Colorado Compliance

Colorado Compliance

The state's sole independent source of business-related environmental regulatory and compliance data.

OCTOBER 31, 2003

UP FRONT

2   CDPHE Fetes Environmental Pacesetters

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) recognized more than 30 companies, individuals and government agencies at a ceremony honoring those who have gone above and beyond regulatory requirements when it comes to protecting the environment. The Oct. 7 celebration at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science feted facilities that have reduced waste streams, cut emissions and implemented a variety of additional pollution prevention methods and technologies. CDPHE recognized winners of its Environmental Achievement Award and Pollution Prevention Champion Award as well as three new members to the Gold Level of the department’s Environmental Leadership Program (ELP).

"Every year, I look forward to learning about these exciting and innovative projects undertaken by businesses and organizations throughout Colorado," said ...

5   Silo TCE Leak Taints Weld Groundwater

7   State’s Big 3 Utilities Want Coal Plants

8   High Court Ruling Bolsters Industry

ROCKY MOUNTAIN BRIEFS

Judge puts big water case on hold ... Directional drilling workshop ... Recognition for Roche ... Safe workplace agreement at RMSM ... Grand Junction green and clean ... Group studies gas impacts ... OHSA honors ConAgra ... Next steps for WRAP ... No progress at Lowry ... Reorganization at COGCC? ... All begin on page 8

REGULATORY ROUNDUP

11   Slew Of Air Rulemakings Coming

12   Work Moves Ahead On NSR Changes

Work by an Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC) subcommittee to incorporate federal changes to the state’s new source review (NSR) program into the AQCC’s Regulation No. 3 continues at with Nov. 5 and Nov. 30 meetings at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. The revision effort was also the subject of a subcommittee meeting Oct. 21.

The AQCC’s rewrite effort involves the Environmental Protection Agency’s NSR revisions promulgated Dec. 31, 2002. The AQCC’s goal is to embed EPA’s changes into AQCC Regulation No. 3 as well as to re-organize the rule so that it’s easier to understand — always a welcome and laudable effort.

Air Pollution Control Division (APCD) staffers have proposed making substantive and non-substantive changes to AQCC Regulation No. 3. The major substantive change will be to incorporate the new NSR rules. The new NSR rules involve five major changes that apply to major stationary sources: 1) Baseline actual emissions; 2) Actual-to-projected-actual applicability test; 3) Plantwide applicability limits; 4) Clean unit tests; and 5) Pollution control project exclusion.

Currently, the major source NSR provisions are contained in sections IV to XI in Part B of Regulation No. 3. In order to more clearly distinguish these requirements from those applicable to all sources, the APCD is prosing to segregate the major source NSR requirements in Part D of Regulation No. 3. Currently, Part D contains the statements of basis, statutory authority and purpose; those statements will be moved to a new Part F. A new Part E will be reserved for Environmental Management Systems.

For details on the AQCC’s Regulation No. 3 subcommittee, click here.

13   Complaint: BLM Too Close To COGA

14   More Record Numbers For Permits

ENFORCEMENT REPORT

15   Vail Settles Wetlands Violation, Maybe

16   District Judge Slashes Dumping Sentence

17   GJ Man Found Guilty In Colo. River Case

18   Flurry Of Federal Year End Enforcement

20   HMWMD Targets PCD Groundwater

SUPERFUND/HAZARDOUS WASTE

21   Weary Cotter Seeks Relief From BOH

22   EPA Scrambles On Asbestos Cleanup

23   Tempers Flare Over Summitville Plant

24   Club 20 Skeptical On Mag Chloride

25   Mystery Ooze Strikes Poudre River

25   BP Wants New Treatment Site

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