May 27, 2016
By:
Walter G. Wright
Category:
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
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The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board and O’Neil Color and Compounding Corp. (“O’Neil”) entered into a May 11th Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) addressing alleged violations of an air permit.
The Order states that O’Neil operates a Jasper, Tennessee plastic blending and extrusion operation pursuant to a construction air permit.
Condition 2 of the construction permit has language that states:
Total solids input to the process shall not exceed 2900 pounds per hour on a daily average basis.
Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation Division of Air Pollution Control personnel are stated to have conducted an inspection on December 3, 2015 at the O’Neil facility. They allegedly discovered that the previously referenced input limit had been exceeded.
The Order references the following exceedances:
Date
|
Material Input (lbs/hr)
|
August 1, 2015
|
3063
|
August 24, 2015
|
2919
|
September 30, 2015
|
3100
|
October 15, 2015
|
3050
|
October 21, 2015
|
3438
|
November 12, 2015
|
3349
|
November 13, 2015
|
3531
|
November 17, 2015
|
3450
|
November 18, 2015
|
3438
|
November 19, 2015
|
3238
|
December 4, 2015
|
3058
|
December 5, 2015
|
2996
|
December 9, 2015
|
3129
|
December 29, 2015
|
2938
|
A $500 civil penalty is assessed for the alleged violations
Click here to download a copy of the Order.
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