April 05, 2024
By:
Walter G. Wright
Category:
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
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The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Hood Industries, Inc. (“Hood”) entered into a March 1st Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing an alleged violation of a Title V Operating Permit. See Order No. 7315 24.
The AO addresses a plywood plant in Wiggins, Mississippi.
Hood is stated to have been contacted by the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality and notified of a violation of the plant’s Title V Operating Permit on December 7, 2023.
The violation is described as follows:
- Condition 3.B.3 – Respondent failed to demonstrate compliance with the Filterable Particulate Matter (“PM”) limitation of 0.44 pounds per one million British thermal units (1b/MMBtu) of heat input during a stack test of Emission Point AA-003 on April 3, 2023.
The plant is alleged to have emitted 0.561 1b/MMBtu of heat input during the stack test.
The plant demonstrated compliance with the Filterable PM limitation during a retest of Emission Point AA-003 on May 12, 2023.
The AO assesses a civil penalty of $17,500.00.
A copy of the AO can be downloaded here.
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