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The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and City of Little Rock Landfill (“LRL”) entered into an April 15th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of an Air Permit. See LIS No. 24-069.

The CAO provides that LRL owns and operates a municipal solid waste landfill in Pulaski County, Arkansas.

The landfill operates pursuant to an Air Permit.

DEQ personnel are stated to have conducted a routine compliance inspection at the Facility on March 14, 2023. The reporting period for the inspection was February 2021-February 2023.

General Provision 23 of the Air Permit authorizes only those pollutant emitting activities addressed in the Air Permit.

The inspection determined that 3 generators had been replaced without modification of the Permit. This is alleged to violate General Provision 23 of the Air Permit.

LRL responded to DEQ regarding the alleged violations stating it would prepare a Permit Modification Application to remove the sources no longer present at the Facility and add the unpermitted sources to the Air Permit. LRL submitted a Permit Modification Application on November 8, 2023, for the 3 unpermitted emergency generators.

LRL neither admits nor denies the factual and legal allegations contained in the CAO.

A civil penalty of $5,940.00 is assessed.

A copy of the CAO can be downloaded here.