PFPI-BiomassIsTheNewCoal-April-2-2014

switchgrass, alfalfa, bark, lawn, yard and garden clippings, paper (unprinted), leaves,silvicultural residue, tree and brush pruning, sawdust, timber slash, mill scrap, wood andwood chips, and wood residue. Biomass does not include tires, material containing sewagesludge, or industrial, hazardous, radioactive, or municipal solid waste.”Construction and demolition wood or other waste allowed as fuel? YesUse of NCASI or other non-EPA factors to estimate HAPs? YesNotes: As a coal plant, this facility stopped operation in 2009. It is located in a highly polluted area,with “extreme” non-attainment status for ozone. Emissions from the new biomass boilertriggered offset requirements for emissions of NOx, SOx, PM 10 , and VOCs, but rather thanbeing compelled to obtain new offsets, the facility was allowed to treat the cessation ofprevious allowable emissions from the coal plant as mostly offsetting biopower emissions.Although the DTE Stockton boiler is about 50% larger than the boiler at the PSD-permittedSierra Pacific Anderson plant described in this report, the DTE plant claimed syntheticminor status to avoid PSD permitting.Plainfield Renewable Energy, Plainfield, CTWhat: 523 MMBtu/hr fluidized bed boiler; 37.5 MW (net)Estimated CO 2 emissions (tons per year): 449,207Permitted emissions (tons per year): NOx: 175 CO: 239 PM 10 fil : 84.8 SO 2 : 81.3Status for NOx, PM, and CO: Major source (PSD)Status for HAPs: Synthetic minor sourceFuel: 56.54 tons per hour of chipped trees, stumps, branches or brush as defined in RCSA 22a-208a-1; Recycled wood or clean wood, meaning any wood or wood fuel which is derivedfrom such products or processes as pallets skids, spools, packaging materials, bulky woodwaste or scraps from newly built wood products, provided such wood is not treated wood.[CGS 22a-209a][RCSA 22a-208a-1]; Processed Construction and Demolition wood,meaning processed wood from construction and demolition activities which has been sortedto remove plastics, plaster, gypsum wallboard, asbestos, asphalt shingles and wood whichcontains creosote or to which pesticides have been applied or which contains substancesdefined as hazardous under section CGS 22a-115. [CGS 22a-209a]; Other types if properlysized, clean, uncontaminated wood materials, such as sawdust, chips, bark, tree trimmingsor other similar materials. The plant is also allowed to burn up to 781 gal of biodiesel perhour, with no restrictions on number of hours that biodiesel can be burned.Construction and demolition wood or other waste allowed as fuel? YesUse of NCASI or other non-EPA factors to estimate HAPs? UnknownNotes: This permit requires the plant to burn “sorted” waste wood that has had contaminatedmaterials removed, but does not specify what level of contamination is acceptable, aproblem given that no sorting program can remove 100% of contaminated materials. Thepermit contains a requirement for initial testing for emissions of sulfuric acid, ammonia,arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, nickel, copper, benzene, titanium, formaldehyde,lead, manganese, mercury, dioxins (2,3,7,8-TCDD equivalents), selenium, hydrogenchloride, styrene, silver, and zinc. The permit also calls for the facility to meet certain71