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UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

REGION 5

NOTICE OF PROPOSED MODIFICATION OF VEOLIA’S TITLE V PERMIT

This notice is to inform the public that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is reopening a 

Clean Air Act Title V operating permit for Veolia ES Technical Solutions, L.L.C. (Veolia), 

located at 7 Mobile Avenue, Sauget, St. Clair County, Illinois, to add feedrate limits for certain 

heavy metals. The heavy metals include mercury, semi-volatile metals (cadmium and lead), and 

low volatile metals (arsenic, beryllium, and chromium). 

A. Facility Description

Veolia owns and operates a hazardous waste incinerator in Sauget, St. Clair County, Illinois. 

Veolia’s Sauget facility is a treatment, storage and disposal facility, which accepts offsite waste 

for disposal through incineration. Veolia receives containers and bulk shipments of hazardous 

and solid wastes, transfers them to temporary storage facilities, processes them, and incinerates 

them in one of three combustion units. The facility includes two fixed-hearth, dual chamber, 

multi-type feed incinerators (Incinerators 2 and 3), each rated at 16 million British thermal units 

per hour (mmBtu/hr), and one rotary kiln incinerator (Incinerator 4), rated at 50 mmBtu/hr. 

Incinerators 2 and 3 each use spray dry absorbers with lime slurry injection to control hydrogen 

chloride emissions and baghouses for particulate matter. Incinerator 4 uses a spray dry absorber 

for hydrogen chloride control, an activated carbon injection system for mercury control, and a 

baghouse for particulate matter control. 

Veolia’s Sauget facility is located just east of St. Louis, Missouri, in an area with potential 

environmental justice concerns. 

B. Proposed Actions

EPA has determined that Veolia’s current Title V permit does not assure compliance with the 

standards at 40 C.F.R. § 63.1219. Therefore, EPA is reopening Veolia’s permit pursuant to 40 

C.F.R. § 71.7(f)(iv) to 1) incorporate feedrate limits that EPA considers to be supported by the 

available test data, and 2) supplement monitoring requirements, as necessary, to assure 

compliance with the proposed feedrate limits. Thus, EPA is making available for public 

comment a draft significant modification to Title V Permit No. V-IL-1716300103-08-01 (draft 

permit). The draft permit is subject to a minimum 30-day public comment period as required by 

40 C.F.R. §§ 71.7(f) and 71.11(d). 

As required by 40 C.F.R. § 71.11(b), EPA has provided the reasons supporting our proposed 

actions in a statement of basis which is available as part of the administrative record for this 

action. 

C. Request for Public Comment

EPA requests public comment on our proposal to reopen and modify Veolia’s Title V permit. 

The public comment period for EPA’s draft permit ends March 15, 2013. Only portions of the 
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permit that are being changed because of the proposed action are open for comment during the 

comment period. Members of the public may review the administrative record for the 

modifications contained in the draft permit, including copies of the draft permit prepared by 

EPA, the statement of basis for the draft permit, the application, and all data and supporting 

materials submitted by the applicant at the following locations: 

(1) www.regulations.gov docket ID EPA-R05-OAR-2012-0649; 

(2) www.epa.gov/region5/newsevents/ and look in the “public comment” section; 

(3) Central Library, 1301 Olive St., St. Louis, MO 63101;

(4) East St Louis Library, 5300 State St., East St. Louis, IL 62203;

(5) Cahokia Public Library, 140 Cahokia Park Drive, East St. Louis, IL 62206; and

(6) EPA Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 18th floor, Chicago, Illinois 60604, by 

contacting David Ogulei at (312) 353-0987 or ogulei.david@epa.gov. All documents 

will be available for review at the EPA Region 5 office in Chicago Monday through 

Friday from 8:15 AM until 4:45 PM (excluding federal holidays). 

