Topics Related to Air Quality

May 13, 2024, 8:01am - June 27, 2024, 5pm

The North Carolina Division of Air Quality (DAQ) hereby gives notice of its intent to issue an Air Quality Permit to:

Hickory Chair, LLC
37 9th Street Place SE
Hickory, NC 28602
Catawba County
Application ID: 1800102.22A, Permit No.: 02779T27

This facility applied for an Air Quality Title V Operation Permit which meets the requirements specified in 15A North Carolina Administrative Code 2Q.0500.

EPA comment period begins on May 13, 2024 and will run through June 27, 2024. 

May 13, 2024, 8am - June 12, 2024, 5pm

The North Carolina Division of Air Quality (DAQ) hereby gives notice of its intent to issue an Air Quality Permit to:

Hickory Chair, LLC
37 9th Street Place SE
Hickory, NC 28602
Catawba County
Application ID: 1800102.22A, Permit No.: 02779T27

This facility applied for an Air Quality Title V Operation Permit which meets the requirements specified in 15A North Carolina Administrative Code 2Q.0500.

May 14, 2024, 1:30pm - 3:30pm

The Division of Air Quality's Outside Involvement Committee is a stakeholder group that includes DAQ staff, the regulated community, environmental groups and the public. The group meets quarterly to provide an opportunity for attendees to ask questions of DAQ staff and management on a wide range of air quality issues and processes. Staff will also provide updates on key changes or issues affecting the division.

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality (DAQ) is accepting public comment on a draft air quality permit for Lawndale Recycling in Cleveland County.

The proposed facility plans to burn resinated (treated) wood, construction and demolition wood, and chemically untreated wood pallets to generate electricity to recycle post-industrial biomass and plastic materials.

May 9, 2024, 8am - June 8, 2024, 5pm

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Air Quality hereby gives notice that the following facility has applied for a permit to construct and operate a post-industrial cellulosic and plastic materials recycling facility at the following location.

Lawndale Recycling
101 West Main Street
Lawndale, NC 28090
Cleveland County

The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality (DAQ) has granted a Title V air quality permit to CTI of North Carolina, Inc. - Wilmington Terminal.

May 7, 2024, 8:01am - June 21, 2024, 5am

The North Carolina Division of Air Quality (DAQ) hereby gives notice of its intent to issue an Air Quality Permit to:

Electric Glass Fiber America, LLC
940 Washburn Switch Road
Shelby, NC 28150
Cleveland County
Application ID: 2300153.24A, Permit No.: 01958T71

This facility applied for an Air Quality Title V Operation Permit which meets the requirements specified in 15A North Carolina Administrative Code 2Q.0500.

EPA comment period begins on May 7, 2024 and will run through June 21, 2024.

May 7, 2024, 8am - June 6, 2024, 5am

The North Carolina Division of Air Quality (DAQ) hereby gives notice of its intent to issue an Air Quality Permit to:

Electric Glass Fiber America, LLC
940 Washburn Switch Road
Shelby, NC 28150
Cleveland County
Application ID: 2300153.24A, Permit No.: 01958T71

This facility applied for an Air Quality Title V Operation Permit which meets the requirements specified in 15A North Carolina Administrative Code 2Q.0500.

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality (DAQ) has awarded $1.11 million in grants for projects that will reduce air pollution from diesel-powered mobile sources.

Mobile sources are any type of vehicle that can pollute the air, including automobiles, trucks, buses, locomotives, motorcycles, off-road vehicles, construction equipment and lawnmowers. DAQ awards Mobile Source Emissions Reduction Grants every year for projects to replace, retrofit or repair diesel vehicles and reduce emissions.

April 27, 2024, 8:01am - June 11, 2024, 5pm

The public comment period for this draft permit is being reposted. The revised public notice is linked below. The draft permit and review from the previous posting are both still current.  The new EPA comment deadline for this comment period will be June 11, 2024.

The North Carolina Division of Air Quality (DAQ) hereby gives notice of its intent to issue an Air Quality Permit to:

Alamance County Landfill
2701 Austin Quarter Road
Graham, NC 27253
Alamance County
Application ID: 0100314.23A, Permit No.: 10806T00