IMT Partnership - Environmental Compliance Approval (air)

This proposal is for an amendment to the Limited Operational Flexibility for Environmental Compliance Approval (air & noise) No. 8169-BRHS75 for Flannery Investments Inc., IMT Standen's GP Inc., IMT Standen's Sideco LP Inc., and Jeh-Tah Holdings Ltd., operating as IMT Partnership, an artillery projectile and transportation equipment manufacturing facility located in the Town of Ingersoll, Ontario.

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

• forging
• nosing
• hardening
• metal machining
• assembly
• welding
• cleaning
• phosphating
• bitumen coating, and
• painting

The amendment includes an increase in the facility production limit to 2250 shells per day, and the addition of foraging and nosing presses, furnaces, welders, exhaust fans, a shot blast unit, dust collectors, a paint booth, comfort heating equipment, and a fume scrubber. Emissions to the air from this facility include:

• talc
• copper
• total suspended particulate
• nitrogen oxides, and
• crystalline silica

The Environmental Compliance Approval with Limited Operational Flexibility (air & 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 & 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.