A Little Help When You Need It – Georgia’s Expedited Air Permitting Program
Posted: January 28th, 2013
To close out 2012, the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (Georgia EPD) rolled out a draft version of its anticipated expedited air permitting program. As it stands today, the program will become effective…
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A Little Rule for a Big Issue: the Non Hazardous Secondary Materials Rule
Posted: January 25th, 2013
Beginning on page 116 and effectively ending on page 329, the Non Hazardous Secondary Materials (NHSM) portion of the 539 page rendering of the Commercial/Industrial Solid Waste Incinerators (CISWI) preamble…
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February 2016 May As Well Be Tomorrow: Major Source Boiler MACT and Timing
Posted: January 24th, 2013
Consultants and environmental personnel at industrial facilities are used to spreading the warning “plan now, this compliance date will be right around the corner.” Although we say it often, the warning is rarely…
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Final Area Source Boiler MACT: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
Posted: January 18th, 2013
In part two of ALL4’s 4 Rules Friday series, we take a look at the Final Area Source Boiler MACT (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart JJJJJJ) and how the final rule may impact facilities. As we all are well aware by now, U.S. EPA issued…
Read articleAir Permitting Gets Less Complicated Each Year…Said No One Ever: How the Aggregation Test Just Got More Complicated
Posted: January 14th, 2013
For those involved in Title V or New Source Review (NSR) permitting, the concept of aggregation and the three-pronged litmus test to define a “single source” has long (over 30 years) been based on the following…
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Final Major Source Boiler MACT: (Some) Good Things Come to Those Who Waited!
Posted: January 11th, 2013
Happy New Year! This New Year has brought the 4 Rules into the spotlight as U.S. EPA issued pre-publication versions of the final rules on December 20, 2012. We have spent the holidays digging into these rules…
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U.S. EPA Semiannual Regulatory Agenda Highlights
Posted: January 8th, 2013
The U.S. EPA published their semiannual regulatory agenda online (the e-Agenda) on December 21, 2012 to update the public about: Regulations and major policies currently under development…
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Looking Towards 2013 from a Consultant’s Perspective
Posted: December 28th, 2012
Here we are again at year’s end, another year older and wiser (hopefully). We made it through another election, the “fiscal cliff,” Hurricane Sandy, the Mayan end of the world, and the final episode of the Jersey Shore MTV series. […]
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Five Reasons Why Now May Be the Time to Consider Converting Your Boiler to Natural Gas
Posted: November 30th, 2012
A number of projects around here lately have involved the conversion of a boiler firing coal or another high-polluting fuel to natural gas. Why the switch? Boiler MACT and NAAQS compliance come to mind. What other benefits are there from […]
Read articleAs The Biomass Turns…Greenhouse Gases from Biomass and Biogenic Sources
Posted: November 21st, 2012
The regulatory community has become (for the most part) accustomed to the permitting requirements for greenhouse gases (GHGs). It has become second nature to include them in emission inventories…
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