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Home My WebLink AboutNC0003395_Permit Modification_20150605NCDENR North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources Pat McCrory Governor Mr. Ronald Bazinet Hexion, Inc. 333 Neils Eddy Road Riegelwood, North Carolina 28456 Dear Mr. Bazinet: Donald R. van der Vaart Secretary June 5, 2015 Subject: Instream Monitoring Reinstatement NPDES Permit NC0003395 Columbus County By this letter the Division of Water Resources confirms that Hexion's membership with the Lower Cape Fear River Program will expire on June 30, 2015. Therefore, effective July 1, 2015, Hexion shall be responsible for instream monitoring requirements specified in the subject NPDES permit. If you have any questions, please contact me at 919-807-6390 or at tom.belnick a,ncdenr.gov. Sincerely, 66/ftl � Tom Belnick Supervisor, NPDES Complex Permitting Unit DENR/Division of Water Resources Hardcopy: NPDES File Central File ECopy: Ronald.bazinet(cr�,hexion.com Tom.buller a hexion.com Carrie Ruhlman, DWR/Monitoring Coalition Coordinator Jim Gregson, DWR/Supervisor WiRO 1617 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1617 Phone: 919-807-63001 Internet: www.ncwaterquality.org An Equal Opportunity 1 Affirmative Action Employer— Made in part by recycled paper N60n 339V Belnick, Tom From: Ruhlman, Carrie Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 1:20 PM To: Belnick, Tom; Chernikov, Sergei Cc: Gregson, Jim Subject: FW: Lower Cape Fear River Program Categories: Red Category See email below. Hexion's membership with the LCFRP expires on June 30th. So they would need to pick-up their own monitoring on July 1st. Let me know if you need anything else. Carrie Ruhlman NC Division of Water Resources Phone: (919)743-8411 carrie.ruhlman@ncdenr.gov http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/wq/ess/eco/coalition Email correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. MOPlease consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -----Original Message ----- From: Merritt, James [mailto:merrittiC@uncw.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 10:03 AM To: Ruhlman, Carrie Subject: RE: Lower Cape Fear River Program Carrie, Hexion or Momentive, has paid for the 14-15 fiscal year which ends June 30, 2015. Jim -----Original Message ----- From: Ruhlman, Carrie [mailto:carrie.ruhlman@ncdenr.gov] Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 7:29 AM To: Merritt, James Subject: RE: Lower Cape Fear River Program Hi Jim, Did Hexion pay their dues this year?? We need to know a date to require them to pick-up their own monitoring. Thanks! Carrie Ruhlman NC Division of Water Resources Phone: (919)743-8411 carrie.ruhlman@ncdenr.gov http://Portal.ncdenr.org/web/wq/ess/eco/coalition Email correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. MOPlease consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -----Original Message ----- From: Merritt, James [mailto:merrittj@uncw.edu] Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 9:41 AM To: Ruhlman, Carrie Subject: FW: Lower Cape Fear River Program Carrie, Hexion or Momentive want to drop the LCFRP. I think this situation is complicated. Do you know who has the discharge permit? Any information would be helpful. I� From: Buller, Thomas [Tom.Buller@hexion.com] Sent: Monday, June 01, 2015 10:14 AM To: McIver, Matthew; Merritt, James; Bazinet, Ronald Subject: Lower Cape Fear River Program Matthew and James, Hexion has decided not to continue our participation in the Lower Cape Fear River Program. The benefits to Hexion of participating in the program are pretty limited. In addition the complications of obtaining samples on property that is not owned by us are becoming more severe. Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, Tom Buller Regional EHS Manager— Acme, NC, Morganton, NC and Columbus, GA [cid:image001.pn @01D09C53.CEE076E0] Hexion Inc. Cell 910-274-5921 Office 910-830-2741 This message, including attached files, is confidential and intended for the addressees. It may contain information that is proprietary, privileged or exempt for disclosure under applicable law. Any unauthorized use and dissemination of the information or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. Any views, opinions or conclusions expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and do not necessarily reflect the views of Hexion or its affiliates. If you received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email, delete all copies of this message and refrain from printing, copying, or disseminating this message or otherwise using the information in it. Thank you. . d. Belnick, Tom From: Weaver, Charles Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 1:17 P(-NCO003395 To: Belnick, Tom Subject: RE: Hexion Specialty Chemicals, In The 2011 mod letter that suspended instream monitoring for 002 was never given to me. Instream monitoring was never suspended in BIMS. So, the instream monitoring is already in place: DO, Salinity, and Conductivity. Since instream DMR data isn't entered into BIMS, the lack of it didn't trigger any violations. -----Original Message ----- From: Belnick, Tom Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 9:57 AM To: Weaver, Charles Subject: