Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petition for Objection to State Operating Permit for East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc.-William C. Dale Power Station; Clark County, KY, 145 [E9-31175]
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develop a State or Tribal plan. State
plans were due to EPA by December 12,
1996 and the Federal plan was
promulgated on November 8, 1999. The
data collection is a mandatory
requirement (Clean Air Act section
114(a)(1)).
The information generated by the
monitoring, recordkeeping, and
reporting requirements described in this
ICR is used by the Agency to ensure that
facilities affected by the emission
guidelines continue to operate the
control equipment and achieve
compliance with the regulation. The
emission guidelines require affected
facilities to maintain all records,
including the submitted reports and
notifications for at least 5 years.
Burden Statement: The annual public
reporting and recordkeeping burden for
this collection of information is
estimated to average 15 hours per
response. Burden means the total time,
effort, or financial resources expended
by persons to generate, maintain, retain,
or disclose or provide information to or
for a Federal agency. This includes the
time needed to review instructions;
develop, acquire, install, and utilize
technology and systems for the purposes
of collecting, validating, and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; adjust the
existing ways to comply with any
previously applicable instructions and
requirements which have subsequently
changed; train personnel to be able to
respond to a collection of information;
search data sources; complete and
review the collection of information;
and transmit or otherwise disclose the
information.
Respondents/Affected Entities:
Municipal Solid Waste Landfills.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
559.
Frequency of Response: Annual.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
46,146.
Estimated Total Annual Cost:
$3,956,321, which includes labor costs
of $3,229,721 and operation and
maintenance costs of $726,600.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an
increase of 33,690 hours in the total
estimated burden currently identified in
the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR
Burdens. This increase reflects the
recordkeeping and reporting burden for
entities under State plans and the
Federal plan. The original ICR included
only the burden for municipal solid
waste landfills subject to the Federal
plan for municipal solid waste landfills.
This ICR renewal adds the burden
imposed by State plans to the burden
imposed by the Federal plan.
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Dated: December 24, 2009.
Richard T. Westlund,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies
Division.
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Clean Air Act Operating Permit
Program; Petition for Objection to
State Operating Permit for East
Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc.—
William C. Dale Power Station; Clark
County, KY
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of final order on petition
to object to a State operating permit.
SUMMARY: Pursuant to Clean Air Act
(CAA) Section 505(b)(2) and 40 CFR
70.8(d), the EPA Administrator signed
an Order, dated December 14, 2009,
denying a petition to object to a title V
operating permit issued by the Kentucky
Division for Air Quality (KDAQ) to East
Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc.
(EKPC) for its William C. Dale Power
Station (Dale Station) located in Clark
County, Kentucky. This Order
constitutes a final action on the petition
submitted by Sierra Club and Kentucky
Environmental Foundation (Petitioners)
on November 24, 2008. Pursuant to
sections 307(b) and 505(b)(2) of the
CAA, a petition for judicial review of
the Order may be filed in the United
States Court of Appeals for the
appropriate circuit within 60 days from
the date this notice appears in the
Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Order, the
petition, and all pertinent information
relating thereto are on file at the
following location: EPA Region 4, Air,
Pesticides and Toxics Management
Division, 61 Forsyth Street, SW.,
Atlanta, Georgia 30303–8960. The Order
is also available electronically at the
following address: https://www.epa.gov/
region07/programs/artd/air/title5/
petitiondb/petitions/
ekpc_dale_response2008.pdf.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Art
Hofmeister, Air Permits Section, EPA
Region 4, at (404) 562–9115 or
hofmeister.art@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The CAA
affords EPA a 45-day period to review
and, as appropriate, the authority to
object to operating permits proposed by
State permitting authorities under title
V of the CAA, 42 U.S.C. 7661–7661f.
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Section 505(b)(2) of the CAA and 40
CFR 70.8(d) authorize any person to
petition the EPA Administrator to object
to a title V operating permit within 60
days after the expiration of EPA’s 45day review period if 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 the
grounds for the issues arose after this
period.
