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GEORGIA
STATE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
Air Programs Branch
U.S. EPA Region 4
345 Courtland Street, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30365

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UNITED STATES ENViRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
REGION 4
345 COURTLAND STREET, N.E.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30365
MEMORANDUM
DATE: FF. 12 996
SUBJECT: Georgia SIP compilation update
FROM: Douglas Neeley, Chief
Air Programs Branch
TO: Jewell Harper, Chief
Air Enforcement Branch
(Kevin Taylor)
Nancy Tommelleo, Chief
Air Toxics Section 1
RCRA/Air Branch 1
Off ±ce of Régional Counsel /
(David Savage) i
Linda Anderson-Carnahan, Chief
Technical Support Section
(Yolanda Adams)
Please find enclosed an updated Georgia State Implementation
Plan (SIP) compilation. The old SIP compilation (printed October
10, 1995) should be removed and disposed of in its entirety and
replaced with the enclosed version. This updated SIP
incorporates the revisions identified in 61 FR 3817 (copy
enclosed). This compilation represents the most recent version
of the compilation of federally-approved regulations for the
State of Georgia.
If you have any questions concerning these updates, please
contact Scott M. Martin at ext. 4216.

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Act, preparation of the regulatory
flexibility analysis would constitute
Federal inquiry into the economic
reasonableness of the State action. The
Act forbids USEPA to base its actions
concerning SIPs on such grounds.
Union Electric Co. v. U.S.E.P.A., 427
U.S. 246, 256—66 (1976).
Under section 202 of the Unfunded
Mandates Reform Act of 1995
(“Unfunded Mandates Act”), signed
into law on March 22, 1995, the USEPA
must prepare a budgetary impact
statement to accompany any proposed
or final rule that indudes a Federal
mandate that may result in estimated
costs to State, local, or tribal
governments in the aggregate; or to the
private sector; of $100 million or more.
• Under Section 205, the USEPA must
select the most cost-effective and least
burdensome alternative that achieves
the objectives of the rule and is
consistent with statutory requirements.
Section203 requires the USEPA to
establish a plan for informing and
advising any small governments that
may be significantly or uniquely
• impacted by the rule.
The USEPA has determined that the
approval action promulgated today does
not -include a Federal mandate that may
result in estimated costs of $100 million
or more to either State, local, or tribal
governments in the aggregate, or to the
private sector.
This Federal action approves pre-
existing requirements under State or
local law, and imposes no new Federal
requirements. Accordingly, no
additional costs to State, local, or tribal
governments, or the private sector,
result from this action. -
D. Petitions for Judicial Review
Under section 307(b)(1) of the Act,
petitions for judicial review of this
action must be filed in the United States
Court of Appeals for the appropriate
circuit by April 2, 1996. Filing a petition
for reconsideration by the Administrator
of this final rule does not affect the
finality of this rule for the purposes of
judicial review, nor does it extend the
time within which a petition for judicial
review may be filed and shall not
postpone the effectiveness of such rule
or action. This action may not be
• challenged later in proceedings to
enforce its requirements (see section
307(b)(2) of the CAA).
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52
Environmental protection, Air
pollution control, Carbon monoxide,
General conformity. Hydrocarbons,
Intergovernmental relations, Nitrogen
dioxide, Ozone, Particulate matter,
Volatile organic compounds
Dated: December 13, 1995.
Gail Ginsberg,
Acting RegionalAdministrator.
40 CFR part 52, is amended as
follows:
PART 52—(AMENDED]
1. The authority citation for part 52
continues to read as follows:
Autherity 42 U.S.C. 7 401—7671q.
Subpart X—.Mlchlgan
2. Section 52.1173 is amended by
adding paragraph (e) to read as follows:
§52.1173 Control strategy Particulatea.
* A A * *
(e) Approval—On November 29, 1994,
the Michigan Department of Natural
Resources submitted a revision to the
particulate State Implementation Plan
for general conformity rules. The
general conformity SIP revisions enable
the State of Michigan to implement and
enforce the Federal general conformity
requirements in the nonattainment or
maintenance areas at the State or local
level in accordance with 40 CFR part 93,
subpart B—Determining Conformity of
General Federal Actions to State or
Federal Implementation Plans.
3. Section 52.1174 is amended by
adding paragraph (n) to read as follows:
§52.1174 Control strategy: Ozone.
A A * A *
(n) Approval—On November 29,
1994, the Michigan Department of
Natural Resources submitted a revision
to the ozone State Implementation Plan
for general conformity rules. The
general conformity SIP revisions enable
the State of Michigan to implement and
enforce the Federal general conformity
requirements in the nonattainment or
maintenance areas at the State or local
level in accordance with 40 CFR part 93,
subpart B—Determining Conformity of
General Federal Actions to State or
Federal Implementation Plans.
4. Section 52.1185 is added to read as
follows:
§52.1185 Control strategy: Carbon
Monoxide.
(a) Approval—On November 29, 1994,
the Michigan Department of Natural
Resources submitted a revision to the
carbon monoxide State Implementation
Plan for general conformity rules. The
general conformity SEP revisions enable
the State of Michigan to implement and
enforce the Federal general conformity
requirements in the nonattainment or
maintenance areas at the State or local
level in accordance with 40 CFR part 93,
subpart B—Determining Conformity of
General Federal Actions to State or
Federal Implementation Plans.
(b) Reserved.
(FR Doc. 95—1850 Filed 2—1—96; 8:45 amj
BILUNO CODE 161040-P
40 CFR Part 52
(GA-28—1-4955a; GA-30-1-7009a; ‘FRL—
5318-3 ]
Approval an4 Promulgation of
Implementation Plans; State: Georgia;
Approval of Revisions to the State
Implementation Plan
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
AC11ON: Direct final rule.
SUMMARY: This action approves
revisions to the Georgia State
Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by
the Georgia Department of Natural
Resources, Environmental Protection
Division (GA EPD) on June 24 and
November 15, 1994, for the purpose of
realphabetizing and updating
definitions, updating volatile organic
compounds (VOCs) reasonably available
control technology (RAC’F) rules,
stationary source monitoring and testing
procedures, and regulations foi the
prevention of significant deterioration of
air quality (PSD). The SIP revisions are
consistent with requirements of the
Clean Air Act as amended in 1990
(CAA).
DATES: This final rule is effective April
2, 1996, unless adverse or critical
comments are received by March 4,
1996. If .he effective date is delayed,
timely notice will be published in the
Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Written comments on this
action should be addressed to Laura
Thielldng at the EPA Regional Office
listed below.
Copies of the documents relative to
this action are available for public
inspection during normal business
hours at the following locations. The
interested persons wanting to examine
these documents should make an
appointment with the appropriate office
at least 24 hours before the visiting day.
Air and Radiation Docket and
Information Center (Air Docket 6102),
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, 401 M Street SW.. -
Washington. DC 20460.
Environmental Protection Agency,
Region 4 Air Programs Branch. 345
Courtland Street NE., Atlanta, Georgia
30365.
Air Protection Branch, Georgia
Environmental Protection Di vision,
Georgia Depavtment of Natural
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Resources 4244 International
Parkway. Suite 120, Atlanta, Georgia
30354.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Laura Thielking, Regulatory Planning
and Development Section, Air Programs
Branch, Air, Pesticides & Toxics
Management Division, Region 4
Environmental Protection Agency, 345
Courtland Street NE., Atlanta. Georgia
30365. The telephone number is 404/
347—3555, X4210. Reference files GA—
28—1—6955 and CA—30--1—7009.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June
24, 1994, the State of Georgia through
the Georgia Environmental Protection
Division submitted SIP revisions to EPA
Region 4. and additional revisions were
submitted on November 15, 1994. These
submittals contain changes pursuant to
requirements of part D of Title I of the
CAA with regard to nonattaimnent
areas; part A, section 114, pertaining to
source monitoring; and part C, regarding
PSD.
Specifically. Georgia submitted, and
EPA is approving, the following
revisions.
391—3—1—01 Definitions
Revised definition of Potential to
Emit, (www); Opacity, (ss); Part 70
ermit, (ww); Reid Vapor Pressure, (iii);
nthetic Minor Permit, (cccc); and
otal Reduced Sulfur (TRS), (eeee). Re-
alphabetized all of the definitions to be
consistent with EPA definitions, to
correc} errors, and to simplify finding
definitions.
‘391—3—1—.02(2) Emission Standards
Subsection (2)(t), VOC Emissions from
Automobile and Light-Duty Truck
Manufacturing, has been revised and
subsections (2)(ccc), VOC Emissions
from Bulk Mixing Tanks, and (2)(eee),
VOC Emissions from Expanded
Polystyrene Products Manufacturing,
have been added to include new VOC
emission limitations to specify RACT
for certain industrial categories. The
reference given for the procedure for
determining leaks in subsection (2)(hh),
Petroleum Refinery Equipment Leaks, is
revised to cite the present form of the
test method. This will bring the
reference up to date. These revisions are
consistent with the CAA.
391—3—1—.02(3) Sampling and 391—3—
1—.02(6) Source Monitoring
Subparagraphs (31(a), (6)(a), and (6)(b)
were revised to reference the methods
specified in the Georgia Department of
Natural Resources Manual of Procedures
)Testing and Monitoring Sources of
Pol(utants, dated September 1, 1994.
a revised manual has been reviewed
and meets EPA requirements.
391—3—1—.O2(7) Prevention of
Significant Deterioration of Air Quality
(P 511)
Paragraph (7) is amended to
incorporate by reference the PSD rules
in 40 CFR Part 52.21 as amended, This
revision incorporates the changes to the
rules published on June 3, 1993 (58 FR
316371 and July 20. 1993 [ 58 FR 38883J.
The action effective on June 3, 1993,
revised the maximum allowable
increases (increments) for particulate
matter (PM) under the requirements for
PSD. The July 20, 1993, revision
updated the ‘Guideline on Air Quality
Models (Revised)’ (1986), as modified
by Supplement A (1987) by adding new
models, improving existing models and
incorporating Supplement B (1993).
This action also set the Guideline,
revised by Supplements A and B, as
appendix W to 40 CFR part 51.
Final Action
EPA is approving the plan revisions
submitted by the State of Georgia on
June 24 and November 15, 1994, listed
in the SUPPLEMENTARy INFORMATION
section of this notice.
