4 The Record is a publication from ALL4’s team that takes an in-depth look at technical and regulatory topics.
Refinery MACT – Final Benzene Fenceline Monitoring Provisions
Posted: October 22nd, 2015
On September 29, 2015, U.S. EPA issued the long-awaited Petroleum Refinery Rule Package. U.S. EPA issued the final revisions to the Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) and New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) Refinery Air Rules…
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Recipes for Environmental Regulatory Compliance
Posted: October 21st, 2015
There is a certain group of people in the world who truly try to make the world a better place. Those people are sometimes considered teachers, healthcare professionals, politicians, researchers, and public servants. In addition, there is another group of…
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Ozone NAAQS Update
Posted: October 13th, 2015
As of October 1, 2015, the ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) revision has been finalized and set at 70 parts per billion (ppb), which is down only 5 ppb from the previous standard of 75 ppb, and represents the smallest change of the originally…
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Ozone Depleting Substances – They Could Burn a Hole in Your Pocket and the Ozone Layer!
Posted: October 9th, 2015
I don’t know what’s in your annual budget, but up to $32,500 a day per violation under the Clean Air Act (CAA) adds up pretty quickly and is a significant amount of money that could be saved by being proactive. Just some quick facts if that dollar amount hasn’t…
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Top 5 Preparations for Air Compliance Inspections
Posted: October 5th, 2015
It happens every few years…it’s as certain as death and taxes and on a frequency somewhere in between…it’s your air compliance inspection by a regulatory agency. Maybe the last one went almost too easily, a walk in the park, or maybe you got hammered (root canal, anyone?…
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“Winning by Losing”…or Some Such Thing
Posted: October 5th, 2015
As previously discussed here by yours truly, on May 1, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a decision to remand and vacate the so-called 100-hour “exemption” for RICE…
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U.S. EPA Issues Long-Awaited Petroleum Refinery Rule Package
Posted: September 30th, 2015
On September 29, 2015, U.S. EPA issued the long-awaited Petroleum Refinery Rule Package. After considering more than 200,000 comments on the June 2014 proposed rule package, U.S. EPA issued the final revisions to the Maximum Achievable Control…
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U.S. EPA Proposes Control Techniques Guidelines (CTGs) for the Oil and Natural Gas Industry
Posted: September 15th, 2015
On August 18, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) posted draft Control Techniques Guidelines (CTGs) for the oil and gas industry in order to reduce volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from existing…
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U.S. EPA Proposes to Define “Adjacent” for the Oil and Gas Industry
Posted: September 14th, 2015
Previous ALL4 blogs and at least one 4 The Record article have discussed the extremely complex issue of single source aggregation for air permitting. This issue has been particularly difficult for the oil and gas industry…
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Electronic Reporting: Great in Theory
Posted: September 11th, 2015
As Sean described in his August blog, U.S. EPA has promulgated several regulations which require electronic reporting (“E-Reporting”) through its Compliance and Emissions Data Reporting Interface…
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