ENB Region 9 Completed Applications 04/13/2005

The applicant proposes a discharge of 100,000 gallons per day of treated sanitary wastewater to Canaseraga Creek, a Class C(t) waterbody from a wastewater treatment plant at the applicant's facility in the Town of Burns, Allegany County.  The applicant plans to build a Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) and provide secondary and tertiary treatment.

This Department has made a tentative determination to issue a permit for a State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit under Article 17 of the Environmental Conservation Law. This tentative determination indicates that the discharge regulated under this statute is considered to satisfy regulatory standards for permit issuance, based on information available to the Department at this time. The Department seeks comments on the proposed regulated activity prior to making a final decision on permit issuance. As such, this tentative determination does not signify Department approval for or endorsement of the activity for which a permit is sought or for the overall proposed project. In commenting, please refer to this application by application number listed above and SPDES number NY0269573.

The Department has prepared a Draft Air State Facility Permit and has made a tentative determination to approve this application for the Buffalo Crushed Stone Wehrle/Barton quarry in the Towns of Clarence and Lancaster.  The facility includes a crushing and screening operation which produces construction aggregates and aggregate for the manufacture of hot mix asphalt.  The facility also has an asphalt batch plant and two asphalt drum plants.  The draft permit contains conditions which limit the facility's ability to emit oxides of nitrogen (NOx ), particulates, PM-10, carbon monoxide (CO), and volatile organic compounds (VOC) to less than the major facility threshold value of 100 tons per year (tpy) of each contaminant other than VOC, which has a major facility threshold value of 50 tpy.  If all facility emission sources were used concurrently and continuously, the above emissions would exceed the major facility thresholds for the contaminants.  The capping conditions provide specific formulae for calculating emissions of the contaminants for each emission source.  Buffalo Crushed Stone is required to annually certify continuous compliance with the emission caps through use of a 12-month rolling total emission rate, calculated on a monthly basis.  The application, supporting documentation, draft permit and regulations are available for review during normal business hours at the Region 9 Office of the NYSDEC in Buffalo.