Air Quality Division
State Registration Number / RENEWABLE OPERATING PERMIT / ROP Number
A5496 / STAFF REPORT / MI-ROP-A5496-2014
PRECISION COATINGS, INC.
SRN: A5496
Located at
8120 Goldie Street, Walled Lake, Oakland, Michigan 48390-0155
Permit Number: MI-ROP-A5496-2014
Staff Report Date: April 21, 2014
This Staff Report is published in accordance with Sections 5506 and 5511 of Part 55, Air Pollution Control, of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act, 1994 PA 451, as amended (Act 451). Specifically, Rule 214(1) requires that the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), Air Quality Division (AQD), prepare a report that sets forth the factual basis for the terms and conditions of the Renewable Operating Permit (ROP).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
April 21, 2014 STAFF REPORT 3
July 16, 2014 STAFF REPORT ADDENDUM 7
Michigan Department of Environmental QualityAir Quality Division
State Registration Number / RENEWABLE OPERATING PERMIT / ROP Number
A5496 /
April 21, 2014 STAFF REPORT
/ MI-ROP-A5496-2014Purpose
Major stationary sources of air pollutants, and some non-major sources, are required to obtain and operate in compliance with a ROP pursuant to Title V of the federal Clean Air Act of 1990 and Michigan’s Administrative Rules for air pollution control pursuant to Section 5506(1) of Act 451. Sources subject to the ROP program are defined by criteria in Rule 211(1). The ROP is intended to simplify and clarify a stationary source’s applicable requirements and compliance with them by consolidating all state and federal air quality requirements into one document.
This report, as required by Rule 214(1), sets forth the applicable requirements and factual basis for the draft permit terms and conditions including citations of the underlying applicable requirements, an explanation of any equivalent requirements included in the draft permit pursuant to Rule 212(5), and any determination made pursuant to Rule 213(6)(a)(ii) regarding requirements that are not applicable to the stationary source.
General Information
Stationary Source Mailing Address: / Precision Coatings, Inc.8120 Goldie Street
Walled Lake, Michigan 48390
Source Registration Number (SRN): / A5496
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code: / 326113 (SIC 3081)
Number of Stationary Source Sections: / One (1)
Is Application for a Renewal or Initial Issuance? / Initial IssuanceRenewal
Application Number: / 201300202
Responsible Official: / Mr. Robin Van Tilburg
Vice President, Operations
Phone: 248-363-8321, Ext. 349
Cell: 248-766-0727
E-mail:
AQD Contact: / Mr. Iranna Konanahalli
Senior Environmental Engineer
586-753-3741 or
Date Permit Application Received: / 12/13/2013
Date Application Was Administratively Complete: / 12/26/2013
Is Application Shield In Effect? / YesNo
Date Public Comment Begins: / 4/21/2014
Deadline for Public Comment: / 5/21/2014
Source Description
Founded in 1970, Precision Coatings, Inc. is located in City of Walled Lake (Plant: Walled Lake, MI 48390, P.O. Commerce Township, MI 48390-4107), County of Oakland (at 8120 Goldie Street just west of Haggerty Road and north of Pontiac Trail and Oakley Park Road). Precision Coatings is a specialty chemical and web coating company. Precision Coatings applies coatings to extremely specialized substrates, usually some type of film. Precision Coatings accomplishes film coating with four (4) web coating lines. The coatings contain organic solvents that are known as volatile organic compounds if the solvents are photochemically reactive to form atmospheric ozone or smog. Each web coating line has an enclosed room, where web coating takes place, to capture volatile organic compounds for eventual destruction. Each web coating line is also equipped with a laminator and a curing oven. Each curing oven emissions of volatile organic compounds are captured as well for destruction. The destruction of volatile organic compounds takes place in a combination of the three regenerative thermal oxidizers (3 RTOs).
The following table lists stationary source emission information as reported to the Michigan Air Emissions Reporting System in the MAERS-2012 submittal.
TOTAL STATIONARY SOURCE EMISSIONS
Pollutant / Tons per Year /Carbon Monoxide (CO) / NA
Lead (Pb) / NA
Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) / NA
Particulate Matter (PM) / NA
Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) / NA
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) / 6
Individual Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) **
Total Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) / 1
Note: Please refer to the addendum for additional emissions information.
