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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 06-1226

NOTICES

ENVIRONMENTAL
HEARING BOARD

Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company v. DEP; EHB Doc. No. 2005-261-C

[36 Pa.B. 3354]
[Saturday, July 1, 2006]

   The Department of Environmental Protection (Department) and Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company (TGP) have submitted a Consent Adjudication for approval by the Environmental Hearing Board (Board). TGP maintains a compressor station, Compressor Station 319, in Wyalusing Township, Bradford County. The company that maintains the turbine compression engines operated at Compressor Station 319 recommends turbine core exchanges at a certain number of fired-hours of service. TGP's ''turbine core'' includes the compressor (air compressor, gas generator/gas producer), combustor and power turbine of the turbine compression engine. TGP engages in turbine core exchanges as recommended by the manufacturer. For TGP's exchanges, the replacement turbine core is not the same core as was initially removed for overhaul. In response to Department inquiries, TGP provided a substantial package of information on its turbine core exchanges. The Department treated the submission as a request for approval of a routine maintenance, repair and replacement plan for TGP's turbine compression engines. By letter dated July 29, 2005, the Department disapproved that plan. On August 25, 2005, TGP filed an appeal of the Department's disapproval of that plan. The appeal was docketed with the Board at EHB Doc. No. 2005-261-C.

   The Department and TGP have agreed to a settlement in the form of a Consent Adjudication, the major provisions of which include:

   1.  When TGP conducts a turbine core replacement at any compressor station that TGP operates in the Northcentral Region of the Department, TGP shall provide certain information in the written notice within the specified time frame.

   2.  At the time of the turbine core exchange, TGP shall review the availability of lower emitting new or refurbished turbine cores suitable for placement into the turbine compression engine whose turbine core is being replaced. TGP shall install the lower emitting turbine core or, if the core will be replaced with an identical core, certify that a lower emitting core is not available.

   3.  TGP shall perform emissions testing for oxides of nitrogen and carbon monoxide within 90 days of completing the turbine core replacement.

   4.  A plan approval and/or operating permit will be required if the turbine core replacement does not meet the terms described in the relevant parts of the Consent Adjudication.

   5.  The turbine core replacements allowed under the provisions of the Consent Adjudication may occur for no more than 15 years from the date of the first replacement that occurs after the effective date of the Consent Adjudication. Any subsequent proposed turbine core replacements will require a plan approval application including a best available technology evaluation to be submitted to the Department for its review and approval.

   Copies of the full Consent Adjudication are in the hands of: Dawn M. Herb, Assistant Counsel, Department of Environmental Protection, Northcentral Region Office of Chief Counsel, 208 West Third Street, Suite 101, Williamsport, PA 17701-6448, (570) 321-6568; David G. Mandelbaum, Esquire, and Sabrina Rudnick, Esquire, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, 1735 Market Street, 51st Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19103-7599, (215) 864-8102 or (215) 864-8344; and at the office of the Environmental Hearing Board, Second Floor, Rachel Carson State Office Building, 400 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8457, (717) 787-3483 and may be reviewed by any interested party on request during normal business hours. Public comments will be received for 30 days from the date of this notice. A copy of any comments should be sent to each of the parties at the addresses listed previously. This notice is being provided under 25 Pa. Code §§ 1021.38 and 1021.141 (relating to publication of notice; and termination of proceedings). The Consent Adjudication is subject to final approval by the Board. The Board may schedule a hearing prior to taking action on the Consent Adjudication. For any aggrieved person not a party to the action, an appeal of the Consent Adjudication must be filed with Commonwealth Court within 30 days of the date of the Board's action.

MICHAEL L. KRANCER,   
Chairperson

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 06-1226. Filed for public inspection June 30, 2006, 9:00 a.m.]


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