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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNC0090212_Correspondence_20230824 (2)KINGS MOUNTAIN LITHIUM PROJECT NPDES Individual Permit Application \\\ ALBEMARLE�' Kings Mountain Facility 348 Holiday Inn Drive Kings Mountain NC 28086 NCDEQ/ DWR NPDES Industrial Permitting Unit Attn: Douglas Dowden 1617 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC 27699-1617 Subject: Permit Application Additional Information Request NC0090212 — Albemarle / Kings Mountain 348 Holiday Inn Drive, Kings Mountain Cleveland County / MRO Dear Sir: Albemarle U.S., Inc. submits herein a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit application package, which includes responses to the April and August 2023 Additional Information Requests from the NCDEQ Division of Water Quality Permitting's Industrial Permitting Unit, for the proposed temporary discharge of the water contained in the mine pit. Please find enclosed a complete Permit application Package including: • EPA Form 1 • EPA Form 2E • EPA Form 2D • Additional Information Request #1 • Additional Information Request #2 Thank you in advance for your assistance in processing this permit application. If you have any questions regarding the information provided, please contact John Kuhn at 704-734-2708 or by email at john.kuhn@albemarle.com. Sinc rely, I� John Kuhn Mine Permitting and Approvals Lead NPDES INDIVIDUAL PERMIT APPLICATION Table of Contents EPA Form 1 • Section 6.1 Attachment -Facility Location Maps • Section 7.1 Attachment - Existing Environmental Permits EPA Form 2E • Section 4.0 Attachment - Effluent Characteristics • Section 7.1 Attachment — Other Information • Section 7.1 Attachment - Engineering Alternatives Analysis • Section 7.1 Attachment — Kings Creek Stability and Water Quality Assessment • Section 7.1 Attachment - Plan Set EPA Form 2D • Section 4.1 Attachment — Line Drawings • Section 8.1 Attachment — Water Treatment Engineering Report • Section 9.1 Attachment — Pit Lake Analytical Results Additional Informational Request #1 • Delegation of Authority • PFAS Questionnaire Additional Informational Request #2 • USGS Kings Creek Flow Request • Treatment Plant SDS • Biocide 101 Worksheet • Pilot Plant Report Print All Pages Print Form Only United States Office of Water EPA Form 3510-1 Environmental Protection Agency Washington, D.C. Revised March 2019 Water Permits Division � E�► Application Form 1 General Information NPDES Permitting Program Note: All applicants to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits program, with the exception of publicly owned treatment works and other treatment works treating domestic sewage, must complete Form 1. Additionally, all applicants must complete one or more of the following forms: 213, 2C, 21), 2E, or 2F. To determine the specific forms you must complete, consult the "General Instructions" for this form. EPA Identification Number NPDES Permit Number Facility Name Form Approved 03/05/19 Albemarle Kings Mountain OMB No. 2040-0004 Form U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1 \8/EPA Application for NPDES Permit to Discharge Wastewater NPDES GENERAL INFORMATION SECTION• •• r 1.1 Applicants Not Required to Submit Form 1 1.1.1 Is the facility a new or existing publicly owned 1.1.2 Is the facility a new or existing treatment works treatment works? treating domestic sewage? If yes, STOP. Do NOT complete No If yes, STOP. Do NOT ✓� No Form 1. Complete Form 2A. complete Form 1. Complete Form 2S. 1.2 Applicants Required to Submit Form 1 1.2.1 Is the facility a concentrated animal feeding 1.2.2 Is the facility an existing manufacturing, operation or a concentrated aquatic animal commercial, mining, or silvicultural facility that is a production facility? currently discharging process wastewater? oYes 4 Complete Form 1 �✓ No ❑ Yes -* Complete Form No a and Form 2B. 1 and Form 2C. z 1.2.3 Is the facility a new manufacturing, commercial, 1.2.4 Is the facility a new or existing manufacturing, = mining, or silvicultural facility that has not yet