DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards. The public has the right and is encouraged to comment on draft permits. DNR considers public comments before finalizing the permits. Submit comments in writing to the assigned permit writer before 4:30 p.m. on the last day of the comment period.
Construction Permits
DNR engineers review and issue construction permits to facilities before they build new or modify existing sources of air pollution. The public may review the following air quality construction permits available online at https://idnraqrr.iowadnr.gov/ConPermitSearch or through the EASY Air Public Inquiry Portal and then click the Public Notice tab.
Black Hawk County
John Deere Product Engineering Center, 6275 Cedar Heights Dr., Cedar Falls.Project No. 25-191
Modification of existing PSD permits by reducing plantwide diesel consumption and NOx limits. The public comment period ends November 23.
John Deere Product Engineering Center, 6275 Cedar Heights Dr., Cedar Falls.Project No. 25-194
Modification of existing PSD permits by changing dynometers and associated limits. The public comment period ends November 23.
Chickasaw County
Homeland Energy Solutions, LLC (“HES”) – 2779 Highway 24, Lawler, IA
Project No. 25-287
HES operates an ethanol production facility. This project is for the amendment of one PSD construction permit to change the operating hour restriction for the grain receiving operations at the Lawler facility. Public comment period ends on November 25.