The EPA is publishing this action
without a prior proposal for approval
because the Agency views this as a
noncontroversial amendment and
anticipates no adverse comments.
However, in a separate document in this
Federal Register publication, the EPA is
proposing to approve the SIP revisions
should adverse or critical comments be
filed. This action will be effective April
2. 1996, unless, by March 4, 1996,
adverse or critical comments are
received.
If the EPA receives such comments,
this action will be withdrawn before the
effective date by publishing a
subsequent document that will
withdraw the final action. All public
comments received will then be
addressed in a subsequent final rule
based on the separate proposed rule.
The EPA will not institute a second
comment period on this action Any
parties interested in commenting on this
action should do so at this time. If no
such comments are received, the public
is advised that this action will be
effective April 2, 1996.
Under section 307(b)(1) of the CAA,
42 U.S.C. 7607(b)(1), petitions for
judicial review of this action must be
filed in the United States Court of
Appeals for the appropriate circuit by
April 2, 1996. Filing a petition for
reconsideration by the Administrator of
this final rule does not affect the finality
of this rule for purposes of judicial
review nor does it extend the lime
within which a petition for judrcial
review may be filed, and shall not
postpone the effectiveness of such rule
or action. This action may not be
challenged later in proceedings to
enforce its requirements. (See section
307(b)(2) of the CAA, 42 U.S.C.
7607(b)(2)).
This action has been classified as a
Table 3 action for signature by the
Regional Administrator under the
procedures published in the Federal
Register ox January 19, 1989 (54 FR
2214—2225), as revised by a July 10,
1995, memorandum from Mary Nichols,
Assistant Administrator for Air and
Radiation. The Office of Management
and Budget (0MB) has exempted this
regulatory action from E.0. 12866
review.
Nothing in this action shall be
construed as permitting or allowing or
establishing a precedent for any future
request for a revision to any state
implementation plan. Each request for
revision to the state implementation
plan shall be considered separately in
light of specific technical, economic,
and environmental factors and in
relation to relevant statutory and
regulatory requirements.
Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act.
5 U.S.C. 600 et seq., EPA must prepare
a regulatory flexibility analysis
assessing the impact of any proposed or
final rule on small entities. 5 U.S.C. 603
and 604. Alternatively, EPA may certify
that the rule will not have a significant
impact on a substantial number of small
entities. Small entities include small
businesses, small not-for-profit
enterprises, and government entities
with jurisdiction over populations of
less than 50,000.
SIP approvals under section 110 and
subchapter I, part D of the CAA do not
create any new requirements, but
simply approve requirements that the
State is already imposing. Therefore,
because the Federal SIP-approval does
not impose any new requirements, I
certify that it does not have a significant
impact on any small entities affected.
Moreover, due to the nature of the
Federal-state relationship under the
CAA, preparation of a regulatory
flexibility analysis would constitute
Federal inquiry into the economic
reasonableness of state action. The CAA
forbids EPA to base its actions
concerning SIPs on such grounds.
Union Electric Co. v. U.S. E.P.A , 427
U.S. 246, 256—66 (S.Ct. 1976); 42 U.S.C.
section 7410(a)(2) and 7410(k)(3).
Under Sections 202, 203, and 205 of
the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of
1995 (“Unfunded Mandates Act”),
signed into law on March 22, 1995, EPA
must undertake various actions in
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that include a Federal mandate that may
result in estimated costs of $100 million
or more to the private sector, or to State.
local, or tribal governments in the
aggregate.
Through submission of this state
implementation plan or plan revision.
the State and any affected local or tribal
governments have elected to adopt the
revisions provided for under section
114, part C, and part D of Title I of the
CAA. These rules may bind State, local
and tribal governments to perform
certain actions and also require the
private sector to perform certain duties.
To the extent that the rules being
approved by this action will impose no
new requirements, since such sources
are already subject to these regulations
under State law. Accordingly, no
additional costs to State, local, or tribal
governments, or to the private sector,
result from this action, and therefore
there will be no significant impact on a
substantial number of small entities.
EPA has also determined that this final
action does not include a mandate that
may result in estimated costs of $100
million or more to State, local, or tribal
governments in the aggregate or to the
private sector.
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52
Environmental protection. Air
pollution control. Hydrocarbons,
Incorporation by reference,
Intergovernmental relations, Nitrogen
dioxide, Ozone, Particulate matter,
Reporting and recórdkeeping
requirements, Sulfur oxides.
Dated: September 29, 1995.
Patrick M. Tobin,
Acting Regional Administrator.
Part 52 of chapter I, title 40, Code of
Federal Regulations, is amended as
follows:
PART 52— [ AMENDED] S
1. The authority citation for part 52
continues to read as follows:
Authority: 42.U.S.C. 7401—7671(q)
Subpart L—Georgia
2. Section 52.570. is amended by
adding paragraph (c) (47) to read as
follows:
§ 52.570 IdentIfIcatIon of plan.
* * *_ * *
(c) * * *
(47) Chapter 391—3—1—.01, .02(2), and
.02(7), of the Georgia Department of
Natural Resources Rules for Air Quality
Control, submitted on June 24. 1994,
and November 15, 1994. Change to
Chapters 391—3—1—.02(3) and 391—3—1—
.02(6) to reference a new version of the
Georgia Department of Natural
Resources Manual of Procedures for
Testing and Monitoring Sources of Air
Pollutants, submitted on November 15,
1994.
(i) Incorporation by reference.
(A) The following revised Rules of the
Georgia Department of Natural
Resources, Chapter 391—3—1, Air
Quality Control, became State effective
on June 13, 1994:
391—3—1—.02(2)(hh)(iii),
391—3—1—.02(7);
(B) The following revised Rules of the
Georgia Department of Natural
Resources, Chapter 391—3—1, Air
Quality Control, became State effective
on November 20, 1994:
391—3—1—.01;
391—3—1—.02(2)(t);
391—3—1—.02(2)(ccc):
39 —3—1—.02(2)(ece);
391—3—1—.02(3)(a),
391—3—1—.02(6)(a)2.(v)(l),
391—3—1—.02(6)(a)2.(vii)(l),
391—3—1—.02(6)(a)2.(vii)(lI)i.;
391 —3—1—.02(6)(b)1.(vi)
(ii) Other material. None.
* * * * *
IFR Doc. 96—1928 Filed 2—1—96; 8.45 aml
BILLING CODE 5580-60-P
40 CFR Part 52
(GA—21-3-6481a; FRL-5319--5]
Approval and Promulgation of
Implementation Plans, Georgia:
Approval of Revisions to the State
Implementation Plan
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Direct final rule.
SUMMARY: This action approves
revisions to the Georgia State
Implementation Plan (SIP) adopted by
the Georgia Department of Natural
Resources Environmental Protection
Division (GA EPD) on September 9,
1992, for the purpose of implementing
the following programs within the
Atlanta ozone nonattainment area:
emission statement program for
stationary sources, Stage II Gasoline
Vapor Control revisions with SIP
narrative and transfer of the existing
Georgia Department of Public Safety’s
Inspection and Maintenance (tIM)
program regulations to the Georgia
Department of Natural Resources. The
submitted revisions meet the November
15, 1992, plan requirements for
noiiattainment areas of the Clean Air
Act as amended In 1990 (CAA) The
revisions were submitted for the Atlanta
ozone nonatteinment area.
DATES: This final rule is effective April
2, 1996 unless adverse or critical
comments are received by March 4,
1996. If the effective date is delayed,
timely notice will be published in the
Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Written comments on this
action should be addressed to Alan
Powell at the EPA Regional Office listed
below.
Copies of the documents relative to
this action are available for public
inspection during normal business
hours at the following locations. The
interested persons wanting to examine
these documents should make an
appointment with the appropriate office
at least 24 hours before the visiting day.
Air and Radiation Docket and
Information Center (Air Docket 6102)
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, 401 M Street, SW,
Washington, DC 20460.
Environmental Protection Agency,
Region 4 Air Programs Branch. 345
Courtland Street, NE, Atlanta, Georgia
30365.
Air Protection Branch, Georgia
Environmental Protection Division,
Georgia Department of Natural
Resources, 4244 International
Parkway, Suite 120, Atlanta, 9eorgia
30354.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Alan Powell, Regulatory Planning and
Development Section, Air Programs
Branch, Air, Pesticides & Toxics
Management Division, Region 4
Environmental Protection Agency, 345
Courtland Street, NE, Atlanta, Georgia
30365. The telephone number is 404/
347—3555, extension 4209. Reference
file GA—21—3—6481.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The air
quality planning and SIP requirements
for ozone nonattainmont and transport
areas are set out in subparts I and II of
Part D of Title I of the CAA. Section 182
of the CAA sets out a graduated control
program for ozone nonattainment areas
Section 182(a) sets out requirements
applicable in subsections (b), (c), (d),
and (e) to all other ozone nonattainment
areas. On November 13, 1992. Georgia
submitted a SIP package to address
these requirements. The submittal
contained regulations relating to
emissions statements; new source
review, enhanced motor vehicle
inspection committal SIP, Stage II vapor
recovery, the small business assistance
program (SBAP) and non-control
technology guidance (non.CTG)
Reasonably Available Control
Techniques (RA T) The new source
review, non- TG RA T, SBAP and l/M
committal SIP portions of this package
will be processed as separate Federal
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GEORGIA
STATE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
Air Programs Branch
U.S. EPA Region 4
345 Courtland Street, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30365

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THESE FILES CONTAIN A REPRODUCTION OF THE REGULATIONS SUBMITTED BY
THE STATE AGENCY TO EPA. THESE REGULATIONS HAVE BEEN APPROVED BY
EPA, BUT EPA DOES NOT GUARANTEE EITHER THE COMPLETENESS OR ACCURACY
OF THE DISKETTE COPY OF THE REGULATIONS, OR THAT ThE DISKETTE
CONTAINS THE MOST UP-TO-DATE VERSION OF THE REGULATIONS.

