GASP Submits Public Comments on Monessen Coke Works Draft Title V Permit

The Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) has submitted comments on Cleveland Cliffs’ Monessen Coke Works draft Title V Operating permit issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

The facility is a conventional coke plant producing coke and related carbon by-products and is located in Monessen along the Monongahela River. 

The Monessen Coke Works facility includes two coke batteries, by-products recovery process plant, boiler operations plant, biological wastewater treatment facility and barge unloading facility

GASP's comments on the draft Title V Operating Permit focused on:  

1.  the need to include a compliance assurance monitoring plan for the facility's pushing operations, or to incorporate such a plan by reference 

AND

2. the need to incorporate throughput limits for the facility's charging, underfiring, pushing, and quenching operations; and 

3. the need to incorporate recordkeeping requirements for those same operations.

You can read our entire comments here.