South Park

Lafarge two-year permit to burn whole tires

• Baseline Test Comparison table and graph 11/14/06

• Order of Approval No. 9462  07/21/06

• News release: Lafarge issued two-year approval to test burn whole tires as fuel    03/20/06

• Letter to Lafarge  03/17/06

• Order of Approval No. 9237  03/17/06

• Summary of Comments and Responses for NOC 9237 03/17/06

• Detailed Comments and Responses for NOC 9237 03/17/06

• Engineering worksheet for NOC 9237 final 03/17/06

Letters to update community members:

• November 8, 2006

• November 5, 2007

• March 27, 2008

• August 19, 2008

What's next?

Lafarge completed the fourh and final whole tire test on October 1, 2008.  The Agency has completed an initial review of that test report and concluded that Lafarge demonstrated compliance with existing emission limits at a tire substitution rate of 14.2% (percent substitution of energy supplied by coal).  The previous test in July 2008 had shown compliant emissions at a tire substitution rate of 11.2%.

We are expecting that an engineering report summarizing all of the information collected through the tire substitution emission testing and monitoring will be submitted by the end of the year (2008).  Shortly after that submittal, we are expecting to receive an application to request approval of the whole tire project up to the fuel substitution levels which were successfully tested over the past 18 months.  Once we receive the engineering report, we will share that information with the public.  We will also identify times and places to discuss the information with interested parties prior to any formal comment periods on any draft proposed permit actions.