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GEORGIA RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR AIR QUALITY CONThOL
Chapter 391-3-1, Air Quality Control
Table of Contents
Page
391-3-1-.O1 DEFINiTIONS
391-3-1-.02 PROVISIONS 9
(1) GENERAL REQUIREMENT 9
(2) EMISSION STANDARDS 10
(a) General Provisions 10
(b) Visible Emissions 20
(c) Incinerators 21
(d) Fuel-burning Equipment 22
(e) Particulate Emission from Manufacturing Processes 24
(f) Normal Superphosphate Manufacturing Facilities . 27
(g) Sulfur Dioxide 28
(h) Portland Cement Plants 29
(i) Nitric Acid Plants 29
(j) Sulfuric Acid Plants 30
(k) Particulate Emission from Asphaltic Concrete Hot Mix Plants 31
(1) Conical Burners 32
(m) Repealed 33
(n) Fugitive Dust 34
(o) Cupola Furnaces for Metallurgical Melting 35
(p) Particulate Emissions from Kaolin and Fuller’s Earth Processes 37
(ci) Particulate Emissions from Cotton Gins 39
(r) Particulate Emissions from Granular and Mixed Fertilizer Manufacturing Units 41
(t) VOC Emissions from Automobile and Light Duty Truck Manufacturing 42
(u) VOC Emissions from Can Coating 44
(v) VOC Emissions from Coil Coating 46
(w) VOC Emissions from Paper Coating 47
(x) VOC Emissions from Fabric and Vinyl Coating 48
(y) VOC Emissions from Metal Furniture Coating 50
(z) VOC Emissions from Large Appliance Surface Coating 51
(aa) VOC Emissions from Wire Coating 52
(bb) Petroleum Liquid Storage 53
(cc) Bulk Gasoline Terminals 54
(dd) Cutback Asphalt 56
(ee) Petroleum Refineiy 57
(if) Solvent Metal Cleaning 59
(gg) Kraft Pulp Mills 62
(hh) Petroleum Refineiy Equipment Leaks 65
(ii) VOC Emissions from Surface Coating of Miscellaneous Metal Parts and Products ... 68
(IJ) VOC Emissions from Surface Coating of Flat Wood Paneling 70
(kk) VOC Emissions from Synthesized Pharmaceutical Manufacturing 72
(11) VOC Emissions from the Manufacture of Pneumatic Rubber Tires 74

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Page
(mm) VOC Emissions from Graphic .rts Systems . 76
(nn) VOC Emissions from External Floating Roof Tanks 77
(oo) Fiberglass Insulation Manufacturing Plants 80
(pp) Bulk Gasoline Plants 81
(qq) VOC Emissions from Large Petroleum Dry Cleaners 83
(rr) Gasoline Dispensing Facility--Stage I 84
(ss) Gasoline Transport Vehicles and Vapor Collection Systems 86
(uu) Visibility Protection 88
(ww) Perchioroethylene Dry Cleaners 90
(ccc) VOC Emissions from Bulk Mixing Tanks 92
(eee) VOC Emissions from Expanded Polystyrene Products Manufacturing 93
(3) SAMPUNG 94
(4) AMBIENT AIR STANDARDS 95
(5) OPEN BURNING 97
(6) SOURCE MONITORING 99
(7) PREVENTION OF SIGNIFICANT DETERIORATION OF AIR QUALITY (PSD) 106
(8) NEW SOURCE PERFORMANCE STANDARDS (NSPS) 108
(9) EMISSION STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS 112
391-3-1-.03 PERMiTS 113
(1) CONSTRUCTION PERMIT 113
(2) OPERATING PERMIT 113
(3) RECREATION, SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION OR AMENDMENT OF PERMITS.... 113
(4) PERMITS NOT TRANSFERABLE 114
(5) PERMITS PUBLIC RECORDS 114
(6) EXEMPTIONS 114
(7) COMBINED PERMITS AND APPLICATIONS... 115
(8) PERMIT REQUIREMENTS 115
391-3-1-.04 AIR POLLUTION EPISODES 120
391-3-1-.05 REGULATORY EXCEF IONS 121
391-3-1-.06 REPEALED 123
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Page
391-3-1-.07 INSPECTIONS AND INVESTJGATIONS . 124
391-3-1-.08 CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION 125
391-3-1-.09 ENFORCEMENT 126
391-3-1-. 10 CONTINUANCE OF PRIOR RULES 127
TABLES
Table La: Allowable Rate of Emission Based on Process Weight Rate on New Equipment 25
Table Ib: Allowable Rate of Emission Based on Process Weight Rate on Existing Equipment 26
Table Ic: Particulate Emissions from Ferrous Foundries 35
Table ila: Allowable Rate of Emissions from Kaolin and Fuller’s Earth Processes
on New and Modified Equipment 37
Table fib: Allowable Rate of Emissions from Kaolin and Fuller’s Earth Processes
on Existing Equipment 38
Table ifia: Allowable Rate of Emission Based on Process Weight Rate on New Equipment 39
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GEORGIA RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR AIR QUALITY CONTROL
Chapter 391-3-1, Air Quality Control
391-3-1-.O1 DEFINITIONS. AMENDED. Unless a different meaning is required by the context, the following
terms as used in these rules shall have the meaning hereafter respectively ascribed, except that to the extent terms
are not defined in these rules the Act’s definitions control; and provided, that definitions within any subsequent rule,
or subdivision thereof, which are expressly made applicable to the rule or subdivision within which they appear,
shall apply for purposes of such specific rule or subdivision thereof; and provided the definitions appearing in
Federal regulations adopted by reference shall control in the application of the related Federal regulations to which
they apply under the Federal Act; and provided further, that in officially designated nonattainment areas the
definitions contained in 40 CFR 51. 165(a)(l)(i)-(xix) shall apply. 40 CFR 51. 165(a)(1)(i)-(xix), as amended, is
hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
(a) ‘Act’ means Part I of Chapter 9 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (O.C.G.A. Section
12-9-1, et seq.) “The Georgia Air Quality Act.”
(b) “Air-cleaning Device” means any method, process or equipment which removes, reduces or renders less
noxious air contaminants discharged into the atmosphere.
(c) “Air Contaminant” means solid or liquid particulate matter, dust, fumes, gas, mist, smoke, or vapor, or
any matter or substance either physical, chemical, biological, or radioactive (including source material,
special nuclear material, and by-product material); or any combination of any of the above.
(d) “Air Pollution” means the presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one or more air contaminants.
(e) “Black Uquor Solids” means the dry weight of the solids which enter the recovery furnace in the black
liquor.
(f) “CFR’ means the “Code of Federal Regulations.”
(g) “Capacity Factor’ means the ratio of the average load on a machine or equipment for the period of time
considered, to the design capacity rating of the machine or equipment.
(h) “Capture System” means the equipment (including hoods, ducts, fans, etc.) used to contain, capture, or
transport a pollutant to an air-cleaning device.
(i) “Coating Applicator’ means an apparatus used to apply a surface coating.
U) “Coating Line’ means one or more apparatus or operations which include a coating applicator, flash-off
area, and oven wherein a surface coating is applied, dried, or cured.
(k) “Conditions Beyond the Control or shall mean only those conditions which, though ordinary diligence be
employed, remain unforeseeable, or unpredictable, such as, strikes, walkouts, or other industrial
disturbances, acts of God, civil disturbances, embargoes, or other causes of like character; provided,
however, that this term shall not include conditions solely because they are dependent upon contingencies,
that is, conditions such as, but not limited to, the variable cost or availability of maintenance, equipment,
labor, raw materials, fuel or energy.
(1) ‘Construction” means any fabrication, erection or installation. The term ‘construction’ includes any
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(m) “Cross Recovery Furnace” means a furnace used to recover chemicals consisting primarily of sodium and
sulfur compounds by burning black liquor which on a quarterly basis contains more than seven (7) weight
percent of the total pulp solids from a soda-based semichemical pulping process.
(n) “Day” means a 24-hour period beginning at midnight or such other 24-hour period as agreed by the
Director.
(o) “Department” means the Department of Natural Resources of the State of Georgia.
(p) “Digester System” means each continuous digester or.each batch digester used for the coating of wood in
white liquor, and associated flask tank(s), blow tank(s), chip steamer(s), and condenser(s).
(q) “Director” means the Director of the Division of Environmental Protection, Department of Natural
Resources of the State of Georgia, or his designee.
(r) “Division” means the Environmental Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources, State
of Georgia.
(s) “Dust” means minute solid particles caused to be suspended in air by natural forces or by mechanical
processes such as but not limited to crushing, grinding, milling, drilling, demolishing, shoveling,
conveying, covering, bagging, mixing, sweeping, digging, scooping, and grading.
(t) “EPA” means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(u) “Emission” or “Emitting” means any discharging, giving off, sending forth, placing, dispensing, scattering,
issuing, circulating, releasing or any other emanation of any air contaminant or contaminants into the
atmosphere.
(v) The terms “Emission Limitation” and “Emission Standard” means a requirement established which limits
the quantity, rate, or concentration of emissions of air contaminants on a continuous basis including any
requirement relating to the equipment or operation or maintenance of a source to assure continuous
emission reduction.
(w) “Excessive Emissions” means emissions of an air pollutant in excess of an emission standard.
(x) “Flashoff Area” means the space between the application area and the oven.
(y) “Fluo-Solids Calciner” means a unit other than a lime kiln used to calcine lime mud, which consist
primarily of calcium carbonate, into quicklime, which is primarily calcium oxide. For the purpose of these
regulations, all references or emission standards applicable to lime kilns shall also apply to fluo-solids
calciners.
(z) “Fly Ash” n ans particulate matter capable of being gasborne or airborne and consisting essentially of
fused ash or other burned or unburned materials resulting from a process of combustion of fuel or solid
waste.
(aa) “Fossil Fuel-fired Steam Generator” means a furnace or boiler used in the process of burning a fossil fuel
for the primary purpose of producing steam by heat transfer.
(bb) “Foundry Cupola” means a stack-type furnace used for melting of metals, consisting of, but not limited
to, furnace proper, tayers, fans or blowers, tapping spout, charging equipment, gas cleaning devices and
other auxiliaries.
(cc) “Fuel-burning Equipment” means equipment the primary purpose of which is the production of thermal
energy from the combustion of any fuel. Such equipment is generally that used for, but not limited to,
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heating water, generating or super heating steam, heating air as in warm air furnaces, furnishing process
heat indirectly, through transfer by fluids or transmissions through process vessel walls.
(dd) ‘Fugitive dust” means solid airborne particulate matter emitted from any source other than through a stack,
vent, or chimney.
