[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 90 (Tuesday, May 11, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 25336]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-11833]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-6340-5]
Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petition for Objection to
State Operating Permit for Roosevelt Regional Landfill Regional
Disposal Company, Klickitat County, Washington
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of final order on petition to object to state operating
permit.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to Clean Air Act section 505(b)(2) and 40 CFR
70.8(d), the EPA Administrator is hereby denying a petition to object
to a state operating permit issued by the Washington Department of
Ecology to Roosevelt Regional Landfill, Regional Disposal Company,
Klickitat County, Washington. This order constitutes final action on
the petition submitted by TPS Technologies, Inc. Pursuant to section
505(b)(2) of the Clean Air Act (``Act''), petitioner may seek judicial
review in the United States Court of Appeals for the appropriate
circuit within 60 days of this decision under section 307 of the Act.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the final order, the petition and all pertinent
information relating thereto are on file at the following location:
Environmental Protection Agency, Region X, Office of Air Quality, 1200
Sixth Avenue, Seattle, Washington, 98101. The final order is also
available electronically at the following address: http://www.epa.gov/
ttn/oarpg/t5sn.html
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Waddell, Office of Air
Quality, EPA Region X, telephone (206) 553-4303, e-mail
[email protected]. Interested parties may also contact the
Washington Department of Ecology, Central Regional Office, 15 West
Yakima, Suite 200, Yakima, Washington 98902-3401.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Clean Air Act affords EPA the
opportunity for a 45-day period to review, and object to as
appropriate, operating permits proposed by State permitting
authorities. Section 505(b)(2) of the Act authorizes any person to
petition the EPA Administrator within 60 days after the expiration of
this review period to object to State operating permits if EPA has not
done so. 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
the grounds for the issues arose after this period.
TPS Technologies, Inc. submitted a petition to the Administrator on
February 26, 1999, seeking EPA's objection to the operating permit
issued to Roosevelt Regional Landfill, Regional Disposal Company. The
petitioner maintains that the Roosevelt Landfill operating permit is
inconsistent with the Act because the permit fails to: (1) Adequately
identify all emissions units at this municipal solid waste landfill;
(2) adequately calculate emissions of volatile organic compounds from
the handling of petroleum contaminated soil and the use of such soil as
daily cover; (3) explain the basis for establishing different types of
controls on petroleum contaminated soil at two similar landfill
facilities; and (4) reflect the comments of EPA Region X's new source
review (``NSR'') personnel regarding controls on petroleum contaminated
soil, to reflect that the facility is either currently out of
compliance with NSR requirements or will be subject to NSR in two
years. The order denying this petition explains the reasons behind
EPA's conclusion that petitioner has failed to demonstrate that the
Roosevelt Regional Landfill permit does not assure compliance with the
Clean Air Act on the grounds raised.
Dated: May 5, 1999.
Carol M. Browner,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 99-11833 Filed 5-10-99; 8:45 am]
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