Petitioners submitted a petition
regarding the EKPC Dale Station on
November 24, 2008, requesting that EPA
object to the title V operating permit
(#V–08–009). Petitioners alleged that the
permit was not consistent with the CAA
for the following reasons: (1) The
maximum heat input rates in the permit
must be enforceable limits because,
presumably, there exists a State
operating permit for Dale Station that
includes maximum heat inputs and,
because without such maximum heat
input limits, compliance with the
National Ambient Air Quality Standards
for SO2 cannot be assured; and, (2)
KDAQ cannot delete the three-hour
averaging time from the particulate
matter (PM) emission limit for certain
coal handling equipment because the
emission limit must have an averaging
time; therefore, the three-hour averaging
time should be placed back into the
permit, and the permit should be
required to include monitoring and
reporting adequate to assure compliance
with the PM limit.
On December 14, 2009, the
Administrator issued an Order denying
the petition. The Order explains EPA’s
rationale for denying the petition with
respect to the issues raised.
Dated: December 18, 2009.
Beverly H. Banister,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 4.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[Petition IV-2008-5; FRL-9099-5]
Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petition for Objection to
State Operating Permit for East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc.--
William C. Dale Power Station; Clark County, KY
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of final order on petition to object to a State
operating permit.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to Clean Air Act (CAA) Section 505(b)(2) and 40 CFR
70.8(d), the EPA Administrator signed an Order, dated December 14,
2009, denying a petition to object to a title V operating permit issued
by the Kentucky Division for Air Quality (KDAQ) to East Kentucky Power
Cooperative, Inc. (EKPC) for its William C. Dale Power Station (Dale
Station) located in Clark County, Kentucky. This Order constitutes a
final action on the petition submitted by Sierra Club and Kentucky
Environmental Foundation (Petitioners) on November 24, 2008. Pursuant
to sections 307(b) and 505(b)(2) of the CAA, a petition for judicial
review of the Order may be filed in the United States Court of Appeals
for the appropriate circuit within 60 days from the date this notice
appears in the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Order, the petition, and all pertinent
information relating thereto are on file at the following location: EPA
Region 4, Air, Pesticides and Toxics Management Division, 61 Forsyth
Street, SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303-8960. The Order is also available
electronically at the following address: https://www.epa.gov/region07/programs/artd/air/title5/petitiondb/petitions/ekpc_dale_response2008.pdf.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Art Hofmeister, Air Permits Section,
EPA Region 4, at (404) 562-9115 or hofmeister.art@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The CAA affords EPA a 45-day period to
review and, as appropriate, the authority to object to operating
permits proposed by State permitting authorities under title V of the
CAA, 42 U.S.C. 7661-7661f. Section 505(b)(2) of the CAA and 40 CFR
70.8(d) authorize any person to petition the EPA Administrator to
object to a title V operating permit within 60 days after the
expiration of EPA's 45-day review period if 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 the grounds for the issues arose after this period.
Petitioners submitted a petition regarding the EKPC Dale Station on
November 24, 2008, requesting that EPA object to the title V operating
permit (V-08-009). Petitioners alleged that the permit was not
consistent with the CAA for the following reasons: (1) The maximum heat
input rates in the permit must be enforceable limits because,
presumably, there exists a State operating permit for Dale Station that
includes maximum heat inputs and, because without such maximum heat
input limits, compliance with the National Ambient Air Quality
Standards for SO2 cannot be assured; and, (2) KDAQ cannot
delete the three-hour averaging time from the particulate matter (PM)
emission limit for certain coal handling equipment because the emission
limit must have an averaging time; therefore, the three-hour averaging
time should be placed back into the permit, and the permit should be
required to include monitoring and reporting adequate to assure
compliance with the PM limit.
On December 14, 2009, the Administrator issued an Order denying the
petition. The Order explains EPA's rationale for denying the petition
with respect to the issues raised.
Dated: December 18, 2009.
Beverly H. Banister,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 4.
[FR Doc. E9-31175 Filed 12-31-09; 8:45 am]
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