**As listed pursuant to Section 112(b) of the federal Clean Air Act.
In addition to the pollutants listed above that have been reported in MAERS, the potential to emit of Greenhouse Gases in tons per year of CO2e is less than 100,000. CO2e is a calculation of the combined global warming potentials of six Greenhouse Gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride).
See Parts C and D in the draft ROP for summary tables of all processes at the stationary source that are subject to process-specific emission limits or standards.
Regulatory Analysis
The following is a general description and history of the source. Any determinations of regulatory non-applicability for this source are explained below in the Non-Applicable Requirement part of the Staff Report and identified in Part E of the ROP.
8-hour ozone standard: The ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard was revised by the EPA on March 12, 2008 to 0.075 ppm and became effective on May 27, 2008. To attain this 2008 standard, the 3-year average of the 4th highest daily maximum 8-hour average concentration within an area must not exceed 0.075 ppm. On June 29, 2009, the Southeast Michigan area was redesignated to attainment. These counties are St. Clair, Livingston, Washtenaw, Lenawee, Monroe, Oakland, Macomb, and Wayne. Allegan county was redesignated to attainment on September 24, 2010. Every county in Michigan is currently designated as attainment. The old 1-hour ozone standard was revoked for Michigan on July 15, 2005.
PM2.5: Oakland (63) County is currently designated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) as a non-attainment area with respect to the 2.5 micron size particulate matter standard (PM 2.5). The EPA established a new standard for very fine particles (2.5 micrometers or less), which are a particular concern for lung and cardiovascular effects. Annual arithmetic mean not to exceed 15 micrograms per cubic meter (µg/m3) (based on a three-year average); or 98th percentile of 24-hour concentration not to exceed 35 µg/m3 (based on a three-year average). Under the Clean Air Act, those areas that violate the NAAQS, or are nearby and contribute to a violation, are considered "nonattainment." In 2006, the EPA maintained the annual standard at 15 µg/m3 and revised the NAAQS PM 2.5 24 hour by reducing it to 35 µg/m3. The EPA designated seven counties in the Detroit-Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area (Southeast Michigan) as nonattainment for the annual and 24 hour PM 2.5 NAAQS: Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St. Clair, Washtenaw and Wayne counties. Air quality monitoring data collected in the 2007 - 2010 period showed all seven counties in Southeast Michigan in attainment for the PM 2.5 annual and daily NAAQS.
The stationary source is subject to Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 70, because:
· the potential to emit exceeds 100 tons per year.
· the potential to emit of any single HAP regulated by the federal Clean Air Act, Section 112, is more than 10 tons per year and/or the potential to emit of all HAPs combined is more than 25 tons per year.
PSD: The stationary source is considered a “synthetic minor” source in regards to the Prevention of Significant Deterioration regulations of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 52.21, because the stationary source accepted legally enforceable permit conditions limiting the potential to emit of to less than tons per year (MI-ROP-A5496 limit: 198 tons of VOC per year). The source is not one of the 28 categories listed in 40 CFR, Part 52.21.
NESHAP / MACT: The webcoating lines (4), known as FG-WEBCOATING, at the stationary source are subject to the Maximum Achievable Control Technology Standards for Paper and other Web Coating NESHAP / MACT JJJJ promulgated in Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 63, Subparts A and JJJJ (40 CFR, Part 63, Subpart JJJJ—National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Paper and Other Webcoating, Page 72330, Federal Register / Vol. 67, No. 233 / Wednesday, December 4, 2002 / Rules and Regulations / Final Rule). In addition, EU-EMERG-GEN (0.125 MM BTU per hour natural gas fired emergency generator, spark ignition (SI) reciprocating internal combustion engine (RICE)) is subject to 40 CFR 63, Subpart ZZZZ-National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Stationary Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines.
The monitoring conditions contained in the ROP are necessary to demonstrate compliance with all applicable requirements and are consistent with the "Procedure for Evaluating Periodic Monitoring Submittals."
CAM: The emission limitations or standards for Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) from the four webcoating lines (FG-WEBCOATING) at the stationary source are not exempt from the federal Compliance Assurance Monitoring (CAM) regulation under Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 64. However, presumptively acceptable monitoring conditions from Title 40 of the Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 63, Subparts A and JJJJ are included in this ROP. This paragraph is revised from April 21, 2014 draft staff report.
