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NSR/PSD Compliance Workshop

NSR/PSD Compliance Workshop

Course Details

1.6 CEUs OnDemand courses are not eligible for CEU credit.

Learn from the Masters Series

This comprehensive workshop 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.

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

EPA’s Latest NSR Reform Elements and Considerations

  • Definition of Ambient Air
  • Plant Wide Allowable Limits
  • Dispersion Modeling Reform
  • “Actual-to-Projected Actual” assessments and guidance (Netting, etc.)
  • Project Aggregation
  • Greenhouse Gas Significant Emission Rate
  • Routine Maintenance Repair and Replacements
  • Changing Synthetic Minor Limits (“Sham” minor permits and NSR circumvention considerations)
  • Top-down Best Available Control Technology (BACT) Clearinghouse
  • Proper Accounting of Project Emissions

Training Course Policy

  • Course fees are payable upon registration.
  • Only one discount can be applied to your purchase.
  • The course fee is per attendee. Recording our courses is strictly prohibited.
  • Recordings of paid, virtual courses will not be provided.
  • Cancellations received more than 72 hours prior to a course are eligible for a full refund or transfer to another course. Cancellations received less than 72 hours prior to a course may be transferred to another course; however, no refund will be provided. If Trinity Consultants cancels a course, full refunds will be provided.
  • Trinity Consultants assumes no responsibility for participants’ travel expenses including, in the case of course cancellation, reimbursement for non-refundable reservations.
  • These courses are intended primarily for environmental professionals from industry and government agencies. Trinity Consultants reserves the right to decline registrations at its discretion to persons for whom its courses may not be intended.

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