November 2003

St. Louis Section Newsletter

Next Meeting

Breakfast Meeting

Tuesday, December 9, 2003

Speakers: Glenn Morrison

Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering

University of Missouri - Rolla

Program: Indoor Air Quality

Location: Norman K. Probstein Golf Course & Clubhouse

6141 Lagoon Drive (in Forest Park), St. Louis, MO 63112 (314) 367-1337

Directions: From US 40 (I-64) go North on Skinker to Lagoon Drive, Turn right

Across from entrance to Washington University (website has a map)

(Note, Lagoon Drive is under construction and it is narrow)

Schedule: Breakfast

7:00- 7:30 Registration/Networking

7:30 - 9:30 Breakfast/Business Meeting

Menu: Buffet – Assorted breads and bagels, hickory bacon and sausage, cheddar scrambled eggs, sliced fruit, assorted juices and coffee

Cost: International Members - $8

Local Section Members - $10

Non-members - $13

Reservations: RSVP by Noon, Friday, December 5, 2003 to Susan Myers at (314) 768-6366 or e-mail: smyers@stlmsd.com with name, company, and number of people attending.

Next meetings: January 20, 2004 – Brett Hanke of SAIC will discuss Homeland Security.

February 17, 2004 – Missouri Trends in Enforcement

We Want You as an International Member!

Now is the time to join AWMA International and enjoy all the BENEFITS that AWMA International has for you!! Consider these money saving and exciting reasons for you to join AWMA International “NOW.” **

I. If you, as an individual (not your company), have never been an International AWMA member or have not been a member during the 12 months prior to signing up for this offer, you may become an international member for an introductory price of $100 for the first year with the choice of either EM magazine or the AWMA Journal. (If you want both magazines, the additional magazine will be $49/year.)

II. Other local AWMA benefits for being an International Member are:

A. A. Save $3.00 - 5.00 for meetings

B. B. Save $10 - 20 for Webcasts

C. C. Website Sponsorship – 50% off for International member

D. D. Golf outing discounts

E. E. Drawings at monthly meetings for International members only for AWMA “stuff/gear” and each winner goes in hat for an “end of year” drawing for $500 gift certificate.

F. F. Bring a friend for a free (1) lunch and, if they join International AWMA, you get an additional free lunch at an upcoming meeting.

G. G. One year of free lunches (9) and 1 free sponsorship for a meeting ($250 value) if you bring in 6 new International members. Or, for 3 new International members, you will get a $100 gift certificate.

Want to know more about AWMA International Membership benefits go to http://www.awma.org/about/memberbenefits/default.asp

Ready to Join the Team? To apply for International Membership go to http://www.awma.org/members/join/Default.asp?id=21261493

Just print out an application and send it with your check for $100 (made out to AWMA International) to:

Tom Maddox

T.L. Maddox Companies

16149 Westwoods Business Park

Ellisville, MO 63021

For additional information or to answer any questions, you may call Tom Maddox at (636) 394-8161 or email him at tlm@tlmcos.com. If you’re already a Local St. Louis Section AWMA member, you can deduct $15 – so now it’s only $85!! for you to join TODAY!!

Please forward this important information to others you know that may have an interest in joining AWMA International.

**This promotion expires 12/31/03**

What’s up on the St. Louis WEBSITE?

How does our Website look? Would you like to see a more modern looking website? If you are interested in changing its look and feel, give Tom Maddox, Jim Burris, and any Board member a call (see the list of contacts at the end of this note). There are all kinds of new features that could be added to improve the function and value of the website. We could really use some help in HTML and XML programming. Jim has been doing a great job keeping items updated, but we need to make our website a classic.

Looking for a job, check out the website for current openings. Also, see http://careerengineer.aiche.org as another related career site for engineers in the environmental area.

Look for a new St. Louis Members directory – coming soon. Make sure your contact information is up-to-date. Although email addresses will not be included, send any new information to webmaster@awmastl.org.

