PERMIT REVIEW SUMMARY

Permit Writer:	Ivelina Valchanova 			Date:	November 8, 2016

Company Name:	Hankins Inc

Facility Location:	15881 Highway 4 East
Ripley, MS 38663

Source Number:	2620-00005

County: 		Tippah

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Hankins, Inc. is a pine sawmill that includes a debarker, a sawmill, a planer and three direct-fired kilns. The facility has applied for an air construction permit for the modification of a direct fired kiln (AA-050) to allow combustion of wood by-products and the construction of a new cyclone (AA-051) which transfers the fuel to that kiln. In addition, the facility requests the installation of an automatic grading machine which will allow for a larger production rate. Hankins is requesting an increase in the yearly lumber throughput from 111,444 to 156,774 MBF/year which will become a federally enforceable limit for PSD avoidance Overall, the project will result in an increase in particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds and hazardous air pollutant emissions which is below PSD major source thresholds. 

The facility will submit semiannual summary reports of opacity readings and lumber production.

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

The 30-day public notice period began on November, with the publication of a notice in The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal and ends December.

RECOMMENDATION

The staff has preliminarily decided to recommend issuance of the permit to the Mississippi Environmental Quality Permit Board as shown in the draft permit.  However, the staff recommendation to the Board will be made only after a thorough consideration of all public comments.