# VALERO RENEWABLE FUELS COMPANY, LLC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2013 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3400152311`
- **Case Number:** 05-2013-5038
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- VALERO RENEWABLE FUELS COMPANY, LLC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC (Valero) operates a fuel grade ethanol dry mill production facility located at 203 West County Road 1100 North, Linden, Indiana (the Facility).  The Facility uses the dry mill ethanol production process, where the entire corn grain kernel is ground into flour.  The starch in the flour converts to ethanol during the fermentation process, creating carbon dioxide and DDGS.  The Facility started operations in approximately September of 2007 and currently produces approximately 110 million gallons of ethanol per year, in addition to ethanol manufacturing by-products such as Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS) and Distillers Wet Grains.  Valero has owned the Facility since March of 2010. 

The violations at issue concern the following emissions sources: 

·	two natural gas-fired DDGS dryers (identified as EU039 and EU040), with emissions controlled by a regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO) and heat recovery steam generating (HRSG) system (identified as CE003 and exhausting to stack EP003); and 
·	two natural gas-fired DDGS dryers (identified as EU042 and EU043), with emissions controlled by a RTO and HRSG system (identified as CE006 and exhausting to stack EP003).  
 
On July 1, 2011, Region 5 issued a Notice of Violation (NOV) to Valero for exceeding its allowable NOx emissions limit of 21.45 lbs/hour at RTO systems CE003 and CE006 from March 10, 2010 through January 11, 2011.  The NOV also alleged that during the same time peri

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