May 10, 2024
By:
Walter G. Wright
Category:
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
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The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Evonik Corporation (“EC”) entered into a May 8th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing an alleged violation of an air permit. See Consent Order No. 24-XXX-CAP.
The CO provides that EC operates a chemical manufacturing plant in Mobile County, Alabama.
The facility is stated to have been issued a Major Source Operating Permit (“Permit”). Further, identified in the Permit is what is described as a Rohacell Production Unit denominated Emission Unit 4.3.
The plant is stated to currently operate under a Permit Application Shield.
ADEM is stated to have received a Notification of Permit Deviation on August 31, 2023, from EC concerning Permit Proviso #2 of the Emission Monitoring Section of Emission unit 4.3. The Notification of Permit Deviation is stated that EC failed to monitor and record the pressure drop across baghouses 402 and 407 for a total of 41 days.
EV neither admits nor denies ADEM’s contentions.
A civil penalty of $28,500.00 is assessed.
A copy of the CO can be downloaded here.
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