Please refer to Parts B, C and D in the draft ROP for detailed regulatory citations for the stationary source. Part A contains regulatory citations for general conditions.
Source-wide Permit to Install (PTI)
Rule 214a requires the issuance of a Source-wide PTI within the ROP for conditions established pursuant to Rule 201. All terms and conditions that were initially established in a PTI are identified with a footnote designation in the integrated ROP/PTI document.
The following table lists all individual PTIs that were incorporated into previous ROPs. PTIs issued after the effective date of ROP No. MI-ROP-A5496-2014 are identified in Appendix 6 of the ROP.
PTI Number /491-99 dated January 5, 2001 (Consolidated permits (851-84B, 463-78 & 37-77C) into facility-wide limits for VOC).
154-07 dated May 18, 2007 (Revised RTO language of PTI No. 491-99 and removed minimum 95 percent destruction efficiency requirement. PTI revision: PTI No. 491-99 è PTI No. 154-07)
Streamlined/Subsumed Requirements
This permit does not include any streamlined/subsumed requirements pursuant to Rules 213(2) and 213(6)
Non-applicable Requirements
Part E of the draft ROP lists requirements that are not applicable to this source as determined by the AQD, if any were proposed in the application. These determinations are incorporated into the permit shield provision set forth in Part A (General Conditions 26 through 29) of the draft ROP pursuant to Rule 213(6)(a)(ii).
Processes in Application Not Identified in Draft ROP
There were no processes listed in the ROP application as exempt devices under Rule 212(4). Exempt devices are not subject to any process-specific emission limits or standards in any applicable requirement.
Draft ROP Terms/Conditions Not Agreed to by Applicant
This permit does not contain any terms and/or conditions that the AQD and the applicant did not agree upon pursuant to Rule 214(2).
Compliance Status
The AQD finds that the stationary source is expected to be in compliance with all applicable requirements as of the effective date of this ROP.
Action taken by the DEQ
The AQD proposes to approve this permit. A final decision on the ROP will not be made until the public and affected states have had an opportunity to comment on the AQD’s proposed action and draft permit.
In addition, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) is allowed up to 45 days to review the draft permit and related material. The AQD is not required to accept recommendations that are not based on applicable requirements. The delegated decision maker for the AQD is Christopher Ethridge, Southeast Michigan District Supervisor. The final determination for ROP approval/disapproval will be based on the contents of the permit application, a judgment that the stationary source will be able to comply with applicable emission limits and other terms and conditions, and resolution of any objections by the USEPA.
Air Quality Division
State Registration Number / RENEWABLE OPERATING PERMIT / ROP Number
A5496 /
July 16, 2014 STAFF REPORT ADDENDUM
/ MI-ROP-A5496-201XPurpose
A Staff Report dated April 21, 2014, was developed in order to set forth the applicable requirements and factual basis for the draft Renewable Operating Permit (ROP) terms and conditions as required by R336.1214(1). The purpose of this Staff Report Addendum is to summarize any significant comments received on the draft ROP during the comment period as described in . In addition, this addendum describes any changes to the ROP resulting from these pertinent comments.
General Information
Responsible Official: / Mr. Robin Van TilburgVice President, Operations
Phone: 248-363-8321, Ext. 349
Cell: 248-766-0727
E-mail:
AQD Contact: / Mr. Iranna Konanahalli
Senior Environmental Engineer
586-753-3741 or
Summary of Pertinent Comments
Only US EPA comments were received during the comment period. The comments are as follows:
1. Staff Report, page 4. The stationary source emissions table only includes information pertaining to Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) and total Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAP). Please provide additional information in the Staff Report regarding whether there are any other pollutants emitted, taking into account activities at the source, including but not limited to the three Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers (RTOs) and the four curing ovens.
2. Staff Report, page 5. The Staff Report states that the emission limitations for VOC from the four webcoating lines are exempt from the Part 64 Compliance Assurance Monitoring (CAM) requirements because "hazardous air pollutants which are part of VOC are addressed by Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 63, Subparts A and JJJJ." For units subject to both exempt and nonexempt emission limitations or standards, Part 64 still applies to the unit. On page 4 of the source's renewal application, the applicant also states that the source is subject to CAM. Please add the CAM permitting requirements specified in 40 CFR 64.6 through 64.9 to the permit as applicable, and revise the Staff Report accordingly.