Local brief
Georgia EPD takes comments through Nov. 13 on an air permit application for Pilot Exploration near Morris
The Georgia Environmental Protection Division lists an air quality permit application from Pilot Exploration, Inc. for supporting activities for oil and gas operations near Morris in Quitman County (application No. 30390). Comments are due Nov. 13, 2026.
The Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) Air Protection Branch included Pilot Exploration, Inc. in Morris, Quitman County, in its public advisory and public notice for the week of Oct. 12, 2026 (PA1026-2). The item is a air quality permit application for supporting activities for oil and gas operations (application No. 30390). EPD lists it in its public advisory of air permit applications received and under review.
What is proposed. The application asks for building and operating an oil and gas exploration facility. Notice Nearby left out the facility's street address; it is listed in EPD's notice.
How to comment. Send written comments to EPD by email at Air-Permits.Comments@dnr.ga.gov with "Air permit application" in the subject line, or by mail to the Air Permit Manager at EPD's Air Protection Branch in Atlanta. Comments received by 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 13, 2026, will be considered in EPD's final decision. The application and EPD documents can be reviewed at the Air Protection Branch by appointment (email ask.epd@dnr.ga.gov) and can be provided electronically on request.
More information. Issued (final) air permits can be viewed at https://air.gaepd.org/Permits. EPD's general line is (404) 363-7000. The same weekly notice covers eight other Georgia facilities; Notice Nearby's Georgia paper lists all nine (https://noticenearby.com/papers/georgia-epd-air-permit-notices-nine-facilities-comments-nov-13-2026-pa1026-2).
Original source: Georgia Environmental Protection Division, EPD Public Advisory and Public Notice for the Week of October 12, 2026 (PA1026-2) (https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/GAEPD/bulletins/42f2b99). Notice Nearby wrote this brief in its own words.
What to read next: the Georgia air permit paper (https://noticenearby.com/papers/georgia-epd-air-permit-notices-nine-facilities-comments-nov-13-2026-pa1026-2), the Quitman County hub (https://noticenearby.com/ga/quitman), the Georgia hub (https://noticenearby.com/ga) and all public papers (https://noticenearby.com/papers). Local businesses, parks and places nearby are on ZOST.app (https://zost.app).
Notice Nearby is a Public Register listing, not a newspaper, and this page is not Legal Publication. If the Georgia Environmental Protection Division and this note disagree, the Georgia Environmental Protection Division wins.
Source: the public notice on this register NN-GOVEMAIL-20261014-GAQUITMANAIR30390 · Georgia Environmental Protection Division.
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