Avoid Permit Gridlock: Lessons in Fine Particulate Permitting
Avoid Permit Gridlock: Lessons in Fine Particulate Permitting
Tuesday, December 2, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ET
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) creates challenges for permitting. Generated by combustion and high temperature processes, PM 2.5 requires consideration of multiple forms of particulate matter, precursors, and evaluation of modeling against a backdrop of a low NAAQS and SIL. Taken in combination, these factors often create permitting obstacles for new plants and facility expansions.
Leading air attorney Eric Hiser will outline problems and solutions. Ryan Gesser of Georgia Pacific will review how the permit rules are supposed to work, and what actually happened in a recent industrial permitting case study. David Shotts will discuss lessons learned in permitting combustion turbines and other power industry sources. A panel discussion evaluating those experiences and answering questions will follow. These perspectives will help permit applicants and permit writers work through the many complexities of permitting.
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Presenters:
Ryan Gesser, Senior Manager, Air Quality, Georgia-Pacific
Ryan Gesser is a Senior Manager for Air Quality at Georgia-Pacific in Atlanta, where he works on a team of experts in air quality modeling, permitting, and compliance management that supports more than 150 facilities in 32 states manufacturing building products (plywood, lumber, OSB, and gypsum), consumer and professional products (toilet paper, paper towels, napkins), cellulose, and recyclable corrugated packaging (containers and mailers). Ryan is a Certified Consulting Meteorologist with more than 27 years of professional experience and holds a BS in Applied Math from the University of Virginia and master’s degrees in Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and Environmental Engineering from Georgia Tech. He is also a certified barbeque judge, certified weightlifting coach, and nationally ranked competitive Olympic masters weightlifter.
Eric Hiser, Partner, Hiser Burggraff Curtis
Eric Hiser, Partner, Hiser Burggraff Curtis is lead environmental partner with Hiser Burggraff Curtis, a boutique environmental law firm located in Phoenix, Arizona. He helps complex industrial facilities across the United States comply with environmental regulation at reasonable cost while maintaining operational flexibility for future product and process innovation. Experience includes over 200 PSD, NNSR and Title V permits; SIP/FIP development; and state/federal appeals and enforcement defense. Eric has a long interest in particulate matter developments as an attorney for many metals industries. He is a co-author of the A&WMA's New Source Review Manual and authors the NSRLaw.com blog on NSR developments.
David Shotts, PE, Principal, Ramboll
David Shotts, PE is a Principal with Ramboll’s Air Quality Permitting and Compliance Services team in New York and has over 40 years of experience managing major source air permitting and compliance assistance to a range of industries, with a primary focus on the power sector. Power generation experience includes projects for many utility and independent power clients, employing technologies including combustion turbines, boilers and reciprocating IC engines burning a range of fuels including natural gas, oil, coal, coal refuse, biomass, municipal solid waste, landfill gas and syngas. David has provided site selection, critical issues analysis and/or air permitting for dozens of fossil fuel power generation development, repowering and upgrade projects, including emission calculations, BACT/LAER control technology evaluations and regulatory applicability analysis in 17 states.
Moderator: Harry Klodowski, Principal, Klodowski Law LLC
Harry Klodowski has practiced environmental law in Pittsburgh since 1979. While a student at SUNY Buffalo 1972-1979,(BA,BA,MA,JD) he watched the local Love Canal story develop into CERCLA, and entered the job market in time for the Regan purge of EPA in 1981. His practice covered air, water and waste for basic industry, as well as small business. He has obtained NSR and air toxics permits for metals plants and has completed over 30 ERC transactions in support of NSR air permits. At A&WMA he is a Fellow Member, is in his seventh year on the International Board and has been recognized for achievement by the Board, the Education Council, and Sections & Chapters Council. Harry will be A&WMA president in 2026.
