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OPC Environmental Permits Division

Public Hearing Details

Amite BioEnergy LLC, Wood Pellet Manufacturing Facility

AI IDBranchSICCountyBasinStartEnd
57796Air 2
Stormwater 401
Water 2		2499AmiteSouth Independent Streams06/08/2012 


Physical Address (Primary)Mailing Address
Old Highway 24
Gloster, MS 39638 		1500 North 19th Street
Suite 501
Monroe, LA 71201


Hearing DateHearing Location
11/14/2024Gloster Public Library
229 East Main Street
Gloster, MS39638

Comments: Amite BioEnergy, LLC - Wood Pellet Manufacturing Facility ("Amite BioEnergy") has submitted a dual application to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) for the issuance of a modified Permit to Construct Air Emissions Equipment and an initial Title V Operating Permit. Amite BioEnergy is an existing is an existing industrial facility that manufactures wood pellets from green wood fiber material – specifically southern yellow pine. For the production of wood pellets, Amite BioEnergy implements log chipping, bark hogging, log debarking, a rotary dryer, dry hammer mills, pellet mills and coolers, pellet storage silos, truck loading activities, and other ancillary activities. The wood pellet production process has the maximum uncontrolled potential-to-emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs), total particulate matter (PM), particulate matter less than 10 microns in diameter (PM10), particulate matter less than 2.5 microns in diameter (PM2.5), and carbon monoxide (CO) greater than the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) major source threshold of 250 tons per year (tpy); therefore, both draft permits contain Federally enforceable operational restrictions and air pollution control device requirements to limit the respective emission of each aforementioned pollutant below the aforementioned PSD major source threshold. Additionally, Amite BioEnergy is now considered a major source of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) given that it has the potential-to-emit in excess of 25 tpy for all HAPs in total and 10 tpy for any individual HAP. Accordingly, the facility is now subject to the case-by-case maximum achievable control technology (MACT) requirements in Regulation 11 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 2, R. 1.8. [Provisions for Hazardous Air Pollutants] and Regulation 11 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 2, R. 8.1. [Requirements for Control Technology Determinations for Major Sources in Accordance With Clean Air Act Section 112(g)].

Shared Documents

VIEWPermit TypeDocument Description
click for document Air MA-Air-ConstructionNotice for Public Comment Period & Public Hearing
click for document Air MA-Air-ConstructionDraft Modified Permit to Construct.pdf
click for document Air MA-Air-ConstructionStatement of Basis (Draft Modified PTC)
click for document Air NA-Air-Title V0080-00031 Draft TVOP.pdf
click for document Air NA-Air-Title VStatement of Basis (Draft TVOP)
click for document Air MA-Air-ConstructionStart-Up, Shutdown, and Malfunction Plan (09-27-24).pdf
click for document Air MA-Air-ConstructionDust Management Plan (March 2022).pdf

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