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Representatives of Pacer Energy will give a presentation on their TCEQ air quality permit for a
proposed crude oil loading facility in the 1100 block of West Washington Street.
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Company applies for air quality permit Page 1 of 2
The Paris News
Company applies for air quality permit
By Bill Hankins
The Paris News
Published September 26, 2009
Pacer Energy Marketing of Tulsa has applied to the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality for an air quality permit to construct a crude oil loading
facility in southwest Paris.
Site for the loading facility would be in the iioo block of West Washington Street,
near the Chisum Cemetery and Historical Marker.
A spur railroad line comes through the area, and the crude oil would be loaded onto
railway tanker trucks.
In their application, Pacer said emissions during the loading would be hydrogen
sulfide and benzenol, but indicated those would be in small, manageable amounts.
The application states 2.73 million gallons of crude oil would be loaded there a year
and shipped to the Pacer location in Tulsa.
It said the loading would be done 12 hours per day five days a week, and the daily
amount would be no greater than 25o barrels of crude oil.
That would mean a loading on a railway tanker of 7,479 gallons per day from a 14-
foot oil tanker truck.
Pacer officials would not say from where the sour crude would be trucked to Paris
to be loaded on the tanker car.
Shawn Napier, director of engineering. planning and development for the City of
Paris said as yet Pacer has not applied for a permit from the city to construct a
loading facility.
"They apparently are getting some of the other permit applications out of the way
before they apply to the city," he said. "If they are to construct anything in Paris,
they will have to have a permit from the city."
Ark-Tex Council of Governments board in Texarkana on Thursday reviewed the
Pacer application and gave its approval.
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Company applies for air quality permit Page 2 of 2
Representatives of Pacer assured COG all appropriate precautions will be taken,
and an emergency plan is in place in the event of an accident.
They said emergency response officials will be notified prior to any activity at the
site.
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