· Supp~ement to the Rev~sed AFC In Response to CEC Data Adequacy Review Prepared for: Hydrogen Energy International Revised LLC .~ h!:Jdrogenenerg! AppUcation for Certification ~, (08-AFC-8) Submitted to: for California Energy Commission HYDROGEN ENERGY CAl~FORN~A. Kern County, California DOCKET Prepared by: July 2009 08-AFC-8 DATE RECD. July 13 2009 , ( JiJ Table of Contents Data Adequacy Response Table Appendices Appendix A: Air Quality Appendix A1: Air Quality Responses Appendix A2: SF6 Emissions Estimate Appendix A3: Gasification Block, Air Separation Unit, and Balance of Plant Commissioning Activities Appendix B: Biological Resources Appendix B1: Biological Resources Responses Appendix B2: Results of Blunt-Nose Leopard Lizard Survey Results – 2008 Appendix B3: CNDDB Forms Appendix B4: Biologist Resumes Appendix C: Cultural Resources Appendix C1: Archaeologist Resumes Appendix C2: Architectural Historian Resumes Appendix C3: Historic Cultural Resources Figure Appendix D: Transmission System Design Appendix D1: Interconnection Feasibility Study Plan Appendix D2: Large Generator Interconnection Study Process Agreement Appendix D3: CAISO Letter Appendix D4: CAISO Receipt Response Appendix D5: CAISO Proof of Receipt R:\09 HECA Data Adequacy\Appendices TOC.doc Adequacy Issue: Adequate Inadequate X DATA ADEQUACY RESPONSE Revision No. 0 Date June 17, 2009 Technical Area: Air Quality Project: Hydrogen Energy California Technical Staff: Will Walters Project Manager: Rod Jones Docket: 08-AFC-8 Technical Senior: Matthew Layton SITING INFORMATION REQUIRED TO MAKE AFC ID REGULATIONS INFORMATION CONFORM WITH REGULATIONS RESPONSE ...provide a discussion of the existing site Please provide the mitigation measures conditions, the expected direct, indirect and proposed to mitigate adverse cumulative impacts due to the construction, environmental impacts from project operation and maintenance of the project, construction. Appendix B (g) Please see Appendix A1 for responses to Air 1 the measures proposed to mitigate adverse (1) Quality Data Adequacy Recommendations. environmental impacts of the project, the effectiveness of the proposed measures, and any monitoring plans proposed to verify the effectiveness of the mitigation. Please submit an application for authority The information necessary for the air to construct and permit to operate to the Appendix B (g) pollution control district where the project is Please see Appendix A1 for responses to Air 2 San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control (8) (A) located to complete a Determination of Quality Data Adequacy Recommendations. District and provide a completeness letter Compliance. for the application from the District. Please provide the heating value and The heating value and chemical chemical characteristics of the hydrogen characteristics of the proposed fuels, the rich fuel. Please provide the heat rate for Appendix B (g) stack height and diameter, the exhaust Please see Appendix A1 for responses to Air 3 the 7FB gas turbine using all applicable (8) (B) velocity and temperature, the heat rate and Quality Data Adequacy Recommendations. fuels/combinations of fuel and with and the expected capacity factor of the proposed without duct firing. Please provide the facility. heat rate for the LMS100 gas turbine. A description of the control technologies Please provide a description of the Appendix B (g) Please see Appendix A1 for responses to Air 4 proposed to limit the emission of criteria proposed control technologies to limit the (8) (C) Quality Data Adequacy Recommendations. pollutants. fuel delivery (truck and train) emissions. The emission rates of criteria pollutants and greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O, and Appendix B (g) SF6) from the stack, cooling towers, fuels Please provide an SF6 emissions Please see Appendix A2 for SF6 emissions 5 (8) (E) and materials handling processes, delivery estimate for the project. estimate for the project. and storage systems, and from all on-site secondary emission sources. R:\09 HECA Data Adequacy\DA Worksheet.doc 1 Adequacy Issue: Adequate Inadequate X DATA ADEQUACY RESPONSE Revision No. 0 Date June 17, 2009 Technical Area: Air Quality Project: Hydrogen Energy California Technical Staff: Will Walters Project Manager: Rod Jones Docket: 08-AFC-8 Technical Senior: Matthew Layton SITING INFORMATION REQUIRED TO MAKE AFC ID REGULATIONS INFORMATION CONFORM WITH REGULATIONS RESPONSE The table in Appendix A3 presents a listing of commissioning activity for the Gasification Block, Air Separation Unit, and Balance of Plant facilities. This table also includes preliminary estimates of the criteria pollutant emissions and durations associated with each activity. Regarding the monitoring techniques to be used during commissioning, they