>>> "Ricardo Rossello" <rossello@batteryrec.com> 8/19/2011 2:22 PM >>> 

Good afternoon Mr. French 

Just to confirm, we have received you request and we will work with it. As soon as I got all the information 

will be send via email. 

Regards 

Ricardo Rosselló 

Chief Financial Officer 

The Battery Recycling Co., Inc. 

PO Box 1016 

Arecibo, Puerto Rico 00613-1016 

Tel. 787-880-5373 

Fax 787-879-4325 

Cel. 787-635-7841 

Email: rossello@batteryrec.com

www.batteryrec.com

-----Original Message----- 

From: French.Chuck@epamail.epa.gov [mailto:French.Chuck@epamail.epa.gov] 

Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 2:18 PM 

To: rossello@batteryrec.com

Cc: Topham.Nathan@epamail.epa.gov; Donna Lazzari; michael.burr@erg.com

Subject: Secondary Lead Smelter - Battery Recycling Company 

Dear Mr. Ricardo Rossello, 

 As you probably know, the EPA is in the process of revising the National Emission Standards for 

Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for secondary lead smelting (40 CFR part 63, subpart X). Proposed 

revisions to this standard were published in the Federal Register on May 19, 2011 and final standards will 

be published in December, 2011. To obtain information for updating this standard, an Information 

Collection Request survey was sent to several operating secondary lead companies in 2010 to obtain 

detailed information about the facilities, their emissions, and control devices. Your facility was not 

included in the original distribution of that survey. However, we believe it is important for us to obtain 

some information about your facility that we can consider as we develop the final standards. Therefore, 

we are requesting at this time that some key information from your facility be provided in an effort to 

include your facility operations in our analysis. 

 We are not requesting that the entire survey be completed at this time as we realize that this would 

take a significant amount of time and effort for your facility. Instead, we are requesting only some key 

information that should be readily available. The information we are requesting is as follows: 

 1.Copies of all stack test reports for lead emissions tests performed within the last 5 years as required 

by your Air Quality permit condition in Section VI, item 4 and 5. 

 2.A description of the activities conducted to comply with the fugitive emissions control requirements of 

your Air Quality permit in Section VI, item 6, 7 and 8. 

 3.A copy of the standard operating procedure manual for fugitive emissions as required by Section VI, 

item 10 through 13 of your Air Quality permit. 

 4.A complete description of your CD-1 baghouse control device including: the manufacturer and model 

number, date installed, design flow rate of inlet gas, cloth type, bag dimensions, number of 

compartments, number of bags per compartment, total filtering area, and cleaning mechanism. A 

sescription of how dust from the control device is handled and disposed. 
 5.A brief description of your furnace operation including the operating temperature, the furnace exhaust 

gas flow rate, temperature of the exhaust gas, description of any afterburner or organic control device and 

operating temperature of the control device. 

 6.A plot plan of the facility with a brief description of the activities in each area of the facility. 

 7.The approximate number of employees of the business enterprise (Parent Company) that owns the 

facility. If the number of employees is less than 750 for all world-wide operations, we are requesting the 

company’s annual revenue in order to conduct our small business analysis as required by the Small 

Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act. 

 8.Any additional information that you believe will aid our analysis of your facility in light of the proposed 

regulations. 

 Please send this requested information by August 30, 2011. You can email the information by replying 

to this email. Or, send by overnight mail to the address shown below. 

 Please let us know if you have questions. 

 Thank You. 

 Chuck French, Group Leader, 

 Metals and Inorganic Chemicals Group, 

 Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, 

 US Environmental Protection Agency 

 Phone: 919-541-7912 

 Overnight mail address: 

 Chuck French 

 US EPA 

 Mail Code D243-02 

 109 TW Alexander Drive 

 RTP, NC 27709