ENB Region 7 Completed Applications 12/06/2006

The Department has prepared a draft permit modification pursuant to Article 19 (Air Pollution Control) of the NYS Environmental Conservation Law and made a tentative decision to approve an application for an Air State Facility Permit for Broome Energy Resources LLC’s Landfill Gas Recovery Facility located at the Broome County Landfill on Knapp Road in the Towns of Barker and Nanticoke.  The purpose of the permit modification is to permit the operation of three (3) engine generator sets and a candle flare at the landfill gas recovery facility.  The engines/generators burn collected landfill gas to produce electricity for sale.

Broome Energy's Broome County facility includes a landfill gas (LFG) collection system and a LGF-to-energy facility. The LFG collection system is installed in Sections I, II and III of Broome County’s landfill. The LFG-to-energy facility located adjacent to Section I includes two (2) Caterpillar 399 SITA engines/generators that generate 1,300 kilowatts of energy (total) and one (1) Caterpillar 398 SITA engine/generator that generates 500 kilowatts of energy for a total generation capacity at the facility of 1,800 kilowatts. The system is designed such that the candle flare burns excess LFG in the event of engine failure or maintenance, and will be utilized when LFG in excess of the available capacity of the engines must  be combusted.

The draft permit includes a facility-wide federally enforceable emissions cap to keep total facility  emissions of carbon monoxide below the major source threshold for carbon monoxide of 100 tons per year. Carbon monoxide emissions and facility operating parameters (such as landfill gas flow rates) are required to determined on a monthly basis and reported to the Department in the facility’s annual capping certification report.

Filed application documents, and Department draft permits where applicable, are available for inspection under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Law during normal business hours at the address of the contact person.

Applicant proposes to level and grade an area of approximately 35 feet x 40 feet of class 2 wetland CIC-3 adjacent to existing lawn area.  

Filed application documents, and Department draft permits where applicable, are available for inspection under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Law during normal business hours at the address of the contact person.