RATIONALE FOR REISSUANCE
Phillips Bark Processing Company, Inc.
Phillips Bark Processing Facility
Lincoln County
Solid Waste Permit No. SW0430050465
Date of Application: March 2, 2018

I.	FACILITY INFORMATION

Facility Name:  	Phillips Bark Processing Facility
Facility Owner:	Phillips Bark Processing Company, Inc 
Facility Address:	428 County Farm Lane NE
Brookhaven, MS 39601    
Permit No.:		SW0430050465
SIC Code:		4953
Permit Writer:		Ross D. Williams, RPG 
Waste Division:	Solid Waste Permitting Branch	

II.	NATURE OF BUSINESS AND PROPOSED SOLID WASTE PERMITTING ACTION

Phillips Bark Processing Company, Inc. operates a natural materials blending facility to create a bagged mulch product for the retail market. The natural materials blending process includes the following materials; pine and hardwood chips and bark, hardwood sawdust, wood ash, poultry litter, and washed sand. The permittee/applicant has applied for the reissuance of their solid waste processing permit to operate this regulated facility.

III.	LOCATION INFORMATION AND TOTAL PROPERTY AREA

Phillips Bark Processing Company, Inc. is located in Section 21, Township 7 North, Range 8 East, Lincoln County, Mississippi, being inside the Brookhaven city limits.  The physical address is 428 County Farm Lane NE, Brookhaven, Mississippi 39601. The total deeded contiguous properties are 23.72 acres.  The area used for processing and/or storage is 6.5 acres. 

IV.	LOCAL SOLID WASTE PLANNING AND ZONING INFORMATION

The proposed permit action is consistent with the Lincoln County Solid Waste Management Plan (Plan). The Plan (2006) recognizes the current location and operation of the Phillips Bark Processing Company, Inc. facility.  Additionally, the Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (Commission) issued Administrative Order No. 5547 09 on March 17, 2009, approving the updated Plan.

Phillips Bark Processing Company, Inc. has operated within Lincoln County since it began operations in March 1978.

V.	APPROVED SERVICE AREA

The Lincoln County Solid Waste Management Plan recognizes a service area for the Phillips Bark Processing Facility that includes Mississippi and south Louisiana.

VI.	HOURS OF OPERATION AND SITE SECURITY 

The entire facility is fenced with an entrance gate. There are facility personnel on site from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Gates are secured when plant personnel are not present.

VII.	SITING CRITERIA

Under the Mississippi Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management Regulations (Regulations), an applicant seeking to locate a new or expanded solid waste facility must demonstrate compliance with a variety of siting criteria.  The permit application does not propose any changes to the currently approved siting criteria for the facility and the facility conforms with the siting criteria that were evaluated and approved during its original permit issuance. Vegetative screening exists on the northern and portions of the eastern property boundary which limits full visibility of the facility.

Current Buffer Distances (property line to storage and processing areas):
		North:  100 feet 
		South:	 60 feet (adjacent property owner concurrence was provided.)
		East:	100 feet
		West:	100 feet

VIII.	WASTE ACCEPTANCE AND PROCESSING

The processing facility will continue to accept pine and hardwood chips and bark, hardwood sawdust, wood ash, poultry litter, washed sand, and other similar approved wastes for blending and processing.  The facility receives approximately 240 tons of various materials per day to be processed into bagged mulch and compost products.

IX.	APPLICANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION 

In accordance with State Law, the applicant filed a disclosure statement in 2018 describing the company’s structure, key officers and members, other affiliated businesses and any civil or criminal violations.  A letter of disclosure assurance for Phillips Bark Processing Company, Inc. was reviewed by the MDEQ Legal Division and determined to be complete on September 18, 2024.

X.	APPLICANT CONTACT INFORMATION  

Jeff Phillips, President
Mobile: (601) 835-6586

XI.	OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

The facility maintains Industrial Storm Water coverage MSR000352.

XII.	OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

Product composite sample analysis referred to by regulation.

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