commercial, mining, or silvicultural facility that commenced to discharge? discharges only nonprocess wastewater? Yes 4 Complete Form 1 No Yes 4 Complete Form No and Form 2D. 1 and Form 2E. Vl 1.2.5 Is the facility a new or existing facility whose '— discharge is composed entirely of stormwater a associated with industrial activity or whose discharge is composed of both stormwater and non-stormwater? Yes -+ Complete Form 1 �✓ No and Form 2F unless exempted by 40 CFR 122.26(b)(14)(x) or b (15). SECTIOND•• AND LOCATION 2.1 Facility Name 7r Albemarle Kings Mountain Lithium Project 0 2.2 EPA Identification Number C J N/A 2.3 Facility Contact Vl L Name (first and last) Title Phone number Q John Kuhn Mine Environmental Permitting Lead (704) 734-2708 Email address john.kuhn@albemarle.com 2.4 Facility Mailing Address ZStreet or P.O. box 348 Holiday Inn Drive City or town State ZIP code Kings Mountain North Carolina 28086 EPA Form 3510-1 (revised 3-19) Page 1 EPA Identification Number NPDES Permit Number Facility Name Form Approved 03/05/19 Albemarle Kings Mountain OMB No. 2040-0004 y 2.5 Facility Location Street, route number, or other specific identifier a 0 348 Holiday Inn Drive rn o County name County code (if known) Cleveland E J City or town State ZIP code z @ Kings Mountain North Carolina 28086 SECTION•D I 3.1 SIC Code(s) Description (optional) E17�9 The proposed temporary discharge is a dewatering event prior to mining activities a v 0 U N U Z 3.2 NAICS Code(s) Description (optional) f° U 238910 The proposed temporary discharge is a dewatering event prior to mining activities N 4.1 Name of Operator Albemarle U.S., INC 0 4.2 Is the name you listed in Item 4.1 also the owner? r 0 ❑' Yes ❑ No 4.3 Operator Status ❑ Public —federal ❑ Public —state ❑ Other public (specify) o ❑� Private ❑ Other (specify) 4.4 Phone Number of Operator (704)739-2501 4.5 Operator Address r Street or P.O. Box M E 348 Holiday Inn Drive City or town State ZIP code 0 0 m Kings Mountain North Carolina 28086 Q Email address of operator O joey.dean@albemarle.com SECTION1 I 5.1 Is the facility located on Indian Land? ❑ Yes ❑� No EPA Form 3510-1 (revised 3-19) Page 2 EPA Identification Number NPDES Permit Number Facility Name Form Approved 03/05/19 Albemarle Kings Mountain OMB No. 2040-0004 6.1 Existing Environmental Permits (check all that apply and print or type the corresponding permit number for each) ❑✓ NPDES (discharges to surface ❑ RCRA (hazardous wastes) ❑ UIC (underground injection of a water) fluids) •may— See attachment for permits w a ElPSD (air emissions) ❑ Nonattainment program (CAA) ElNESHAPs (CAA) rn .R El Ocean dumping (MPRSA) El Dredge or fill (CWA Section 404) ❑' Other (specify) See attachment for permit list 7.1 Have you attached a topographic map containing all required information to this application? (See instructions for C specific requirements.) 2 ❑ Yes ❑ No ❑ CAFO—Not Applicable (See requirements in Form 213.) 'CTION 8. NATURE OF i 8.1 Describe the nature of your business. The Kings Mountain project is a lithium mine facility that operated from the 1940s through the the mid-1980s. y Albemarle U.S., Inc is evaluating the feasibility of restarting the Kings Mountain mine. This permit request is for a temporary discharge permit for the dewatering of the former mine pit and does not include future mining activities 3 or future discharges associated with mining activities. m Dewatering activities will include installing 4 Flyght pumps with sufficient capacity to dewater the pit, running two 0 c m 18" HDPE pipelines in the pit for dewatering, and one aboveground 20" HDPE pipeline that will run from the pit to 3 1 1 South Reservoir along existing internal roads with no additional ground disturbance M z :GTIVN 9. WULING WATER INTAKE STRUCTURES (40 GFR =� Does your facility use cooling water? ❑ Yes ❑s No -* SKIP to Item 10.1. R 9.2 Identify the source of cooling water. (Note that facilities that use a cooling water intake structure as described at �a, 40 CFR 125, Subparts I and J may have additional application requirements at 40 CFR 122.21(r). Consult