[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 98 (Monday, May 21, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23457-23458]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-10774]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9976-69--Region 6]
Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petitions for Objection
to State Operating Permit for Yuhuang Chemical Company, Inc. Methanol
Plant, St James Parish Louisiana
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of final Order on Petitions for objection to Clean Air
Act title V operating permit.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator signed
an Order dated April 2, 2018 denying Petitions dated March 30, 2017 and
August 3, 2017 from the Louisiana Environmental Action Network and the
Sierra Club (collectively, the Petitions and Petitioners,
respectively). The Petitions requested that the EPA object to the Clean
Air Act (CAA) title V operating permit 1560-00295-V1 issued on June 30,
2017 by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (the LDEQ) to
Yuhuang Chemical Company, Inc. (YCI) for its Methanol Plant located in
St. James, St. James Parish, Louisiana.
ADDRESSES: The EPA requests that you contact the individual listed in
the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section to view copies of the final
Order, the Petition, and other supporting information. You may review
copies of the final Order, the Petition, and other supporting
information at the EPA Region 6 Office, 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 700,
Dallas, TX 75202. You may view the hard copies Monday through Friday,
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., excluding federal holidays. If you wish to
examine these documents, you should make an appointment at least 24
hours before the visiting day. Additionally, the final Order and
Petition are available electronically at: https://www.epa.gov/
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title-v-operating-permits/title-v-petition-database.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brad Toups, EPA Region 6, by phone
(214) 665-7258, or email at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The CAA affords the EPA a 45-day period to
review and object to, as appropriate, operating permits proposed by
state permitting authorities under title V of the CAA. Section
505(b)(2) of the CAA authorizes any person to petition the EPA
Administrator to object to a title V operating permit within 60 days
after the expiration of the EPA's 45-day review period if the EPA has
not objected on its own initiative. Petitions must be based only on
objections to the permit that were raised with reasonable specificity
during the public comment period provided by the state, unless the
petitioner demonstrates that it was impracticable to raise these issues
during the comment period or unless the grounds for the issues arose
after this period.
The EPA received the Petitions from the Petitioners dated March 30,
2017 and August 3, 2017, requesting that the EPA object to the issuance
of operating permit no. 1560-00295-V1, issued by the LDEQ to YCI in St.
James Parish, Louisiana. The Petitioners requested that the
Administrator object to the proposed operating permit on several bases
which are described in detail in Section IV of the Order. In summary,
the issues raised include: Emissions limits for preconstruction
purposes were not properly made (various claims, introduction to Order
Section IV); and numerous claims concerning monitoring of emissions,
such as the Steam Methane Reformer (SMR) carbon monoxide (CO) and
Auxiliary Boiler CO emissions (Section IV.A.); claims concerning SMR
volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions (Section IV.B.); claims
concerning Auxiliary Boiler VOC emissions (Section IV.C.); claims
concerning fugitive CO emissions (Section IV.D.), claims concerning
truck, railcar, and marine loading VOC emissions (Section IV.E.);
claims concerning storage tank VOC and hazardous air pollutant (HAP)
emissions (Section IV.F.); and claims concerning flare VOC, particulate
matter (PM), and CO emissions (Section IV.G.). The Order issued on
April 2, 2018 responds to all claims in both petitions and explains the
basis for the EPA's decision.
Sections 307(b) and 505(b)(2) of the CAA provide that a petitioner
may request judicial review of those portions of an order that deny
issues in a petition. Any petition for review shall be filed in the
United States Court of Appeals for the appropriate circuit no later
than June 11, 2018.
Dated: May 14, 2018.
Anne Idsal,
Regional Administrator, Region 6.
[FR Doc. 2018-10774 Filed 5-18-18; 8:45 am]
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