CAA Permits Issued by EPA in Region 2
EPA's Region 2 serves New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and 8 Tribal Nations
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Current Permit Actions
Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Permits
Part 71 Permits
Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Permits
Deepwater Port Permits
Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Permits (issued since 2000)
| Facility and Location | Facility Type/Project Description | Permit Type | Permit Documents | Issued |
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Energy Answers Arecibo, LLC/Energy Answers Arecibo |
A new resource recovery facility capable of generating 77 MW. The facility includes two identical municipal solid waste combustors (i.e., spreader-stoker boilers), a steam turbine-electrical-generator, ash handling system, emergency diesel-generator and fire pump, a “four-cell” cooling tower, and carbon and lime storage silos. The two combustors will be fueled, primarily, by 2,106 tons per day of refuse-derived municipal solid waste. The combustors’ supplementary fuels (used to substitute for a portion of refuse-derived fuel) comprise of auto-shredder residue, tire-derived fuel, and processed urban wood waste. |
Extension New |
Final Permit Extension Letter (PDF, 1,031kb) Final Permit (PDF, 553kb) |
10/1/2015 4/10/2014 |
| Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority - Units 16, 17, 19 and 20 St. Croix, VI |
Electric Power Generation/Permit revisions for the existing gas turbines. | Modification | Final Permit (PDF, 277kb) | 11/27/2000 |
| Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority - Unit 22, at the Krum Bay Facility St. Thomas, VI |
Electric Power Generation/Installation of a new 24 MW simple cycle oil fired gas turbine. | New | Final Permit (PDF, 1,306kb) | 1/03/2001 |
| AES Puerto Rico, L.P. Guayama, PR |
Electric Power Generation/Corrections of the parts per million emission limits for the existing coal fired circulating fluidized bed boiler. | Administrative Change | Final Permit (PDF, 1,093kb) | 10/29/2001 |
| Hovensa St. Croix, VI |
Oil Refinery/Increasing the utilization of the existing GE combustion gas turbine during natural gas firing while decreasing the amount of oil combusted. | Modification | Final Permit (PDF, 944kb) | 1/22/2004 |
| Puerto Rico Electric and Power Authority- San Juan Combined Cycle Project San Juan, PR |
Electric Power Generation/ Installation of two (2) new 476 MW combined cycle oil fired turbines. | New | Final Permit (PDF, 2,389kb) | 4/01/2004 |
| Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc. Auburn, NY |
Steel Plant/Increasing the melt shop production limits; Replacing the existing rolling mill reheat furnace with a new 179 MMBTU/hr reheat furnace. | Modification | Final Permit (PDF, 192kb) | 6/22/2004 |
| AES Puerto Rico, L.P. Guayama, PR |
Electric Power Generation/Permit revisions for the existing coal fired fluidized bed boiler. | Administrative Change | Final Permit (PDF, 339kb) | 8/10/2004 |
| Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority - Unit 23, at the Krum Bay St. Thomas, VI |
Electric Power Generation/ Installation of a new 39 MW simple cycle oil fired combustion turbine. | New | Final Permit (PDF, 299kb) | 9/08/2004 |
| American Re-Fuel Company of Hempstead Westbury, NY |
Resource Recovery Facility/Increasing the annual throughput of municipal waste for the three existing waste-to-energy boilers. | Modification | Final Permit (PDF, 228kb) | 11/15/2004 |
| EcoElectrica, L.P. Peñuelas, PR |
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Import Terminal and Electric Power Generation/ Permit revisions for the existing combined cycle natural gas combustion turbines and for the auxiliary diesel generators. | Administrative Change | Final Permit (PDF, 1,984kb) | 2/11/2005 |
| Trigen–Nassau Energy Corporation Uniondale, NY |
Electric Power Generation/ Installation of a new 79.9 MW combined cycle natural gas fired combustion turbine. | New | Final Permit (PDF, 1,054kb) | 3/31/2005 |
| Hovensa, LLC Christiansted, VI |
Petroleum Refinery/Construction of a low sulfur fuels unit and a hydrogen plant; Installation of a new 356 MMBTU/hr combined cycle refinery gas fired combustion turbine; Increasing the capacity of the existing Fluidized Catalytic Cracking Unit. | Modification | Final Permit (PDF, 1,719kb) | 7/21/2005 |
| Caithness Long Island, LLC Brookhaven, NY |
Electric Power Generation/ Installation of a new 346 MW combined cycle natural gas fired combustion turbine. | New | Final Permit (PDF, 376kb) | 4/07/2006 |
