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Draft National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) General Permit for Discharges from Hydrostatic Testing of Tanks and Pipelines (PAG-10)
Fayette Energy Facility Title V Operating Permit and Phase II Acid Rain Permit Renewal

eFACTS Listings

SHAMROCK COMP STA Minor Facility Plan Approval New Source Performance Std Extension (New)
TEXAS EASTERN TRANS LP 2021 Integrity Program Fayette County 9 DIG-0349 GP-08 Temporary Road Crossings (New)
TEXAS EASTERN TRANS LP 2021 Integrity Program Fayette County 9 DIG-0349 BWM-GP-11 Maintenance, Testing, Repair, Rehabilitation or Replacement General Pmt (New)
CHESTNUT VALLEY LDFL Landfill Permit Renewal (New)
APOLLO RESOURCES LLC/RUMBAUGH STA AQ GP 5 - Natural Gas Compression and/or Processing Facilities (New)
Herriott Well Connect GP-08 Temporary Road Crossings Issued 11/5/2021
Herriott Well Connect GP-05 Utility Line Stream Crossings Issued 11/5/2021
Herriott Well Connect Erosion and Sediment Control General Permit 3
CHESTNUT VALLEY LDFL Landfill Permit Reissue Withdrawn 11/2/2021
CHESTNUT VALLEY LDFL Major Facility Operating Permit Replaced 10/26/2021

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Source: Pennsylvania Bulletin

NOTICES
DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Public Notice of Draft NPDES General Permit for Discharges from Hydrostatic Testing of Tanks and Pipelines (PAG-10)
[51 Pa.B. 6706]
[Saturday, October 23, 2021]

 The Department of Environmental Protection (Department) is announcing the availability of a draft National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) General Permit for Discharges from Hydrostatic Testing of Tanks and Pipelines (PAG-10). The draft General Permit and related documents are available on the Department's eLibrary at www.depgreenport.state.pa.us/elibrary/ (select ''Permit and Authorization Packages,'' then ''Clean Water,'' then ''PAG-10 NPDES General Permit for Discharges from Hydrostatic Testing of Tanks and Pipelines (NOI) 3800-PM-BCW0173'').

 The PAG-10 General Permit is intended to provide NPDES permit coverage for the discharge of water used for the hydrostatic testing of existing or proposed tanks or pipelines, regardless of the contents of the tanks or pipelines. The General Permit may not be used to cover other types of discharges. The proposed Notice of Intent (NOI) fee is $2,500, to be paid in $500 annual increments.

 The following substantive changes are proposed in the draft PAG-10 General Permit in comparison to the PAG-10 General Permit that is currently in effect, which has been administratively extended to July 10, 2022:

 • Existing permittees must submit an NOI for continued coverage under the General Permit; the annual report will no longer be used to renew coverage.

 • Permittees may opt to use best management practices other than those identified in the General Permit for preventing accelerated erosion from hydrostatic test water discharges if approved by the Department.

Written Comments

 Interested persons are invited to submit written comments regarding the draft PAG-10 General Permit and associated documents through Monday, November 22, 2021. Comments submitted by facsimile will not be accepted. Comments, including comments submitted by e-mail, must include the commentator's name and address. Commentators are encouraged to submit comments using the Department's online eComment system at www.ahs.dep.pa.gov/eComment or by e-mail to ecomment@pa.gov. Written comments can be mailed to the Department of Environmental Protection, Policy Office, Rachel Carson State Office Building, P.O. Box 2063, Harrisburg, PA 17105-2063.

 Written comments submitted during the 30-day comment period will be retained by the Department and considered when finalizing the General Permit. The Department will provide an opportunity for any interested person or group of persons, any affected state, any affected interstate agency, the United States Environmental Protection Agency or any interested agency, to request or petition for a public hearing with respect to the draft PAG-10 General Permit. The request or petition for public hearing, which must be filed within the 30-day period allowed for filing of written comments, must indicate the interest of the party filing the request and the reasons why a hearing is warranted. A hearing will be held if there is significant public interest.

 Questions regarding the draft PAG-10 General Permit can be directed to Sean Furjanic at sefurjanic@pa.gov or (717) 787-2137.