(ee) “General Permit” means a Permit by Rule or a Generic Permit established in or under the Georgia Rules
for Air Quality Control covering numerous similar sources.
(ff) ‘Generic Permit” means a General permit issued by the Director covering numerous similar sources.
(gg) “Hydrocarbon” means any organic compound consisting predominantly of carbon and hydrogen.
(hh) “Incinerators” means all devices intended or used for the reduction or destruction of solid, liquid, or
gaseous waste by burning.
(ii) “intermediate Vapor Control System” means a vapor control system that employs an intermediate vapor
holder to accumulate vapors displaced from tanks during filling. The control device treats the accumulated
vapors only during automatically control cycles.
(jj) ‘Jobbing Foundry” means any foundry where the operation is run intermittently and for the length of time
necessary to pour molds on a job-to-job basis.
(kk) “Kraft Pulp Mill” means any stationary source which produces pulp from wood by cooking (digesting)
wood chips in a water solution of sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide (white liquor) at high temperature
and pressure. Regeneration of the cooking chemicals through a recovery process is also considered part
of the kraft pulp mill.
(II) “Ume Kiln” means a unit used to calcine lime and, which consists primarily of calcium carbonate, into
quicklime, which is calcium oxide.
(mm) “Loading Rack” means any aggregation or combination of gasoline loading equipment arranged so that all
loading outlets in the combination can be connected to a tank truck or trailer parked in a specific loading
space.
(nn) “Malfunction” means mechanical and/or electrical failure of a process, or of air pollution control process
or equipment, resulting in operation in an abnormal or unusual manner.
(oo) “Manager” means the administrator of the small business stationary source technical and environmental
office. The manager may be referred to as the ombudsman.
(pp) The term “Modification” means any change in or alteration of fuels, processes, operation or equipment,
(including any chemical changes in processes or fuels) which affects the amount or character of any air
pollutant emitted or which results in the emission of any air pollutant not previously emitted. [ No source
shall, by reason of a change which decreases emissions, become subject to the New Source Performance
Standards 42 U.S.C. Sec. 7411, unless required by the Federal Act. This definition does not apply where
the word “modification” is used to refer to action by the Director, Division, or Board, in modifying or
changing rules, regulations, orders, or permits. In that context the word has its ordinary meaning.]
(qq) “Multiple Chamber Incinerator” means any article, machine, equipment, or contrivance which is used for
the reduction or destruction of solid, liquid, or gaseous waste by burning and consists of a series of three
or more combustion chambers physically separated by refractory walls, interconnected by gas passages or
ducts, and lined with refractorics having a pyrometric cone equivalent of at least 31, tested according to
ASTM Method C-24, and is designed for efficient combustion of the type and volume of material to be
burned.
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(ri.) “Multiple-Effective Evaporator System” means the multiple-effect evaporators and associated condenser(s)
and hotwell(s) used to concentrate the spent cooking liquid that is separate from the pulp (black Liquor).
( ) “Opacity” means the degree to which emissions reduce the transmission of light and obscure the view of
an object in the background, and s expressed in terms of percent opacity. As used in these Regulations,
the measurement of percent opacity does not include the measurement of the obscuration of view due to
uncombined water droplets. Any determination of the percent opacity shall be made by the arithmetic
average of six minutes of data. With respect to the determination of percent opacity, the six minute
average shall be based on either an average of 24 or more opacity data points equally spaced over a six
minute period or an integrated average of continuous opacity data over a six minute period. The six minute
period for continuous opacity monitors shall be considered to be any one of the ten equal parts of a one
hour period commencing on the hour. Any visual observation or determination of opacity taken for the
purpose of determining compliance with any requirement of this Chapter 391-3-1 shall be made by
personnel certified according to procedures established for such certification by the Division or by EPA
to make such observation or determination.
(tt) “Open-burning” means any outdoor fire from which the products of combustion are emitted directly into
the open air without passing through a stack, chimney or duct.
(uu) “Organic Material” means a chemical compound of carbon excluding carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide,
carbonic acid, metallic carbides or carbonates, and ammonium carbonate.
(vv) “Oven” means a chamber within which heat is used to bake, cure, polymerize, or dry a surface coating.
(ww) ‘Past 70 Permit” means a Title V operating permit issued by the Director under 391-3-1-.03(10) for a
facility subject to 40 CFR Part 70 requirements.
(xx) ‘Particulate Matter” means any airborne, finely divided solid or liquid material with an aerodynamic
diameter smaller than 100 micrometers.
(yy) “Particulate Matter Emissions” means all finely divided solid or liquid material, other than uncombined
water, emitted to the ambient air as measured by applicable reference methods, or an equivalent or aLternate
method, established by the U.S. EPA.
(zz) “Permit by Rule” means a General permit established in the Georgia Rules for Air Quality Control [ 391-3-
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(aaa) The term “Person” includes any individual, corporation, partnership, association, State, municipality,
political subdivision of a State, and any agency, department, or instrumentality of the United States, or any
other entity, and includes any officer, agent, or employee of any of the above.
(bbb) “PM IO ” means particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to a nominal ten
micrometers as measured by a reference method based on Appendix J of 40 CFR Part 50 and designated
in accordance with 40 CFR Part 53 or by an equivalent method designated by the U.S. EPA.
(ccc) “PM IO Emissions” means finely divided solid or liquid material, with an aerodynamic diameter less than
or equal to a nominal ten micrometers emitted to the ambient air as measured by applicable reference
methods, or an equivalent or alternate method, established by the U.S. EPA.
(ddd) “Potential to Emit” means the maximum capacity of a stationary source to emit any regulated air pollutant
under its physical and operational design. Any physical and operational limitation on the capacity of the
source to emit a regulated air pollutant, including air pollution control equipment and restrictions on hours
of operation or on the type or amount of material combusted, stored, or processed, shall be treated as part
of its design if the limitation or the effect it would have on emissions is federally enforceable. Secondary
emissions do not count in determining the potential to emit of a stationary source.
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(eee) “Prime Coat” means the first film of coating applied in a multicoat operation.
(1ff) “Process Equipment” means any equipment, device or contrivance for changing, melting, storing, handling,
or altering chemically or physically any material, the use or existence of which may cause any discharge
of air contaminants into the open air, but excluding that equipment defined herein as “Fuel-burning
Equipment. a
(ggg) “Process Input Weight Rate” means a rate established as follows:
1. For continuous or long-run, steady-state source operations, the total process weight for the entire
period of continuous operation or for a typical portion thereof, divided by the number of hours of
such period.
2. For cyclical or batch source operations, the total process weight for a period that covers a complete
operation or an integral number of cycles, divided by the hours of actual process operation during
such a period.
3. Where the nature of any process or operation or the design of any equipment is such as to permit
more than one interpretation of this definition, the interpretation that results in the minimum value
for allowable emission shall apply. When recycled material is handled by the process equipment, it
shall be included in the total process weight. Moisture shall not be considered as a part of process
weight.
(hhh) “Recovery Furnace” means either a straight kraft recovery furnace or a cross recovery furnace, and
includes the direct-contact evaporator for a direct-contact furnace.
(iii) “Reid Vapor Pressure” means the absolute vapor pressure of volatile crude oil and volatile nonviscous
petroleum liquids except liquefied petroleum gases as determined by American Society for Testing and
Materials, Part 17, 1973, D-323-82 (Reapproved 1987).
(ijj) “Shutdown” means the cessation of the operation of a source or facility for any purpose.
(kick) “Small Business Advisory Panel” means the small business stationary source technical and environmental
compliance advisory panel created by Code Section 12-9-25.
(Ill) “Small business stationary source or facility” means an entity that:
1. Is owned or operated by a person employing 100 or fewer individuals;
2. Is a small business under the Federal Small Business Act;
3. Is not a major stationary source as defined in Titles I and ifi of the Clean Air Act;
4. Does not emit 50 tons or more per year of any regulated pollutant; and
5. Emits less than 75 tons/year of all regulated pollutants and does not qualify as a major stationary
source.
(mmm) “Small business stationary source technical and environmental office” means a program established within
the Department of Natural Resources’ Air Protection Branch.
(non) “Smelt Dissolving Tank” means a vessel used for dissolving the smelt collected from the recovery furnace.
(coo) “Smoke” means small gasborne particles resulting from incomplete combustion, consisting predominantly
of carbon, ash and other combustible materials, that form a visible plume.
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( ,pp) “Soda-based SemicheinicaJ Pulping operation’ means any operation in which pulp is produced from wood
by cooking (digesting) wood chips in a soda-based semichernical pulping solution followed by mechanical
defibrating (grinding).
(qqq) ‘Solvent’ means organic materials which are liquid at standard conditions and which are used as dis olvers,
ViSCOSity redUcers, or cleaning agents.
(rrr) “Soot” means agglomerated particles consisting mainly of carbonaceous material.
(sss) ‘Source” or ‘Facility’ means any property, source, facility, building, structure, location, or installation
at, from, or by reason of which emissions or air contaminants are or may reasonably be expected to be
emitted into the atmosphere. Such terms include both real and personal property, stationary and mobile
sources or facilities, and direct and indirect sources or facilities, without regard to ownership, and both
public or private property. An “indirect’ source or facility is a source or facility which attracts or tends
to attract activity that results in emissions of any air pollutant for which there is an ambient air standard.
(ttt) ‘Special Circumstances” shall mean only such circumstances as are caused by special physical conditions
or causes and are unique or peculiar to a pollution source.
(uuu) “Special Physical Conditions or Causes” shall mean only those physical conditions or causes which are
intrinsically related to the process, giving rise to a pollutant, the equipment used in such process, or the
structure housing such equipment, and such term shall in no case include external conditions such as (1)
the ambient air quality in the locale, area, or region of the pollution source, or (2) the cost or availability
of raw materials, including fuel or energy, used in the process.
(vvv) “Stack’ means any point in a source designed to emit solids, liquids, or gasses into the air, including a pipe
or duct by not including flares.
(www) ‘Stack in Existence’ means that the owner or operator had (I) begun, or caused to begin, a continuous
program of physical on-site construction of the stack or (2) entered into binding agreements or contractual
obligations, which could not be canceled or modified without substantial loss to the owner or operator, to
undertake a program of construction of the stack to be completed within a reasonable time.