with your •o Y NPDES permitting authority to determine what specific information needs to be submitted and when.) U 10.1 Do you intend to request or renew one or more of the variances authorized at 40 CFR 122.21(m)? (Check all that y apply. Consult with your NPDES permitting authority to determine what information needs to be submitted and when.) C ❑ Fundamentally different factors (CWA ❑ Water quality related effluent limitations (CWA Section Section 301(n)) 302(b)(2)) ❑ Non -conventional pollutants (CWA ❑ Thermal discharges (CWA Section 316(a)) cc Section 301(c) and (g)) ❑✓ Not applicable EPA Form 3510-1 (revised 3-19) Page 3 EPA Identification Number NPDES Permit Number Facility Name Form Approved 03/05/19 Albemarle Kings Mountain OMB No.2040-0004 SECTION 11. CHECKLIST AND CERTIFICATION STATEMENT I 11.1 In Column 1 below, mark the sections of Form 1 that you have completed and are submitting with your application. For each section, specify in Column 2 any attachments that you are enclosing to alert the permitting authority. Note that not all applicants are required to provide attachments. Column 1 Column 2 ❑✓ Section 1: Activities Requiring an NPDES Permit ❑ w/ attachments ❑✓ Section 2: Name, Mailing Address, and Location ❑ wl attachments ❑✓ Section 3: SIC Codes ❑ w/ attachments ❑✓ Section 4: Operator Information ❑ w/ attachments ❑✓ Section 5: Indian Land ❑ w/ attachments Section 6: Existing Environmental Permits ❑✓ wl attachments ❑✓ Section 7: Map mlatopographic ❑ w/ additional attachments o ❑✓ Section 8: Nature of Business ❑ wl attachments ❑✓ Section 9: Cooling Water Intake Structures ❑ w/ attachments ❑✓ Section 10: Variance Requests ❑ w/ attachments v e a Section 11: Checklist and Certification Statement ❑ w/ attachments s Y 11.2 Certification Statement U 1 certify under penalty of law that this document and all attachments were prepared under my direction or supervision in accordance with a system designed to assure that qualified personnel properly gather and evaluate the information submitted. Based on my inquiry of the person or persons who manage the system, or those persons directly responsible for gathering the information, the information submitted is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, true, accurate, and complete. I am aware that there are significant penalties for submitting false information, including the possibility of fine and imprisonment for knowing violations. Name (print or type first and last name) Official title Jose Fernando Rodriguez Mine Site Director/GM I Signature *WA . I Date signed EPA Form 3510-1 (revised 3-19) Page 4 APPLICATION FORM 1 Section 6.1 Attachment Existing Environmental Permits 2166 SWCA ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANTS Sound Science. Creative Solutions' 9319 Robert D. Snyder Road, Suite 436 Charlotte, North Carolina 28223 Tel 919.292.2200 www.swca.com TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM To: Trevor Chesal Albemarle 4250 Congress Street, Suite 900 Charlotte, NC 28209 From: Melissa Arnold, Assistant Project Environmental Scientist, Mining Date: November 11, 2022 Re: Existing Environmental Permits, Albemarle Kings Mountain Lithium Project INTRODUCTION This memorandum is prepared in support of a NPDES application to document the existing environmental permits at the Albemarle Lithium Project (Project) in Kings Mountain, North Carolina as an attachment to section 6 on Form 1 of the application. PERMITS While the proposed temporary discharge of pit water is a one-off and will be under a new NPDES Permit, there are other existing environmental permits associated with the Kings Mountain Facility. 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Revised March 2019 Water Permits Division 0 , EPA Application Form 2E Manufacturing, Commercial, Mining, and Silvicultural Facilities Which Discharge Only Nonprocess Wastewater NPDES Permitting Program Note: Complete this form and Form 1 if your facility is a new or existing manufacturing, commercial, mining, and silvicultural facility that discharges only nonprocess wastewater.