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Modifications and Changes in Emissions at Mittal Steel Cleveland Blast Furnace #5 Summary LTV (now Mittal) Steel of Cleveland made off permit modifications to Blast Furnace #5 during the 1980’s. In 1990, LTV obtained a permit to incorporate these changes and to permit the addition of a second taphole to increase production by debottlenecking the casting operations. Maximum capacity increased from 108 to 204 tons of iron per hour. LTV did not accurately represent the nature and extent of the emissions increases associated with these modifications. Furthermore, LTV obtained an emissions limit on the net increase in emissions of particulate matter of 13.72 tons per year. The City of Cleveland tried to enforce apparent exceedances under this permit in 2005 and were told by Mittal’s attorneys that the permit conditions were not enforceable. This clearly appears to be the case. Since the emissions increase limits in PTI # 13-2122 that were put in place to avoid New Source Review (NSR) and the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) programs are not enforceable, the emissions increases associated with this permit must be assumed to be significant as calculated in the PTI # 13-2122 application (LTV STEEL CO. INC., Application No. 13-2122, pages 5 and 6 of 9). Other emissions increases appear to have been miscalculated by LTV Steel. As a result, Blast Furnace #5 does not have BACT pollution controls that would have correctly been required under PSD. An initial approximation by Ohio Citizen Action of the net emissions increases associated with this 2nd taphole project are: Carbon Monoxide – 4,956 tons per year Particulate Matter – 900.1 tons per year excluding slag operation and fugitive emissions Sulfur Dioxide – 140 tons per year Oxides of Nitrogen – Estimated in 1990 to be 102.6 tons per year (current emissions rates are lower) Emissions Increase Not Correctly Estimated under Ohio PTI #13-2122 Mittal Steel’s (as LTV Steel) Blast Furnace #5 (BF #5) was modi