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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRL–9979–09–Region 6]
Clean Air Act Operating Permit
Program; Petitions for Objection to
State Operating Permit for South
Louisiana Methanol L.P., St. James
Methanol Plant in St. James Parish,
Louisiana
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of final Order on
Petitions for objection to Clean Air Act
title V operating permit.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) Administrator signed an
Order dated May 29, 2018 denying a
Petition dated December 29, 2016 and a
Petition dated August 10, 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 1560–00292–V1 issued on June
30, 2017 by the Louisiana Department of
Environmental Quality (LDEQ) to South
Louisiana Methanol, L.P. (SLM) for its
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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/
title-v-operating-permits/title-v-petitiondatabase.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brad
Toups, EPA Region 6, by phone (214)
665–7258, or email at toups.brad@
epa.gov.
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.
EPA received a first petition from the
Petitioners on December 29, 2016 and a
second petition from the same
Petitioners on August 10, 2017 for the
operating permit issued on June 30,
2017 to SLM for its Methanol Facility
located in St. James Parish, Louisiana.
The Petitioners requested that the
Administrator object to the proposed
operating permit issued by the LDEQ to
SLM based on eight primary claims in
the Petition. The claims are described in
detail in Section IV of the Order. In
summary, the issues raised include:
Matters properly addressable through
preconstruction permit requirements,
such as the establishment of proper
preconstruction emission limits and
standards (various claims, introduction
to Order Section IV); claims concerning
the failure to require Best Available
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Control Technology (Claim IV); claims
of permit condition unenforceability
(Claim V); claims of unenforceability of
emissions limits that apply to the boiler
(Claim V.A), the Reformer Vent (Claim
V.B), the flare (Claim V.D), the crude
methanol tank (Claim V.E), the cooling
towers (Claim V. G), from miscellaneous
fired sources (Claim V.F), including
CO2e emissions from such fired sources
(Claim V.C). On May 29, 2018, the EPA
Administrator issued an Order denying
the Petitions. The Order explains the
basis for 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 August 27, 2018.
Dated: June 15, 2018.
Anne Idsal,
Regional Administrator, Region 6.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRL–9979–38–OLEM]
Brownfields Utilization, Investment and
Local Development (BUILD) Act
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Brownfields Utilization,
Investment, and Local Development
(BUILD) Act was enacted on March 23,
2018 as part of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2018. The BUILD
Act reauthorized the Environmental
Protection Agency’s (EPA’s)
Brownfields Program, and made
amendments to the Comprehensive
Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act
(CERCLA), as amended by the 2002
Small Business Liability Relief and
Brownfields Revitalization Act. These
amendments affect brownfields grants,
ownership and liability provisions, and
State & Tribal Response Programs. The
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
is developing policy and guidance to
implement the BUILD Act amendments.
As part of this process, the EPA is
soliciting comment on three provisions
in the BUILD Act: The authority to
increase the per-site cleanup grant
amounts to $500,000, the new multipurpose grant authority, and the new
small community assistance grant
authority.
SUMMARY:
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Comments will be accepted
through July 10, 2018.
DATES:
Please send any comments
to BUILDAct@epa.gov no later than July
10, 2018.
ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Rachel Lentz, U.S. EPA, (202) 566–2745,
lentz.rachel@epa.gov or Megan Quinn,
U.S. EPA, (202) 566–2773,
quinn.megan@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Publication of this notice will start a
two-week comment period for
stakeholders to respond to the questions
included in this notice. Comments will
be accepted through July 10, 2018. EPA
expects to develop policy on these three
grant programs and incorporate them
into the Agency’s guidelines for the FY
2019 brownfields grant cycle.
Background
The Brownfields Utilization,
Investment, and Local Development
(BUILD) Act was enacted on March 23,
2018 as part of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2018. The BUILD
Act reauthorized the EPA’s Brownfields
Program, and made amendments to
CERCLA, as amended by the 2002 Small
Business Liability Relief and
Brownfields Revitalization Act. These
amendments affect brownfields grants,
ownership and liability provisions, and
State & Tribal Response Programs. The
EPA is developing policy and guidance
to implement the BUILD Act. As part of
that process, the EPA is soliciting
comment on three provisions in the
BUILD Act: The authority to increase
the per site cleanup grant amounts to
$500,000, the new multi-purpose grant
authority, and the new small
community assistance grant authority.
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Cleanup Grant Policy
The BUILD Act amended CERCLA
Section 104(k)(3)(A)(ii) to increase the
ceiling for brownfields cleanup grant
funding from $200,000 to $500,000 per
site; eligible entities can request a
waiver up to $650,000 per site, based on
the anticipated level of contamination,
size, or ownership status of the site. The
applicant must own the site to expend
any resources on cleanup at the site.
The Agency’s primary concern is one of
community access to brownfields
cleanup funds. Increasing the amount of
single cleanup grants will most likely
decrease the total number of grants that
may be awarded in any given fiscal year,
therefore decreasing the number of
brownfield sites cleaned-up and
communities served, particularly when
annual appropriations remain level or
decrease.
