The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency yesterday reinstated several of the major 2005 permit modifications that a state panel stripped away from FDS Coke Plant LLC in June, including one that attempts to cap the proposed coking facility's mercury emissions at 51 pounds a year.
The latest version also calls for a few new additions, including an emission limit for hydrochloric acid based on tests at Ohio's only operating coking facility, the Haverhill North Coke plant in Scioto County, the state agency said.
Mercury is the most contentious pollutant of the proposed facility, now part of an $800 million project to include a co-generation power plant on 51 acres owned by the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority. The site is along Lake Erie's Maumee Bay, where East Toledo and Oregon meet.
The project is expected to generate up to 150 permanent jobs, plus hundreds of temporary construction jobs.
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