The Order provides that Espey operates a cotton gin (“Gin”) in McLemoresville, Tennessee.
The Technical Secretary of the Board is stated to have issued an operating permit to the Gin in 2015. The Gin was identified as an emission source.
Condition 4 of the permit states in part:
The number of bales processed during a ginning season shall not exceed 57,500 bales.
Condition 5 of the permit states:
Records shall be maintained to establish the number of bales processed during each ginning season. These records must be maintained at the gin location or business office and kept available for inspection by the Technical Secretary or his representative. At the end of the cotton ginning season and no later than April 1, a report of the number of bales processed during the ginning season shall be submitted to the Division[.]
The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board (“Board”) issued a January 26th Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) to Wacker Chemical Corporation (“Wacker”). See Division of Air Pollution Control Case No. APC20-0116.
The Order states that Wacker had been issued a construction permit (“Permit”) for an amorphous fumed silica production operation in Charleston, Tennessee.
The Permit is stated to include Condition 10 which contains the following language:
Carbon monoxide (CO) emissions from this source shall not exceed 0.69 lbs/hr (3.04 tons/yr) on a daily average basis .. .. Initial compliance shall be determined by stack test as required by Condition 12.