THE 2003 GREATER ST. LOUIS SCIENCE FAIR

The Section would like to recognize its 2003 special award winners at the Greater St. Louis Science Fair, which was held last April at the Greensfelder Recreational Center in Queeny Park:

Elementary School Winners

1st Meghan Bach (Forsyth)

2nd Erica Kadi (St. Alban Roe)

3rd Allison Magor (St. Raphael)

4th Amanda Van Winkle (Coleman Elementary)

Secondary School Winners

1st Adam Rey (Incarnate Word)

2nd Aimee’ Ujka (Sperreng Middle)

3rd James Krupp (St. Monica)

4th K.J. Blair (St. John Lutheran)

The Board would also like to recognize and thank those members who voluntarily assisted with the judging: Scott Ellis, David Haselbauer, Joe Darmody, Tom Maddox, Barb Duletsky, Marty Cahill and Jennifer Markwardt.

The Section will broadcast another request for judges next Spring for the 2004 Greater St. Louis Science Fair. If you would enjoy spending an evening with your fellow AWMA members, using your environmental expertise, and assisting in one of your Section’s activities, please send me a note. The food is mere sustenance, but the experience is quite worthwhile, educational, and entertaining.

Mike Zlatic (Michael_Zlatic@co.st-louis.mo.us)

EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE OPPORTUNITY

The Education Committee of the Greater St. Louis Section of AWMA is developing a new program to create a resource for knowledge and experience of environmental science for students, teachers, and school district personnel throughout the St. Louis community focusing on grades 3-12.

The PEER Program (Partnering Environmental & Educational Resources) will incorporate existing educational functions of our Section including judging at the St. Louis Science Fair and participation in career development related activities, and will attempt to expand its outreach to the educational community throughout the Metro area in several additional ways. Some of the initial elements being considered for this program include mentoring programs, classroom interaction, involvement with district and individual school's career days, participation in the annual Career Awareness Fair for 8th Graders, as well as other interactive ideas and media presentations.

These elements are important not only in providing educational resources to teachers and school districts, but they also serve as a means to promote both awareness and interest in environmental science among young students.

As with any participation-based program, the more people involved, the further these elements can be promoted. Involvement can be as limited or expansive as each individual chooses. Any local Section members interested in helping to develop this program or in participating in one or more of the PEER Program elements please contact Joe Darmody, Education Committee Chair at joe.darmody@npnenv.com or 636-343-1300.

Environmental Tip of the Week is courtesy of Joseph Burstiner, VP, Consultant Services, EDR, Southport, Connecticut, who writes in Environmental Protection magazine:

If you are a consultant who is looking to shave time off your Phase I environmental site assessments, consider pairing a hand-held computer with an off-the-shelf (or customized) software checklist for use during field visits. In a recent poll, EDR found that report writing/preparation is the most time-consuming component of the Phase I process. In fact, 75 percent of the consultants polled spend six to eight hours (or more) on this task. By offering customized pull-down menus whereby consultants can enter data that can later be sent to the office electronically for faster quality control, manipulation and report generation, hand-helds can streamline the report preparation process. Such systems eliminate paper checklists as well as the time that would be spent manually entering site visit data. If you're looking for a way to turn around your ESAs more quickly, hand-held technology is something every consultant should consider.

Web Links

STATES, CITIES ATTEMPT TO BLOCK NEW SOURCE REVIEW CHANGES

http://www.ProcessRequest.com/apps/redir.asp?link=XbfjhcbbCG,YdggbfdchDD&oid=UbiefBI&iclitemid=XbfajfbeCF&tid=WbfafgdCA

Fourteen states and a number of cities filed papers in federal court Nov. 17 in an attempt to block implementation of changes to the New Source Review program under the Clean Air Act that are scheduled to take effect Dec. 26.

SCRAP TIRES COULD BE USED AT GOLF COURSES TO PROTECT ENVIRONMENT

http://www.ProcessRequest.com/apps/redir.asp?link=XbfjhcbdCI,YdggbfdchDD&oid=UbiefBI&iclitemid=XbfajfbeCF&tid=WbfafgdCA

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered a novel, environmentally friendly use for waste tires. Ground up bits of the tires can be placed beneath golf course greens, forming a protective environmental barrier.

EPA RELEASES SECURITY PRODUCT GUIDE FOR WATER UTILITIES

http://www.ProcessRequest.com/apps/redir.asp?link=XbfgfibfDB,YdggbfdchDD&oid=UbiefBI&iclitemid=XbejiabdCG&tid=WbegfgdCF

G. Tracy Mehan III, assistant administrator for the Office of Water, has announced the availability of a Security Product Guide developed especially for drinking water and wastewater utilities.

This Months Highlights in EM and the Journal - International Members get this Free!