Pursuant to 40 C.F.R. §71.11(f), EPA is holding a Public Hearing on February 19, 2013 at the 

Distance Learning Lab, Room 2083, in Building B of the Southern Illinois University 

Edwardsville – East St. Louis Higher Education Campus, 601 James R. Thompson Blvd., East 

St. Louis, Illinois 62201 from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM. The public hearing will provide interested 

parties the opportunity to present data, views, or arguments concerning the proposed action. The 

EPA may ask clarifying questions during the oral presentations, but will not respond to the 

presentations at that time. The 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. Supporting materials submitted with written 

comments must be included in full and may not be incorporated by reference unless they are 

already part of the administrative record, or consist of state or federal statutes or regulations, 

EPA documents of general applicability, or other generally available reference materials.

If you would like to provide oral testimony at the hearing, you must register your name on the 

sign-in sheet that will be available at the hearing venue on the date of the hearing. You will be 

called to testify on a first-come-first-serve basis. Oral testimony will generally be limited to five 

to ten minutes, depending on the number of speakers, for each commenter to address the draft 

permit. EPA will not provide equipment for commenters to show overhead slides or make 

computerized slide presentations. Commenters should notify Andrea Morgan at 

morgan.andrea@epa.gov, or fax: (312) 692-2920, by February 5, 2013, if they need specific 

translation services for non-English speaking commenters. 

The EPA encourages commenters to provide written versions of their oral testimonies either 

electronically or on computer disk or CD ROM or in paper copy. Written comments and 

requests to receive notices of any future actions may be submitted to EPA by March 15, 2013, 

using one of the following methods: (1) www.regulations.gov: Docket ID No. EPA-R05-OAR2012-0649; (2) http://www.epa.gov/region5/publicnotices/veolia.htm; (3) E-mail:

mooney.john@epa.gov; (4) Fax: (312) 692-2551; or, (5) Mail: George Czerniak, Director, Air 

and Radiation Division (A-18J), at the above EPA address. All written comments should 

include: the reason for interest in the draft permit, requested actions for EPA to take, and the 

justification for such actions. All comments should include sufficient specificity and regulatory 

references to allow EPA to investigate the merits of the position. All comments will be included 
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in the public docket without change and may be made available to the public, including any 

personal information provided, unless the comment includes Confidential Business Information 

(CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Information that you 

consider CBI or otherwise protected should be clearly identified as such and should not be 

submitted through e-mail. If you send e-mail directly to EPA, your e-mail address will be 

captured automatically and included as part of the public comment. 

D. Final Decision

After EPA has considered all relevant comments received prior to the end of the public comment 

period and all comments made during the public hearing, EPA will decide whether or not to 

proceed with the adoption of EPA’s proposed feedrate limits and monitoring requirements. 

If EPA decides to adopt the proposed feedrate limits and monitoring requirements, the final 

permit will become effective 30 days after the service of notice of the decision, pursuant to 40 

C.F.R. § 71.11(i)(2), unless (i) a later effective date is specified in the decision; (ii) review is 

requested under 40 C.F.R. § 71.11(l) (in which case the specific terms and conditions of the 

permit which are the subject of the request for review shall be stayed); or (iii) no comments 

requested a change in the draft permit, in which case the permit shall become effective 

immediately upon issuance. 

The final permit is a public record that can be obtained upon request. A statement of reasons for 

changes made to the draft permit and responses to comments received will be sent to all persons 

who commented on the draft permit. Please note that an e-mail or postal address must be 

provided with your comments if you wish to receive direct notification of EPA’s final decision 

regarding the permit and its responses to comments submitted during the public comment period. 

If you believe any condition of the draft permit is inappropriate or that our initial decision to

prepare the draft permit is inappropriate, you must raise all reasonably ascertainable issues and 

submit all reasonably ascertainable arguments supporting your position by the end of the 

comment period. 

E. Appeal Procedures

Within 30 days after a final permit decision has been issued, any person who filed comments or 

participated in the public hearing may petition the Environmental Appeals Board to review any 

condition of the permit decision, in accordance with 40 C.F.R. § 71.11(l). Appeals should be 

filed with the Hearing Clerk at the following address:

 

Environmental Appeals Board

MC 1103B

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

401 M Street, SW

Washington, DC 20460