Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2003-0051-1053
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2023-08-16T04:00Z

From: 
Katie.Kistler@aksteel.com <Katie.Kistler@aksteel.com>
Sent:
Monday, February 3, 2020 4:17 PM
To: 
Jones, DonnaLee <Jones.Donnalee@epa.gov>
Cc:
Chris.Potts@aksteel.com; Raymond, Gabrielle <graymond@rti.org>
Subject: 
Re: September 2019 QA/QC Review of Enclosure 2 Information for EPA 2016 ICR for AK Steel (Excel file)

Dr Jones, 

Attached is the AK Steel Middletown Works enclosure 2 corrected file.  Several corrections were made.  Below are notes: 
 Tab "A-1. Air Stack Tests" - The pushing baghouse operates for 3 minutes per push and during the testing our battery was operating at a low production schedule which included daily 4 periods of downtime when no pushes occurred.  Some runs had to be paused during the 4 hour downtime and others had to be paused overnight and resumed the next morning.  Test run times and production rates were adjusted to correct for the actual run/test times.  Testing data was also corrected based on review of ERT data.   
 Tab "B-1. Table 2 Run Process Data" - Production data was corrected on this tab for several tests. 
 Tab "C-1. Opacity M9" - Some dates were corrected. 
 Tab "C-7. Material Test" - some units and results were corrected. 
 Tab "C-9. COG Tests" - some sample dates were corrected. 
Let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks! 

Katie Kistler 
Environmental Manager of Air Programs
AK Steel Corporate Office
513-425-2972 Phone
513-519-9822 Cell

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From:        "Jones, DonnaLee" <Jones.Donnalee@epa.gov> 
To:        "Katie.Kistler@aksteel.com" <Katie.Kistler@aksteel.com>, "Chris.Potts@aksteel.com" <Chris.Potts@aksteel.com> 
Cc:        "GABRIELLE RAYMOND" <graymond@rti.org> 
Date:        09/04/2019 05:03 PM 
Subject:        September 2019 QA/QC Review of Enclosure 2 Information for EPA 2016 ICR for AK Steel (Excel file) 
                                       

Katie, Chris: 
  
Thank you again for your efforts in providing your facility information. Now is the time to correct, update, or add to your responses from 2016 for Enclosure 2. Attached is your facility's information in one Excel file. 
Please refer to the `Review Instructions' worksheet of the attached spreadsheet for specific review instructions. 
The Enclosure 2 data are organized into three groups within the spreadsheet: 
A. Air Stack Tests 
B. Process Data 
C. Non-Stack Test Data (e.g., Opacity, Water Tests, Material Tests, COG Tests, etc.) 
  
Resources worksheets (tabs R-1 through R-4) also are available for your reference and use. 
Please review all data compiled by the EPA Contractor. If your data is not correct, please revise or add it to the applicable worksheet. Highlight (in yellow) any changes made with any cell and describe the change in the "Facility Review Comments" column of the applicable worksheet. 
If any of the currently missing information is considered "confidential business information" (CBI), please note "CBI" in the empty data cell. Then please provide this CBI information using the CBI procedures described in the original ICR letter sent by EPA in 2016. We can provide again if needed. 
If you have any questions, please first send an email to BOTH Gabrielle Raymond, the EPA contractor from RTI, and me at the email addresses below. If we need to speak on the phone, we can follow-up with a call, but we need an email first to ensure contact. 
graymond@rti.org 
jones.donnalee@epa.gov   
  
We will be entering your Enclosure 2 data into the Coke oven RTR subpart CCCCC Modelling file soon after the first of the year 2020, so we need to get all the QA/QC work done during the Fall 2019. 
Note that we will be summarizing CBI data in Enclosure 1 separately at some not yet determined point in the future. 
Thank you in advance for your work, time and expense helping us get good quality data. 
_____________________________________________________________ 
Regards,
Donna Lee Jones, Ph.D.
Senior Technical Advisor, Metals Sector
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
Sector Policies and Programs Division / Metals & Inorganic Chemicals Gr (D 243-02)
Research Triangle Park, NC  27711  Tele:  (919)  541-5251  Fax  (919)  541-3207
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