Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petition for Objection to State Operating Permit for Roosevelt Regional Landfill Regional Disposal Company, Klickitat County, Washington

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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