Document ID: EPA-R01-OAR-2010-1043-0043
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2011-11-30T05:00Z

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:

The facility falls into one the 26 source specific categories identified
in the Clean Air Act (CAA) of 1977,

The facility has emission units that entered operation in the 15 years
prior to the adoption of the CAA, and 

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:

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

Either:

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

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,

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

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 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

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.

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.

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.  

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

Lincoln Paper and Tissue Co., Inc.

	Departmental

Penobscot County

	Findings of Fact and Order

Lincoln, Maine

	Regional Haze

A-177-77-3-A

	Best Available Retrofit Technology

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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