STATE OF TENNESSEE 

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION 

DIVISION OF AIR POLLUTION CONTROL 

WILLIAM R. SNODGRASS TENNESSEE TOWER 

312 ROSA L. PARKS AVENUE, 15TH FLOOR 

August 07, 2015 

Honorable Heather McTeer Toney 

Regional Administrator 

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE 37243 

United States Environmental Protection Agency 

Region IV 

Atlanta Federal Center, 1th Floor 

61 Forsyth Street, SW 

Atlanta, Georgia 30303-8960 

Dear Administrator McTeer Toney: 

As Technical Secretary to the Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board, I am forwarding 

correspondence to you from the Knox County Air Quality Management Agency dated July 24, 

2015. That letter requests that the Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board withdraw several SIP 

submittals to EPA that it approved at the request of Knox County. These SIP submittals are 

detailed in the Knox County letter and the decision to withdraw them arose after discussions with 

EPA regarding the cleanup of back logged SIP revisions at EPA. 

I have determined that these requests are administrative in nature and within the scope of my 

authority as the Board's Technical Secretary. By copy of this letter, I am contemporaneously 

advising the Board of this action. 

Thank you for your assistance in this matter. If you or your staff should have questions, please 

feel free to contact me at (615) 532-0525 or Director Liddington at (865) 215-5900. 

Sincerely, 

q:7J ~~ Technical Secretary 

Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board 

Copy to: 

Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board Members 

Knox County Air Quality Management 

Beverly Banister, EPA Region IV 

Marc Corrigan 
OFFICE OF COUNTY MAYOR 

Air Quality Management 

140 Dameron Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917 

Mr. Barry Stephens, Technical Secretary 

Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board 

William R. Snodgrass Tennessee Tower 

312 Rosa L. Parks Avenue, 15th Floor 

Nashville, TN 37243 

Dear Mr. Stephens, 

July 24, 2015 

We request that the Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board ask EPA Region 4 to 

withdraw the following SIP revisions, which were submitted as part of the Prevention of 

Significant Deterioration (PSD)/Nonattainment New Source Review (NNSR) regulation 

reforms: TN-282, TN-283, TN-292, TN-309, and TN-312. It is our intention to combine these 

revisions and re-submit a comprehensive PSD/NNSR reform SIP submittal. We also request to 

withdraw SIP submittal TN-259 from EPA Region 4 consideration. 

Please see the summary table below to identify the appropriate dates of the 

following for each submittal: approval by the Knox County Air Pollution Control Board; 

submittal of the revision to the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation 

(TDEC) by Knox County; and submittal of the revision to the Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA) by TDEC. 

Finally, we also request that a portion of the SIP submittal denoted TN-331, approved 

by the Knox County Air Pollution Control Board on October 16, 2013, submitted from Knox 

County to TDEC on January 22, 2014, and from TDEC to EPA on March 14, 2014, be 

withdrawn. Section 25.6 in this submittal asks for approval of a change to include exemptions 

to minor source permitting regulations into the SIP. Since this regulation is only locally 

enforceable, it does not need to be part of the SIP. 

phone 865.215.5900 • fax 865.2.15.5902 • aqm@aqm.co.knox.tn.us 
Cover Letter Submittal 

Submittal Board Approval Date 

Knox County Letter: 

10/30/2003 

TN-259 10/8/2003 TDEC Letter: 11/12/2003 

Knox County Letter: 

7/11/2006 

TN-282 7/12/2006 TDEC Letter: 9/15/2006 

Knox County Letter: 

2/6/2007 

TN-283 1/17/2007 TDEC Letter: 2/16/2007 

Knox County Letter: 

10/17/2008 

TN-292 10/15/2008 TDEC Letter: 1/21/2009 

Knox County Letter: 

11/23/2010 

TN-309 10/27/2010 TDEC Letter: 2/18/2011 

Knox County Letter: 

11/23/2010 

TN-312 1/26/2011 TDEC Letter: 3/10/2011 

If you have any questions, please contact Steve McDaniel at (865) 215-5913 or by 

E-mail at asmcdaniel@agm.co.knox.tn.us. 

Sincerely, cJ:: if/!o~~ Director