New Source Review (NSR) Permitting

Single Source Determination

Date	Title	EPA Office	Author	Issues Addressed
04/24/1980	PSD Applicability Determination	SSCD	Reich, Edward	Whether two independent facilities can be considered part of the same source when they are located on adjacent properties and are owned by the same persons.
07/17/1980	PSD Applicability: TEX-USS High Density Polyethylene Plant	SSCD	Reich, Edward	Whether a proposed TEX-USS Polyethylene plant and the U.S.S. Novamont are under common control.
03/09/2009	Alcoa Massena Modernization Project and Request for a Single Source Determination	Region 2	Riva, Steven	Whether two plants are on contiguous or adjacent properties.
02/12/2020	EPA's Response to Eastman Chemical Company's Request that EPA Reconsider Prior Source Determinations	Region 3	Fernandez, Cristina	Whether EPA should apply the Meadowbrook Letter framework to reconsider past EPA letters concerning whether three chemical corporations are under common control
02/11/1998	Feb. 11, 1998 Letter to Terry Godar on MSW Landfills	Region 3	Morris, Makeba	Whether a landfill and landfill gas collection system are under common control, among other issues.
11/26/2019	Interpreting "Adjacent" for New Source Review and Title V Source Determinations in All Industries Other Than Oil and Gas	OAR	Idsal, Anne L.	Interpretation of “adjacent” for all industrial categories except for oil and natural gas activities.
07/23/2019	2019 Jaques Compressor Station Common Source Determination	Region 8	Daly, Carl	Whether two entities at a natural gas compressor station are under common control.
08/27/1996	Analysis of the Applicability of PSD to the Anheuser-Busch, Incorporated Brewery and Nutri-Turf, Incorporated Landfarm at Fort Collins, Colorado	OAQPS	Kellam, Robert	Whether a brewery and landfarm are on contiguous or adjacent properties and share a major industrial grouping (or a support facility relationship).
08/02/1996	Major Source Determinations for Military Installations Under the Air Toxics, New Source Review, and Title V Operating Permit Programs of the Clean Air Act (Act)	OAQPS	Seitz, John	Whether operations within military installations should be considered to be under common control and share a major industrial grouping (or a support facility relationship).
05/19/1999	Applicability of Title V Permitting Requirements to Gasoline Bulk Terminals Owned by Williams Energy Ventures, Inc.	Region 4	Smith, Winston	Whether two bulk gasoline terminals are on contiguous or adjacent properties.
01/28/2000	Applicability of PSD Permitting Requirements, Wellcraft Marine Corporation, Sarasota, Florida	Region 4	Neeley, Douglas R.	Whether two boat manufacturing operations are on contiguous or adjacent properties.
04/14/2006	Single Source Determination for General Dynamics	Region 5	Blakely, Pamela	Whether multiple weapons manufacturing operations are on contiguous or adjacent properties.
09/22/2009	Withdrawal of William Wehrum's January 12, 2007 Issued Guidance Memo "Source Determinations for Oil and Gas Industries"	OAR	McCarthy, Gina	Withdrawal of memo concerning major source determinations for the oil and gas industry.
01/12/2007	Source Determinations for Oil and Gas Industries	OAR	Wehrum, William	[Withdrawn] Guidance related to major stationary source determinations for the oil and gas industry.
07/15/1997	July 15, 1997 Region V Letter on LTV Steel, Stein, Inc., and Allega, Inc.	Region 5	Newton, Cheryl	Whether three steel production and processing facilities are under common control and have a support facility relationship.
08/08/1997	target="_blank"Great Salt Lake Minerals Source Determination	Region 8	Long, Richard	Whether a pump station and minerals plant share a major industrial grouping (or a support facility relationship) and are on contiguous or adjacent properties.
05/21/1998	Response to Request for Guidance in Defining Adjacent with Respect to Source Aggregation	Region 8	Long, Richard	Whether two Utility Trailer manufacturing facilities are on contiguous or adjacent properties.
