PERMIT REVIEW SUMMARY

Company Name:	Homan Industries

Facility Location:	105 Homan Road
Fulton, Mississippi 38843

Source Number:	1240-00024

County: 		Itawamba

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Homan Industries currently operates three companies that include Tri-State Lumber Company (AI No. 2013), Homan Forest Products, and Homan Wood Products (AI No. 1021).  Currently Homan Industries operates these sites as separately permitted/regulated sources.  During this permitting action all three sources will be combined under one Synthetic Minor Operating Permit.  Homan Industries processes southern yellow pine to create dimensional lumber.  Secondary products are CCA or Copper Azole treated lumber products.  The principal emission units/processes utilized to create product are sawmill, dry kilns, planer mill, wood treatment process, and remanning and wood fired boiler.

EXISTING SYNTHETIC MINOR LIMITATIONS

VOCs	99 tons/year
PM	99 tons/year
Dry Kiln Production Rate	35 MMbft/year (any consecutive twelve month period)

Dry kiln production will be monitored and recorded on a daily basis, calculated on a 12 month rolling total basis and reported to MDEQ annually.

Limiting the kiln throughput to 35 MMbft/year limits VOC emissions to below 100 tons/year, based on the emission factor of 4.3 lbs/Mbf of VOC (as VOC).  Monitoring and recordkeeping of throughput is required to confirm compliance with the 35 MMbft/yr limit.

The draft permit requires all control equipment (cyclones) to be operational when associated equipment is operational.  The permittee shall conduct weekly visible emission monitoring to assure compliance with PM and Opacity limitations.

Emission Point AA-008 is subject to and shall comply with all applicable requirements of 40 CFR 60 Subpart Dc, New Source Performance Standards for Small Industrial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating Units.  This boiler has a heat input less than 30 MMBTU/hr, therefore the only requirement which applies is daily fuel recordkeeping. Emission Point AA-008 is also subject and shall comply with all applicable requirements of 40 CFR 63 Subpart JJJJJJ, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Boilers Area Sources.

This facility does not have any emergency generators or fire pumps, etc.  that would be subject to the RICE MACT. 

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

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

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.