PATRICK McDONNELL, 
Secretary
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Documents are available here:
<http://www.depgreenport.state.pa.us/elibrary/GetFolder?FolderID=280685>
Draft Sample Permit:
<http://www.depgreenport.state.pa.us/elibrary/GetDocument?docId=3979487&DocName=04%20DRAFT%20-%20PAG-10%20PERMIT%20SAMPLE.PDF>
Fact Sheet:
<http://www.depgreenport.state.pa.us/elibrary/GetDocument?docId=3979560&DocName=09%20DRAFT%20-%20PAG-10%20FACT%20SHEET.PDF>

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 26-00535: Fayette Power Company, LLC (100 Energy Drive, Masontown, PA 15461), the Department intends to renew the Title V Operating Permit and Phase II Acid Rain Permit for the operation of a natural gas-fired power plant, known as the Fayette Energy Facility, located in German Township, Fayette County. The facility's air emission sources include: two (2) General Electric, Frame 7, natural gas-fired combined cycle combustion turbines (CCCT), rated at 1,920 MMBtu/hr maximum capacity, each, and controlled by oxidation catalysts and selective catalytic reduction (SCR). Each combined cycle gas turbine (CTG1, CTG2) is equipped with heat recovery steam generators (HRSG) which include a natural gas-fired duct burner and heat recovery steam rated at 589 MMBtu/hr each are part of each combined cycle train [total maximum heat input capacity of 2,509 MMBtu/hr, for each CGT], one (1) natural gas-fired auxiliary boiler, 30.6 MMBtu/hr; one (1) diesel-fired firewater pump engine, 265 hp; one (1) diesel-fired emergency generator engine, 489 hp and one (1) cooling tower. Turbine exhaust gases are treated with selective catalytic reduction (SCR) for NOx control, and an oxidation catalyst for VOC and CO control. The facility is limited to a maximum opacity from any processing equipment of 10 percent. The facility is a major stationary source as defined in Title I, Part D of the Clean Air Act Amendments due to its potential to emit (PTE) Nitrogen Oxide (NOx), Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC), Particulate Matter less than 10 microns (PM10), Particulate Matter less than 2.5 microns (PM2.5), Sulfur Oxides (SOx), and Carbon Monoxide (CO) emissions. This facility has the potential to emit the following type and quantity of pollutants (not including startup and shutdown emissions): 313 tons per year of PM10, 308 tons per year of PM2.5, 296.1 tons per year of NOx, 581 tons per year of CO, 90 tons per year of VOC, 128.9 tons per year of SOx, 9.6 tons per year of formaldehyde, 16.9 tons per year of HAPs, 166 tons per year of ammonia, and 2,590,616 tons of CO2e greenhouse gases. The permit includes emission limitations and operational, monitoring, testing, recordkeeping, work practices, and reporting requirements for the facility. This renewal action includes the incorporation of newly applicable regulations and the applicable changes authorized through Plan Approval 26-00535B for the Advanced Gas Path (AGP) project that involved select component replacement and changes to combustion control logic to increase the exhaust flow and increase efficiency. The facility is subject to the following regulatory provisions: 25 Pa. Code § 129.93, presumptive RACT requirements and 25 Pa. Code §§ 129.96—129.100 Additional Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) Requirements for Major Sources of NOx and VOC, Subpart KKKK—Standards of Performance for Stationary Combustion Turbines, Subpart ZZZZ—National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Stationary Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines, 40 CFR 60, Subpart Dc—Standards of Performance for Small Industrial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating Units, 40 CFR 64—Compliance Assurance Monitoring, 40 CFR 72 EPA Acid Rain Permit Program Application, 40 CFR Part 97 Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR)-Related Subparts that include: Subpart AAAAA, Subpart CCCCC, and 97 Subpart GGGGG, and State requirements. The 40 CFR 60, Subpart GG—Standards of Performance for Standards of Performance for Stationary Gas Turbines, 40 CFR 60, Subpart Da—Standards of Performance for Electric Utility Steam Generating Units and the 40 CFR 97 Subparts AA, AAA, and AAAA CAIR provisions no longer apply and have been removed from the permit.

 All comments must be received prior to the close of business 30 days after the date of this publication. Each written comment must contain the name, address and telephone number of the person submitting the comments, identification of the proposed Operating Permit (specify Operating Permit OP-26-00535) and concise statements regarding the relevancy of the information or objections to issuance of the Operating Permit.

