Appeal on Air Quality Permit for Jungo Land & Investment

05/21/2010
Appeal Hearing
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Location
9:30 A.M.
May 21, 2010
Bryan Building, 2nd Floor (Tahoe Room)
901 South Stewart Street
Carson City, NV

SEC Final Decision: Permit Upheld

Hearing Audio, Notices, and Minutes

Background of Appeal

Jungo Land and Investments, Inc., of San Francisco is proposing to develop a Class 1 municipal solid waste landfill near Winnemucca, Nevada. The proposed landfill would receive about 4,000 tons of waste per day for up to 100 years. The waste would be shipped by rail from northern California to Nevada. The Jungo Disposal Site is proposed as a regional disposal site for portions of Northern California that generally include the nine counties which make up the San Francisco Bay Area. 

The proposed landfill is located about 30 miles west of the city of Winnemucca, Nevada along the south side of Jungo Road and adjacent to the Union Pacific Railroad. The total surface area of the site is approximately 634 acres; the proposed landfill “footprint” would be about 560 acres and the design capacity would be about 58.5 million megagrams or 64.49 million short tons. The landfill is proposed as a “no co-disposal” facility and thus would not accept hazardous wastes.

Jungo Land and Investments, Inc., has submitted two (2) permit applications to the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP). The first permit was filed with NDEP's Bureau of Waste Management in March 2008 and is known as the Jungo Landfill Application; this permit is currently undergoing technical review and will proceed to public comment in late 2010 if and when Jungo Land and Investments obtains all local land use controls as administered by Humboldt, County, Nevada (see NAC 444.678).

The second permit application —which is the subject of this appeal— was filed with NDEP's Bureau of Air Pollution Control in February 2009. The permit application is a Class I Air Quality Operating Permit to Construct (Permit No AP4953-2525.) NDEP's public notice for the Air Quality permit was issued in May 2009; it described the agency's tentative determination to issue the permit to Jungo Land and Investments, Inc., and it described the public comment process including the provision for a public hearing.

Following issuance of the public notice, comments were received and a public hearing was held by NDEP on August 19, 2009 in Winnemucca, Nevada. Among other issues address at the hearing, staff from NDEP presented information about air quality emissions, air quality analysis and modeling, as well as applicable air quality standards.

After the public hearing, on March 5, 2010 NDEP simultaneously issued the Final Operating Permit to Construct to Recology Permit No AP4953-2525 along with a formal public comment and response document.

This final decision was subsequently appealled to the State Environmental Commission; appeals were filed on March 15, 2010 by Mr. Philip Jacka and by Mr. Robert Dolan and Massey K. Mayo of Dolan Law LLC. (i.e., the Appellants).

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