(xxx) ‘Stack Height” means the physical height of a flue, chimney, vent or other point of pollutant discharge
above ground level.
(yyy) ‘Standard Conditions’ means a temperature of 20°C (68°F) and pressure of 760 millimeters of mercury
(29.92 inches of mercury).
(zzz) ‘Startup” means the commencement of operation of any source.
(aaaa) ‘Stationary Source” means any source or facility emitting, either directly or indirectly, from a fixed
location.
(bbbb) ‘Straight Kraft Recovery Furnace” means a furnace used to recover chemicals consisting primarily of
sodium and sulfur compounds by burning black liquor which on a quarterly basis contains seven (7) weight
percent or less of the total pulp solids from a soda-based semichemical pulping process.
(cccc) ‘Synthetic Minor Permit” means a Permit issued to a facility which imposes federally enforceable limits
to restrict potential emissions to below major source thresholds.
(dddd) ‘Topcoat’ means the final film of coating applied in a multiple coat operation.
(eeee) ‘Total Reduced Sulfur ( ‘IRS)’ means the sum of the sulfur compounds hydrogen sulfide, methyl
mercaptan, dimethyl sulfide, and dimethyl disulfide, that are released during the Kraft pulping operation
and measured by EPA Method 16 (40 CFR 60).
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(ffff) “Total Suspended Particulatm ” m particulate matter as measured by the method described in Appendix
B of 40 CFR Part 50.
(gggg) “True Vapor Pressure” means the equilibrium partial pressure exerted by a petroleum liquid as determined
in accordance with methods described in American Petroleum Institute Bulletin, 2597, “ Evaporation Loss
from Floating Roof Tanks,” 1962.
(hhhh) “Vapor” means the gaseous form of a substance.
(iiii) “Vapor Collection System” means a vapor transport system which uses direct displacement by the liquid
loaded to force vapors from the tank into a vapor control system.
(jjjj) “Vapor Control System” means a system that prevents release to the atmosphere of at least 90 percent by
weight of organic compounds in the vapors displaced from a tank during the transfer of gasoline.
(kkklc) “Visible Emissions” means any emission which is capable of being perceived visually.
(1111) “Volatile Organic Compound” (also denoted as VOC) means any organic compound which participates in
atmospheric photochemical reactions; that is, any organic compound other than those which the
Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency designates as having negligible photochemical
reactivity, including carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, carbonic acid, metallic carbides or carbonates,
ammonium carbonate, methane, ethane, 1,1, 1-trichloroethane (methyl chloroform), methylene chloride,
tijchlorofluoromethane (CFC-1 1), dichlorodifluoroinethane (CFC-12), chiorodifluoromethane (CFC-22),
trifluoromethane (FC-23), trichiorotrifluoroethane (CFC-1 13), dichlorotetrafluoroethane (CFC-1 14),
chloropentafluoroethan CFC-1 15),dich1orotrifluoroethan HCFC-123),2-ch1oro-1, 1, 1,2-tetrafluoroethane
(HCFC-124), tetraflouroethane (HFC-134a), dichioroflouroethane (HCFC-141b), chiorodiflouroethane
(HCFC-142b), 1,1,1-trifluoroethane (HFC-143a), 1,1-difluoroethane (HFC-152a), and four classes of
periluorocarbons (PFC’s) as follows:
I. Cyclic, branched, or linear, completely fluorinated alkanes;
2. Cyclic, branched, or linear, completed fluorinated ethers, with no unsaturations;
3. Cyclic, branched, or linear, completely fluorinated tertiaiyamincs with no unsaturations;
4. Sulphur containing perfluorocarbons with no unsaturations and with sulfur bonds only to carbon and
fluorine;
5. VOC may be measured by the referenced method, an equivalent method, an alternate method or by
procedures specified under 40 CFR Part 60. A referenced method, an equivalent method, or an
alternate method, however, may also measure nonreactive organic compounds. In such cases, an
owner or operator may exclude the nonreactive organic compound when determining compliance with
a standard.
Authority: The Georgia Air Quality Act of 1978, O.C.G.A. Sec. 12-9-1 at seq.
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m is is THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF FEB 07, 1996
Date Submitted
to EPA
Date Approved
by EPA
Federal
Register
Original Reg:
1st Revision:
2nd Revision:
3rd Revision:
MAY 31, 1972
AUG 20, 1976
SEPT 18, 1979
ocr 13, 1992
ocr 13, 1992
DEC 14, 1992
DEC 14, 1992
DEC 14, 1992
JAN 26, 1993
JAN 26, 1993
MAR08, 1995
MAR08, 1995
FEB 02, 1996
37 FR 10842
41 FR 35184
44 FR 54047
57 FR 46780
57 FR 46780
57 FR 58989
57 FR 58989
57 FR 58989
58 FR 6093
58 FR 6093
60 FR 12691
60 FR 12691
61 FR3817
4th Revision:
JAN 27, 1972
DEC 16, 1975
JAN 17, 1979
JAN 03, 1991
APR 03, 1991
APR 15, 1988
JAN03, 1991
APR03, 1991
DEC 15, 1986
JAN03, 1991
DEC 15, 1986
NOV 13, 1992
7th Revision NOV 15, 1994
5th Revision:
6th Revision:
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391.31-.02 PROVISIONS. AMENDED.
(1) GENERAL REQUTREMENT: No person shall constructor Operate any facility from which air Contaminants
are or may be emitted in such a manner as to fail to comply with:
(a) Any applicable standard of performance or other requirements established by EPA pursuant to Section
ill of the Federal Act; and
(b) Any applicable emission standard or other requirement for a hazardous air pollutant established by EPA
pursuant to Section 112 of the Federal Act.
(c) Any applicable increment, precondition for permit, or other requirement established for the Prevention
of Significant Deterioration pursuant to Part C, Title I of the Federal Act; and
(d) Any applicable standard, precondition for permit, or other requirement established for sources in areas
designed by the Director as being nonattainment with National Ambient Air Quality Standards pursuant
to, or as part of Georgia’s State Implementation Plan to meet the requirements of, Part D, TitLe I of the
Federal Act.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF SEPT 18, 1979
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 27, 1972 MAY 31, 1972 37 FR 10842
1st Revision: DEC 16, 1975 AUG 20, 1976 41 FR 35184
2nd Revision: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
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(2) EMISSION STANDARDS:
(a) General Provisions:
1. No person owning, leasing or controlling the operation of any air contaminant sources shall will fully,
negligently or through failure to provide necessary equipment or facilities or to take necessary
precaUtions, Cause, permit, or allow the emission from said air contamination source or sources of
such quantities of air contaminants as will cause, or tend to cause, by themselves or in conjunction
with other air contaminants a condition of air pollution on quantities or characteristics or of a duration
which is injurious or which unreasonably interferes with the enjoyment of life or use of property in
such area of the State as is affected thereby. Complying with any of the other sections of these rules
and regulations of any subdivisions thereof, shall in no way exempt a person from this provision.
2. In cases where more than one section of these regulations applies, the section allowing the least
emission of air contaminants to the atmosphere shall prevail.
3. Notwithstanding any other emission limitation or other requirement provided in the regulations, more
stringent emission limitations or other requirements may be required of a facility as deemed necessary
by the Director to
(i) meet any existing Federal laws or regulations, or
(ii) safeguard the public health, safety and welfare of the people of the State of Georgia.
4. Notwithstanding any other requirement of this Chapter, in no event shall that part of a stack, which
came into existence after December 31, 1970, which exceeds good engineering practice stack height,
or any other dispersion technique, be taken into account for the purpose of determining the degree
of emission limitations required for control of any pollutant for which there is an ambient air standard
established under the Act of the Federal Act. The terms and definitions of ‘dispersion techniques’,
‘good engineering practice (GEP)’, ‘nearby’, and ‘excessive concentration’ are those definitions
found in 40 CFR 51.100(hh), (ii), (jj), and (kk) respectively.
5. If the Director finds, after notice and opportunity for public hearing, that a particular instance of
violation or noncompliance by a source, owner, or operator, with any emission limitation or standard
or other requirement under the Act, is de minimis (as defined pursuant to 42 U.S.C. Section 7420
as amended) in nature, and duration, he may, as allowed by the Act and the Federal Act, exempt such
source, owner or operator from the noncompliance penalties provided in Section 20 of the Act.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 29, 1995
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 27, 1972 MAY 31, 1972 37 FR 10842
1st Revision: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
2nd Revision: DEC 15, 1986 JAN 26, 1993 58 FR 6093
JAN 03, 1991 JAN 26, 1993 58 FR 6093
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6. VOC Emission Standards, Exemptions, Area Designations and Compliance Schedules:
(i) For all sources of VOC emissions otherwise subject to any limitation or requirement of
subsection (t) through (if) [ inclusive]; and (hh) through (nn) [ inclusive of this iection
391-3-1-.02(2), the following sources shall not be subject to any requirement of such subsection:
(I) Sources whose potential emissions of volatile organic compounds are not more than 100
tons per year; and
(II) Sources used exclusively for chemical or physical analysis or determination of product
quality and commercial acceptance, provided:
1. The operation of the source is not an integral part of the production process; and
provided,
II. The emissions from the source do not exceed 800 pounds in any calendar month; and
provided,
ifi. The exemption from such source is approved in writing by the Director.
(ii) All sources of VOC emissions subject to any limitation or requirement of, or under, subsection
(t) through (hh) [ inclusive] of section 391-3-1-.02(2), shall comply with the following
compliance schedules:
(I) For Process and Emission Control Equipment Installation and Modification:
I. Except as provided under Part III of this subparagraph (ii) the owner or operator of
a VOC emission source subject to any requirement of or under subsections (t)
through (hh) [ inclusive], of section 391-3-1-.02(2) proposing to install VOC emission
control equipment and/or modify process equipment in order to comply with such
requirements, shall comply with the increments of progress contained in the
following schedule:
A. A final control plan and application for a permit to construct for the installation
of emission control systems and/or the modification of process equipment must
be submitted to the Division no later than September 1, 1979 or 180 days after
the EPA has promulgated the revised ozone standard, whichever is later.
B. Binding contracts or purchase orders must be entered into before July 1, 1980,
or 480 days after the EPA has promulgated the revised ozone standard,
whichever is later, for the installation of emission control systems and/or the
modification of process equipment.
