Active Metal Finishing Company Limited and Bristol Plating Inc. - Environmental Compliance Approval (air)

This proposal is for an Environmental Compliance Approval with Limited Operational Flexibility (Air and Noise) which replaces all the current Environmental Compliance Approvals for Air at this facility and includes the addition of new or historically unapproved sources for all emissions from Active Metal Finishing Company Limited and Bristol Plating Inc., an electroplating facility located in the City of Toronto, Ontario.

The emission sources from the manufacturing and associated processes that discharge to the air include:

• one (1) 50 HP gas fired boiler
• one (1) gas fired oven
• one (1) residential furnace
• nitric acid and hydrochloric acid bulk storage tanks
• electroplating lines.

This application is to reflect changes to operations and equipment including: adding Limited Operational Flexibility, replacing the gas fired boiler, adding one (1) residential furnace, adding a silver plating operation, and updating current sources.

Emissions to the air from this facility include:

• nitrogen oxides
• nitric acid
• hydrogen chloride
• chromium compounds (hexavalent forms)

The Environmental Compliance Approval with Limited Operational Flexibility (Air and Noise), when issued permits modifications to the facility subject to limits on operational flexibility that include a production limit for the facility to be specified on the Environmental Compliance Approval with Limited Operational Flexibility (Air and Noise). The limited operational flexibility conditions have an expiry date. The company will be required to make an application for amendment at that time to renew these conditions.