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Given these parameters, the Agency is
interested in receiving comments from
communities and other stakeholders on
the following considerations:
1. If a community receives a $500,000
cleanup grant, how likely is it that the
community could meet the 20 percent
cost share statutory requirement
(CERCLA 104(k)(10)(B)(iii))? How
would communities meet the 20 percent
cost share requirement? Do stakeholders
support a higher per grant funding
amount, with cost share requirement of
less than 20 percent, even if the result
is fewer communities will receive
brownfields cleanup grants?
2. In your community’s experience,
how long does the average brownfield
cleanup take to complete? Please
provide information on the average
length of time, including from the time
of state review and approval of a cleanup plan to the time when the brownfield
site is ready for reuse. What are the
barriers your community experiences in
getting a brownfield site cleaned up and
ready for reuse?
Multipurpose Grant Policy
The BUILD Act established a new
Multipurpose Brownfield Grant
program. Under this new authority, EPA
may provide a maximum of $1 million
in funding per grant to an eligible entity
to inventory, characterize, assess, plan
for or remediate one or more brownfield
sites within a target area. The statute
requires that a Multipurpose Grant
recipient own the brownfields property
prior to expending grant resources to
remediate the property. The grant
funding may be made available to a
grant recipient for a maximum of five
years. While the EPA has authority to
award multipurpose grants up to
$1,000,000, the EPA is considering
piloting the grants at no more than
$700,000.
Given these parameters, the Agency is
interested in receiving comments from
communities and other stakeholders on
the following considerations:
1. Do communities most need funding
for brownfields inventory, planning, site
assessment or site remediation
activities?
2. Do communities typically have in
place an ‘‘overall plan for revitalization
of the one or more brownfields within
the proposed area in which the
multipurpose grant will be used’’ or
would they most likely need to create
this plan using multipurpose grant
funds?
3. What is a reasonable number of
accomplishments (e.g., brownfields site
assessments and site cleanups) to expect
from a grant recipient that receives a
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$700,000 multipurpose grant over a fiveyear grant period?
4. What complications and barriers
will affect a grant recipient’s ability to
achieve these accomplishments?
128(a) Small Grant Policy
The BUILD Act added a new authority
for the EPA to make grants to states and
tribes to provide training, technical
assistance or research assistance to
support a small or disadvantaged
community up to $20,000 per
community. Site specific assessment
and cleanup activities are not allowable
expenditures under this grant authority.
The EPA is developing further guidance
on (1) the types of activities that are
eligible expenses (including examples of
such activities) and (2) the evaluation
criteria that the EPA will use for
evaluating and selecting proposals.
Accordingly, the EPA is soliciting
comment on the following issues:
1. The EPA anticipates that state and
tribes may provide the following
activities to small and disadvantaged
communities under this grant:
Brownfields outreach and education,
technical support, economic or market
analyses to support the identification of
reuse options for a brownfield site, the
implementation or use of the EPA’s
Land Revitalization tools, and
preparation of a needs assessment for
developing a Tribal Response Program.
What other types of activities should be
considered as eligible expenditures
under this grant program?
2. The EPA plans to include the
following evaluation criteria for
proposals submitted under this grant
program: Description of the target
community, description/purpose of the
proposed project, expected outcomes,
description of key activities, what entity
will be conducting the activities (e.g.,
state, tribe, contractor), leveraged
resources being provided (as necessary),
approximate timeline for completing the
eligible activities, the amount of funding
requested, an explanation of why
existing state and tribal funding is
inadequate to conduct or complete the
eligible activities, and a demonstration
of support from the community that will
benefit from the funded activity. What
other types of evaluation criteria may be
useful for the EPA to use when
evaluating proposals and selecting grant
recipients?
Dated: June 6, 2018.
David R. Lloyd,
Director, Office of Brownfields and Land
Revitalization, Office of Land and Emergency
Management.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9979-38-OLEM]
Brownfields Utilization, Investment and Local Development (BUILD)
Act
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development
(BUILD) Act was enacted on March 23, 2018 as part of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2018. The BUILD Act reauthorized the Environmental
Protection Agency's (EPA's) Brownfields Program, and made amendments to
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability
Act (CERCLA), as amended by the 2002 Small Business Liability Relief
and Brownfields Revitalization Act. These amendments affect brownfields
grants, ownership and liability provisions, and State & Tribal Response
Programs. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is developing
policy and guidance to implement the BUILD Act amendments. As part of
this process, the EPA is soliciting comment on three provisions in the
BUILD Act: The authority to increase the per-site cleanup grant amounts
to $500,000, the new multi-purpose grant authority, and the new small
community assistance grant authority.
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DATES: Comments will be accepted through July 10, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Please send any comments to [email protected] no later than
July 10, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rachel Lentz, U.S. EPA, (202) 566-
2745, [email protected] or Megan Quinn, U.S. EPA, (202) 566-2773,
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Publication of this notice will start a two-
week comment period for stakeholders to respond to the questions
included in this notice. Comments will be accepted through July 10,
2018. EPA expects to develop policy on these three grant programs and
incorporate them into the Agency's guidelines for the FY 2019
brownfields grant cycle.
