Emissions Inventory

LRAPA plans to call-in International Paper (IP) – Springfield Mill by the end of 2020. International Paper is the last of the initial five facilities announced for call-in by LRAPA in November 2019 and LRAPA met with IP Air Quality staff and their CAO consultants on December 18, 2019, to discuss IP’s preliminary work on the CAO emissions inventory and modeling and permitting requirements. While LRAPA had intended to call-in IP in the first half of 2020, several issues/circumstances have arisen that have caused LRAPA to delay formally calling-in International Paper. These include:

• In January 2020, IP was notified by Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) that the facility was required to submit a Regional Haze Four Factor Analysis (FFA) of potential controls to be added to the facility’s emission units to reduce impacts to Oregon Class I Wilderness areas. IP (along with 25 other Oregon facilities) was required to submit the detailed FFA by May 31, 2020. Because the FFA required a great deal of work for both International Paper and LRAPA, LRAPA elected to delay calling-in IP into the CAO program until LRAPA staff could more effectively process IP’s required CAO submittals.
• The COVID pandemic has put further strains on the facility’s staff and operations. Plant personnel have been reduced to a “skeleton crew” at the same time IP has been tasked with meeting the substantial regulatory and reporting requirements and workload of Regional Haze, CAO and IP’s Title V permit renewal without their Air Quality Supervisor who was responsible for these tasks as well as plant safety concerns.
• The level of complexity and detail required by the CAO program submittals has increased LRAPA’s workload a great deal. Based on the current workload for LRAPA staff required by the 3 facilities’ (JHB, SSE & Willamette Valley Co.) CAO submittals, LRAPA decided to delay officially calling-in IP to the CAO program because it is, by far, the most complex facility to review and permit.

Modeling Protocol & Risk Assessment Report

International Paper (IP) – Springfield Mill will be called in by the end of 2020 and enter the Emissions Inventory Step of the Cleaner Air Oregon process. This field will be updated once the facility reaches the Modeling Protocol & Risk Assessment portion of CAO.

Risk Assessment Report

International Paper (IP) – Springfield Mill will be called in by the end of 2020 and enter the Emissions Inventory Step of the Cleaner Air Oregon process. This field will be updated once the facility reaches the Risk Assessment portion of CAO.

Risk Reduction Plan

International Paper (IP) – Springfield Mill will be called in by the end of 2020 and enter the Emissions Inventory Step of the Cleaner Air Oregon process. This field will be updated once the facility reaches the Risk Reduction portion of CAO.

Completed Cleaner Air Oregon Process

International Paper (IP) – Springfield Mill will be called in by the end of 2020 and enter the Emissions Inventory Step of the Cleaner Air Oregon process. This field will be updated once the facility completes the Cleaner Air Oregon process.