[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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