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AIR MANAGEMENT SERVI H EARI N**GSOURC~** REGISTRATION '.R, MANt- -'I

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### JAN 3 0 2014 Monday, January 13, 2014 RECEIVeD 

### Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

PRESENT: EDWARD WEINER, AMS PAUL AMUNDSEN, PES CHERICE CORLEY, PES CHUCK BARKSDALE, S PATRICK 0' 

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HELD AT: Mercy Wellness Center 2821 South Island Avenue, 2nd oor Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19153

REPORTED BY: Angela M. King, RPR Registered Professional Reporter

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2 1 2 (At this time, the hearing commenced at 7:16 3 p.m.) 4 

### 5 MR. WEINER: My name is Ed Weiner, Chief 6 of Source Registration r Air Management 7 Services of the Phil Iphia Department of Public 8 Health. 9 Be re we get start , I would like to 10 ask everyone to sign in on the record of 11 attendance regardless of whet r you plan to 12 testi It's located at t si desk. If you 13 wish to testify, please sign up on t sign in 14 sheet to testify also located on side desk. 15 We are here to accept testimony on a 16 proposed plan approval for the Philadelphia 17 Energy Solution (or PES) Refinery located at 3144 18 Passyunk Avenue in Philadelphia. This aring 19 was adve ised in the Legal Notices section of 20 t Philadelphia ily News on December 2, 21 through 4, 2013. It was published in t Public 22 Notices section of the Pennsylvania lletin on 23 cember 14, 2013. 24 r Management Services and PES held a

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### public information meeting about the application 2 

### on October 28, 2013 as rt of the Environmental 3 Justice Program. This plan approval, Number 4 

### 12195, authorized t facility to replace hourly 5 heat input capacity limits on seven heaters with 6 

### annual at input limits and to install Ultra Low 7 

### Nox Burners on two of the aters. The heaters 8 

### are limit to refinery fuel gas with individual 9 heat input limits that combine to 730.6 million 10 BTU r hour. The propos annual heat input 11 

### limits total 6,806,000 U per rolling 12-month 12 period. 13 The increase in potential emissions in 14 t 

### application due to the project are a 140.1 15 tons of nitrogen oxides, 23.2 tons of volatile 16 organic compounds, 13.2 tons of both pa iculate 17 matter with a ameter of 10 micrometers or less 18 (PMI0) and particulate matter with a diameter of 19 2.5 micrometers or less (PM2.5), 191.6 tons of 20 carbon monoxide, 7.1 tons of sulfur dioxide and 21 greenhouse gases of 255,372 metric tons carbon 22 dioxide equivalent, all on a rolling 12-month 23 basis. 24 The propos changes to the following

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### are also intended to meet the reasonably 2 available control technology requirements of the 3 Clean Air Act for the 1997 8-hour ozone National 4 Ambient Air Quality Standard: the removal of the 5 million BTU per hour heat input limit reach 6 heater, the addition of million BTU at input 7 and nitrogen oxides emissions limits per rolling 8 12-month period limit for each heater, the 9 

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### 10 ea heater, and the install ion of the addition 11 of Ultra Low Nox burners on two heaters. These 12 changes are proposed to be made to t State 13 

### Implementation Plan. 14 The Department is holding this hearing 15 to allow all interested parties to testify with 16 comments on this plan approval application. This 17 hearing is being transcri Please st e your 18 name, address and whom you represent r the 19 record re you beg Please limit your 20 testimony to approximately ten minutes. Each 21 organization should designate one witness to 22 present testimony. Following your testimony, we 23 

### may to ask you additional in rmation. 24 This hearing will not be a

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1 question-and-answer session. However, I can 2 assure you we will address all comments and 3 

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### plan approval before any 4 

### ermination is made to issue it. All oral or 5 

### written comments received will come part of the 6 public record. We will prepare a response 7 document prior to final action on this plan 8 approval. Anyone who included their address on 9 the record of attendance will be mailed one.



# , 10 First, if anyone has any written 11 comments to submit, please do so now. Record known, nobody has any submit. 13 

### And we would start the oral comments 14 now. Nobody has signed to present to testify. 15 And it's noted that all attendees are either from 16 the City, PES or the court reporter service. And 17 since nobody is here wishes to present comments, 18 

### now that all testimony has en received, this 19 

### ring is adjourned. 20 Thank you. It is not that it's 21 7:21 p.m. for the hea ng that was originally 22 scheduled for 7 p.m.

24 (Brief break taken to allow for any latecomers.)

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1 2 MR. WEINER: To just post script, we 3 stayed until 7:34 just to be safe in case anybody 4 showed up late. We had no new visitors, so we 5 are closing up. 6 7 (At this time, the hearing adjourned at 7:34 8 p.m.) 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

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