This month's EM looks at optical monitoring technology, which offers near-real-time detection and reporting of gaseous compounds. Also this month, Ethics Corner considers the ethics of an environmental professional who gives exaggerated testimony in pollution prosecution cases to provide a basis for reasonable doubt.

The Journal features 13 peer-reviewed papers on a range of air and waste topics, including "An Air Quality Data Analysis System for Interrelating Effects, Standards, and Needed Source. Reductions: Part 13" by Larsen; and "Partitioning Gas Tracer Tests for Measurement of Water in Municipal Solid Waste" by Imhoff et al.

Boiler MACT (40 CFR 63, Subpart DDDDD)

by Andy Polcyn and Matt Scheiner

The following Technical article is brought to you as a service of the St. Louis Section of the Air and Waste Management Association. We thank the authors for taking the time to prepare this.

In January 2003, EPA proposed a new MACT rule to limit emissions of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) from industrial, institutional and commercial boilers, and process heaters. This rule is made part of the code of federal regulations (CFR) under Title 40, Part 63, Subpart DDDDD and is titled,

“National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Industrial/Commercial/Institutional Boilers and Process Heaters” (referred to hereafter as “the Boiler MACT” and “this rule”).

When the Boiler MACT is finally promulgated (scheduled to be made final during the Spring of 2004), it will affect a significant number of industrial facilities. Any industrial, commercial, or institutional boiler or process heater that is located at, or is part of, a major source of hazardous air pollutants (HAP) emissions – except as specifically exempted – is subject to this rule.

Combustion units that will be exempt from the Boiler MACT are as follows:

· Municipal waste combustors covered by 40 CFR part 60, subpart AAAA, subpart BBBB, subpart Eb or subpart Cb.

· Hospital/medical/infectious waste incinerators covered by 40 CFR part 60, subpart Ce or subpart Ec.

· An electric utility steam generating unit that is a fossil fuel-fired combustion unit of more than 25 megawatts that serves as a generator that produces electricity for sale. A unit that cogenerates steam and electricity and supplies more than one-third of its potential electric output capacity and more than 25 megawatts electrical output to any utility power distribution system for sale is considered an electric utility steam generating unit.

· A boiler or process heater required to have a permit under section 3005 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act or covered by 40 CFR part 63, subpart EEE (e.g. hazardous waste combustors).

· A commercial and industrial solid waste incineration unit covered by 40 CFR part 60, subpart CCCC or subpart DDDD.

· A recovery boiler or furnace covered by 40 CFR part 63, subpart MM.

· A boiler or process heater that is used specifically for research and development. This does not include units that only provide steam to a process at a research and development facility.

· A hot water heater, meaning a closed vessel in which water is heated by combustion of gaseous fuel and is withdrawn for use external to the vessel at pressures not exceeding 160 pounds per square inch gauge and water temperatures not exceeding 210 degree Fahrenheit.

· A refining kettle covered by 40 CFR part 63, subpart X.

· An ethylene cracking furnace covered by 40 CFR part 63, subpart YY.

Emission limits in the proposed Boiler MACT vary by subcategories of boilers and process heaters. These subcategories are listed below:

· Solid fuel burners – this category consists of indirect-fired combustion units that burn coal and other solid fuels, but also include solid/liquid and solid/gaseous fuel combinations;

· Gaseous fuel burners, using exclusively gaseous fuels in the burners;

· Liquid fuel burners, including all remaining boilers and process heaters;

· Large boilers and process heaters – this category includes watertube boilers and process heaters with capacities greater than 10 MMBtu/hr;

· Small boilers and process heaters – this category includes all firetube boilers and boilers and process heaters of any other type with capacities less than or equal to 10 MMBtu/hr heat input; and

· Limited use combustion units, which operate at or below 10 percent of the capacity factor (how much the unit is capable of operating).

Upon inspection of the emission limits, it may seem that the Boiler MACT does not limit the gaseous fuel subcategory, this is not totally the case. New and reconstructed gaseous fuel burners in the large and limited use subcategories are required to limit the emissions of CO to 400ppm at 3% oxygen.

The EPA is proposing numerical emission rate limits in units of mass of pollutant emitted per unit of heat energy input to the boiler or process heater (e.g., most typically in units of pounds of pollutant emitted per million Btu of heat input). Because of the large number of HAPs potentially present in the exhaust gas streams from the combustion units subject to the Boiler MACT and the disparity in the quantity and quality of the emissions information available, EPA grouped the HAPs into four common categories:

· Mercury;

· Non-mercury metallic HAPs, using PM as a surrogate;

· Inorganic HAPs, using HCl as a surrogate; and

· Organic HAPs, using CO as a surrogate.