08/21/2001	Permitting of Forest Oil's Kustatan Production Facility and Osprey Platform Pursuant to the Alaska SIP	Region 10	Hardesty, Douglas	Whether an off-shore oil/gas platform and an on-shore production facility are on contiguous or adjacent properties.
02/18/1987	PSD Applicability Request, Valero Hydrocarbon Company Yoakum, DeWitt County Texas	Region 6	Hathaway, William	Whether a hydrocarbon extraction operation and natural gas gathering and transmission operations share a major industrial grouping (or a support facility relationship).
08/07/1997	ESCO Corp. Source Determination	Region 10	Cabreza, Joan	Whether two metal castings plants are on contiguous or adjacent properties and share a major industrial grouping (or a support facility relationship).
10/16/2018	Are JCL and Ameresco Under Common Control	OAQPS	Wood, Anna Marie	Whether a landfill and a landfill gas-to-energy operation are under common control.
04/30/2018	Meadowbrook Energy and Keystone Landfill Common Control Analysis	OAR	Wehrum, William	Whether a biogas processing facility and a landfill are under common control, based on a new interpretation of the term “control.”
02/01/2018	Pacific Ethanol, One or More Sources?	Region 7	Weber, Rebecca	Whether two ethanol production facilities and a grain operation are on contiguous or adjacent properties and share a major industrial grouping (or a support facility relationship).
10/11/2000	St. Lawrence Cement... Two Facilities or One?	Region 2	Riva, Steven	Whether two cement manufacturing operations are on contiguous or adjacent properties and share a major industrial grouping (or a support facility relationship).
09/18/1995	Common Control, September 18, 1995 Letter to Peter Hamlin	Region 7	Spratlin, William	Whether new facilities that locate on the site of an existing major stationary source should be considered to be under common control.
10/18/2010	Summit Petroleum Corporation Single Source Determination	Region 5	Newton, Cheryl	[Vacated] Whether sour gas wells, a sweetening plant, and associated flares are on contiguous or adjacent properties.
08/25/1999	Support Facility Determination... Oscar Mayer and Madison Gas & Electric	Region 5	Miller, Robert	Whether six electric generating units and a food facility share a major industrial grouping (or a support facility relationship) and are under common control.
08/08/2001	Should DuPont and DUSA International be Considered a Single Source for Title V and PSD	Region 4	Neeley, R. Douglas	Whether different portions of a chemical manufacturing complex are under common control.
03/29/2001	Single Source Determination for Gallitan Steel Co. and Heckett MultiServ	OAQPS	Thomas, Henry and Seitz, John	Whether a steel manufacturing facility and slag processing facility are under common control and share a major industrial grouping (or a support facility relationship).
10/01/1999	Source Definition Issue for KN Power - Front Range Energy Associates, LLC/PSCo Generating Facility	Region 8	Long, Richard	Whether two power generating facilities are under common control.
05/16/1980	Shell Oil Company Wilmington Complex Specification of Source	SCCD	Reich, Edward	Whether portions of a refinery complex are on contiguous or adjacent properties.
11/12/1998	Single Source Determination for Coors/TriGen	Region 8	Long, Richard	Whether a power plant and a brewery are under common control and share a major industrial grouping (or a support facility relationship).
12/06/2004	Lincolnway Energy Cooperative & Co-location with Existing Grain Cooperative	Region 7	Heiman, JoAnn
07/03/2001	PSD Question Concerning Common Control, Alliant Energy and Climax Molybdenum	OAQPS	Seitz, John	Whether diesel-fired backup generators and a chemical plant are under common control.
07/08/2004	Outstanding Issues at the Al Turi Landfill in Goshen, NY	Region 2	Kenny, Jane	EPA objection to issuance of a title V operating permit based on, among other things, whether the landfill and a landfill gas-to-energy operation are under common control.
01/10/2012	GPC Single Source Letter	Region 3	Cox, Kathleen	Whether a landfill, landfill gas collection, and landfill gas-to-energy operations are on contiguous or adjacent properties and under common control.
