The Department of Environmental Protection is scheduled to hold a November 7 hearing on the Air Quality, Stormwater and other approvals needed for the Slate Belt Heat Recovery Center LLC biosolids processing facility at the Grand Central Landfill in Plainfield Township, Northampton County. (Oct. 20 PA Bulletin, page 6671)
The company proposes to install a thermal oil heater that will use natural gas or excess landfill gas as a fuel to dry biosolids. The facility will have a capacity of about 200 wet tons per day with a throughput of 400 tons. The sewage sludge will then be pressed into a granular shape.
DEP will accept comments on these permits and applications at the hearing--
-- Slate Belt Air Quality Plan Approval Application: Slate Belt plans to recover waste heat from existing turbines located at the Green Knight Energy Center, which is a landfill gas-to-energy plant located at the Grand Central Landfill. The waste heat would be used for drying and producing Class A biosolids. During normal operations, there may be a need for supplemental heat in the process. A public comment period will begin on October 20, 2018, and close on November 21, 2018.
-- Slate Belt Waste Management Permit Application: Slate Belt submitted a residual waste general permit application to the DEP on March 23, 2018, to dry biosolids to create a Class A product that can be used as a fertilizer blending agent, soil conditioner and/or renewable fuel product. Comments on the permit will be accepted until November 21, 2018.
-- Grand Central Waste Management Permit Modification Application: Grand Central Landfill is requesting a modification of its existing Waste Management Permit to allow the proposed heat recovery center to be located within the Grand Central Landfill permit boundary. The permit modification application was received by the DEP on March 21, 2018. The application was determined to be administratively complete on March 26, 2018, and is currently under review.
-- Slate Belt NPDES Permit Application: Slate Belt plans to discharge stormwater related to industrial activities to nearby Waltz Creek and an unnamed tributary to Little Bushkill Creek. DEP will accept comments at the public meeting/hearing and up until November 21, 2018. DEP is coordinating its acceptance of public comment on these permits and the period for submitting comments on all the permit applications will end on Wednesday, November 21, 2018, at 4:00 PM.
The hearing will be held at the Wind Gap Middle School, 1620 Teels Road in Pen Argyle from 6:00 to 9:00.
Those wishing to pre-register to comment at the public hearing or those that wish to submit written testimony can contact Colleen Connolly sending email to: coconnolly@pa.gov or by calling the DEP Northeast Regional Office at 570-826-2035. 
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