Środowisko i energia · 11.08.2004

Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petitions for Objection to State Operating Permits for Los Medanos Energy Center and Dow Chemical Company

This notice announces that the EPA Administrator has responded to two citizen petitions requesting EPA to object to operating permits issued to two facilities by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District ("BAAQMD"). Specifically, the Administrator has partially granted and partially denied a petition submitted by Our Children's Earth Foundation ("OCE") and Californians for Renewable Energy, Inc. ("CARE") requesting that the Administrator object to the state operating permit issued to Los Medanos Energy Center ("Los Medanos") in Pittsburgh, California; and denied in full a petition submitted by Communities for a Better Environment ("CBE") requesting that the Administrator object to the state operating permit issued to Dow Chemical ("Dow"), also located in Pittsburgh. This notice also corrects a non-substantive factual finding in the final order for the Los Medanos petition that OCE submitted late its comments on the draft permit to BAAQMD Pursuant to section 505(b)(2) of the Clean Air Act (ACT), a petitioner may seek judicial review of any portion of the petition which EPA denied in the United States Court of Appeals for the appropriate circuit. Any petition for review shall be f