Public Notice: Air Permit for Yakama Forest Products on the Yakama Reservation

Summary

EPA is proposing to renew an air quality permit for Yakama Forest Products on the Yakama Reservation in White Swan, Washington. Because the facility is located on the Yakama Reservation, and because the Yakama Tribe does not have an EPA-approved permitting program, it is EPA’s responsibility as the permitting authority to take action on the facility’s air permit application.

The facility is a wood products facility that emits regulated air pollutants. This permitting action allows the facility to continue operating for five (5) years but does not authorize an increase in emissions.

The Clean Air Act Title V operating permit serves as a comprehensive compilation of the air quality requirements that are applicable to a source. Title V operating permits must also assure compliance with all applicable requirements. Therefore, the proposed permit includes all air quality requirements applicable to Yakama Forest Products.

In addition, the proposed permit includes source-specific testing, monitoring, recordkeeping and reporting where the underlying requirement does not include such requirements or where additional source-specific testing, monitoring, recordkeeping and reporting is necessary to assure compliance with the underlying applicable requirement.

EPA will review and consider all comments received during the comment period. Following this review, EPA may issue the permit, issue the permit with revisions or deny the permit.

Applicant

Yakama Forest Products
Yakama Reservation
251 Medicine Valley Road
White Swan, Washington

Application documents

Copies of the draft permit and supporting documents, including the administrative recordadministrative recordA set of documents that is the basis for any Federal agency administrative action, including, but not limited to, rulemaking. Under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), any judicial review of a final agency action is based on the administrative record. Administrative actions that are not rules may include denials of citizens' petitions, individual permit decisions, and exemption decisions. These actions are typically based in an administrative record., are available below.

• Public Notice for Yakama Forest Products P71 Draft Permit Renewal (pdf) (79.11 KB)
• Yakama Forest Products Draft Permit R10-T5-12-02-00 (pdf) (432.86 KB)
• Yakama Forest Products Draft Statement of Basis for P71 Renewal (pdf) (617.95 KB)
• Yakama Forest Products Draft Administrative Record (pdf) (11.17 MB)
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