| Puerto Rico Electric and Power Authority(PREPA) Cambalache Plant San Juan, PR |
Electric Power Generation/Permit revisions for the existing combined cycle distilled oil fired combustion turbines(i.e. removing the SCR system due to the increase in ammonia production) | Modification | Final Permit (PDF, 388kb) | 7/05/2006 |
| CEMEX de Puerto Rico, Inc. San Juan, PR |
Portland Cement Plant/Substitutes up to a maximum of 20% of the heat required for the cement manufacturing process, currently generated by coal, with biomass, such as vegetative materials, wood chips, and biofuels. | Administrative Change | Final Permit (PDF, 3 MB) | 11/29/2012 |
| Besicorp-Empire Power Company, LLC Rensselaer, NY |
Electric Power Generation/Extending the existing PSD expiration date that was issued for the construction of a 505 MW combined cycle natural gas fired combustion turbine. | Extension | Final Permit (PDF, 271kb) | 5/17/2007 |
| Besicorp- Empire Newsprint, LLC Rensselaer, NY |
Paper Recycling/Extending the existing PSD expiration date that was issued for the construction of a 330,000 metric ton-per-year recycled newsprint facility. | Extension | Final Permit (PDF, 265kb) | 5/17/2007 |
| Hovensa, LLC Christiansted, VI |
Petroleum Refinery/Addition of a Selective Catalytic Reduction System to control NOx emissions from the existing 87.3 MMBTU/hr low sulfur gasoline unit process heater; Addition of an oxidation catalyst to control formaldehyde emissions from the existing combined cycle refinery gas fired combustion turbine. | Modification | Final Permit (PDF, 300kb) | 11/27/2007 |
| Cornell University Ithaca, NY |
Combined Heat and Power/ Installation of two (2) new 8 MW combined cycle natural gas fired combustion turbines. | New | Final Permit (PDF, 202kb) | 6/03/2008 |
| Hovensa, LLC Christiansted, VI |
Petroleum Refinery/Lowering the NOx emission limit for their existing Fluidized Catalytic Cracking Unit. | Administrative Change | Final Permit (PDF, 308kb) | 6/05/2008 |
| Hovensa, LLC Christiansted, VI |
Petroleum Refinery/Removing the 365 day rolling average provision from the annual CO emission limits for both the LSG and Hydrogen Plants heaters. | Administrative Change | Final Permit (PDF,181kb) | 10/13/2008 |
| Hovensa, LLC Christiansted, VI |
Petroleum Refinery/Replacing an existing low NOx "Converter Heater" with a new ultra low NOx "Converter Heater" for their existing Acid Plant. | Modification | Final Permit (PDF,6Mb) | 5/9/2011 |
| Hovensa, LLC Christiansted, VI |
Petroleum Refinery/Lowering the NOx emission limit while firing fuel oil for the combustion turbine GT-13. | Modification | Final Permit (PDF,970kb) | 8/17/2011 |
Part 71 Permits
| Facility and Location | Facility Type/Project Description | Permit Type | Permit Documents | Issued |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philadelphia Furniture Manufacturing Company Salamanca (Tribal Area), NY |
Furniture Manufacturing/Furniture Manufacturing Processes/NSPS affected and non-affected boilers. | Initial | Final Permit (PDF, 253kb) | 11/01/2001 |
| Philadelphia Furniture, LLC Salamanca (Tribal Area), NY |
Furniture Manufacturing/Furniture Manufacturing Processes; NSPS affected and non-affected boilers. The permit was amended to reflect the transfer in ownership of the renewed Title V Permit from Philadelphia Furniture Manufacturing Company to Philadelphia Furniture, LLC) |
Renewal and Amendment | Final Permit (PDF, 424kb) | 8/27/2007 |
| Turning Stone Casino and Resort Verona (Tribal Area), NY |
Recreational Facility: NSPS affected combined-cycle natural gas combustion turbine and natural gas steam boilers; NESHAP affected diesel emergency generators. | Renewal |
Final Permit (PDF, 166kb) |
7/5/2011 |
| The permit was modified to reflect the (1) addition of three new emergency generators; (2) inclusion of the applicable requirements pursuant to NSPS IIII, NSPS JJJJ, NESHAP ZZZZ, and Section 184 of the CAA, which pertains to the Ozone Transport Region; and (3) removal of an existing backup diesel generator. | Modification | Final Permit (PDF, 15 Mb) |
2/4/2015 |
EPA Region 2 is the agency responsible for issuing and implementing OCS and Deepwater Port Permits. However, no OCS or Deepwater Port Permits have been issued by Region 2.
Outer Continental Shelf Permits
| Facility and Location | Facility Type/Project Description | Permit Type | Permit Documents | Issued |
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Deepwater Port Permits
| Facility and Location | Facility Type/Project Description | Permit Type | Permit Documents | Issued |
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