ENB Region 6 Completed Applications 10/01/2003

The Department has made a tentative determination to approve an application to modify the existing SPDES permit #NY0257907 as follows:

Increasing allowable daily maximum flow of the pond discharge from 0.024 mgd to 0.048 mgd.

Monitoring of new permitting outfalls 002 (existing pond underdrain system), and 02A (groundwater collected from under the storage pad and around the pad perimeter), with a combined maximum daily flow of 0.065 mgd.

Limiting total maximum daily flows from outfall 003 (all outfalls combined) to 0.086 mgd.

In conjunction with the SPDES permit modification is an Article 15 Excavation and Fill in Navigable waters permit application which the Department has made a tentative determination to approve.  The permit application is for installation of a concrete headwall encasing a 24" diameter HDPE pipe for the described above SPDES permitted stormwater discharge into the Black River.

The draft SPDES permit modification with conditions is available for review in the Region 6 NYS DEC office in Watertown, New York.

This Department has received a request to issue a permit and has drafted an Article 19 (Air Pollution Control) of the Environmental Conservation Law, an Air State Facility Permit, at the facility Omniafiltra, LLC located at 9567 Main Street, Beaver Falls, NY. The permit is for the operation of a paper manufacturing facility consisting of 2 oil fired boilers, 3 paper machines and their associated pulp preparation and paper finishing operations.  The permit contains limitations on the amount of fuel oil burned and the amount of VOC and HAP emitted.  These limitations will make the source a synthetic minor for the purposes of state and federal air permitting.  The draft permit with conditions is available for review in the Region 6 NYS DEC office in Watertown, New York.

This Department has received a request to issue a permit and has drafted an Article 19 (Air Pollution Control) of the Environmental Conservation Law, an Air State Facility Permit, at the facility located at the Stockholm Limestone Quarry, Catamount Ridge, Town of Stockholm, St. Lawrence County, New York.  This existing facility is engaged in mining and processing of nonmetallic minerals.  The Standard Industrial Classification representative of this facility is 1422, Crushed and Broken Limestone.

The facility consists of seven crushers, three screens, several conveyors, and two diesel powered generators (over 400 horsepower).

Facility Particulate Matter (PM-10) and Oxides of Nitrogen (NOx) emissions are capped below Title V and Major Source thresholds.

The facility is subject to New Source Performance Standard 40 CFR 60 Subpart OOO, Standards of Performance of Nonmetallic Mineral Processing Plants; 6 NYCRR Part 225, Fuel Composition and Use - Sulfur Limitations; and 6 NYCRR Part 227, Stationary Combustion Installations.  The draft permit with conditions is available for review in the Region 6 NYS DEC office in Watertown, New York.