By Walter F. Roche Jr.
Tennessee environmental officials are seeking additional information from a Greene County chemical company on its plans to use a 52,250 gallon tank to produce an ammonium nitrate solution.
In an email sent today to offiicials of US Nitrogen LLC, James Johnson of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, wrote that the additonal data is needed before the agency can act on the company's request to have the new activity classified as insignificant.
If the request is granted the Midway company could begin the blending operation without a permit. US Nitrogen submitted the request on March 2.
In the email Johnson asked US Nitrogen officials to complete two agency application forms and provide the agency with the ammonium nitrate vapor pressure data used in the emission calculations for the tank.
Johnson wrote that TDEC would resume its review of the reqest after the data and forms are submitted.
In his request for the insignificant activity determination Dylan Charles, the USN plant manager said the tank was already on the company property and was being used to store storm water.
He wrote that the company planned to mix ammonium nitrate with water to produce a 57 per cent ammonium nitrate solution.
Charles said in his letter that use of the tank would produce less than 1,000 pounds of hazardous air pollutants per year.
He added that it will not emit either nitrous oxide or carbon monoxide emissions, but will emit a small quantity of ammonium nitrate."
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