WNC air-pollution-control agency meets Jan. 10 to consider Progress Energy permit modification

Posted on by Jeff Fobes

The WNC Regional Air Quality Agency Board will take up a permit modification request from Progress Energy, and be updated on fee increases and one appeal. One key item on the board’s agenda: Progress Energy’s request for a permit change.

According to WNC Regional Air Quality Agency Board Air Quality Engineer Vic Fahrer, Progress Energy’s request for their Skyland/Arden facility will demonstrate compliance with existing emission standards under a new system. Progress had been using a continuous opacity monitoring system (COMS), but ran into problems after deciding to use a lime-based product to maintain their equipment. The company will be switching to a particulate matter continuous emission monitoring system (PM CEMS), which allows greater control over their overall emission monitoring.

“This way, they’ll be looking at [the emissions] directly,” Fahrer explained.

The board will meet Monday, Jan. 10 at 4 p.m. in the Agency Board Room located at 49 Mt. Carmel Road, Asheville, NC.

Below is the agenda for the meeting. For more information, contact the agency at 828-250-6775

I. Public Comment Protocol Announcement

II. Adjustment and approval of agenda

III. Consent Agenda:
    A. Approval of minutes from November 8, 2010 and December 20, 2010.

IV. Unfinished Business:
    A. Fee Increase Update
    B. Lunsford Appeal Hearing Update

V. Director’s Report:
    A. Facility Operating Permits (Renewals)

 

 
 

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

Facility Name Type of Facility Facility Classification Location Changes from Existing Permit
Arvato Digital Services, LLC Media Replication Services Facility Title V Monticello Road, Weaverville Equipment from Part II of the permit (Permit to Construct and Operate) will be rolled into Part I (Permit to Operate).  Requirements for a new federal GACT regulation for hazardous air pollutants will be incorporated.  Insignificant activity list will be updated.
Enerdyne Properties, LLC – Buncombe Generation Station Landfill Gas Electric Generation Facility Small Riverside Drive, Asheville Provisions for demonstrating compliance with NC Senate Bill 3 (affecting renewable energy production facilities that combust biomass) may need to be added
Flint Group Fabricated Rubber Products Manufacturer Title V Glen Bridge Rd., Arden Equipment from Part II of the permit will be rolled into Part I.  CAA §112(j), referred to as the MACT “hammer” provisions will be incorporated for the boilers.  Insignificant activity list will be updated.
MAACO Collision Repair and Auto Painting Collision Repair and Auto Painting Shop Small Old Haywood Road, Asheville Requirements for a new federal GACT regulation for hazardous air pollutants will be incorporated.  Insignificant activity list will be updated

 

    B. Facility Permit Modifications

 

 
 

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

Facility Name Type of Facility Facility Classification Location Changes from Existing Permit
Asheville Area Alternative Funeral & Cremation Services Crematory Small 702 Riverside Drive, Asheville Ownership change
BorgWarner, Inc. Automotive Components Mfg. Facility Title V Brevard Road, Asheville An option to combust gasoline in the existing test cells will be included.
B.V. Hedrick Gravel & Stone – Grove Stone Quarry Stone Crushing & Processing Facility Small Old U.S. 70,
Swannanoa		 Addition of a static screen
B.V. Hedrick Gravel & Stone – Grove Stone Quarry Stone Crushing & Processing Facility Small 100 Goldview Road, Weaverville Addition of two conveyors
Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc. – Asheville Steam Plant Electric Generating Utility Title V 200 CP&L Drive,
Arden		 An option to demonstrate compliance with PM and VE limits using a PM CEMS monitoring and recordkeeping approach will be included in the permit.  Equipment from Part II of the permit will be rolled into Part I. 

VI. New Business:
    A. Legal Counsel Report- Mr. Siemens
    B. Standing Ovation Awards and Low Carbon IT Campaign

VII. Other Business:
    A. Advisory Committee Report – Dean Kahl
    B. Calendar
          1. Next Regular Scheduled meeting is March 14, 2011
    C. Announcements

VIII. Public Comment

IX. Adjournment

 

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About Jeff Fobes
As a long-time proponent of media for social change, my early activities included coordinating the creation of a small community FM radio station to serve a poor section of St. Louis, Mo. In the 1980s I served as the editor of the "futurist" newsletter of the U.S. Association for the Club of Rome, a professional/academic group with a global focus and a mandate to act locally. During that time, I was impressed by a journalism experiment in Mississippi, in which a newspaper reporter spent a year in a small town covering how global activities impacted local events (e.g., literacy programs in Asia drove up the price of pulpwood; soybean demand in China impacted local soybean prices). Taking a cue from the Mississippi journalism experiment, I offered to help the local Green Party in western North Carolina start its own newspaper, which published under the name Green Line. Eventually the local party turned Green Line over to me, giving Asheville-area readers an independent, locally focused news source that was driven by global concerns. Over the years the monthly grew, until it morphed into the weekly Mountain Xpress in 1994. I've been its publisher since the beginning. Mountain Xpress' mission is to promote grassroots democracy (of any political persuasion) by serving the area's most active, thoughtful readers. Consider Xpress as an experiment to see if such a media operation can promote a healthy, democratic and wise community. In addition to print, today's rapidly evolving Web technosphere offers a grand opportunity to see how an interactive global information network impacts a local community when the network includes a locally focused media outlet whose aim is promote thoughtful citizen activism. Follow me @fobes
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