 Comments or questions on this permit should be directed to Matthew Williams, Facilities Permitting Chief, NWRO Air Quality Program, at 814.332.6940. Those who wish to provide the Department with additional written information that they believe should be considered prior to the issuance of this Major Source Operating Permit may submit the information to Sheri L. Guerrieri, P.E. at shguerrier@pa.gov or Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, 121 N. Mill Street, New Castle, PA 16101.
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Notes:

The Project Description for the 2021 Integrity Program Fayette County 9 project includes the following introduction:

"During recent integrity inspections conducted as part of a maintenance program, Texas Eastern Transmission, LP (Texas Eastern or TETLP), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Enbridge Energy Company, Inc. (Enbridge), identified anomalies along existing transmission pipelines extending from Delmont, Pennsylvania (PA) to the PA/New Jersey border and southwest to the PA/West Virginia border. These identified anomaly locations must be excavated to determine the nature of the anomalies and to determine if repair or replacement is necessary. The proposed program includes anomaly excavations and repairs throughout PA.

Construction activities associated with this maintenance program may entail temporary impact to regulated wetlands and watercourses. Due to the location of the anomalies within existing pipeline right-of-ways (ROWs), avoidance of resource impacts is not always possible. In the design of the maintenance program, Texas Eastern attempted to minimize these and other environmental impacts to the greatest extent practicable. The proposed construction activities associated with the repair and replacement of Dig 0349 will be conducted on a 36-inch pipe at an existing railroad crossing and adjacent additional new ROW that is surrounded primarily by mixed forest land use in Fayette County."

The phrase "identified anomalies" probably refers to corrosion discovered by use of a device known as a "Smart Pig".

The full project description is fairly extensive and worth reading.

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The Project Description in the Project Information Page for the Herriott Well Connect project states:

Laurel Mountain Midstream, LLC (LMM) intends to construct an approximate 8,943-foot long, 16-inch diameter underground steel natural gas pipeline. The purpose of the project is to support LMM’s natural gas operations from the Marcellus shale formation, which provides a key source of energy for the United States. The Herriott Well Connect will begin at the existing Herriott Well Pad at 39.898098°, -79.879368° and extend to the northeast to the existing Zalac Well Pad at 39.905296°, 79.857525°. The total project area and limit of disturbance for the Herriott Well Connect consists of approximately 16.3 acres.

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INR seems not to have sent any pressure test notifications to DEP prior to fracking the wells Coastal 6H, 8H, 10H. It is not clear whether this was simply a notification failure or whether they didn't actually do any pressure testing. Fracking without pressure testing would be at best outrageously irresponsible.

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Duane Nichols sends the following recent photograph of the water withdrawal location associated with Inspection ID 3274473 above:

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DEP defines an environmental justice area as "any census tract where 20 percent or more individuals live in poverty, and/or 30 percent or more of the population is minority". (See:
<https://www.dep.pa.gov/PublicParticipation/OfficeofEnvironmentalJustice/Pages/default.aspx>). There are supposed to be enhanced public participation requirements for permits in environmental justice areas, but news of this actually ever happening is scarce. In Fayette County, the entirety of Redstone, Springhill, Nicholson, and German Townships are environmental justice areas, as well as a large part of Dunbar Township. DEP's policy document on public participation guidelines for environmental justice areas is located here:
<https://www.elibrary.dep.state.pa.us/dsweb/Get/Version-48671/012-0501-002.pdf>

eNOTICE records are likely to list the same permit multiple times, as that permit moves through the DEP process.

Oil & Gas Wells designated with a site a number and the letter H typically designate horizontal wells.

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Resources:

Pennsylvania Bulletin: <https://www.pabulletin.com/>

eNOTICE: <https://www.ahs2.dep.state.pa.us/eNOTICEWeb/>

DEP Oil and Gas Reports: <https://www.dep.pa.gov/DataandTools/Reports/Oil%20and%20Gas%20Reports/Pages/default.aspx>

DEP Permits Issued Detail Report:
<http://cedatareporting.pa.gov/Reportserver/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/Public/DEP/OG/SSRS/Permits_Issued_Detail>

DEP SPUD (drilling started) Report:
<http://cedatareporting.pa.gov/Reportserver/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/Public/DEP/OG/SSRS/Spud_External_Data>

DEP Oil and Gas Compliance Report:
<http://cedatareporting.pa.gov/Reportserver/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/Public/DEP/OG/SSRS/OG_Compliance>

