New Source Review (NSR) Permitting

Fugitive Emissions

Date	Title	EPA Office	Author	Issues Addressed
06/09/1980	PSD Applicability, South Hospah Mine	SSCD	Reich, Edward	Guidance regarding the accounting of fugitive emissions in determining potential to emit for surface coal mine and coal preparation facilities.
	Response to Appeal Dated May 21, 1992 From Reserve Coal Properties Company	Region 3	Erickson, Edwin	Whether fugitive emissions from a coal cleaning facility associated with a coal mine must be included in determining whether the source is a major stationary source under the PSD program.
11/22/1994	Response to May 20, 1994 Letter from Robert H. Collom, Jr.	OECA	Stein, Kathie	Whether emissions from presses in wood products facilities should be considered fugitive emissions under the NSR program, among other issues.
03/01/1996	Regulated Pollutant	OAQPS	Kellam, Robert	Whether certain types of emissions should be considered fugitive emissions, and whether fugitive emissions from certain types of sources should be included in determining whether a source is a major source under the title V program, among other issues.
08/06/1996	August 6, 1996 Letter to Martin Bauer	Region 10	Cabreza, Joan	How fugitive emissions are treated in determining whether a source is a major stationary source, and which emissions are considered fugitive emissions for permitting purposes, among other issues.
02/11/1998	Feb. 11, 1998 Letter to Terry Godar on MSW Landfills	Region 3	Morris, Makeba	Whether emissions from municipal solid waste landfill emissions should be considered fugitive emissions under the title V program, among other issues.
03/08/1994	Consideration of Fugitive Emissions in Major Source Determinations	OAQPS	Wegman, Lydia	How fugitive emissions should be treated for purposes of determining whether a source is a major source under the NSR (PSD and NNSR) and title V programs.
08/09/2007	Inclusion of Haul Road Emissions in PSD Applicability Determination for Coal Mine and Preparation Plant	Region 5	Blakely, Pamela	Whether fugitive emissions of PM from haul roads at a source that includes both a coal mine and a coal preparation plant must be included in determining whether a source is a major source under the PSD program.
06/02/1995	EPA Reconsideration of Application of Collocation Rules to Unlisted Sources of Fugitive Emissions for Purposes of Title V Permitting	OAQPS	Hitte, Steve and Wegman, Lydia	Whether fugitive emissions should be included from equipment that does not belong to a listed source category but that is considered part of the same stationary source as equipment in a listed source category, for purposes of determining whether the source is a major source under the NSR and title V programs.
10/14/1994	Consideration of Fugitive Emissions from Grain Elevators	OAQPS	Lillis, Ed	Whether grain elevators must include fugitive emissions for purposes of determining whether a source is a major source under the title V program.
11/02/2006	Consideration of Fugitive in Open-Air Cattle Operations	OAR	Wehrum, William	Whether emissions from certain activities at open-air cattle feeding operations should be considered fugitive emissions under the NSR (PSD and NNSR) and title V regulations.
03/06/2003	Clarification of Fugitive Emissions Policy	Region 5	Rothblatt, Stephen and Newton, Cheryl	How fugitive emissions should be treated in determining whether a source is a major source under the NSR (PSD and NNSR) and title V programs.
12/19/2013	Counting GHG Fugitive Emissions in Permitting Applicability	OAQPS		How fugitive emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) should be treated in determining whether a stationary source is major under the PSD and title V programs, and whether a modification is major under the PSD program.
10/05/1998	Applicability of NSPS for Coal Preparation to Coal Unloading Operations	OECA	Gigliello, Kenneth	Whether fugitive emissions from coal unloading at coal preparation plants must be included in determining whether a source is a major source under the title V program, among other issues.
10/03/1997	Fugitive Emissions from Coal Preparation Plants	OECA	Herman, Steven	Whether fugitive emissions from coal unloading at coal preparation plants must be included in determining whether a source is a major source under the title V program.
08/10/2006	Consideration of Fugitive Emissions at Oilseed Processing Plants	Administrator	Johnson, Stephen	Whether fugitive emissions from a soybean oil extraction process must be included when determining whether a source is a major source under the PSD program, among other issues.
02/10/1999	Interpretation of the Definition of Fugitive Emissions in Parts 70 and 71	OAQPS	Curran, Thomas	Whether emissions of VOC from the printing industry, whiskey warehouses, paint manufacturing facilities, and other similar sources should be considered fugitive emissions under the title V program.
07/16/1998	NSR & PSD Rules Regarding Fugitive Emissions Applicable to Major Sources	Region 5	Newton, Cheryl	How fugitive emissions should be treated in determining whether a source is a major source under the NSR (PSD and NNSR) and title V programs.
04/16/1996	Determination of Whether Emissions from Seagram and Sons Whiskey Storage Facility are Fugitive	Region 5	Newton, Cheryl	Whether emissions from a whiskey storage facility should be considered fugitive emissions under the title V program.
10/06/1987	Emissions from Landfills	OAQPS	Emison, Gerald	Whether emissions from landfills should be considered fugitive emissions under the NSR program.
10/21/1994	Classification of Emissions from Landfills for NSR Applicability Purposes	OAQPS	Seitz, John	Whether landfill gas emissions should be considered fugitive emissions under the NSR program.
11/19/1992	Interim Guidance on New Source Review (NSR) Questions Raised in Letters Dated September 9 and 24, 1992	Region 6	Meiburg, Stanley	How fugitive emissions should be treated for purposes of determining whether a source is a major source under the NNSR program, among other issues.
06/09/1988	Emissions from Rocket Firing at Test Stands; Fugitive or Point Source Emissions	SSCD	Shafer, Ronald	Whether emissions from rocket firing at test stands should be considered fugitive emissions under the NSR program.
02/18/1998	Should Gasoline be Considered as Petroleum in Determining if Source is Major	Region 4	Neeley, R. Douglas	Whether fugitive emissions from bulk gasoline terminals must be included in determining whether a source is a major source under the title V program.
08/08/1997	Is a Solvent Reclamation Facility Considered a Chemical Process Plant	Region 4	Pierce, Carla	Whether fugitive emissions from a solvent reclamation facility must be included in determining whether the source is a major source under the title V program.

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