Dear Mr. Shalev,

Please accept this email as my official request for a hearing regarding the PSD permit change

for the proposed Sierra Pacific Cogeneration plant in Anderson, CA. Please enter my letter

below into the public record.

Your acknowledgment of receipt of this email would be very much appreciated.

Respectfully,

Heidi Strand

September 16th 2012

Red Emmerson 

Sierra Pacific Industries 

19794 Riverside Ave

Anderson, CA 96007

My request for a hearing and full environmental review. ~Heidi Strand

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Dear Mr. Emmerson,

Citizens for Clean Air received a public notice regarding

the construction of a Cogeneration plant at your Anderson

facility.

Citizens for Clean Air participated in the Knauf Fiberglass

PSD permitting process. The Environmental Appeals board of 

the EPA remanded Knauf's permit back to the Shasta County

Air Quality Management Board because of it's lack of

compliance with Environmental Justice guidelines.

These guidelines call for the permitting process in EJ

communities to 'go above and beyond usual protocol to

identify, involve and to help potentially effected 

communities from the very beginning

of a project.”

The public notice stated that Sierra Pacific's existing PSD 

permit needs a 'major modification' in order to be in

compliance once a new plant is built. Clearly this proposed

building is a major polluter and anything less than a new 

PSD permit for this plant is highly inadequate and in

flagrant violation of the intent of Executive Order #12898.

Sincerely,

Heidi Strand, Co-chair 

Citizens for Clean Air 

Box 1544, 

City of Shasta Lake, CA 96019

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Council

CC: Anderson City Council CC: Knauf Fiberglass, 

Shelbyville, In.

CC: Shasta County Board of Supervisors CC: Shawn Angoria,

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2nd request for a hearing and full environmental review. ~Heidi Strand

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Date: 10/01/2012 08:04 PM

September 1st, 2012

Omer Shaley, Environmental Engineer, EPA Region 9

The threshold for public interest is lower in Environmental Justice Communities.

Our organization only heard about this project on the day I originally wrote to you.

Your agency needs to make a greater effort to comply with Executive order# . and

enri Knauf

The issues our community wishes to raise are:

1) What methods of BACT (Best Available Control Technology) are being utilized by

Sierra Pacific in the new construction of this Cogeneration plant?

2) Can you provide us with a discussion of the cumulative impacts of air, water and

waste disposal methods proposed for this new project?

3) Can you provide any information regarding Sierra Pacific's environmental violations

at their pre-existing Shasta County facilities and operations?

4)What are your agencies procedures for determining the threshold required to hold a

public hearing?

5) Why doesn't EPA Region 9 require Sierra Pacific to secure a new PSD Permit for

this new facility?

We deserve a public hearing. Anything less disenfranchises us from the public process.

Sincerely,

Heidi Strand, Co-coordinator

Citizens for Clean Air

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Dear Mr. Shalev, 

 You state that the fact sheet explains the basis for the proposed permit. But your 

agency is not proposing a permit. EPA Region 9 is proposing ALTERING AND OLD 

PERMIT THAT WAS ISSUED FOR A DIFFERENT BUILDING . 

 That appears to circumvent the entire PSD permitting process which was intended to

give the public fair environmental review before a major pollution source is built. This is 

clearly in violation of the intent of Environmental Justice in which your agency is the lead 

federal agency. 

 Again I am requesting a pubic hearing. 

Respectfully, 

Heidi Strand, Co-coordinator 

Citizens for Clean Air 

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Dear Mr. Shalev, 

 Thank you for your prompt responses. 

 I do not see the difference if Sierra Pacific builds a new cogeneration plant at an "existing 

facility" or somewhere else. It is still a new facility. Please explain why you are not requiring 

this new (and larger) plant to undergo the full PSD Permitting process. 

 Your agency has taken the authority away from Shasta County to issue PSD permits. So 

your agency is the correct entity to also ask if there are enough air pollution credits available 

in Shasta County to alter an existing PSD permit. 

 Sincerely, 

Heidi Strand, co-coordinator 

Citizens for clean Air 

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Dear Mr. Shalev 

 What is the deadline for our appeal to the EAB? 

Please provide all necessary information. 

Sincerely, 

Heidi Strand 

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Dear Ms. Strand,

Thank you again for your interest. Please be sure to submit written comments regarding your concerns by

the end of the public comment period on October 17, 2012.

Omer Shalev

Environmental Engineer

Air Permits Office (Air-3)

Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9

75 Hawthorne St.

San Francisco, CA 94105

Please supply all information for filing an appeal to the EAB, especially the deadline.

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