotline where you can anonymously call in or email information regarding vehicles that you see on the road that have really bad exhaust?!? All you need is the Colorado vehicle’s license plate number. Once you call it in, the CDPHE will send the owner of the […]
Colorado is now forecasting ozone levels from June 1st to August 31st. When ozone levels are anticipated to be high, an Ozone Action Alert email will be sent to various people and groups, including industries, who have signed up to receive these alerts. The alerts cover a 24-hour period and are sent out 2 to 4 […]
This is a public service announcement for the folks in Colorado to check your annual APEN fee invoice as soon as possible. You have 30 days from the date of the invoice (usually dated late February) to request changes to your annual fee if you find that the emissions in your invoice are wrong. Let […]
I attended the New Mexico Environment Department’s (NMED) annual emissions inventory reporting (AEIR) webinar and learned that NMED is continuing the improve the AEIR web application. This year we will see some of the data from previous years retained in the web application and the ability to save a page without having everything filled out. However, […]
If you use data from AP-42 to calculate particulate matter emissions, it is highly likely that this data represents only filterable particulate matter and no condensable particulate matter. As such, make sure any stack test requirements in your air permit reflect the same particulate matter basis that was used to estimate your emissions (i.e., filterable, […]
Total suspended particulates, TSP (referred to as particulate matter, PM, by EPA), is a regulated new source review (NSR) pollutant, so it is possible to go major source/prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) on this pollutant alone. What’s tricky is that EPA replaced the TSP National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) with the PM10 (particulate matter […]
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