07/21/2005	Single Source Evaluation for the Hartford Working Group and Premcor Distribution Center	Region 5	Blakely, Pamela	Whether a remediation site and distribution center are under common control and share a major industrial grouping (or a support facility relationship).
04/20/1999	American Soda Multi-facility Source Determination	Region 8	Long, Richard	Whether a sodium bicarbonate mine and processing plant are on contiguous or adjacent properties.
05/01/2002	Common Control for Maplewood Landfill and Industrial Power Generating Corporation	Region 3	Katz, Judith	Whether a landfill and landfill gas-to-energy operation are under common control.
08/11/1989	PSD Applicability Determination for Multiple Owner/Operator Point Sources Within a Single Facility	OAQPS	Calcagni, John	Whether multiple operations at an airport are under common control.
01/15/1999	United Salt Northeast PSD Determination	Region 3	Henry, Kathleen	Whether two salt processing facilities are on contiguous or adjacent properties and are under common control.
	Georgetown Cogeneration Project as a Minor Source	Region 3	Turlinski, Bernard	Whether a cogeneration project at a university is under common control.
07/12/2019	Are Manchester Renewable Power Corp. and Ocean Energy Corp Under Common Control	OAR	Idsal, Anne L.	Whether a landfill and landfill gas-to-energy operations are under common control.
03/25/2016	Central Landfill Source Determination	Region 1	Moraff, Ken	Whether a landfill, gas collection and control system, and landfill gas-to-energy operations share a major industrial grouping (or a support facility relationship) and are under common control.
12/21/2012	Applicability of the Summit Decision to EPA Title V and NSR Source Determinations	OAQPS	Page, Stephen	[Vacated] Explanation of the decision by the 6^th Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate and remand a title V applicability determination made by the EPA for Summit Petroleum’s oil and gas operations in Michigan.
12/16/2011	PowerSecure Common Control Determination	Region 4	Worley, Gregg	Whether a landfill and landfill gas-to-energy operations are under common control.
08/09/2017	Source Determination Analysis for River Bend Dehydrator Site	Region 8	Wortman, Eric	Whether certain emission units in the oil and natural gas sector are adjacent based on the definition of “surface site” and “shared equipment.”
06/30/1981	PSD Definition of Source	SSCD	Reich, Edward	Whether two automobile manufacturing operations are on contiguous or adjacent properties.
10/18/2010	BP American Production Company's Florida River Compression Facility Single Source Determination	Region 8	Videtich, Callie	Whether gas wells and a compression stations share a major industrial grouping (or a support facility relationship) and are on contiguous or adjacent properties.
03/16/1979	Definition of Source	SSCD	Reich, Edward	Whether a paper mill and a chemical plant are under common control.
05/11/2009	Common Control Determination for Ocean County Landfill and the Manchester Renewable Power Corp./LES	Region 2	Borsellino, Ronald	Whether a landfill and landfill gas-to-energy operations are under common control.
07/20/1995	Site Specific Determination of Common Control United Technologies Corporation; Columbus G.A.	Region 4	Harper, Jewell	Whether two manufacturing operations are under common control.
06/05/1995	Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Title V Applicability	Region 4	Harper, Jewell	Whether a nuclear plant and fossil-fired power plant share a major industrial grouping, are on contiguous or adjacent properties, and are under common control.
04/05/1995	4/5/95 Letter on Definition of Major Source	Region 2	Eng, Kenneth	Whether multiple different operations associated with different five examples should be considered to be under common control.
03/13/1998	Guidance on Major Modification Provisions of PSD Rules as Applied to "Re-Permitting" at Acme Steel Co.	Region 5	Newton, Cheryl	Whether two steel mills are on contiguous or adjacent properties.
	Response to Appeal Dated May 21, 1992 From Reserve Coal Properties Company	Region 3	Erickson, Edwin	Whether a coal mine and coal cleaning facility share a major industrial grouping (or a support facility relationship), among other issues.

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