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### Veolia ES Technical Solutions Air Permit Sauget, Illinois January 2013 

# U.S. EPA Proposes to Reopen
Title V Air Permit

What can you do?

 S ubmit written comments

to U.S. EPA regarding the draft permit duri ng the comment period that runs
from Jan

. 8 to Mar ch 15,
2013

. Comments should include factual grounds and supporting material or
references.

 Attend the public hearing

on Feb. 19, 2013
, at the Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville

– East St.
Louis H igher Education Campus, Distance Learning Lab, Room 20 83

, Building B, 601 James R. Thompson Blvd., East St. Louis, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. See more
details on the comment period and meeting on the back page.

 Go on a tour. Veolia will be offering facility tours. To

arra nge a tour contact Doug
Harris or Dennis Warchol at
618

- 271

- 2804.

 Review the statement of
b asis and d raft p ermit.
The statement of basis provides more information and explains the legal and
factual bas e s for the permit
conditions. The draft Title V permit includes all of the requirements the source is legally obligated to follow. Only portions of the permit that are being changed because of the proposed action are currently open for comment during the comment period. See P age 3 for locations where you can

v iew these documents. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to re open a Clean Air Act permit for a hazardous waste combusting facility in s outhern
Illinois. U.S. EPA is undertaking this permit action for Veolia ES
Technical Solutions LLC.

, 7 Mobile Ave., Sauget, Ill

., near St. Louis, to modify its Clean Air Act Title V operating permit. The revised permit
would include “feedrate” limits for certain heavy metals. Feedrate limits are the maximum amount of heavy metals Veolia can feed into the
incinerator combustion unit p er hour. The heavy metals include mercury,
arsenic and lead. The permit also would include additional requirements for monitoring the waste incinerated by Veolia at the facility

.

U.S. EPA has based the proposed feedrate limits, which comply with applicable regulations, on available performance test dat a

. Veolia will
continue operating the combustors following the requirements of their current permit until a final revised permit is issued

. U.S. EPA will not issue a final permit until after the public has a chance to comment. See the
left

- hand box and read P age 3 for information about the public participation process for this proposed permit.



### Backgr ound The Clean Air Act requires certain sources that emit large amounts of air pollution to obtain an operating permit, also known as a Title V permit, after the source has begun to operate. This permit is designed to improve compliance by clarifying what faciliti es must do to control air pollution.

For this permitting action U.S. EPA is the permitting authority . U.S. EPA
issued the initial Title V permit to Veolia on Sept ember 12, 2008. U.S.
EPA is now proposing to reopen the permit to incorporate feedrate limits and monitoring requirements so that the permit complies with the Clean
Air Act

. Only those portions of the permit that US. EPA is proposing to change are open for public comment at this time. The federal Agency expects the facility to submit an application for a permit renewal in 2013
and will open the entire permit comment at that time.



### Burning hazardous waste Specially designed incinerators, boilers, and industrial furnaces can burn
hazardous waste. Hazardous waste

– which is toxic, flammable , corrosive

or react s with other ma terials

– can be produced by businesses or manufacturing operations. Burning hazardous waste is one way to safely manage it. Burning reduces waste volume by converting solids and liquids
to ash while destroying toxic organic compounds . In addition, disposa l of the ash in a landfill is safer and more efficient than disposal of untreated hazardous waste. The ash generated from hazardous waste combustion
must be tested

, and, if found to be hazardous, must be treated for remaining toxicity before it is disposed of in a landfill.

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### 2 Veolia has three hazardous waste combustors : #2, #3,
and #4 (#1 was closed in 1992)

. Veolia receives hazardous waste in both liquid and solid forms. Liquid waste may be stored in a tank farm prior to being
burned

. Ga ses occasionally escape from t he tanks, and carbon adsorption units are attached to each tank to help control these emissions. Bulk solid wastes are stored in four pits in a building prior to combustion.
The structure is maintained at negative pressure so emissions don’t escape

. Before the waste is burned it is

pa ckaged into more manageable containers and any liquids are absorbed.

Each combustor has a primary and secondary
combustion chamber that include s natural gas

- fired auxiliary burners used during sta rtup, shutdown, malfunctions and for additional heat input. The combustors are also connected to spray dryer absorbers and a baghouse, which help to control air pollution.
Combustor #4 also has a tempering chamber and activated carbon injection t o further help control air pollution. Emissions are co nstantly monitored for carbon monoxide and hydrogen chloride.

