4 The Record is a publication from ALL4’s team that takes an in-depth look at technical and regulatory topics.
U.S. EPA Proposes Control Techniques Guidelines (CTGs) for the Oil and Natural Gas Industry
Posted: September 15th, 2015
On August 18, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) posted draft Control Techniques Guidelines (CTGs) for the oil and gas industry in order to reduce volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from existing…
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U.S. EPA Proposes to Define “Adjacent” for the Oil and Gas Industry
Posted: September 14th, 2015
Previous ALL4 blogs and at least one 4 The Record article have discussed the extremely complex issue of single source aggregation for air permitting. This issue has been particularly difficult for the oil and gas industry…
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Electronic Reporting: Great in Theory
Posted: September 11th, 2015
As Sean described in his August blog, U.S. EPA has promulgated several regulations which require electronic reporting (“E-Reporting”) through its Compliance and Emissions Data Reporting Interface…
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It’s a Cluster#$%&…Top Challenges Facing Facilities Subject to SO2 Data Requirements Rule
Posted: September 10th, 2015
For a while now ALL4 has been writing about the Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Data Requirements Rule (DRR), including our most recent update on the final SO2 DRR. For those who are new to the process…
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Top 5 Complaints of Consultants (Outside of ALL4)
Posted: September 8th, 2015
Warning: This blog is for entertainment purposes only. This is not a technical blog; I’m not going to tell you about a specific regulation that you may be worried about and all the things you need to do to prepare. Hopefully, you’ll appreciate the humor…
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Greenhouse Gas Permitting – You May Be Doing Too Much
Posted: August 31st, 2015
U.S. EPA amended its Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) and Title V regulations on August 19, 2015 in order to formally eliminate the regulatory provisions that were identified as vacated within the April 10, 2015 Coalition Amended Judgment. Specifically, the Tailoring Rule’s…
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U.S. EPA Proposed Amendments to Subpart OOOO and Proposed a New Subpart OOOOa
Posted: August 27th, 2015
The anticipation ended on August 18, 2015 when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to amend 40 CFR Part 60, Subpart OOOO (Standards of Performance for Crude Oil and Natural Gas Production, Transmission and Distribution) and create a new…
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Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Data Requirements Rule (DRR): The Final Rule
Posted: August 19th, 2015
On August 10, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) submitted the final version of the DRR (40 CFR Part 51, Subpart BB) for the 2010 one (1)-hour sulfur dioxide (SO2) National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). The final rule looks pretty familiar…
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Five Things to Consider Before the January 31, 2016 Major Source Boiler MACT Compliance Date
Posted: August 19th, 2015
You’ve determined whether your boilers or process heaters are subject to emissions limits, and if so, whether your affected sources can meet those limits. If not, you’ve evaluated options for reducing emissions so that they can meet those limits…
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A Review of 1-Hour NO2 NAAQS Air Quality Modeling
Posted: August 18th, 2015
During the development of this 4TR article, proposed revisions to Appendix W to 40 CFR Part 51 “ Guideline on Air Quality Models (Guideline) were published in the Federal Register. As a result of revisions which propose to establish Tier […]
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