ENB Region 7 Completed Applications 01/31/2007

The applicant has applied for re-issuance and transfer of a mining permit for a previously approved sand and gravel mine for the Bert E Hale Gravel Mine.  The permit allowed mining on 31 acres during the previous permit term.  The permit expired on August 31, 2006.  The applicant has reclaimed 5 acres.  The applicant now proposes to continue mining within this previously permitted 26 acre portion of the mine during the next permit term.  The project is located on Gould Road, off Route 369, in the Town of Fenton, Broome County.

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.

The Department has prepared a draft permit pursuant to Article 19 (Air Pollution Control) of the NYS Environmental Conservation Law and made a tentative decision to issue an Air State Facility Permit to AES Westover for its facility located in Johnson City, NY.  

AES Westover is an electric generating system consisting of two steam turbines and three coalfired boilers.  Through an agreement with the DEC two of the boilers (Boilers 11 and 12) will operate on restricted hours.  In order to insure the availability of steam when all three boilers are shut down, the facility is adding a new package boiler.  The package boiler will fire natural gas and has a maximum heat input capacity of 32.7 mmBtu/hr.  

The boiler will be subject to New York State?s Nitrogen Oxide Reasonably Available Control Technology (NOx RACT) rule and the federal New Source Performance Standard found at 40 CFR Part 60, Subpart Dc and the federal National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants For Industrial, Commercial and Institutional Boilers and Process Heaters, 40 CFR Part 63, Subpart DDDDD.

The Draft Permit may be viewed and printed from the Department web site at: http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dar/boss/afs/index.html.

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.