Public Notice
Mississippi Environmental Quality Permit Board
P. O. Box 2261
Jackson, MS 39225
Telephone No. (601) 961-5171

Public Notice Start Date: October 21, 2019	MDEQ Contact: Clinton Gentry

Delek Renewables LLC, located at 823 Highway 15 North, in New Albany, MS, (662) 538-1005, has applied to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality for the following permitting action(s): Synthetic Minor Operating Permit Modification, Air Ref. No. 2700-00043. The applicant's operations fall within SIC Code 2869.  A Statement of Basis has been prepared that contains a discussion of the decision-making that went into the development of the permit and provides the permitting authority, the public, and other government bodies a record of the technical issues surrounding issuance of the permit. The Statement of Basis also addresses any changes to emissions and/or discharges resulting from any modification of the facility.  
JNS Biofuels LLC, applied for a modification to the Synthetic Minor Operating Permit on January 3, 2019 to allow for the addition of a proposed methanol recovery operation. This will allow the site to recover methanol from the glycerin byproduct produced by the existing biodiesel process in order to yield a higher quality glycerin for sale. On September 24, 2019 the facility submitted additional information requesting the NSPS subparts NNN and RRR be removed from the current permitting action. JNS believed that these subparts were previously included in past permitting actions as an unintentional error and submitted additional information as justification. On October 1, 2019 JNS transferred ownership of the facility to Delek Renewables, LLC which resulted in the facility being renamed to Delek, New Albany. Prior to this,The Permit to Construct was last modified on June 23, 2014, and the Synthetic Minor Operating Permit was modified on October 10, 2014.  These previous modifications reflected changes resulting from a fire that severely damaged the plant and as well as a change in ownership.
In the previous permitting action, the facility’s uncontrolled, total HAP emissions were estimated to be 21.52 tons per year with methanol being the only HAP emitted. However, this modification not only introduces a second HAP in the form of Hydrochloric Acid, but it also makes it so that the facility’s uncontrolled, total HAP emissions are now estimated at 26.41 tpy. This gives the facility the potential to exceed both the total and individual HAP Title V emission limitations of 25 tpy and 10 tpy, respectively. In order to classify as a Synthetic Minor Source, the facility must have individual HAP and total HAP emissions fall below 10 tpy and 25 tpy, respectively. Since methanol contributes to more than 99% of total HAP emissions from this facility, the facility has proposed that they limit their total methanol HAP emissions to less than 9.9 tpy. In order to achieve this, the facility has installed two condensers in series (Emission Point AA-104) to recover methanol as well as lower overall methanol emissions. They have also elected to take an annual throughput capacity limit of 13,000,000 gallons per year of biodiesel fuel produced. The facility will report and record their annual throughput capacity, individual HAP emissions for methanol, and total HAP emissions in order to show compliance with this standard.  
The staff of the Permit Board has developed this draft permit based on information submitted to the Permit Board by the applicant, appropriate State and Federal agencies and other interested parties. The staff of the Permit Board is soliciting all relative information pertaining to the proposed activity, including public comment, to ensure that the final staff recommendation on the draft permit complies with all State and Federal regulations. Public review and comment on the draft permit and supporting documentation is an important element in the staff evaluation and resulting recommendation to the Permit Board. The draft permit conditions have been developed to ensure compliance with all State and Federal regulations but are subject to change based on information received as a result of public participation.
Persons wishing to comment upon or object to the proposed determinations are invited to submit comments in writing to Clinton Gentry at the Permit Board's address shown above, no later than the end of the thirty (30) day public notice. All comments received by this date will be considered in the formulation of final determinations regarding the application(s).  A public hearing will be held if the Permit Board finds a significant degree of public interest in the proposed permit(s). Persons wishing to request a public hearing may do so by submitting that request in writing to Clinton Gentry or the Chief of the Environmental Permits Division at the address shown above.  The Permit Board is limited in the scope of its analysis to environmental impact.  Any comments relative to zoning or economic and social impacts are within the jurisdiction of local zoning and planning authorities and should be addressed to them.
Additional details about the application(s), including a copy of the draft permit(s), are available by writing or calling the Public Records Request Officer at the above Permit Board address and telephone number.  Additionally, as a courtesy, for those with Internet access, a copy of the draft permit(s) may be found on the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality’s website at: http://opc.deq.state.ms.us/publicnotice.aspx . This information is also available for review at the following location(s) during normal business hours:
Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality
Office of Pollution Control
515 E. Amite St 
Jackson, MS 39201 
Jennie Stephens Smith Library
PO Box 846
New Albany, MS 38652    

Please bring the foregoing to the attention of persons whom you know will be interested.