C. On-site construction of emission control systems and/or modifications of process
equipment must begin before December 1, 1980, or 630 days after the EPA has
promulgated the revised ozone standard, whichever is later.
D. On-site construction of emission control systems and/or modification of process
equipment must be completed before September 1, 1981, or 900 days after the
EPA has promulgated the revised ozone standard, whichever is later.
E. Full compliance with the applicable requirements of these Rules (Chapter
39 1-3-1) must be demonstrated through approved methods and procedures before
November 1, 1981, or 960 days after the EPA has promulgated the revised
ozone standard, whichever is later.
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F. Any owner or operator of a source subject to this compliance schedule shall
certify in writing to the Director, within five days after the date specified in each
increment of progress, whether the required increment of progress has been met.
(II) For LOW Solvent Content Coating:
Except as provided under Part (ifi) of this subparagraph (ii) the owner or operator
of a VOC emission source subject to any requirement of or under subsections (t)
through (hh) [ inclusive] of section 391-3-1-.02(2) proposing to employ low solvent
content coating technology to comply with such requirements shall comply with the
increments of progress contained in the following schedule:
A. A final control plan for the application of low solvent content coating technology
must be submitted to the Division before September 1, 1979 or 180 days after
the EPA has promulgated a revised ozone standard, whichever is later.
B. Evaluation of product quality and commercial acceptance must be completed
before October 1, 1980 or 590 days after the EPA has promulgated a revised
ozone standard, whichever is later.
C. Purchase orders must be issued for low solvent content coatings and process
modifications before January 1, 1981 or 660 days after the EPA has promulgated
a revised ozone standard, whichever is later.
D. Initiation of proceis modifications must begin before April 1, 1981 or 750 days
after the EPA has promulgated a revised ozone standard, whichever is later.
E. Process modifications must be completed and use of low solvent content coatings
must begin before September 1, 1981 or 900 days after the EPA has
promulgated a revised ozone standard, whichever is later.
F. Full compliance with the applicable requirements of these rules (39 1-3-1) must
be demonstrated through approved methods and procedures before November 1,
1981 or 960 days after the EPA has promulgated a revised ozone standard,
whichever is later.
G. Any owner or operator of a source subject to this compliance schedule shall
certify in writhing to the Director within 5 days after the date specified for each
increment of progress, whether the required increment of progress has been met.
(ifi) Alternate Compliance Schedule:
Nothing in this subparagraph (ii) shall prevent the Director from promulgating a
separate schedule for any source if he finds that the imposition of a compliance
schedule under Parts (1) or (11) of this Section would be technologically or
economically infeasible or impractical.
II. Nothing in this subparagraph (ii) shall prevent the owner or operator of a VOC
source from submitting to the Director for a proposed alternative compliance
schedule provided:
A. The proposed alternative compliance schedule and final control plan is submitted
before September 1, 1979, or 180 days after the EPA has promulgated a revised
ozone standard, whichever is later.
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B. The alternative compliance schedule contains increments of progress adequate
to determine progress toward full compliance.
C. Sufficient documentation and certification from appropriate suppliers,
contractors, manufacturers, or fabricators is submitted by the owner or operator
of the VOC source to justify to the Director the dates proposed in the increments
of progress in such schedule.
111. Any alternative compliance schedule proposed or promulgated under this Part (ifi)
shall require compliance by the VOC source with the applicable requirements of
these Rules (Chapter 391-3-1) as expeditiously as practicable, as judged by the
Director, and in no case later than three years after enactment of this rule and its
approval by the Administrator.
IV. Any compliance schedule approved under this Part (ifi) may be revoked at any time
if the source fails to meet any of the increments of progress by the dates specified.
(iii) All sources of VOC emissions subject to any limitation or requirement of, or under, subsection
(hh) through (nn) (inclusive] of section 391-3-1-02(2), shall comply with the following
compliance schedules:
(I) For Process and Emission Control Equipment Installation and Modification:
Except as provided under Part ifi of this subparagraph (iii) the owner or operator of
a VOC emission source subject to any requirement of or under subsections (bh)
through (en) [ inclusive], of section 391-3-1-.02(2) proposing to install VOC emission
control equipment and/or modify process equipment in other to comply with such
requirements, shall comply with the increments of progress contained in the
following schedule:
A. A final control plan and application for a permit to construct for the installation
of emission control systems and/or the modification of process equipment must
be submitted to the to the Division no later than September 1, 1981.
B. Binding contracts or purchase orders must be entered into before July 1, 1982,
for the installation of emission control systems and/or the modification of
process equipment.
C. On-site construction of emission control systems and/or modifications of process
equipment must begin before December 1, 1983.
D. On-site construction of emission control systems and/or modification of process
equipment must be completed before September 1, 1983.
B. Full compliance with the applicable requirements of these Rules (Chapter
391-3-1) must be demonstrated through approved methods and procedures before
December 1, 1983.
F. Any owner or operator of a source subject to this compliance schedule shall
certify in writing to the Director, within five days after the date specified in each
increment of progress, whether the required increment of progress has been met.
(11) For Low Solvent Content Coating:
Except as provided under Part (ifi) of this subparagraph (iii) the owner or operator
of a VOC emission source subject to any requirement of or under subsections (hh)
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through (nn) [ inclusive] of section 391-3-I-.02(2) proposing to employ low solvent
content coating technology to comply with such reqUirements shall comply with the
increments of progress contained in the following schedule:
A. A final control plan for the application of low solvent content coating technology
must be submitted to the Division before September 1, 1981.
B. Evaluation of product quality and commercial acceptance must be completed
before October 1, 1982.
C. Purchase orders must be issued for low solvent content coatings and process
modifications before January 1, 1982.
D. Initiation of process modifications must begin before January 1, 1983.
E. Process modifications must be completed and use of low solvent coatings must
begin before September 1, 1983.
F. Full compliance with the applicable requirements of these rules (Chapter
391-3-1) must be demonstrated through approved methods and procedures before
December 1, 1983.
G. Any owner or operator of a source subject to this compliance schedule shall
certify in writhing to the Director within five days after the date specified for
each increment of progress, whether the required increment of progress has been
met.
(ifi) Alternate Compliance Schedule:
Nothing in this subparagraph (iii) shall prevent the Director from promulgating a
separate schedule for any source if he finds that the imposition of a compliance
schedule under Parts (1) or (11) of this Section would be technologically or
economically infeasible or impractical.
11. Nothing in this subparagraph (iii) shall prevent the owner or operator of a VOC
source from submitting to the Director for a proposed alternative compliance
schedule provided:
A. The proposed alternative compliance schedule and final control plan is submitted
before September 1, 1981.
B. The alternative compliance schedule contains increments of progress adequate
to determine progress toward full compliance.
C. Sufficient documentation and certification from appropriate suppliers,
contractors, manufacturers, or fabricators is submitted by the owner or operator
of the VOC source to justify to the Director the dates proposed in the increments
of progress in such schedule.
ifi. Any alternative compliance schedule proposed or promulgated under this Part (ill)
shall require compliance by the VOC source with the applicable requirements of
these Rules (Chapter 391-3-1) as expeditiously as practicable, as judged by the
Director.
IV. Any compliance schedule approved under this Part (ifi) may be revoked at any time
if the source fails to meet any of the increments of progress by the dates specified.
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mis is ThE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF NOV 24, 1981
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 27, 1972 MAY 31, 1972 37 FR 10842
1st Revision: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
2nd Revision: DEC 18, 1980 NOV 24, 1981 FR 57486
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7. Excess emissions:
(1) Excess emissions resulting from startup, shutdown, malfunction of any source which occur
throUgh Ordinaiy diligence is employed shall be allowed provided that (1) the best operational
practices to minimize emissions are adhered to, and (II) all associated air pollution control
equipment is operated in a manner consistent with good air pollution control practice for
minimizing emissions, and (111) the duration of excess emissions is minimized.
(ii) Excess emissions which are caused entirely or in part by poor maintenance, poor operation, or
any other equipment or process failure which may reasonably be prevented during startup,
shutdown or malfunction are prohibited and are violations of this Chapter (391-3-1).
(iii) The provisions of this paragraph 7. shall apply only to those sources which are not subject to
any requirement under section (8) of this Rule, (i.e. Rule 391-3-1-.02) or any requirement of
40 CFR, Part 60, as amended, concerning New Source Performance Standards.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF SEPT 18, 1979
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 27, 1972 MAY 31, 1972 37 FR 10842
1st Revision: DEC 16, 1975 AUG 20, 1976 41 FR 35184
2nd Revision: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
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8. Emission Standards: With respect to the emission standards and limitations contained in this Chapter
(391-3-1), as such requirements are applied to more than one process or piece of equipment at a single
source, the Director is hereby authorized to allow to the extent consistent with the Act and the Federal
Act, under such conditions as he shall deem appropriate, Equivalent Alternative Emission Reduction
Options provided that:
(i) The source or facility proposing to use an equivalent alternative emission reduction option is
and continues to be in compliance, pending consideration of any such proposal (and any
associated review), with either:
I. The applicable emission requirements under this Chapter (391- 3-1); or
II. Any final order or agreement of the Director (or any court decree) with respect to such
source then currently in effect and containing a timetable and schedule of compliance
requiring expeditious compliance with the applicable emission requirements under this
Chapter (391-3-1) and providing for resolution of penalties, issues and other sanctions;
and
(ii) Such option will not interfere with the attainment and maintenance of ambient air quality
standards as expeditiously as practicable and does not result in any delay in compliance by any
source; and
(iii) Such option is equivalent in pollution reduction, enforceability, and environmental impact to
existing individual process or equipment standards; and
(iv) The source or facility proposing to use an option agrees, pending consideration of any such
proposal (and any associated review), not to seek a stay of enforcement of or relief from such
requirement, order, agreement, or degree (see (1) above) in any administrative or judicial
proceeding in State or Federal Courts and tribunals; and
(v) The source or facility proposing to use an option shall have the burden of demonstrating to the
satisfaction of the Director, compliance with the requirements of subparagraphs (ii) and (iii)
hereof; and
(vi) Provided further that any such option must receive the approval of EPA prior to becoming
effective.
