RE: Port Washington Generating Station

Faith III, Don C - DNR 

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Shaheerah Kelly 02/16/2010 12:44 PM

Cc: "Dillahunt, Ronald E - DNR", "Dunn, Steven D - DNR"

From: "Faith III, Don C - DNR" <Don.FaithIII@Wisconsin.gov>

To: Shaheerah Kelly/R9/USEPA/US@EPA

Cc: "Dillahunt, Ronald E - DNR" <Ronald.Dillahunt@Wisconsin.gov>, "Dunn, Steven D - DNR" 

<Steven.Dunn@Wisconsin.gov>

You should probably speak to Ron directly. I spoke to Ron this AM, and he indicated that the unit that 

has these emission limits may have been small enough that a test for them wasn't required under the 

permit.

The unit has a 10 MMBTU/hr heat input capacity (identified as P06 / S06). With those limits at that time, 

I don't expect

that I would have required any form of testing either. 

The permit points to the AP-42 emission factors, and for a boiler of that period should have been fairly 

easy to achieve.

From: Kelly.Shaheerah@epamail.epa.gov [mailto:Kelly.Shaheerah@epamail.epa.gov] 

Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 1:59 PM

To: Faith III, Don C - DNR

Cc: Dillahunt, Ronald E - DNR; Dunn, Steven D - DNR

Subject: RE: Port Washington Generating Station

Thanks for the info and for your quick response!

************************************

Shaheerah Kelly

Air Division (AIR-3)

U S EPA Region 9

75 Hawthorne Street

San Francisco, CA 94105

Phone: 415-947-4156

Fax: 415-947-3579

email: kelly.shaheerah@epa.gov

From: "Faith III, Don C - DNR" <Don.FaithIII@Wisconsin.gov>

To: Shaheerah Kelly/R9/USEPA/US@EPA

Cc: "Dunn, Steven D - DNR" <Steven.Dunn@Wisconsin.gov>, "Dillahunt, Ronald E - DNR" <Ronald.Dillahunt@Wisconsin.gov>

Date: 02/16/2010 06:14 AM

Subject: RE: Port Washington Generating Station
The original permit writer for this review passed away, so I was asked to do the RBLC entry. The 

supervisor involved 

(Jeff Hanson) noted on the RBLC has left the WDNR to work for the private sector (a different 

electric utility).

 

My presumption is that the facility has demonstrated compliance with these limits, since there 

don't 

appear to be any subsequent permits which relaxed the limits. The permit was revised in 

2007(04-RV-175-R1) by

Steve Dunn, to make changes in the permitted temperature ranges (for startup / shutdown?), but 

it wouldn't have changed the emission limits. 

 

Their most recent Title V permit is 246004000-P10 

 

Our permits may be found and searched through this link:

 

http://dnr.wi.gov/air/permits/permitsearch.html

 

Their compliance engineer is listed as Ron Dillahunt, at (920) 892-8756 

 

The initial phone msg. has a long message in front of it. Ron can be reached by selecting 1 for a 

specific program, 1 for the air program and 1 for Ron's extension... 

 

Regards, Don C. Faith III

 

3Don C. Faith III

Air Management Engineer

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

() phone: (608) 267-3135

() fax: (608)267-0560

() e-mail: don.faithiii@wisconsin.gov

From: Kelly.Shaheerah@epamail.epa.gov [mailto:Kelly.Shaheerah@epamail.epa.gov] 

Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 7:35 AM

To: Faith III, Don C - DNR

Subject: Port Washington Generating Station

Hi. 

I'm seeking information on an air quality permit issued to the Port Washington Generating Station. 

I would like to know whether the GAS HEATER unit listed under RBLC entry WI-0227 is currently 

achieving the NOx and CO limits that are associated with the units. The limits listed in the RBLC 

are:
Carbon Monoxide - 0.047 LB/MMBTU, 0.47 LB/H

Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) - 0.1 LB/MMBTU, 0.36 LB/H

Attached is an RBLC report of the emission limits which I obtained from 

http://cfpub.epa.gov/rblc/cfm/rbfind.cfm. 

Also, please let me know how I can obtain the current title V or PSD permit for the unit.

Your assistance on this would be very helpful. If you are not the contact, please let me know who 

I should talk to. 

Thanks.

************************************

Shaheerah Kelly

Air Division (AIR-3)

U S EPA Region 9

75 Hawthorne Street

San Francisco, CA 94105

Phone: 415-947-4156

Fax: 415-947-3579

email: kelly.shaheerah@epa.gov