ENB Region 9 Completed Applications 08/31/2005

The project is the installation of heavy stone riprap along 150 linear feet of Griffin Creek north bank, adjacent to the south side of Farnsworth Road and about 1,600 feet west of Acme Road intersection.

The Department has drafted an Air State Facility Permit pursuant to Article 19 (Air Pollution Control) of the NYS Environmental Conservation Law (ECL) and Federal Clean Air Act Amendments and made a tentative determination to approve this application for a 750 kilowatt (kW) emergency combustion turbine generator at the Jamestown Board of Public Utilities' (BPUs') Samuel A. Carlson Generating Station (Carlson Plant) located at 136 Steele Street.  The turbine will be used to provide emergency starting capability for an existing LM6000 combustion turbine which operates solely on natural gas.  The emergency turbine will fire only distillate oil and has a maximum heat input rate of approximately 13.4 million Btu per hour (MM Btu/hr).  It is subject to the Oxides of Nitrogen (NOx) Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) regulations contained in 6 NYCRR Part 227-2.  It is also subject to the sulfur in fuel requirements of the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Stationary Gas Turbines in 40 CRF Part 60 Subpart GG because the maximum heat input is greater than 10 MM Btu/hr.  However, it is not subject to the NOx emission limits of the NSPS for Stationary Gas Turbines in 40 CRF Part 60 Subpart GG since the BPU has choosen to limit the operation of the emergency turbine to less than 500 hours per year to meet the definition of an emergency generator.  The application, draft permit, relevant supporting materials, and regulations are available for review during normal business hours at the Region 9 Office of the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation in Buffalo.

This project proposal consists of the installation of a new 64 MMBTU/hour maximum heat input capacity boiler in the Power House at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI).  This boiler will be used primarily to generate steam for the operation of a steam turbine, which will produce electricity for use onsite.  Emissions from this dual fueled (natural gas or No. 2 fuel oil) boiler will be controlled via low NOx burners and flue gas recirculation. The installation of the new boiler will increase the total maximum heat input capacity of the Power House boilers from 249 MMBTU/hr to 313 MMBTU/hr, making it one of the source categories with a major source threshold of 100 tons per year (tpy) for regulated pollutants listed in Prevention of Significant Deterioration of air quality under 40CFR52.21 (PSD).  It has been determined that with the addition of the new boiler, RPCI’s potential to emit carbon monoxide (CO) will exceed the applicability threshold of 100 tpy CO for PSD and 6NYCRR Subpart 201-6, Title V Facility Permit (Title V).  To avoid the requirements of those regulations, RPCI has chosen to limit facility-wide emissions of CO to 99 tpy or less.  RPCI is currently implementing an emissions cap to limit potential emissions of NOx and SO2 to less than 100 tons per year to avoid the requirements of Title V, PSD, New Source Review (6 NYCRR Subpart 231-2) and NOx RACT (NYCRR227-2).  The Department has prepared a draft Air State Facility Permit with monitoring conditions to limit the emissions of CO from RPCI to below 100 tons per year.  By accepting these State and Federally enforceable permit conditions, the RPCI will not be subject to Title V or PSD requirements for CO emissions.

The applicant proposes to add 2.1 acres to the 15 acre Sibley Road Gravel Pit, to add a crusher that has a maximum capacity less than 150 tons per hour and to mine up to 8 feet deeper throughout the mine floor.  No other changes to the mining plan and reclamation plan (agricultural reclamation) are proposed.  The mine is on the northeast side of Sibley Road, about 0.2 mile northwest from the Sibley Road intersection with NYS Route 240 and the expansion area is at the northwest corner of the current mine limits.

Construction of a handicapped fishing access platform in the regulated 100 ft wide adjacent area of the State Regulated freshwater wetland identified as EA-16.  The platform will be on the property of the Elma Conservation Club on the bank of a pond that is part of the wetland.  The Platform will be an open pile structure 79 feet long and 10 foot wide. Its primary use will be for handicapped fishing access for club sponsored events.

Applicant proposes construction of an 89 lot single home subdivision at 7303 Bear Ridge Road in the Town of Pendleton. The subdivision borders NYS Freshwater Wetland TE-10 along Trib 4 of Tonawanda Creek. Stormwater retention ponds will be built partially within the regulated 100 foot Adjacent Area of the Wetland. Sewer and water lines will cross the Wetland. A 50 foot buffer will be seeded to conservation mix and left unmown. A Protective Covenant will be filed for 13 lots along the wetland to assure long-term protection of the Wetland.