THiS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF SEPT 18, 1979
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
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9. Kraft Pulp Mill TRS Compliance Schedules:
(1) Except as provided subpazagraph (ii) of this paragraph 9., all sources of TRS emissions from
kraft pulp mills subject to any limitation or requirement of, or under, subsection (gg)of this
Section 391-3-1 ..02(2), shall comply with the following compliance schedule:
(I) A final control plan and application for a permit to construct for the installation of
emission control systems and/or the modification of process equipment and/or process
modifications must be submitted to the Division by no later than 18 months following the
notification date:
(U) Binding contracts or purchase orders must be entered into no later than 27 months
following the notification date.
(Ill) On-site construction of emission control systems and/or modification of the process and/or
process equipment must begin no later than 27 months following the notification date.
( IV) On-site construction of emission control systems and/or modification of the process and/or
process equipment must be completed no later than 46 months following the notification
date.
(V) Full compliance with the applicable requirements of these Rules (Chapter 391-3-1) must
be demonstrated by approved methods and procedures no later than forty (40) months
following the notification date.
(VI) Any owner or operator of a source subject to this compliance schedule shall certify in
writing to the Director, within five days after the date specified in each increment of
progress, whether the required increment of progress has been met.
(VII) All owners and operators are encouraged to implement this schedule at an expedited rate.
(ii) Alternate Compliance Schedule:
(I) Nothing in this paragraph (9) shall prevent the Director from promulgating a separate
schedule for any source if he finds on his own or upon owner or operator’s proposal that
the imposition of a compliance schedule under subparagraph (1) of this Section would be
technologically or economically infeasible or impractical.
(II) Nothing in this paragraph (9) shall prevent the owner or operator of a TRS source from
submitting to the Director a proposed alternative compliance schedule provided:
1. The proposed alternative compliance schedule and final control plan is submitted no
later than 12 months following the notification date.
IL The alternative compliance schedule contains increments of progress adequate to
determine progress toward full compliance.
m. Sufficient documentation is submitted by the owner or operator of the TRS source
to justify to the Director the dates proposed in the increments of progress in such
schedule.
IV. If the alternative compliance schedule is based on alternate control technology,
evidence is furnished to indicate that the use of the proposed alternate control
technology will provide a greater continuous emission reduction than will be
achieved through the use of a conventional control technology, or that an equivalent
continuous emission reduction will be achieved at a lower cost in terms of energy,
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economic, or other non-air quality envfronnjental impact; that the application of the
proposed alternate control technology will have a reasonable chance of being
successfully demonstrated; that the portion of the kraft pulp mill to be involved in
the alternate compliance technology demonstration be identified by the applicant; and
that a final time to achieve compliance with the regulation be incorporated into the
schedule, by other means, if the alternate control technology is not successfully
demonstrated.
(ifi) A separate or alternative compliance schedule proposed or promulgated under
subparagraph (ii) of this section shall require compliance by the TRS source with the
applicable requirements or these Rules (Chapter 391-3-1) as expeditiously as practicable,
as judged by the Director.
(IV) Any compliance schedule approved under subparagraph (ii) of this section may be revoked
at any time if the source fails to meet any of the increments of progress by the dates
specified.
(V) Any compliance schedule approved under subparagraph (ii) of this Section shall be made
a part of the state implementation (SIP) and be subject to a public hearing after public
notice (30 days). The schedule shall not become final until submitted to and approved by
the US EPA as required in 40 CFR 60.23, 60.24, 60.27 and 60.28.
(iii) For the purpose of this paragraph, the “notification date” means September 1, 1988, or the date
on which the US EPA grants final approval of the TRS compliance schedules of this paragraph
9., whichever is later.
(iv) For the purpose of this paragraph, conventional control technology shall mean that mix of
emission control equipment and/or process modifications defined as Retrofit Model Number 5,
Kraft Pulping, Control of TRS Emissions from Existing Mills, EPA- 450/2-78..003b, March,
1979.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF SEfl 30, 1988
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 8, 1982 JULY 8, 1983 48 FR 50868
1st Revision: JUNE 3, 1988 SEPT 30, 1988 53 FR 38290
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(b) Visible Emissions:
1. Except as may be provided in other more restrictive or specific rules subdivisions of this Chapter,
no person shall cause, let, suffer, permits or allow emissions from air contaminint source the
opacity of which is equal to or greater than forty (40) percent.
2. Upon written application to the Director, a person owning or operating an air pollution source may
request that visible emission evaluatiOnS (opacity measurements) be conducted during particulate
emissions tests for a source, for the purpose of demonstrating compliance with a particulate emission
standard. Any such tests or evaluations shall be conducted according to methods, procedures and
requirements approved by the Division. All test results shall be subject to verification by the
Division. The correlated visible emissions opacity determined during any such particulate emission
tests which demonstrate compliance (with results verified by the Division) may, if greater than any
applicable visible emissions opacity standard of this Chapter 391-3-1, be established by the Director
as the visible emissions standard (opacity standard) for the source. Such visible emissions standards
if’ so established shall be incorporated as a condition of the operating permit for the air pollution
source.
3. The visible emission limitation of this subsection applies to direct sources of emissions such as
stationary structures, equipment, machinery, stacks, flues, pipes, exhausts, vents, tubes, chimneys or
similar structures.
4. The provisions of this subsection (b), apply only to facilities or sources subject to some other emission
limitation under this section 391-3-1-.02(2).
TI-ItS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF SEPT 18, 1979
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 27, 1972 MAY 31, 1972 37 FR 10842
1st Revision: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
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(c) ncinerators
1. Except as SpeCified in the section dealing with conical burners, no person shall cause, let, suffer,
permit, or allow the emissions of fly ash and/or other particulate matter from any incinerator, in
anlOUfltS CC 1ua I to Or exceeding the following:
(i) Units with charging rates of 500 pounds per hour or less of combustible waste, including water,
shall not emit fly ash and/or particulate matter in quantities exceeding 1.0 pound per hour.
(ii) Units with charging rates in excess of 500 pounds per hour of combustible waste, including
water, shall not emit fly ash and/or particulate matter in excess of 0.20 pounds per 100 pounds
of charge.
2. No person shall cause, let, suffer, permit, or allow from any incinerator, visible emissions the opacity
of which is equal to or greater than twenty (20) percent except for one (1) six minute period per hour
of not more than twenty-seven (27) percent opacity.
3. No person shall cause or allow particles to be emitted from an incinerator which are individually large
enough to be visible to the unaided eye.
4. No person shall operate an existing incinerator unless:
(i) it is a multiple chamber incinerator;
(ii) it is equipped with an auxiliary burner in the primary chamber for the purpose of creating a
pre-ignition temperature of 800 degrees F;
(iii) it has a secondary burner to control smoke and/or odors and maintain a temperature of at least
1500 degrees F in the secondary chamber.
5. Designs other than those mentioned in subparagraph 4. above shall be considered on an individual
basis and will be exempt from the provisions if, in the judgment of the Director, said design results
in performance which meets the standard set forth in paragraphs (2)(c)1., 2. and 3. above.
6. The provisions of this section (c) shall not apply to any hazardous waste incinerator subject to Section
391-3-11-0.01 of the Georgia Rules for Hazardous Waste Management, part 264, subpart 0, as
amended, “Standards for Owners and Operators of Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage and Disposal
Facilities, as amended.”
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF JULY 6, 1988
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 27, 1972 MAY 31, 1972 37 FR 10842
1st Revision: DEC 16, 1975 AUG 20, 1976 41 FR 35184
2nd Revision: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
3rd Revision: MAY 22, 1985 JUL 6, L988 53 FR 25329
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(d) Fuel-burning Equipment:
1. No person shall cause, let, suffer, permit, or allow the emission of fly ash andlor other particulate
matter from any fuel-burning in operation or under construction on or before Januaiy 1, 1972; in
amounts equal to or exceeding the following:
(i) for equipment less than 10 million BTII heat input per hour:
P = 0.7 pounds per million BTU heat input;
(ii) for equipment equal to or greater than 10 million BTU heat input per hour, or equal to or less
than 2,000 million BTU heat input per hour:
P = 0.7 (1OIR)o.an pounds per million BTU heat input;
(iii) equipment larger than 2,000 million BTIJ heat input per hour;
P = 0.24 pounds per million BTU heat input.
2. No person shall cause, let, suffer, permit, or allow the emission of fly ash and/or other particulate
matter from any fuel-burning equipment constructed after January 1, 1972, in amounts equal to or
exceeding the following:
(i) for equipment less than 10 million BTU heat input per hour:
P = 0.5 pounds per million BTU heat input;
(ii) for equipment equal to or greater than 10 million BTU heat input per hour, or equal to or less
than 250 million BTU heat input per hour:
P = 0.5 (1OIR)° 3 pounds per million BTU heat input;
(iii) for equipment greater than 250 million BTU heat input per hour:
P = 0.10 pounds per million W i l l heat input
P = allowable weight of emissions of fly ash and/or other particulate matter in pounds
per million BTU heat input
R = heat input of fuel-burning equipment in million BTU per hour.
* Figure 1 on page 212 represents the requirements of paragraph (d) above. [ NOTE: THIS
FIGURE APPEARS ON PAGE [ 391-3-1] - 2lA]
3. No person shall cause, let, suffer, permit, or allow the emission from any fuel-burning equipment
constructed or extensively modified after January 1, 1972, visible emissions the opacity of which is
equal to or greater than twenty (20) percent except for one six minute period per hour of not more
than twenty-seven (27) percent opacity.
4. No person shall cause, let, permit, suffer, or allow the emission of nitrogen oxides (NOJ, reported
as nitrogen dioxide, from any fuel-burning equipment equal to or greater than 250 million BTU per
hour of heat input that is constructed or extensively modified after January 1, 1972, equal to or
exceeding the following:
(i) when firing coal-.O.7 pounds of NO 1 , per million Bill’s of heat input;
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TOTAL INPUTMLLLIONS OF BTU PER HOUR
MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE EMISSION OF FLY ASH AND OTHER
PARTICULATE MATTER FROM FUEL BURNING INSTALLATIONS
V
-V
(4
I D
—
C’
100 000
V
‘0
.4
‘0
I.
