Trinity Consultants
NSR/PSD Compliance Workshop
This 2-day course benefits plant and corporate environmental professionals with compliance, auditing, and air permitting responsibilities. The course covers essential topics such as permit applicability assessments, key regulatory definitions, types of modifications, exemptions, and emissions netting/emissions change calculations and thresholds. It also addresses best available control technology (BACT)/lowest achievable emission rate (LAER) assessments, dispersion modeling, Class I areas, and non-attainment offsets. The course includes “real life” case studies and group exercises to maximize understanding of this challenging material.
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Course completion enables attendees to:
- Evaluate permit and exemption applicability for plant changes
- Communicate regulatory triggers and key emissions thresholds to operations and executive management
- Manage the process of developing permit applications and obtaining construction authorizations quickly and efficiently
Course Topics
- Key program definitions and interpretations
- PSD applicability assessments and exclusions
- How to conduct a netting analysis
- History and evolution of the PSD rules
- Technical requirements of the permitting process.
- Determining appropriate emission rates for NAAQS and Increment analyses
- Relationship between major NSR and the operating permits program
- EPA enforcement initiatives, including CAA Section 114 information requests
- Achieving operational flexibility through effective use of exclusions and permit procedures