The combustors are supported by a lime handling system and an ash handling system. The lime handling system supports the spray dry absorber, as lime is an important material in this air pollution control technology. The ash handling system ensures that ash produced during the combustion process is collected and properly disposed of. 

### P ollutants affected by the permit The proposed permit action sets fe edrate limits for mercury, semi

- volatile metals such as cadmium and lead, and low

- volatile metals such as arsenic, beryllium, and chromium. Volatility is a measure of how readily a substance changes from a solid or liquid to a vapor. These pollutants have known negative health effects. U.S. EPA is setting feedrate limits in this action that comply with applicable federal regulations. More detail about each of these pollutants can be found in the
statement of basis. Information on how to review the

statement of basis is found on the last page of this fact
sheet

.


### Setting the limits

The heavy metal feedrate limits were established using
the results of comprehensive performance tests Veolia performed in August and September 2008

. U.S. EPA is proposing to incorporate into V eolia’s Title V permit
the mercury feedrate limits used by the company during
its 2008 testing. For the other heavy metals, the federal Agency is proposing slightly higher feedrate limits than the ones used in the 2008 tests. These higher feedrates
are all owed under federal regulations.



### Monitoring In the proposed revisions to the Title V permit, Veolia will be required to install and operate a multi

- metals
continuous emissions monito ring system (CEMS) on
one of its combustion units (Unit #3) for at least one This diagram shows the combustion process of Unit # 2

. The combustion processes of Units 3 and 4 are slightly different, but follow similar principals.

### 3 year. A multi

- metals CEMS tests the air emitted during the incineration process to determine the amount of mercury, semi

- volatile metals an d low

- volatile metals
emissions , and reports the results approximately once every fifteen minutes. The test results will help U.S. EPA ensure the feedrate limits are adequate to protect air quality. After a year of running the CEMS, U.S.
EP A believes we will have enough information to
determine if the feedrate limits we are currently proposing are a dequate to ensure that Veolia complies with the requirements of the Clean Air Act. Once U.S. EPA has collected sufficient data, Veolia will no longer be required to use the multi

- metals CEMS.



### Public participation You can participate in the decision

- making process on
the permit by submitting comments during the public comment period that runs from Jan. 8 to Ma rch 15,
2013 or at the Feb. 19 public hea ring in East St. Louis (see front page box)

.

All written comments must be postmarked or emailed
no later than Mar ch 15, 2013

. U.S. EPA will consider

a ll written and oral comments received within the public comment p eriod will be considered before
mak ing a final decision on the proposed action. U.S. EPA will consider written statements and supporting information submitted during the comment period with the same weight as any oral comments and supporting information presented at the public hearing. Your
comments should inc lude your name and address and
all reasonable r eferences, factual grounds, and supporting material. Be sure t o note whether you would
like to receive notification of U.S. EPA ’s final decision regarding the permit and its responses to co mments submitted dur ing the public comment period. Comments can be submitted :

 Via the Internet at the www. regulations

. gov /
website at Docket ID No. U.S. EPA

- R05

- OAR

- 2012

- 0649 

### or at www.epa.gov/region5/newsevents/ and look in the “public comment” section.

 Mail to George Czerniak

, U.S. EPA , 77 W. Jackson Blvd. (A

- 18J), Chicago, IL 60604.

 E mail to John Mooney at mooney.john @epa.gov

.

At the Feb. 19 public hearing you will be invited to present any comments or concerns you have about the proposed changes. U.S. EPA is required to consider all comments and respond to all relevant comments. A signup sheet will be available at t he public hearing for those who are interested in presenting oral testimony and spots will be available to present on a first

come /first

- serve basis.

Each speaker will be limited to 5 to 10 minutes depending on the number of presenters. The U.S. EPA

rep resentative may ask clarifying questions during the oral presentations but will not respond to the comments

a t that time. If you require translation services or special accommodations for the public hearing contact
U.S. EPA ’s Andrea Morgan at morgan.andrea@epa.gov by February 5, 2013

.



### View the documents The draft permit and another document called a statement of basis , which explains the bas e s for the proposed revisions to the permit, can be reviewed at:

 T he www. regulations

. gov / web site at Docket
ID No. U.S. EPA

- R05

- OAR

- 2012

- 0649 or at www.epa.gov/region5/newsevents/ and look in the “public comment” section.

 C entral Library , 13 01 Olive St, St. Louis, MO
63103.

 East St Louis Library
, 5300 State St

., East St Louis, IL 62203

.

 Cahokia Public Library
, 140 Cahokia Park
Drive

, East St Louis, IL 62206