A permit was granted for capacity tenfold the legally allowed maximum

Evidence

Thermal Pure’s permit nevertheless allowed the facility to handle 105,000 tons per year, nearly ten times the maximum allowed by the Waste Plan for a facility in the eastern region and nearly four times the waste produced by the entire state of Pennsylvania. In its appeal, CRCQL questioned how a facility with the capacity to treat four times the waste produced in the entire state could be legal under a statute that was intended to minimize waste transportation in Pennsylvania. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 249

Categorization

• QUESTION: How did a permit ten times the statutory cap survive initial review? Worth checking whether the DEP’s reading or the statute’s zone math is the anomaly.
• XREF: connects to: Technical jargon functions as a silencing weapon against unschooled residents — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 235