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Review Your Air Permit To Prepare For Plant Expansion The season that never seemed to end has finally ended, and many folks in the South and Southeast can put the 2018 crop behind them. Gins are just beginning to plan expansions and changes for the 2019 crop year and beyond. Don’t forget that these changes may affect your air quality permit. Most gins in the United States have some type of regulation that involves an air permit. Those permits range from a full-blown air quality permit to a registration with the state and everything in between. All of these permitting or regulatory positions have underlying rules and conditions that dictate what is permissible. For example, if you swap a dual or tandem cyclone for a single larger one, it requires a permit in some states. Changes may require a letter to the state air pollution regulatory agency, and in some cases no notice is needed.
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Solicit Advice From Gin Associations Navigating these rules and conditions on your permit is not always easy, especially if you haven’t looked at them in a while. This planning phase, when repairs and changes are just getting talked about, is a good time to put hands on your air permit and re-read the conditions and rules it contains. Most of the time, your gin associations are there to help you understand what the conditions mean as well. In nearly all cases, an expansion or increase in annual or hourly capacity of a gin beyond what is listed in the permit will involve a conversation with the air quality regulator. We recommend you discuss these changes with your gin association staff first. States are struggling for funds. This means many are adding to the permitting fees or, even in some cases, no-permit-required letters. Why is this significant? Because as you make your query about changes you may be planning, getting input from your gin association could make a difference in how much or even if you get a fee for making changes to your permit. Take some time today to pull out your air permit and review its conditions and rules even if you aren’t planning on an expansion this year. You will learn what is needed to make changes in the future and take that into account when your next expansion comes along. Dusty Findley, CEO of the Southeastern Cotton Ginners Association, contributed this article. Contact him at 706-344-1212 or dusty@southern-southeastern.org.
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Cotton’s Calendar ¢ May 15: Plains Cotton Cooperative Association Board of
Directors Meeting, Lubbock, Texas ¢ May 16: Calcot Ltd. Board of Directors Meeting, Phoenix,
Arizona ¢ June 11-13: Cotton Incorporated Board Meeting, Omni
Mandalay Bay, Dallas, Texas ¢ June 19: PCCA Board, Delegate Body & Marketing Pool
Committee Meetings, Lubbock, Texas ¢ June 19: Staplcotn and Stapldiscount Board Meeting,
Greenwood, Mississippi ¢ June 20: Calcot Ltd. Board of Directors Meeting, Phoenix,
Arizona ¢ June 20-21: Arizona Cotton Ginners and Growers Annual
Meeting, Little America Hotel, Flagstaff, Arizona ¢ June 27: Field Day Expo, LSU AgCenter Dean Lee Research
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Bayer Museum of Agriculture, Lubbock, Texas ¢ July 14-18: Southern Southeastern Mid-Year Board Meeting,
Sheraton Bay Point, Panama City Beach, Florida ¢ July 18: Calcot Ltd. Board of Directors Meeting, Phoenix,
Arizona ¢ Aug. 1-5: America’s Cotton Marketing Cooperatives AMCOT
Conference 2019, Monterey Plaza Hotel, Monterey, California ¢ Aug. 5-8: Cotton Board & Cotton Incorporated Joint Board
Meeting, Washington Duke Inn, Durham, North Carolina ¢ Aug. 12-14: 2019 American Cotton Producers/Cotton
Foundation Joint Summer Meeting, Omni Austin Hotel, Austin, Texas ¢ Aug. 21: PCCA Board, Delegate Body & Marketing Pool
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Committee Meetings, Lubbock, Texas ¢ Aug. 21-23: NCC Mid-Year Board Meeting, Peabody Hotel,
Memphis, Tennessee ¢ Sept. 17-18: Staplcotn and Stapldiscount Annual Meeting,
Greenwood, Mississippi ¢ Sept. 17: PCCA Annual Meeting & Board of Directors Meeting,
Lubbock, Texas ¢ Sept. 23: Calcot Ltd. Board of Directors/Auditors’ Meeting,
Phoenix, Arizona ¢ Sept. 24: Calcot Ltd. Board of Directors Meeting/92nd Annual
Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona ¢ Oct. 9: Plains Cotton Growers Quarterly Board Meeting, Bayer
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