TEP Application for PSD Authorization

Tucson Electric Power Company (TEP) operates its Irvington Generating Station (IGS) under Class I Air Quality Operating Permit No. 1052 issued by the Pima County Department of Environmental Quality (PDEQ). IGS consists mainly of four steam boiler generating units, specifically, Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3 and Unit 4. TEP is proposing to modernize the station by replacing two 1950's era steam units (i.e., Units 1 and 2) with ten high-efficiency, fast-responding, state-of-the-art reciprocating internal combustion engines (RICE), each having a generating capacity of nearly 19 MW.  The RICE project expects to trigger a major modification for CO, PM2.5/PM10 and VOCs subject to the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) permitting. As such, air quality dispersion modeling analysis is required to demonstrate that new emissions from the major modification, will not cause or contribute to a violation of any National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).

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AS DOCUMENTS BECOME AVAILABLE

Facility Change Notification
Dispersion Modeling Report - Rev 3
Pluvue II - Rev 1

Correction of Federal Register

Federal Register Notice
PSD Permit Effective Letter

EAB December 3, 2018 (Order Denying Review)

Environmental Appeals Board (EAB)

EAB Dockets 

2018-03-29 Sierra Club TEP RICE Comments Exhibit 1 Petra Pless CV Exhibit 2 KDEH Lacey Randall Final Permit
Exhibit 3 Tradewind Lacey Randall Application
Exhibit 4 CARB BACT Determination for Neo California
Exhibit 5 SCAQMD BACT Neo California
Exhibit 6 GAO Report
Exhibit 7 EPA Letter to Broadbent, BAAQMD
Exhibit 8 EPA Letter to Rhodes, FDEP
Exhibit 9 Jahnke
Exhibit 10 NCUAQMD Permit for Humboldt Bay
Exhibit 11 FLAG Guidance
Exhibit 12 EPA Guidance for PM2.5 Modeling
Exhibit 13 EPA NAAQS Table for criteria Air Pollutants
Operating Manual for NOx Control Device

Final Air Quality Permit Information

TEP PSD Air Quality Permit #1052

TEP PSD Technical Support Document (TSD)

Pima County Responses to Public Comment

Permit Issuance Decision Letter

Compliance Assurance Monitoring Plan for Carbon Monoxide

Administrative Records to Support TSD

Pencor Masada (May 2001) Citgo - Petition Order (May 2009)

Cash Creek - Petition Order (June 2012)

Pio Pico Energy - EAB Final Order (Aug 2013)

Hu Honua - Petition Order (Feb 2014) Yuhuang - Order Denying Petition for Objection to Permit (April 2018)

California Power Holdings - Permit to Operate

The information below provides a chronological list of the documentation related to this complex process from the projects inception to its conclusion. PDEQ is utilizing this repository webpage to provide easy access to the documents for the public comment period and to facilitate an open dialogue and the sharing of information with all interested parties.

Permit Application Documentation