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Good evening. My name is Gail Braden. I'd like to tell you a little about myself.
The "interested parties" that have assembled here tonight have common goals.
Common Goals:
• Protect the health of the residents of the community
• Protect the environment of the community (air and water)
• Ensure the long-term prosperity of the Plainfield Township Community
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Slate Belt Heat Recovery Center LLC (SBHRC) - Proposed General Actions:
• Design, build and operate a facility that meets exceptional environmental standards;
• Work with the DEP to put exceptional conditions in the permit that go beyond regulatory
mInImUmS;
• Prepare a plan for "What If Scenarios" (power failure - loss of control equipment, heavy
rain/flooding, truck accident - on public road or inside facility, other) ;
• Be proactive and strictly adhere to all terms and conditions in all of the permits;
• Conduct daily operations inspections, routine management inspections, and routine third
party compliance audits to ensure compliance with permit requirements and the
responsibility to be a good corporate citizen;
• Promptly identify and implement permanent solutions to all non-compliance issues;
• Do whatever it takes and work with unrelenting effort to solve all issues ASAP during the
permitting period and after project approval (if granted);
• Create goals and plans (with metrics) to achieve continuous improvement;
• Maintain lines of communications with community, ideas include:
a. Open House Events,
b. Public Meetings and Information Sessions,
c. Community-Right-to-Know communications with local police, fire, emergency
responders, and
d. Routine publications(s) with information of interest to the community;
• Be a good corporate citizen and operate the facility as if your employees and their
families lived in houses just outside the property line; and
• Conduct all business with full transparency.
1. Pennit - Once daily at facility boundary for 6 months and weekly thereafter
2. Proposal- Daily monitoring of all processes with potential ODV emissions
3. Identify the best procedure to monitor each process with ODV emissions
4. Keep monitoring records of ODV emissions data
5. Keep records of community complaints
6. Keep records of equipment inspections, maintenance and repair
7. Establish metrics - track perfonnance
8. Identify and implement corrective actions
9. Reduce source emissions to zero ASAP
10. Control of source emissions will ensure facility boundary incidents
Sludge Receipts
1. Partner with the Plainfield Township Board and Citizens to ensure the long-tenn
prosperity of the Township and SBHRC (ifpennitted) by committing to exceptional
standards of perfonnance.
2. Design, build and operate an "exceptional" facility that is worthy of Plainfield Township
3. Tackle odors, dusts, and visible emissions at their source and reduce to zero ASAP
4. Monitor process operations and collect key infonnation to be used to achieve zero
environmental incidents.
Conclusion
The tenns and conditions put forth in the draft Plan Approval do not ensure the exceptional air
quality in Plainfield Township that the Board and the community residents require. The draft
Plan Approval needs to be significantly improved to meet the goals of the community. Anything
less is unacceptable. Thank You!
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