GENERAL41634

• Permit No: M1977208
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 4/20/2004
• Doc Name: CKD @CEMEX
• From: St. Vrain Valley Community Watchdogs
• To: DMG
• Permit Index Doc Type: General Correspondence
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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In addition to a $132,300 fine,
the company must launch a
$150,000 "supplemental environ-
mental project" to develop
stronger environmental and
phm[on Colo. pllighway 66.at [he
As pazt of that effort, CEMEX
must tell people it violated au-
quality laws.
°The report is just the begin-
ning," said Richard Cazgill, ex-
ecutive director of the St. Vrain
Valley Watchdogs, a group
formed to monitor CEMEX.
"It's the beginning of seeking so-
lotions that go beyond compli-
ance - to have a clean plant be-
cause you want ta be a good
neighbors"
CazgID's group, along with the
Sierra Club and local residents,
are fighting CEMEX's plans to
bum used tires ta its kiln.
CEMEX blasts limestone from a
quarry on the north side of Colo.
60, trucks it across the road,
Yhen heats it in a kiln to make ce-
ment.
The groups say CEMEX can-
not be trusted to bum tires
cleanly if it cannot reliably fol-
low state clean-air roles.
The state report said CEMEX,
among other findings, failed to
adequately control dust leaking
from its A-frame storage build-
ing, lied about the pollutioncon-
trol equipment on the A-frame,
failed to control dust on access
roads, and faffed to calculate
how much dust was escaping the
site. All are requirements of the
phmt's existing permits.
The biggest violation appears
to cente on the A-frame storage
building, a large structure the
company uses to store limestone
needed for making cement.
According to the state,
CEMEX said it used a "bag-
house^ - as attached room
filled with filtering bags - to
control dust coming from the
building.
From April 2001 through Au-
gust 2003, CEMEX operated the
plant's A-frame without the re-
quired baghouse," the report
said. "On or about June 20, 2003,
CEMEX filed an air pollution
emission notice ... (and> identi-
fied a baghouse ... as the pollu-
tion control equipment..,. There
was no baghouse on the A-frame
transfer point, and had not been
such a baghouse for at least two
yeazs."
CEMEX shut down the A-
frame in August under state or-
der and has not reopened it. But
that is also causing problems.
Under state regulations, the
plant can handle only 100,000
tons of "clinker" or cooked lime-
stone material, outside.
The plant is approaching that
level now, the state said. Once
CEMEX exceeds that limit, it
will be fined $10,000 per month
for the rest of the year.
CEMEX plant manager John
Lohr did not return a phone call