Document ID: EPA_FRDOC_0001-29662
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Permits; Applications, Issuances, etc.: Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petition to Object to the Title V Permit for Cove Point LNG Terminal; Maryland
Posted Date: 2023-06-02T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 106 (Friday, June 2, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36315-36316]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-11739]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-R03-OAR-2023-0205; FRL-10981-01-R3]

Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petition To Object to the 
Title V Permit for Cove Point LNG Terminal; Maryland

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of final action.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA), the Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed an Order, dated March 8, 
2023, granting a petition to object to a state operating permit issued 
by the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE). The Order responds 
to an October 28, 2022 petition, relating to the Cove Point LNG 
Terminal (Cove Point), a liquefied natural gas storage and terminal 
facility located in Calvert County, Maryland. The petition was 
submitted by the Environmental Integrity Project and the Chesapeake 
Climate Action Network (the Petitioners). This Order constitutes final 
action on that petition requesting that the Administrator object to the 
issuance of the proposed CAA title V permit.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the final Order, the petition, and all pertinent 
information relating thereto can be requested by electronic mail to the 
address set forth below in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. 
The final Order is also available electronically at the following 
website: www.epa.gov/title-v-operating-permits/title-v-petition-database.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Matthew Willson, Permits Branch, Air & 
Radiation Division, EPA Region III, (215) 814-5795, 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The CAA affords EPA a 45-day period to 
review and object to, as appropriate, title V operating permits 
proposed by state permitting authorities. Section 505(b)(2)

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of the CAA authorizes any person to petition the EPA Administrator 
within 60 days after the expiration of a review period to object to a 
state title V operating permit if EPA has not done so. Petitions must 
be based only on objections raised with reasonable specificity during 
the public comment period, unless the petitioner demonstrates that it 
was impracticable to raise these issues during the comment period or 
that the grounds for objection or other issue arose after the comment 
period.
    MDE issued the final Cove Point renewal operating permit (permit 
no. 24-009-0021) on September 15, 2022. In their October 28, 2022 
petition (numbered III-2022-14), the Petitioners sought EPA objection 
on the basis that the title V permit failed to include any testing, 
monitoring, or reporting requirements that assured compliance with 
certain project-wide particulate matter limits, and failed to set forth 
testing, monitoring, or reporting requirements sufficient to assure 
continuous compliance with certain unit-specific and project-wide 
particulate matter limits. The Order explains the reasons behind EPA's 
decision to grant the petition for objection.

Cristina Fernandez,
Director, Air & Radiation Division, Region III.
[FR Doc. 2023-11739 Filed 6-1-23; 8:45 am]
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