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The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Hankins Lumber Company Inc. (“Hankins”) entered into an April 30th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing an alleged violation of an Air Permit. See Order No. 7490 25.
The AO provides that Hankins was notified of a violation of its Title V Operating Permit on August 16, 2024.
The company is stated to operate a facility in Grenada County, Mississippi pursuant to the Title V Operating Permit.
The facility is alleged to have violated Condition 3.B.7 of the Operating Permit by failing to demonstrate compliance with the Filterable Particulate Matter (“PM”) limitation of 0.44 pounds per one million British thermal units (lb/MMBtu) of heat input during stack tests of Emission Points AA-001 and AA-002 on March 26-27, 2024. The facility is stated to have subsequently demonstrated compliance during retest of such Emission Points on June 25-26, 2024.
The AO assesses a civil penalty of $20,250.00.
A copy of the AO can be downloaded here.
