Kemira Water Solutions Canada Inc. - Environmental Compliance Approval (air)

This proposal is for an amendment to the Limited Operational Flexibility for an Environmental Compliance Approval (air & noise) No. 1062-994NZP for Kemira Water Solutions Canada Inc., a polyaluminium chloride and aluminum chlrohydrate manufacturing facility located in the City of Brantford, Ontario.

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

• aluminum chlorohydrate reactors
• polyaluminum chloride reactors and associated scrubber
• laboratory fume hoods
• materials and products handling and storage equipment
• cooling towers
• process steam boiler and natural gas-fired comfort heating equipment

The amendment includes addition of a tank, cooling tower and updates to exhaust information of sulfuric acid tanks.

Emissions to the air from this facility include:

• nitrogen oxides
• aluminum hydroxide
• calcium carbonate
• hydrogen chloride
• sulphuric acid
• particulate matter

The Environmental Compliance Approval with Limited Operational Flexibility (air), 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). 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.