DEP PA Oil & Gas Mapping:
<https://www.depgis.state.pa.us/PaOilAndGasMapping>

Data Portal Services Directory [Technical]
<https://www.depgis.state.pa.us/arcgis/rest/services>
Query: Oil and Gas Wells All (ID: 3) [Technical]:
<https://www.depgis.state.pa.us/arcgis/rest/services/OilGas/OilGasAllStrayGasEGSP/MapServer/3/query?where=&text=&objectIds=&time=&geometry=&geometryType=esriGeometryEnvelope&inSR=&spatialRel=esriSpatialRelIntersects&relationParam=&outFields=*&returnGeometry=true&returnTrueCurves=false&maxAllowableOffset=&geometryPrecision=&outSR=&returnIdsOnly=false&returnCountOnly=false&orderByFields=&groupByFieldsForStatistics=&outStatistics=&returnZ=false&returnM=false&gdbVersion=&returnDistinctValues=false&resultOffset=&resultRecordCount=&f=html>
(Be sure to enter a Where clause in SQL format. Dates are in milliseconds since midnight 1/1/1970).

DEP Oil and Gas Electronic Submissions
<https://www.ahs.dep.pa.gov/eSubmissionPublicSearch>

DEP Air Quality Air Emission Plants Facilities Report
<http://cedatareporting.pa.gov/Reportserver/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/Public/DEP/AQ/SSRS/AQ_AEP_Facilities>

DEP Oil and Gas Electronic Notifications
<http://cedatareporting.pa.gov/Reportserver/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/Public/DEP/OG/SSRS/OG_Notifications>

DEP Oil and Gas Well Pad Report
<http://cedatareporting.pa.gov/Reportserver/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/Public/DEP/OG/SSRS/Well_Pads>

Fayette County Assessment Office Search For Tax Records:
<http://property.co.fayette.pa.us/search.aspx>

Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access:
<https://www.pasda.psu.edu/default.asp>
DEP Spatial Data Repository:
<ftp://www.pasda.psu.edu/pub/pasda/dep/>

National Response Center:
<https://www.nrc.uscg.mil/>

EPA-Echo: <https://www.epa-echo.gov/echo/compliance_report_air.html>

FERC citizen involvement: <https://www.ferc.gov/for-citizens/get-involved.asp>

Follow the directions and enter the docket number to subscribe to.

Township  Supervisors receive information regarding Erosion & Sedimentation permits, and these records may be reviewable at township municipal offices.

DEP permits are reviewable through the File Review process, for application to do file review see: <https://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/southwest_regional_office/13775/file_review/593164>

Environmental Hearing Board: <https://ehb.courtapps.com/public/index.php>

PA DEP Environmental Policy Comment System:
<https://www.ahs.dep.pa.gov/eComment/>

Federal Register Environment: <https://www.federalregister.gov/environment>

SkyTruth Fayette County Drilling Alerts: <https://frack.skytruth.org/pennsylvania-frack-alerts/fayette_pa>

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District, Public Notices:
<https://www.lrp.usace.army.mil/Missions/Regulatory/Public-Notices/>

EPA Pennsylvania Public Notices: <https://www2.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-pennsylvania#notice>

Energy Assurance Daily: <https://www.oe.netl.doe.gov/ead.aspx>

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Disclaimers:

This compilation from the above sources was done in part by hand using copy and paste and in part using automated methods; it may omit relevant permits.

Parcel data is provided via the tax records search web page offered by the Fayette County Assessment Office (http://property.co.fayette.pa.us/). Presumed Parcel Id links are subject to availability provided by that agency and associated web sites. Presumed Parcel Ids are determined as the mapped parcel containing a given latitude and longitude, are a best effort determination which is subject to error, and are not official. In cases where a facility is leased and there is a separate parcel id for the lease, if this parcel id is not separately mapped, the parcel id shown will be the id for the enclosing parcel. Parcel owners may be surface owners only and may or may not have any relationship to oil & gas facilities.

Does not currently include water supply permits. Does not include landfill permits even though many such are for Marcellus Shale waste. (It is not possible at this time to distinguish which landfill permits are for Marcellus Shale waste and which are not without doing File Review for each permit.)

Erosion & Sedimentation permit records do not currently include latitude and longitude. Where I am publishing latitude and longitude with E&S permits it is by inferring an associated well permit and using published latitude and longitude for the well. It is possible I may be inferring the wrong well site.

Municipalities are shown from eFACTS records on the DEP web site. The DEP has been known to list a municipality incorrectly.