ENB Region 6 Completed Applications 07/13/2005

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 Revere Copper Products, Seneca Street, Rome, NY 13440.

The department has made a tentative determination to approve the application of the Revere Copper Products facility, a copper products manufacturer. The State Facility Permit allows the operations of emission units, U-ANNE1, U-CAST1, U-COMB1, U-FURN1, U-OVER1, U-PTNRM, and the U-ROLL1, which includes the copper annealing, furnaces to melt and pour copper and copper alloy, combustion sources for heat, furnace to heat copper cake before rolling, shaving the outside of copper alloy materials, coating operation, and the rolling of copper and copper alloy sheets.  The facility has capped out of Title V Permitting and Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) requirements by tracking and restricting it's emissions of Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs), Particulates and PM-10 below major source levels.  Individual HAP emissions of 10 tons per year and cumulative HAP emissions of 25 tons, 100 tons per year for Particulates and PM-10 at the facility level, and 25 tons for Particulates and 15 tons per year for PM-10 on emission at a process level. The application and Draft Air State Facility permit are available in the Region 6 NYSDEC offices in Watertown and Utica, New York.

The applicant proposes to construct an inground swimming pool in the 100 foot regulated adjacent area of Freshwater Wetland UW-5. Freshwater Wetland UW-5 is an urban, class II, 14 acre wetland. The project is located in the Strawberry Fields Subdivision. The pool will be 96 feet from the wetland boundary.

    The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has received an application to re-issue the following EPA minor Private/Commercial/Institutional State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (P/C/I SPDES) permit.  DEC has made a tentative determination to re-issue this permit for a five-year period, maintaining the current effluent limitations and monitoring and reporting requirements.  This permit involves a surface discharge of a maximum amount of 3,000 gallons per day of treated sanitary waste to the Grasse River.

    Additional information including the current permit, renewal applications, and supporting documentation may be obtained from or inspected at the NYSDEC central office in Albany.  Substantive comments on the permit or requests for hearing or both must be submitted in writing to the contact person.

    SPDES Number:  NY 002 3078