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  OKC Office
  1015 N. Broadway, Ste. 300
  Oklahoma City, OK 73102
  Ph:  405-842-1066
  Fax: 405-843-4687

  Norman Office
  3226 Bart Conner Drive
  Norman, OK 73072
  Ph:  405-366-8541
  Fax: 405-366-8540

"Cardinal’s strength is the dedication of its staff and its knowledge of Agency requirements and Agency personnel."  

Gary Wilson, Pan Pacific Products, new $20 million fiberboard manufacturing facility

Cardinal’s regulatory expertise is not only used for long-term compliance audits and assistance but also for shorter term permitting and special projects. Cardinal has a 100% success rate in its permitting endeavors and can help clients with the following types of permitting and regulatory requirements.

Air:
Emission Inventories • Construction Permits • State Minor Operating Permits • Title V Operating Permits • New Source Review Permits • BACT, LAER, RACT Control Technology Determinations • Criteria and Air Toxic Pollutant Modeling • MACT Determinations • Stack Testing Protocols and Quality Assurance

Water:
Industrial Pretreatment • Surface Impoundment Permitting • NPDES Permitting • Land Treatment Application of Sludge • Treatability Studies • Storm Water NPDES Permitting • Pollution Prevention Plans

Solid Waste/Hazardous Waste:

RCRA Subtitle B Permitting • RCRA Subtitle C Permitting • RCRA Subtitle D Permitting • Landfill Gas Monitoring Programs • Landfill Leachate Systems • Landfill Construction Quality Assurance/Quality Control

Challenge: A client wanted to begin building a new $20 million fiberboard manufacturing facility in less than four months. Prior to initiating construction, the company needed five permits or investigations completed: state air quality construction permit for a major source of criteria pollutants; surface impoundments construction permit; storm water construction permit; wetlands permit; and an endangered species investigation.

Solution: Cardinal completed permitting necessary to begin construction and assisted with the public hearings and informational meetings related to the permitting. The air permit application was developed in less than two months and approved by the State within the allotted four-month period. All other permits were likewise completed ahead of the construction schedule.

Project Experience

A confidential, medium density fiberboard (MDF) manufacturer located in Southeast Oklahoma produces approximately 104,000 tons per year MDF.  The facility includes steam generation, wastewater treatment, and wood recycle operations.  Air emissions were the primary construction and permitting concern.  Baghouses, cyclones, and scrubbers are used throughout the plant. 

Cardinal has assisted in this project from its inception with the following environmental and engineering projects:

• Air Quality Construction Permitting - 1996

• Air Quality Title V Permitting - 2001

• Formaldehyde Fenceline Monitoring - 1999

• Stack Testing Design and Oversight - 1995,1996,1997, and 2002

• Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan - On-Going

• Environmental Compliance Audit - 1998

• Wastewater Treatment Impoundment Permitting - 1996, 2000

• Phase I Environmental Assessment - 1995

• Noise Reduction Investigations - 1995

• Pollution Control Device Research and Recommendations - 1996, 1999 and 2002

• Supplemental Environmental Project Designs for Water Quality - 2001

• Response to EPA Section 114 Request - 1999, 2002

• Solid Waste Disposal/Recycle Options - On-Going

• Form R Reports - On-Going

• Annual Emission Inventory Report - 1997 and 2002

• Tier 2 Reports - On-Going

Cardinal has assisted this project, which is a merchant power plant permitted in  2001 and will produce approximately 1200 MW in combined cycle operation for electricity sale to the wholesale market.  The facility will also have the capability of producing steam for industrial users.  Water for the project will be obtained from the Poteau River. 

Cardinal has assisted with this project in numerous ways:

• Prevention of Significant Deterioration Air Quality Construction Permitting.

• Increment Consumption Analysis for Arkansas.

• Increment Consumption Analysis for Oklahoma.

• Last Power Plant in Oklahoma to be permitted with Dry Low NOX burners as control technology selection.

• Archaeological Investigation of Plant site and River site.

• Final Report accepted by the Oklahoma Archeological Survey.

• Wetland Investigation of Plant Site and River site.

• Site survey of Plant site, River site and Identified Wetlands.

• Negotiation with Army Corps of Engineers on Jurisdictional Wetlands located on Plant site and River Site.

• Wastewater Discharge Permitting with Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality.

• River Water Sampling Upstream of Site

• Surface Impoundment Permitting with Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality.

• Assistance with Water Treatment Requirements.

• Modification to Waste Water Discharge Permit for inclusion of Rule 216(b) "Impingement/Entrainment" criteria.

Cardinal Engineering, Inc. was selected to provide comprehensive environmental investigations for a proposed 48.6 mile stretch of new turnpike alignment in the southeastern part of Oklahoma.  Cardinal investigated a 600 foot wide corridor over the entire length of the preferred alignment and sensitive zones of several alternative alignments.  Subsequent phases have allowed Cardinal to delineate identified wetland areas, develop wetland and archaeological site mitigation plans and complete the comprehensive permitting documentation for approval of construction in conjunction with wetland, archaeological, and stream crossing identified sites.

Cardinal provided the following environmental services:

• Archaeological

• Endangered Species

• Wetlands Delineation

• Hazardous Materials

• Absence/Presence Surveys

• Wetlands Mitigation

• Subsurface Characterization

• Jurisdictional Determination

• FEMA Flood Study

• Permitting