News Release 260

DEPARTMENT AND EPA SEEK COMMENTS ON
PERMIT MODIFICATIONS FOR CONTINENTAL
CEMENT COMPANY / GREEN AMERICA RECYCLING

Volume 36-260

Contact: Renee Bungart

(For immediate release)

573-751-4465

JEFFERSON CITY, MO, MAY 7, 2008 -- The Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 7 invite the public to review and offer written comments on draft hazardous waste permit modifications for Continental Cement Company LLC/Green America Recycling LLC until June 23.

During the 45-day public comment period, anyone can request a public hearing on the draft permit modifications by writing to Robert Clay, PE, at the address below. The hearing request must state what issues are to be brought up during the hearing.

Continental Cement is located at 10107 Highway 79 South in Hannibal and operates an active wet process cement kiln. The kiln produces clinker, the primary ingredient in Portland cement. Continental Cement primarily uses coal to heat its kiln. Continental Cement also uses non-hazardous waste fuels, such as used oil and solid and liquid hazardous waste fuels, to supplement their fuel needs. Most of the hazardous waste comes from off-site hazardous waste generators or third party hazardous waste blenders or brokers. The company receives the hazardous waste by both truck and railcar. Green America Recycling, a company formed by Continental Cement and American Environmental Services Inc., operates the fuels facility that accepts the liquid and solid hazardous wastes.

The department issued the draft Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Facility Part I permit modifications. EPA issued the draft Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments Part II permit modifications. If issued as written, the final Part I and Part II permit modifications will allow Continental Cement to build a new dry rotary kiln to produce clinker more efficiently than with the wet process kiln currently in use. The Part I was also updated to clearly outline what units are covered under the permit. The Part II permit modifications also include removing permit conditions that the state is now authorized to handle and parts of the permit that are now regulated under the department's Air Pollution Control Program.

The draft Part I and Part II permit modifications and fact sheet are available on the department's Web site at www.dnr.mo.gov/env/hwp/permits/notices.htm. Supporting documents are not available on the department's Web site due to their size. The public can review and copy the modification request, draft Part I and Part II permit modifications, fact sheet and supporting documents at the Hannibal Free Public Library in Hannibal, during its normal business hours, by appointment at the department's Elm Street Conference Center in Jefferson City or at the EPA's office in Kansas City, Kansas. 

Comments on the draft permit modifications are effective if they point out legal or technical issues. The department and EPA have provided a redline version of the original permits to clearly show what conditions are being modified. Deletions are shown as red strikeouts, and additions are in blue and underlined. Only the conditions being modified are open for public comment. All other conditions of the original permits will remain in effect for the length of the permits. Please send written comments to

(Part I)
Robert Clay, PE
Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Hazardous Waste Program
P.O. Box 176
Jefferson City, MO 65102-0176
Fax: 573-526-5268
E-mail: robert.clay@dnr.mo.gov

(Part II)
Ken Herstowski, PE
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 7
RCRA Corrective Action and Permits Branch
901 N. Fifth St.
Kansas City, KS 66101
Fax: 913-551-7947
E-mail: herstowski.ken@epa.gov

You may call or write the department at any time to request to have your name placed on Continental Cement's mailing list. By doing this, you will receive notice from the department or Continental Cement about any major permitting and cleanup activities at the facility.

For more information concerning the permitting process or the draft Part I permit modifications, or to obtain a written copy of the draft permit modifications for review, please contact Clay by telephone at 573-751-3553 or 800-361-4827. Hearing-impaired people may reach Clay through Relay Missouri at 800-735-2966. For more information about the draft Part II permit modifications, please contact Herstowski by telephone at 913-551-7631 or 800-223-0425.

For news releases on the Web, visit www.dnr.mo.gov/newsrel. For a complete listing of the department's upcoming events, hearings and meetings, visit the department's online calendar at www.dnr.mo.gov/calendar/search.do.

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