FW: Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc. - NC0003395 Charles- oops- forgot to copy you on my original email. This was a case of facility dropping out of Monitor Coalition, and now responsible for instream monitoring. Tom Belnick Supervisor, NPDES Complex Permitting Unit NCDWR/Water Quality Programs 919-807-6390 E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties -----Original Message ----- From: Ruhlman, Carrie Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 7:33 AM To: Belnick, Tom; Chernikov, Sergei Cc: Gregson, Jim; Risgaard, Jon Subject: RE: Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc. - NC0003395 Thanks Tom. We're pretty sure that they've been conducting their required instream monitoring the entire time that they've been a member anyhow, but if you guys could send something to them in writing to let them know that we're aware that they're no longer a member and they're required to conduct their own monitoring as of June/July X, 2015, that would be great. I'm waiting to hear back from the LCFRP on the date that their paid -up through. Will let you know. Carrie Ruhlman NC Division of Water Resources Phone: (919)743-8411 carrie.ruhlman@ncdenr.gov http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/wq/ess/eco/coalition Email correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -----Original Message ----- From: Belnick, Tom Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 5:57 PM To: Ruhlman, Carrie; Chernikov, Sergei Cc: Gregson, Jim; Risgaard, Jon Subject: RE: Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc. - NC0003395 Carrie- this facility is operating under an expired permit (issued 7/31/2007, expired 12/30/2011). This expired permit did not contain LCFRP waiver language, but included instream monitoring for DO, salinity, conductivity. Our permit file does contain waiver letter dated 7/1/2011 with instream monitoring reinstatement provision. The permit renewal was originally assigned to Jim McKay, but shifted to Sergei after Jim retired in 2014. Sergei- based on this info, do not include any LCFRP instream waiver footnote in future permit. Charles- I discussed earlier, can you toggle on instream monitoring requirements in BIMS, Outfall 002. Thanks. Let me know if any hiccups, since I'm not sure if it's as straight -forward as this email suggests. Tom Belnick Supervisor, NPDES Complex Permitting Unit NCDWR/Water Quality Programs 919-807-6390 E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina•Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties -----Original Message ----- From: Ruhlman, Carrie Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 11:05 AM To: Chernikov, Sergei Cc: Gregson, Jim; Risgaard, Jon; Belnick, Tom Subject: Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc. - NC0003395 Hi Sergei, Hexion Specialty Chemicals Inc. (NC0003395) has decided to discontinue their membership with the Lower Cape Fear River Program (see email below). As such, we will need to reinstate their instream NPDES permit requirements. Not sure what their permit says regarding their membership and the waiver of instream sampling, but we usually prepare and send a letter for everyone's files to close-out their membership. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! Carrie Ruhlman NC Division of Water Resources Phone: (919)743-8411 carrie.ruhlman@ncdenr.gov http://porta1.ncdenr.org/web/wq/ess/eco/coalition Email correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -----Original Message ----- From: Merritt, James [mailto:merrittj@uncw.eduj Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 9:41 AM To: Ruhlman, Carrie Subject: FW: Lower Cape Fear River Program Carrie, Hexion or Momentive want to drop the LCFRP. I think this situation is complicated. Do you know who has the discharge permit? Any information would be helpful. Jim From: Buller, Thomas Tom.Buller@hexion.com] Sent: Monday, June 01, To: McIver, Matthew; Merritt, James; Bazinet, Ronald Subject: Lower Cape Fear River Program Matthew and James, Hexion has decided not to continue our participating in the program are pr not owned by us are becoming mo c,)afticipation in the Lower Cape F .ver Pro ram. The benefits to Hexion of mited. In addition the complications of obtaining samples on property that is severe. Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, Tom Buller Regional EHS Manager— cme, NC, Morganton, NC and Columbus, GA[cid:image001.png@01D09C53.CEE076E0] Hexion Inc.j Cell 910-274-5921 1' Office 910-830-2741 f This message, including attached files, is confidential and intended for the addressees. It may contain information that is proprietary, privileged or exempt for disclosure under applicable law. Any unauthorized use and dissemination of the information or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. Any views, opinions or conclusions expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and do not necessarily reflect the views of Hexion or its affiliates. If you received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email, delete all copies of this message and refrain from printing, copying, or disseminating this message or otherwise using the information in it. Thank you. 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