will be essentially the Please provide a description of the A description of the project’s planned initial same as the techniques planned for normal, planned initial commissioning phase for commissioning phase, which is the phase post-commissioning operation. Stack emissions the gasification block, including the air between the first firing of emissions sources will be monitored by certified continuous separation unit and the balance of plant. Appendix B (g) and the commercial operations date, emission monitoring systems (CEMS) where 6 This description needs to include the (8) (F)(ii) including the types and durations of required by regulation and/or permit conditions. types and durations of equipment tests, equipment tests, criteria pollutant emissions, Stack emissions will also be verified by periodic criteria pollutant emissions, and and monitoring techniques to be used during stack testing where required by regulation and monitoring techniques to be used during such tests. permit conditions. Various process such tests. instrumentation and analyzer systems primarily installed for purposes of process control will also provide monitoring information for key process stream flow rates and compositions. Finally, the plant data logging systems and operator recordkeeping will provide historical process information regarding the commissioning activities referenced above. R:\09 HECA Data Adequacy\DA Worksheet.doc 2 Adequacy Issue: Adequate Inadequate X DATA ADEQUACY RESPONSE Revision No. 0 Date June 17, 2009 Technical Area: Biological Resources Project: Hydrogen Energy California Technical Staff: Susan Sanders Project Manager: Rod Jones Docket: 08-AFC-8 Technical Senior: Rick York SITING INFORMATION REQUIRED TO MAKE AFC ID REGULATIONS INFORMATION CONFORM WITH REGULATIONS RESPONSE ...provide a discussion of the existing site conditions, the expected direct, indirect and Please provide a discussion of biological cumulative impacts due to the construction, resources at the project site and related operation and maintenance of the project, facilities, including a description of Please see Appendix B1 for responses to Appendix B (g) 7 the measures proposed to mitigate adverse vegetation communities and habitat Biological Resources Data Adequacy (1) environmental impacts of the project, the features important to sensitive species Recommendations. effectiveness of the proposed measures, potentially occurring within the study and any monitoring plans proposed to verify area. the effectiveness of the mitigation. A regional overview and discussion of terrestrial and aquatic biological resources, with particular attention to sensitive biological resources within ten (10) miles of Please provide a regional overview of the project. Include a map at a scale of terrestrial and aquatic biological 1:100,000 (or other suitable scale) showing Please see Appendix B1 for responses to Appendix B (g) resources within 10 miles of the project 8 sensitive biological resource location(s) in Biological Resources Data Adequacy (13) (A) area. A description of common and relation to the project site and related Recommendations. sensitive plant communities and wildlife facilities and any boundaries of a local within the region is also needed. Habitat Conservation Plan or similar open space land use plan or designation. Sensitive biological resources include the following: Detailed maps at a scale of 1:6,000 or color Please provide figures at a scale of aerial photographs taken at a recommended 1:6,000 showing the location of biological scale of 1 inch equals 500 feet (1:6,000) with resources detected during the project- a 30 percent overlap that show the proposed related field surveys, including all plant project site and related facilities, biological communities within the study area and resources including, but not limited to, those Please see Appendix B1 for responses to Appendix B sightings of sensitive species listed in 9 found during project-related field surveys Biological Resources Data Adequacy (g) (13) (B) (i) Tables 5.2-6 and 5.2-7 (Hoover’s and in records from the California Natural Recommendations. eriastrum, western spadefoot toad, blunt- Diversity Database, and the associated nosed leopard lizard, burrowing owl, areas where biological surveys were loggerhead shrike, California horned lark, conducted. Label the biological resources Nelson’s antelope ground squirrel, San and survey areas as well as the project Joaquin kit fox, American badger) facilities; R:\09 HECA Data Adequacy\DA Worksheet.doc 3 Adequacy Issue: Adequate Inadequate X DATA ADEQUACY RESPONSE Revision No. 0 Date June 17, 2009 Technical Area: Biological Resources Project: Hydrogen Energy California Technical Staff: Susan Sanders Project Manager: Rod Jones Docket: 08-AFC-8 Technical Senior: