Document ID: EPA_FRDOC_0001-28503
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program: Petitions for Objection to State Operating Permit for Oxbow Calcining, LLC, Jefferson County, TX
Posted Date: 2022-07-13T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 133 (Wednesday, July 13, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 41712]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-14947]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-9990-01-R6]

Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petitions for Objection 
to State Operating Permit for Oxbow Calcining, LLC, Jefferson County, 
Texas

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of final Order on Petition for objection to Clean Air 
Act title V operating permit.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator signed 
an Order dated June 14, 2022, granting a Petition dated October 28, 
2020, from the Environmental Integrity Project, Port Arthur Community 
Action Network, Lone Star Legal Aid, and the Lone Star Chapter of the 
Sierra Club. The Petition requested that the EPA object to a Clean Air 
Act (CAA) title V operating permit issued by the Texas Commission on 
Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to Oxbow Calcining located in Jefferson 
County, Texas.

ADDRESSES: The EPA requests that you contact the individual listed in 
the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section to view copies of the final 
Order, the Petition, and other supporting information. Out of an 
abundance of caution for members of the public and our staff, the EPA 
Region 6 office may be closed to the public to reduce the risk of 
transmitting COVID-19. Please call or email the contact listed below if 
you need alternative access to the final Order and Petition, which are 
available electronically at: https://www.epa.gov/title-v-operating-permits/title-v-petition-database.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Aimee Wilson, EPA Region 6 Office, Air 
Permits Section, (214) 665-7596, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The CAA affords the EPA a 45-day period to 
review and object to, as appropriate, operating permits proposed by 
state permitting authorities under title V of the CAA. Section 
505(b)(2) of the CAA authorizes any person to petition the EPA 
Administrator to object to a title V operating permit within 60 days 
after the expiration of the EPA's 45-day review period if the EPA has 
not objected on its own initiative. Petitions must be based only on 
objections to the permit that were raised with reasonable specificity 
during the public comment period provided by the state, unless the 
petitioner demonstrates that it was impracticable to raise these issues 
during the comment period or unless the grounds for the issue arose 
after this period.
    The EPA received the Petition from the Environmental Integrity 
Project, Port Arthur Community Action Network, Lone Star Legal Aid, and 
the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club dated October 28, 2020, 
requesting that the EPA object to the issuance of operating permit no. 
O1493, issued by TCEQ to Oxbow Calcining in Jefferson County, Texas. 
The Petition claims the proposed permit fails to include monitoring and 
recordkeeping provisions sufficient to ensure compliance with Sulfur 
Dioxide National Ambient Air Quality Standards and fails to establish 
monitoring, testing, and recordkeeping provisions that assure 
compliance with Lead and Volatile Organic Compound limits from kiln 
stacks 2, 3, 4, and 5 in NSR Permit No. 45622.
    On June 14, 2022, the EPA Administrator issued an Order granting in 
part and denying in part the Petition. The Order explains the basis for 
the EPA's decision.

    Dated: July 8, 2022.
Dzung Ngo Kidd,
Acting Director, Air and Radiation Division, Region 6.
[FR Doc. 2022-14947 Filed 7-12-22; 8:45 am]
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