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Region 7 New Source Review Program

Congress established the New Source Review (NSR) permitting program as part of the 1977 Clean Air Act Amendments. NSR is a preconstruction permitting program that serves two important purposes.

• First, it ensures that air quality is not significantly degraded from the addition of new and modified factories, industrial boilers and power plants. In areas with unhealthy air, NSR assures that new emissions do not slow progress toward cleaner air. In areas with clean air, especially pristine areas like national parks, NSR assures that new emissions do not significantly worsen air quality.


• Second, the NSR program assures that any large new or modified industrial source will be as clean as possible, and that advances in pollution control occur concurrently with industrial expansion.

NSR permits are legal documents that the facility owners/operators must abide by. The permit specifies what construction is allowed, what emission limits must be met, and often how the emissions source must be operated.

State & Local Permitting Programs Each of the Region 7 states operates a minor and major source construction permitting program under a fully approved state implementation plan (SIP). For more information on contacts, public notices, permits, links to the state permit web sites, permit forms, and information on Section 107 baseline increment areas, select the state of interest. Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska

NSR Policy and Guidance Compendium Since 1978, EPA has provided guidance to Regions, States and Permittees to assist in the implementation of the Part D nonattainment and Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) construction permit programs. This compilation contains over 600 EPA-issued policy and guidance documents, which you can search on-line, download to your personal PC or corporate network, or view in a sortable index. On-line NSR Database, Download NSR Database, Document Index By Title, Author, and Date

Major Source Permitting Milestones... Past and Present EPA Region 7 and four states have issued a large number of PSD and Part D permits since 1978. For historical information for each project see the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet below. Region 7 PSD Projects [January, 2012]

National Turbine and Coal-fired EGU Spreadsheets Region 7 also contributes to two "national" spreadsheets, both in Microsoft Excel format, that provide information on combustion turbine and coal-fired utility projects. EPA Region 4 updates the National Combustion Turbine Spreadsheet and Region 7 updates the National Coal-fired Utility Spreadsheet, with assistance from the other regions. National Combustion Turbine Spreadsheet, National Coal-Fired Utility NSR Spreadsheet [August, 2012]

Current Major Source Permitting Projects in Region 7 Region 7 reviews all major source PSD or Part D nonattainment permitting actions taken in the region. We often comment on draft permits and provide technical support when requested by the permitting agency. This interaction helps assure that permits provide for best available control technology, demonstrate no adverse air quality impacts, are enforceable as a practical matter and otherwise meet statutory and regulatory requirements. For more information on active permit projects click on the documents of interest. Iowa Ag Processing (Sergeant Bluff) Alcoa Davenport Works (Riverdale) EPA Comments Alliant Energy Ottumwa Power Station (Chillocothe) EPA Comments Archer Daniels Midland (Cedar Rapids) Cargill, Inc. (Fort Dodge) Draft Permit, Fact Sheet, Comments Equistar Chemicals (Clinton) Homeland Energy (Lawler) Iowa Fertilizer Company (Middleton) Iowa State University (Ames) John Deere Foundry (Waterloo) Comments John Deere Product Engineering Center (Waterloo) Loparex (Iowa City) MidAmerican Energy George Neal North (Salix) MidAmerican Energy George Neal South (Salix) MidAmerican Energy Louisa (Muscatine) MidAmerican Energy Walter Scott (Council Bluffs) Monsanto (Muscatine) Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy (Council Bluffs) SSAB Steel (Muscatine) Quick Links: Construction Permits Website Kansas Agengoa Bioenergy (Hugoton) State Information Columbian Chemicals (Ulysses) EPA Comments Frontier El Dorado Refining Co. (El Dorado) Mid-Kansas Electric Company Rubart Station Comments, Kansas Documents National Cooperative Refining Association (McPherson) Next Generation Processing Haven Gas Plant (Haven) Comments, Kansas Documents Sunflower Cooperative, Holcomb Power Plant (Holcomb) 2006 Project Draft Permit (36 pp, 133K), EPA Comments (55 pp, 1.7MB), Response to Comments (117 pp, 753K), Final Permit Denied (2 pp, 62K) 2009 Update Settlement Agreement (6 pp, 342K), EPA Comments (6 pp, 272K) 2010 Update Draft Permit (22 pp, 179K), Letter Communicating Errors in Air Dispersion Modeling (2 pp, 374K), EPA Comments (6 pp, 179K), Regional Administrator Response to Interested Parties (8 pp, 435K), October 22, 2010 EPA Comments (2 pp, 133K), Final Permit (26 pp, 6.1MB), Other State Information 2011 Update February 3, 2011 Letter to KDHE (3 pp, 969K), February 3, 2011 Letter Desk Statement (1 pg, 18K), October 31, 2011 Letter to KDHE (2 pp, 140K), Holcomb 1 LNB Project Draft Permit Westar Energy Jeffrey Energy Center (St. Marys) Westar Tecumseh Energy Center (Tecumseh) Quick Links: Public Notices, Construction Permits Website Missouri Continental Cement (Hannibal) Comments Doe Run Buick Resource Recycling Center (Boss) General Motors Wentzville PAL (Wentzville) Kansas City Power and Light Montrose Station (Clinton) Draft Permit, Comments, Final Permit Mallinckrodt PAL (St. Louis) Quick Links: Public Notices, PSD Permits, Construction Permits Website Nebraska Archer Daniels Midland (Columbus) Cogen Plant Draft Permit Dry Mill Draft Permit Wet Mill Draft Permit American Laboratories (Omaha) Draft Permit, Comments, Final Permit Cargill (Blair) Dryer and Consent Decree Revisions Draft Permit, Final Permit, Amended Final Permit Lactic Acid Draft Permit, EPA Comments, Final Permit Atlas II (Withdrawn) City of Grand Island, Platte Generating Station Draft Permit, Comments, Final Permit Hastings Utilities, Whelan Energy Center Draft Permit, Comments, Final Permit Nebraska Public Power Distric (NPPD), Sheldon Station Draft Permit (17 pp, 208KB), Statement of Basis (13 pp, 1,253KB) Nucor Steel (Norfolk) Omaha Public Power District Nebraska City Station (Nebraska City) Draft Permit, Final Permit, Draft Amended Permit TETRA Micronutrients (Fairbury) Quick Links: Public Notices, PSD Permits, Construction Permits Website Indian Country, EPA Region 7 None Archives [ 2012 ] [ 2011 ] [ 2010 ] [ 2009 ] [ 2008 ] [ 2007 ] [ 2006 ] [ 2005 ] [ 2004 ]

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