Lincoln Paper and Tissue Co., Inc. Departmental

Penobscot County Findings of Fact and Order

Lincoln, Maine

A-177-77-3-A

Regional Haze

Best Available Retrofit Technology

Determination

After staff investigation reports and other documents in the applicant’s file in the Bureau 

of Air Quality, pursuant to 38 M.R.S.A, § 344, § 582, § 590 and § 603, the Department 

finds the following facts:

I. Registration

A. Introduction

FACILITY Lincoln Paper and Tissue (LPT)

INITIAL LICENSE NUMBER A-177-70-A-I

LICENSE TYPE BART Determination

NAICS CODES 322121

NATURE OF BUSINESS Pulp and Paper Mill

FACILITY LOCATION Lincoln, Maine

DETERMINATION ISSUANCE DATE

Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART) is defined in 38 MRSA §582, 

sub-§5-C as an emission limitation based on the degree of reduction achievable 

through the application of the best system of continuous emission reduction for 

each visibility-impairing air pollutant that is emitted by an existing stationary

facility. The emission limitation must be established, on a case-by-case basis, 

taking into consideration the technology available, the costs of compliance, the 

energy and non-air quality environmental impacts of compliance, any pollution 

control equipment in use or in existence at the source, the remaining useful life of 

the source, and the degree of improvement in visibility that may reasonably be 

anticipated to result from the use of such technology.

A facility is determined to have BART eligible emission units if the following 

criteria outlined in the Regional Haze Rule found in 40 CFR, Part 51 are met:

1. The facility falls into one the 26 source specific categories identified in the 

Clean Air Act (CAA) of 1977,
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2. The facility has emission units that entered operation in the 15 years prior 

to the adoption of the CAA, and 

3. The facility has the potential to emit more than 250 tons/year of a single 

visibility impairing pollutant from units that fall under criteria #2.

Per 38 MRSA §603-A, sub-§8; for those BART eligible units determined by the 

Department to require additional sulfur air pollution controls to improve visibility, 

the controls must:

1. Be installed and operational no later than January 1, 2013; and

2. Either:

a. Require the use of oil having 1% or less of sulfur by weight; or,

b. Be equivalent to a 50% reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions 

from a BART eligible unit based on a BART eligible unit source 

emission baseline determined by the Department under 40 CFR, 

Section 51.308 (d)(3)(iii)(2006) and 40 CFR, Section 51, 

Appendix Y (2006); or,

c. Require an SO2 emissions limit of 250 tons per year from the 

BART eligible unit.

B. Emission Equipment

The following emission unit is determined to be BART eligible under 40 CFR, Part 51:

CAA Source 

Specific Category

Emission Unit Unit Capacity Date of 

Start-up

Kraft Mill Recovery Boiler #2 1.9 MMlb BLS/day

Supports 650 ADTPD *

(oil heat input of 500 MMBtu/hr)

1972

* Air dried tons per day

II. EMISSION UNITS AND CONTROL EQUIPMENT DESCRIPTION

A. Recovery Boiler #2

Recovery Boiler #2 was manufactured by Babcock and Wilcox in 1972. The unit 

is licensed to limit heat input capacity to 1.9 million pounds (MMlbs) of dry black 

liquor solids (BLS) per day or 500 MMBtu/hr of #6 fuel oil. The Recovery Boiler 

is used to recover chemicals and produce steam. Emissions exit through two 

identical 175 foot stacks. The recovery boiler is a straight fire unit burning black 
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liquor, typically without combustion support from fossil fuel. Typically, oil is 

used only during start-ups, shutdowns and to stabilize operation of the boiler.

The Recovery Boiler is exhausted to a wet bottom electrostatic precipitator (ESP) 

to control particulate emissions. This unit also serves to re-introduce salt cake 

into the black liquor which further concentrates the solids content.

BART Determination

1. PM

LPT shall control PM and PM10 emissions from the recovery boiler by using 

an ESP to achieve the BACT emission level of 0.044 grains per dry standard 

cubic foot (0.044 gr/dscf) corrected to 8% oxygen.

2. SO2

SO2 emissions from the recovery boiler shall be controlled to 141 ppmv (dry

basis) @ 8% O2 on a 24-hour block average basis when firing only black 

liquor or when firing a combination of black liquor and oil. The recovery

boiler fires #6 fuel oil. Oil fired in the recovery boiler alone shall not exceed 

0.7% sulfur by weight or 2.0% sulfur by weight when firing a combination of 

black liquor and oil. The recovery boiler is fired with fuel oil for startup 

purposes (in order to initiate Black Liquor Solids (BLS) firing) in addition to 

shutdowns and other events which require the addition of oil firing.

3. NOx

Recovery Boiler #2 shall not exceed a NOx limit of 233 ppmv corrected to 8% 

O2 on a dry basis. Compliance with the NOx ppmv emission limit shall be on 

a 24-hr block average basis excluding periods of start-up, shutdown and 

malfunction, demonstrated by means of a CEMS on the stack.

B. Implementation Dates

The BART determinations for the #2 Recovery Boiler is currently required in 

existing Air Emission Licenses. 
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ORDER

The Department hereby issues LPT’s Best Available Retrofit Technology Determination 

Air Emission License A-177-77-3-A.

DONE AND DATED IN AUGUSTA, MAINE THIS DAY OF 2008.

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

BY:_________________________________________________

DAVID P. LITTELL, COMMISSIONER

PLEASE NOTE ATTACHED SHEET FOR GUIDANCE ON APPEAL PROCEDURES

Date of initial receipt of application: July 20, 2007

Date of application acceptance: July 20, 2007 

Date filed with Board of Environmental Protection:__________________

This Order prepared by Edwin Cousins, Bureau of Air Quality