Background
The Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development
(BUILD) Act was enacted on March 23, 2018 as part of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2018. The BUILD Act reauthorized the EPA's
Brownfields Program, and made amendments to CERCLA, as amended by the
2002 Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization
Act. These amendments affect brownfields grants, ownership and
liability provisions, and State & Tribal Response Programs. The EPA is
developing policy and guidance to implement the BUILD Act. As part of
that process, the EPA is soliciting comment on three provisions in the
BUILD Act: The authority to increase the per site cleanup grant amounts
to $500,000, the new multi-purpose grant authority, and the new small
community assistance grant authority.
Cleanup Grant Policy
The BUILD Act amended CERCLA Section 104(k)(3)(A)(ii) to increase
the ceiling for brownfields cleanup grant funding from $200,000 to
$500,000 per site; eligible entities can request a waiver up to
$650,000 per site, based on the anticipated level of contamination,
size, or ownership status of the site. The applicant must own the site
to expend any resources on cleanup at the site. The Agency's primary
concern is one of community access to brownfields cleanup funds.
Increasing the amount of single cleanup grants will most likely
decrease the total number of grants that may be awarded in any given
fiscal year, therefore decreasing the number of brownfield sites
cleaned-up and communities served, particularly when annual
appropriations remain level or decrease.
Given these parameters, the Agency is interested in receiving
comments from communities and other stakeholders on the following
considerations:
1. If a community receives a $500,000 cleanup grant, how likely is
it that the community could meet the 20 percent cost share statutory
requirement (CERCLA 104(k)(10)(B)(iii))? How would communities meet the
20 percent cost share requirement? Do stakeholders support a higher per
grant funding amount, with cost share requirement of less than 20
percent, even if the result is fewer communities will receive
brownfields cleanup grants?
2. In your community's experience, how long does the average
brownfield cleanup take to complete? Please provide information on the
average length of time, including from the time of state review and
approval of a clean-up plan to the time when the brownfield site is
ready for reuse. What are the barriers your community experiences in
getting a brownfield site cleaned up and ready for reuse?
Multipurpose Grant Policy
The BUILD Act established a new Multipurpose Brownfield Grant
program. Under this new authority, EPA may provide a maximum of $1
million in funding per grant to an eligible entity to inventory,
characterize, assess, plan for or remediate one or more brownfield
sites within a target area. The statute requires that a Multipurpose
Grant recipient own the brownfields property prior to expending grant
resources to remediate the property. The grant funding may be made
available to a grant recipient for a maximum of five years. While the
EPA has authority to award multipurpose grants up to $1,000,000, the
EPA is considering piloting the grants at no more than $700,000.
Given these parameters, the Agency is interested in receiving
comments from communities and other stakeholders on the following
considerations:
1. Do communities most need funding for brownfields inventory,
planning, site assessment or site remediation activities?
2. Do communities typically have in place an ``overall plan for
revitalization of the one or more brownfields within the proposed area
in which the multipurpose grant will be used'' or would they most
likely need to create this plan using multipurpose grant funds?
3. What is a reasonable number of accomplishments (e.g.,
brownfields site assessments and site cleanups) to expect from a grant
recipient that receives a $700,000 multipurpose grant over a five-year
grant period?
4. What complications and barriers will affect a grant recipient's
ability to achieve these accomplishments?
128(a) Small Grant Policy
The BUILD Act added a new authority for the EPA to make grants to
states and tribes to provide training, technical assistance or research
assistance to support a small or disadvantaged community up to $20,000
per community. Site specific assessment and cleanup activities are not
allowable expenditures under this grant authority. The EPA is
developing further guidance on (1) the types of activities that are
eligible expenses (including examples of such activities) and (2) the
evaluation criteria that the EPA will use for evaluating and selecting
proposals.
Accordingly, the EPA is soliciting comment on the following issues:
1. The EPA anticipates that state and tribes may provide the
following activities to small and disadvantaged communities under this
grant: Brownfields outreach and education, technical support, economic
or market analyses to support the identification of reuse options for a
brownfield site, the implementation or use of the EPA's Land
Revitalization tools, and preparation of a needs assessment for
developing a Tribal Response Program. What other types of activities
should be considered as eligible expenditures under this grant program?
2. The EPA plans to include the following evaluation criteria for
proposals submitted under this grant program: Description of the target
community, description/purpose of the proposed project, expected
outcomes, description of key activities, what entity will be conducting
the activities (e.g., state, tribe, contractor), leveraged resources
being provided (as necessary), approximate timeline for completing the
eligible activities, the amount of funding requested, an explanation of
why existing state and tribal funding is inadequate to conduct or
complete the eligible activities, and a demonstration of support from
the community that will benefit from the funded activity. What other
types of evaluation criteria may be useful for the EPA to use when
evaluating proposals and selecting grant recipients?
Dated: June 6, 2018.
David R. Lloyd,
Director, Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization, Office of Land
and Emergency Management.
[FR Doc. 2018-13719 Filed 6-25-18; 8:45 am]
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