Reactivation of a Shutdown Source

Date	Title	EPA Office	Author	Issues Addressed
11/16/2022	Can WIPL and PHRT Use Existing Permit to Restart the Refinery	OAR	Goffman, Joe	Whether the owners and operators of the shuttered St. Croix refinery must apply for and obtain a new air pollution permit before operating the refinery.
06/18/1980	Old Sources being Brought On Line - PSD Applicability	Region 4	Pfaff, Roger	Answers the question of under what circumstances PSD applies to a source which had been shut down for an extended period, then restarted.
10/09/1979	PSD Requirements for Reactivated Sources	Region 7	Spratlin, William	Provides information on the length of the rebuttable presumption for which a source will have presumed to have been shutdown when ceasing operation.
08/08/1980	PSD Applicability Determination - Babylon 2	SSCD	Reich, Edward	Addresses PSD permitting requirements for municipal incinerator that wishes to reopen after having been shut down for 5 years and removed from the state’s emission inventory.
11/06/1987	Supplemental PSD Applicability Determination; Cyprus Casa Grande Corporation Copper Mining and Processing Facilities	Region 9	Howekamp, David	Revisits a previous determination (5/27/1987) of whether the restart of a Roaster/Leach/Acid plant would be a major new source pursuant to EPA's shutdown/reactivation policy. Also addresses if the source is not a major new source, whether the restart activities would constitute a major modification under NSR.
05/27/1987	Reactivation of Noranda Lakeshore Mines' RLA Plant and PSD Review	OAQPS	Seitz, John	Addresses whether a mining facility that ceased operation 10+ years, surrendered its permit to operate, and was removed from the state’s emission inventory was permanently shut down; reactivation of the operations would need to undergo PSD review and permitting. This issue was revisited in 11/6/1987 in the Casa Grande determination.
12/13/2000	Southern LNG, Inc., Elba Island Terminal, Savannah Georgia Draft Air Quality Permit and PSD Preliminary Determination	Region 4	Neeley, R. Douglas	Pertains to a draft PSD permit for reactivation of a liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal that involves replacing 5 LNG vaporizers with 5 larger capacity LNG vaporizers. Addresses how to treat emissions units for PSD applicability purposes under EPA’s Reactivation Policy and provides comments on several portions of the draft permit, including the vaporizer BACT, the air quality impact assessment, emission inventories used in the NAAQS and PSD compliance monitoring, and ozone ambient conditions.
07/31/1981	Policy Determinations Regarding PSD Questions	Region 4	Devine, Thomas	Responds to multiple PSD questions submitted to an EPA Region in 1981 including: (1) whether to treat a boiler that was shut down, but maintained, for 11 years as permanent for purposes of PSD applicability; (2) whether EPA’s addition of 7 compounds to be of negligible photochemical reactivity impacts what compounds are considered VOCs; and (3) how to set PSD baseline emissions for 3- and 24-hour average rates.
04/05/2018	Limetree Bay Terminals, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands - Permitting Questions	OAR	Wehrum, William L.	Whether specific refinery units that have been idled for several years should be considered permanently shut down or whether the company’s actions showed an intent to restart the units. Also addresses whether new projects at the facility should be aggregated for NSR applicability, and whether addition of an offshore oil loading buoy should be treated as a modification to the existing loading dock at the refinery.
11/19/1991	Applicability of PSD to Watertown Power Plant, South Dakota; Shut Down For 9 Years	OAQPS	Rasnic, John	Whether a combustion turbine power plant was permanently shut down or whether the company’s actions over the 9-year period of non-operation demonstrated that the shutdown was never intended to be permanent.
11/02/1977	Request for Concurrence as to Applicability of PSD and NSPS Regulations to Marblehead Lime Company Proposed Lime Plant	Region 5	McDonald, James	Addresses NSPS and PSD requirements for a lime manufacturing plant that wishes to reopen after having been shut down for 5 years.
10/03/1980	PSD and NSPS Applicability to a Reactivated Source	SSCD	Reich, Edward	Whether the shutdown of a rotary kiln is permanent because it had been shut down for more than 3 years and removed from the state’s emission inventory system.
07/09/1982	Reactivation of Amerada Hess Corporation's Port Reading Facility and PSD Review	SSCD	Reich, Edward	Whether the shutdown of a refinery for 8 years was permanent and therefore the source needs to undergo PSD permitting as a new source. Also addresses what emissions the source is allowed to use as creditable emission decreases.

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