Aug. 27, 2021 Public Notice Draft Oregon Regional Haze State Implementation Plan For the period 2018 - 2028 Submitted to: Public Notice Air Quality Planning 700 NE Multnomah St. Suite 600 Portland, OR 97232 Phone: 503-229-5696 800-452-4011 Fax: 503-229-6124 Contact: Michael Orman or Karen F. Williams www.oregon.gov/DEQ DEQ is a leader in restoring, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality i maintaining and enhancing the quality of Oregon’s air, This report prepared by: Oregon Department of Environmental Quality 700 NE Multnomah Street Portland, OR 97232 1-800-452-4011 www.oregon.gov/deq Contact: Karen F. Williams 503-863-1664 Alternative formats: DEQ can provide documents in an alternate format or in a language other than English upon request. Call DEQ at 800-452-4011 or email [email protected]. Oregon Department of Environmental Quality ii Table of contents Table of contents ................................................................................................................... iii List of Figures ........................................................................................................................ vi List of Tables ........................................................................................................................ viii 1. .. Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 1 1.1. History of Regional Haze Planning in Oregon ............................................................................. 1 1.2. Sections of this report .................................................................................................................. 2 1.3. Oregon Class 1 Areas ................................................................................................................. 5 1.3.1. Mt. Hood Wilderness Area ................................................................................................. 6 1.3.2. Mt. Jefferson Wilderness Area ........................................................................................... 6 1.3.3. Mt. Washington Wilderness Area ....................................................................................... 6 1.3.4. Three Sisters Wilderness Area .......................................................................................... 6 1.3.5. Diamond Peak Wilderness Area ........................................................................................ 6 1.3.6. Crater Lake National Park .................................................................................................. 7 1.3.7. Mountain Lakes Wilderness Area ...................................................................................... 7 1.3.8. Gearhart Mountain Wilderness Area.................................................................................. 7 1.3.9. Kalmiopsis Wilderness Area .............................................................................................. 7 1.3.10. Strawberry Mountain Wilderness Area .............................................................................. 7 1.3.11. Eagle Cap Wilderness Area ............................................................................................... 8 1.3.12. Hells Canyon Wilderness Area .......................................................................................... 8 1.4. Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area .............................................................................. 8 1.5. Monitoring .................................................................................................................................... 9 1.5.1 Oregon IMPROVE Monitoring Network ............................................................................. 9 1.5.2 Monitoring strategy............................................................................................................. 9 2 ... Visibility Impairment in Oregon Class 1 areas and 5-year Progress Report ............... 10 2.1 Five-year Progress Report .........................................................................................................11 2.1.1 Status of implementation of control measures included in the original regional haze SIP 1 2.1.2 Emission Reductions Achieved by SIP Measures ............................................................. 2 2.1. Most Impaired Days ..................................................................................................................... 4 2.2. Clearest Days .............................................................................................................................. 8 2.3. Emissions Inventory Analysis ....................................................................................................10 2.4 Pollutant Components of Visibility Impairment ..........................................................................16 2.5 Source Apportionment of Visibility Impairment and Weighted Emission Potential ....................19 2.5.1 Estimated future projected emissions .............................................................................. 19 2.5.2 Weighted Emission Potential and Source Apportionment ............................................... 24 3. .. Stationary source emissions and controls analysis ..................................................... 26 3.1. Q/d screening process ...............................................................................................................27 3.2. Impact of Oregon facilities on other states’ Class 1 areas ........................................................31 3.3. Impact of facilities in other states on Oregon Class 1 areas .....................................................32 3.4. Four factor analysis....................................................................................................................35 3.5. Division 223 Rulemaking ...........................................................................................................37 3.6. Weight of evidence approach ....................................................................................................37 3.6.1 Environmental Justice Analysis ....................................................................................... 39 3.6.1.1 Vulnerable Populations Score .................................................................................39 3.6.1.2 Towards an Environmental Justice “Score” Methodology for Oregon .....................41 3.6.2 Weight of Evidence Results ................................................................................................. 45 3.7 Facility-specific findings and results ..........................................................................................45 Oregon Department of Environmental Quality iii 3.7.1 PGE Boardman (25-0016) ............................................................................................... 47 3.7.2 Ash Grove Cement Co, Durkee (01-0029) ...................................................................... 47 3.7.3 Facilities that lowered PSELs .......................................................................................... 48 3.7.3.1 Kingsford Manufacturing Company (LRAPA #204402) ...........................................48 3.7.3.2 Cascade Tissue Group: A Division of Cascades Holding US, Inc. (05-1849) .........48 3.7.3.3 Timber Products Co. (15-0025) ...............................................................................49 3.7.3.4 PGE Beaver / Port Westward I (05-2520)................................................................49 3.7.3.5 Roseburg Forest Products – Riddle Plywood (10-0078) .........................................49 3.7.3.7 Klamath Energy LLC – Klamath Cogeneration Project (18-0003) ...........................50 3.7.4 Facilities for which no controls were cost-effective .......................................................... 50 3.7.5 Facilities where DEQ found controls cost effective .......................................................... 51 3.7.5.1 Owens-Brockway (28-1865) ....................................................................................51 3.7.5.2 Gilchrist Forest Products..........................................................................................51 3.7.5.3 Boise Cascade Wood Products, LLC - Elgin Complex (31-0006) ...........................52 3.7.5.4 Georgia Pacific - Wauna Mill (04-0004) ...................................................................52 3.7.5.5 Cascade Pacific Pulp, LLC - Halsey Pulp Mill (22-3501) .........................................54 3.7.5.6 Boise Cascade Wood Products, LLC - Medford (15-0004) .....................................54 3.7.5.7 Gas Transmission Northwest LLC - Compressor Station 12 (09-0084) ..................55 3.7.5.8 Gas Transmission Northwest LLC - Compressor Station 13 (18-0096) ..................55 3.7.5.9 International Paper - Springfield (208850) ...............................................................55 3.7.5.10 Georgia-Pacific – Toledo LLC (21-0005) .................................................................56 3.7.5.11 Northwest Pipeline LLC - Baker Compressor Station (01-0038) .............................57 3.7.5.12 Northwest Pipeline LLC - Oregon City Compressor Station (03-2729) ...................58 3.7.5.13 EVRAZ Inc. NA (26-1865) .......................................................................................58 3.7.5.14 Biomass One, L.P. (15-0159) ..................................................................................58