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For many facilities, air compliance problems start with overlooked permit conditions, incomplete records, late reports, or equipment changes made without evaluating permitting implications. State agencies and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency frequently identify noncompliance through inspections, self-reported deviations, stack testing, and routine data review.
Continue reading “Common Air Compliance Mistakes that Lead to State Enforcement Actions”
Expanding a facility can unlock production capacity, improve efficiency, and support long-term growth. But before construction begins or new equipment is installed, air compliance should be an early part of the project strategy. For manufacturers, energy operators, and other industrial facilities, expansion plans can trigger new permitting requirements, change emissions profiles, and affect ongoing compliance obligations under federal, state, and local air regulations.
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As emissions reporting deadlines approach, many industrial facilities are focused on compiling their annual emission report and ensuring all required information is submitted to regulators on time. Whether reporting to a state agency or through federal systems such as the Emissions Inventory System (EIS), accurate and timely emission reporting is a critical part of maintaining compliance with air quality regulations. Failing to submit a complete and accurate emission inventory can create serious regulatory, financial, and operational consequences.
For many facilities, emissions data submitted through annual emission inventories becomes part of the broader federal and state air quality management framework. Agencies use this data to support rule development, determine attainment status for air quality standards, and evaluate permit applications. Because of this, regulators expect facilities to maintain accurate emissions calculations and submit their emission report by the required deadline. Continue reading “Consequences of Inaccurate or Late Emission Reporting”
Air quality permits are full of a long and complicated list of reporting, recordkeeping, monitoring, testing, and operating requirements. Your facility specific requirements can be buried in general provisions, making it more difficult to see what exactly your facility needs to do to maintain complete compliance with the air quality regulations. This applies to you whether your facility operates under a True Minor Source Permit, Synthetic Minor Source Permit, or a Title V Major Source Permit.
An Air Quality Compliance Evaluation can ensure your facility is complying with all aspects of your air permit. With state agencies ramping up onsite inspections in the post-Covid era, it is important to know your facility has no deficiencies in compliance. State agencies will check for all required records, monitoring, testing, operating limits, required reporting, and permitted equipment while onsite, with any deficiencies resulting in possible violations and fines.
Conversion Technology Inc. (CTI) offers an Air Quality Compliance Evaluation consisting of a review of the following: Continue reading “Air Compliance Evaluations – What Are They and Why You Need One”
With a new year comes the never-ending requirements for environmental permit submittals, agency notifications, and chemical reporting. Because of these requirements it is always important for a facility to examine upcoming environmental deadlines. This ensures that the facility maintains current knowledge of its environmental obligations and lays the foundation for annual planning to meet those obligations.
The following is a compilation of a wide range of environmental deadlines in 2025 that may assist your facility in preparing to maintain environmental compliance in the upcoming year: Continue reading “2025 Environmental Deadlines”
With a new year comes the never-ending requirements for environmental permit submittals, agency notifications, and chemical reporting. Because of these requirements it is always important for a facility to examine upcoming environmental deadlines. This ensures that the facility maintains current knowledge of its environmental obligations and lays the foundation for annual planning to meet those obligations.
The following is a compilation of a wide range of environmental deadlines in 2025 that may assist your facility in preparing to maintain environmental compliance in the upcoming year: Continue reading “2025 Environmental Deadlines”
If your facility is planning to add any new process equipment or make changes to existing process equipment, you may first need approval from your State Regulatory Authority. Depending on the conditions of your Air Quality Permit and the magnitude of the proposed modifications, you may be required to submit an air permit application to the State to modify your air permit. In most states, a final air permit for the modification must be issued before you start construction.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is required under the Clean Air Act to conduct a conference to reevaluate Air Quality Modeling every 3 years. The EPA conducted the Thirteenth Conference on Air Quality Modeling on November 14th and 15th of 2023, focusing on proposed revisions to the Guideline on Air Quality Modeling (GAQM). As part of the federal rulemaking process, the proposed revisions are currently available for public comments until December 22, 2023.
Who do these modeling revisions apply to? Continue reading “EPA Guideline on Air Quality Modeling Revisions”
It is time to complete your Air Emissions Inventory (EI) reporting for Calendar Year 2022. Every year, federal regulations require that all state agencies responsible for regulating air pollution collect emissions data from certain facilities. EI reporting opened on February 6, 2023 and is due by June 30, 2023 for Georgia facilities. All Title V facilities whose potential to emit (PTE) emissions is equal to or exceeds the following thresholds in Calendar Year 2022 are required to submit emissions data: Continue reading “Georgia Emissions Inventories for Calendar Year 2022”
If your facility is operating under a state-issued Air Permit, then there are a number of permit requirements you must meet in order to stay in compliance. Permit requirements can consist of emission/operating limits, testing, monitoring, reporting, and recordkeeping as well as a long list of general provisions. Whether you have a Minor Source Permit, Synthetic Minor/Conditional Major Source Permit, or a Title V Major Source Permit, your permit will contain a combination of, if not all, these requirements.
If your facility has an Air Permit, there is always a possibility for your state agency to conduct an onsite inspection, sometimes unannounced, at any time. It is best to be prepared for an inspection to avoid any violations and potential fines.
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