Some sources burn fuels containing very small amounts of the regulated metals, but would have sufficient PM emissions to require control under the PM provisions of the proposed rule. In such cases, the Boiler MACT provides an alternative metals emission limit. This limit considers the sum of emissions of eight selected metals: arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, lead, manganese, nickel, and selenium. These eight metals represent those that are most commonly emitted and in the largest amounts of the metallic HAPs that are emitted by boilers and process heaters.

The table below summarizes the values for the emission limits and work practice standards for boilers and process heaters as proposed in this rule. In addition to these emission limits, the rule outlines specific monitoring, record keeping, and reporting requirements.

Table 1. - Emission Limits and Work Practice Standards for Boilers and Process Heaters^*
[Pounds per million British thermal units]
Source	Subcategory	Particulate Matter (PM)	or	Total Selected Metals	Hydrogen Chloride (HCl)	Mercury (Hg)	Carbon Monoxide (CO) (ppm @ 3% oxygen)
New Boiler	Solid Fuel, Large Unit	0.026	or	0.0001	0.02	3E-06	400
or Process	Solid Fuel, Small Unit	0.026	or	0.0001	0.02	3E-06	-
Heater	Solid Fuel, Limited Use	0.026	or	0.0001	0.02	3E-06	400
	Liquid Fuel, Large Unit	0.03		-	0.0005	-	400
	Liquid Fuel, Small Unit	0.03		-	0.0009	-	-
	Liquid Fuel, Limited Use	0.03		-	0.0009	-	400
	Gaseous Fuel, Large Unit	-		-	-	-	400
	Gaseous Fuel, Small Unit	-		-	-	-	-
	Gaseous Fuel, Limited Use	-		-	-	-	400
Existing Boiler	Solid Fuel, Large Unit	0.07	or	0.001	0.09	7E-06	-
or Process	Solid Fuel, Small Unit	-		-	-	-	-
Heater	Solid Fuel, Limited Use	0.21	or	0.001	-	-	-
	Liquid Fuel, Large Unit	-		-	-	-	-
	Liquid Fuel, Small Unit	-		-	-	-	-
	Liquid Fuel, Limited Use	-		-	-	-	-
	Gaseous Fuel	-		-	-	-	-

 *This table is a duplicate of Table 1 in the Federal Register, Vol. 68, No. 8, Monday, January 13, 2003, page 1666, with the only exception being a correction made for a typographical error. The Liquid Fuel, Limited Use HCl limit was listed in the wrong column in the original table.

Portions of this article have been excerpted from the Federal Register, Vol. 68, No. 8, Monday, January 13, 2003.

Air and Waste Management Association

St. Louis Section

4359 Lindell Blvd.

St. Louis, MO 63108

2003-2004 A&WMA ST. LOUIS SECTION OFFICERS

Office	Officer	Employer	Phone	E-mail
Chair	Shyam Srinivas			shyamsrinivas@alum.wustl.edu
Vice Chair	John Gibbons	Bunge North America	314 292 2932	john.gibbons@bunge.com
Past Chair	Jennifer Markwardt	Sara Lee Bakery Group	314 259 7150	jennifer.markwardt@slbg.com
Treasurer	Dominic Grana	Geotechnology	314 997 7440	djg@geotechnology.com
Secretary	Susan Myers	Metropolitan Sewer District	314 768 6366	smyers@stlmsd.com
Director through ‘05	Tom Maddox	T.L. Maddox Company	636 394 8161	tlm@tlmcos.com
Director through ‘05	Joe Darmody	NPN Environmental Eng.	636 343 1300	joe.darmody@npenv.com
Director through ‘05	Blane Wood	MACTEC Eng. & Consulting	636 734 5503	obw36@hotmail.com
Director through ‘04	Leslie Harmon	Boeing	314 223 9337	leslie.g.harmon@boeing.com
Director through ‘04	Jim Burris	Advance Environmental Associates	636 916 4800	jaburris@brick.net
Director through ‘04	Bill Roth-Evans	Trinity Consultants	636 386 9500	bevans@trinityconsultants.com

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