5
—
C-)
I - )
-v
0
z
‘1
x
-u
m
C)
m
I-
-‘ 0
-l
-l
z
-u
C
-I
0.05
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(ii) when fiiing oil--0.3 pounds ,f NO 1 per million BTU’s of heat input;
(iii) when firing gas--O.2 pounds of NO, per million Bit’s of heat input;
(iv) when different fuels are burned simultaneously in any combination the applicable standard,
expressed as pounds of NO, per million Bit’s of heat input, shall be determined by proration.
Compliance shall be determined by using the following formula:
xIO.20) + v(0.30’i + z(O.70 )
X+y+z
where:
X = percent of total heat input derived from gaseous fuel;
y = percent of heat input derived from oil;
z = percent of total heat input derived from coal.
THIS IS ThE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF SEFF 18, 1979
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 27, 1972 MAY 31, 1972 37 FR 10842
1st Revision: JAN 17, 1979 SEFI’ 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
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(e) Particulate Emission from Manufacturing Processes:
1. Except as may be specified in other sectionS of these regulations or as may be specified in a permit
issued by the Director, no person shall cause, let, permit, suffer, or allow the rate of emission from
any source, particulate matter in total quantities equal to or exceeding the amounts shown in Table
Ia or lb. Equipment in operation, or under construction contract, on or before July 2, 1968, shall be
considered existing equipment. All other equipment put in operation or extensively altered after said
date is to be considered new equipment.
(i) The following equations shall be used to calculate the allowable rates of emission from new
equipment and shall accompany Table Ia:
E = 4.1 P° ; for process input weight rate up to and including 30 tons per hour.
E = 55 P° - 40; for process input weight rate above 30 tons per hour.
(ii) The following equation shall be used to calculate the allowable rates of emission from existing
and shall accompany Table Ib:
E = 4.1 P°
E = emission rate in pounds per hour
P = process weight rate in tons per hour.
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Table Ia
ALLOWABLE RATE OF EMISSION BASED ON PROCESS WEIGHT RATE
ON NEW EQUIPMENT
Process Input Weight Rate
Rate of Emission
Process Input Weight
Rate
Rate of Emission
lb/hr or tons/bi
lb/hr
lb/hr or tons/hr
lb/hr
100
0.05
0.55 1
16,000
8
16.5
200
0.10
0.877
18,000
9
17.9
400
0.20
1.40
20,000
10
19.2
600
0.30
1.83
30,000
15
26.2
800
0.40
2.22
40,000
20
30.5
1,000
0.50
2.58
50,000
25
35.4
1,500
0.75
3.38
60,000
30
40.0
2,000
1.00
4.10
70,000
35
41.3
2,500
1.25
4.76
80,000
40
42.5
3,000
1.50
5.38
90,000
45
43.6
3,500
1.75
5.96
100,000
50
44.6
4,000
2.00
6.52
120,000
60
46.3
5,000
2.50
7.58
140,000
70
47.8
6,000
3.00
8.56
160,000
80
49.0
7,000
3.50
9.49
200,000
100
51.2
8,000
4.00
10.4
1,000,000
500
69.0
9,000
4.50
11.2
2,000,000
1,000
77.6
10,000
5.00
12.0
6,000,000
3,000
92.7
12,000
6.00
13.6
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Table lb
ALLOWABLE OF j (JSSION BASED ON PROCESS WEIGHT RATE
ON EXISTING EQUIPMENT
Process Input Weight Rate
Rate of Emission
Process Input Weight
Rate
Rate of Emission
lb/hr or — tons/hr
lb/hr
lb/hr or tons/hr
lb/hr
100
0.05
0.55 1
16,000
8
16.5
200
0.10
0.877
18,000
9
17.9
400
0.20
1.40
20,000
10
19.2
600
0.30
1.83
30,000
15
25.2
800
0.40
2.22
40,000
20
30.5
1,000
0.50
2.58
50,000
25
35.4
1.500
0.75
3.38
60,000
30
40.0
2,000
1.00
4.10
70,000
35
44.35
2,500
1.25
4.76
80,000
40
48.4
3,000
1.50
5.38
90,000
45
52.5
3,500
1.75
5.96
100,000
50
56.4
4,000
2.00
6.52
120,000
60
63.5
5,000
2.50
7.58
140,000
70
70.6
6,000
3.00
8.56
160,000
80
77.0
7,000
3.50
9.49
200,000
100
89.7
8,000
4.00
10.4
1,000,000
500
262
9,000
4.50
11.2
2,000,000
1,000
414
10,000
5.00
12.0
6,000,000
3,000
873
12,000
6.00
13.6
To use Tables Ia and Ib, take the process input weight rate (Lb/Hr or Tons/Hr). Then find this
figure on the table, opposite is the maximum number of pounds of contaminants which may be
discharged into the atmosphere in any one hour.
THJS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF SEPT 18, 1979
Date Submitted
to EPA
Date Approved
by EPA
Original Reg:
1st Revision:
JAN 27, 1972
JAN 17, 1979
MAY 31, 1972
SEPT 18, 1979
37 FR 10842
44 FR 54047
Federal
Register
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(f) Normal SUperphosphate Manufacturing Facilities:
i. Unit emissions of fluoride for normal supeiphosphate manufacturing facilities, expressed as pounds
of fluoride ion per ton of P O 5 or equivalent, shall not exceed 0.40 pounds. The allowable emission
of fluorides shall be calculated by multiplying the unit emission specified above times the expressed
design capacity of the source in question.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF SEPT 18, 1979
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 27, 1972 MAY 31, 1972 37 FR 10842
1st Revision: JAN 17, 1979 SEP’I’ 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
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(g) Sulfur Dioxide:
1. New fuel-burning sources capable of firing fossil fuel(s) at a rate exceeding 250 million BTU’s per
hour heat input, constructed or extensively modified after Ja uaq 1, 1972, may not emit sulfur
dioxide equal to or exceeding:
(i) 0.8 pounds of sulfur dioxide per million BTIJ’s of heat input derived from liquid fossil fuel or
derived from liquid fossil fuel and wood residue,
(ii) 1.2 pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Bill’s of heat input derived from solid fossil fuel or
derived from solid fossil fuel and wood residue,
(iii) When different fossil fuels are burned simultaneously in any combination, the applicable
standard expressed as pounds of sulfur dioxide per million BTU’s of heat input shall be
determined by proration using the following formula:
where:
a = y (0.80) = z (1.2 )
y+z
y = percent of total heat input derived from liquid fossil fuel,
z = percent of total heat input derived from solid fossil fuel,
a = the allowable emission in pounds per million BTIJ’s
2. In addition to the stipulations and limitations in paragraphs 1. and 2. of this subsection, all fuel
burning sources below 100 million BTU’s of heat input per hour shall not burn fuel containing more
than 2.5 percent sulfur, by weight. All fuel burning sources having a heat input of 100 million BTU’s
per hour or greater shall not burn a fuel containing more than 3 percent sulfur, by weight.
3. Notwithstanding the limitations on sulfur content of fuels stated in paragraph 3, above, the Director
may allow sulfur content greater than that allowed in paragraph 3. above, provided that the source
utilizes sulfur dioxide removal and the sulfur dioxide emission does not exceed that allowed by
paragraph 3. above, utilizing no sulfur dioxide removal.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 29, 1995
Date Submitted
to EPA
Date Approved
by EPA
Original Reg:
1st Revision:
2nd Revision:
3rd Revision:
JAN 27, 1972
DEC 16, 1975
JAN 17, 1979
DEC 15, 1986
JAN03, 1991
MAY31, 1972
AUG 20, 1976
SEPT 18, 1979
JAN 26, 1993
JAN 26, 1993
37 FR 10842
41 FR 35184
44 FR 54047
58 FR 6093
58 FR 6093
Federal
Register
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( Ii) Portland Cement Plants:
1. See Section 391-3-1.02(8) for applicable New Source Performance Standards.
(i) Nitric Acid Plants:
I. No person shall cause or allow the emission of nitric oxides (NO 1 ), expressed as nitrogen dioxide,
from Nitric Acid Plants equal to or exceeding:
(1) for plants constructed before January 1, 1972: 25 pounds of NO expressed as nitrogen dioxide,
per ton of 100% acid produced;
(ii) for plants constructed after January 1, 1972. the applicable New Source Performance Standards
of 391-3-f-.02(8).
2. No person shall operate a nitric acid plant unless the plant is equipped with a continuous NO monitor
- and recorder or an alternate system approved by the Director.
ThIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF SEPT 18, 1979
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Rag: JAN 27, 1972 MAY 31, 1972 37 FR 10842
1st Revision: DEC 16, 1975 AUG 20, 1976 41 FR 35184
2nd Revision: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
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(j) Sulfuric Acid Plants:
i. No person shall cause or allow the emission of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) and acid mist from sulfuric acid
plants equal to or exceeding:
(1) For plants constructed before Januaq 1, 1972, 27.0 pounds of SO 2 , and 0.15 pounds of acid
mist per ton of 100% acid produced:
(ii) For plants constructed or extensively modified after Januaiy 1, 1972, the applicable New Source
Performance Standards of 391-3-1-02(8).
2. No person shall operate a sulfuric acid plant unless the plant is equipped with a continuous SO 2
monitor and recorder or an approved alternate system approved by the Director.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF SEPT 18, 1979
Date Submitted
to EPA
Date Approved
by EPA
Original Reg:
1st Revision:
2nd Revision:
3rd Revision:
JAN 27, 1972
JAN 31, 1978
DEC 16, 1975
JAN 17, 1979
MAY31, 1972
MAY 27, 1982
AUG 20, 1976
SEPT 18, 1979
37 FR 10842
47 FR23162
41 FR 35184
44 FR 54047
Federal
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(k) Particulate Emission from Asphaltic concrete Hot Mix Plants:
1. No person shall cause, let, suffer, permit, or allow the emission of particulate matter from an
Asphaltic Concrete Hot Mix Plant equal to or exceeding derived from the following formulas:
(i) For existing plants below 45 tons per hour input--E = p pounds per hour;
(ii) For existing plants equal to or greater than 45 tons per hour input--E = 1OP° 4 pounds per hour;
(iii) For new plants below 125 tons per hour input—E = 2.1 P 0 6, pounds per hour;
(iv) For new plants equal to or greater than 125 tons per hour input—E = 14 F° 2 , pounds per hour;
S
(v) E equals the allowable emission of particulate matter in pounds per hour. P equals the process
input weight rate in tons per hour;
(vi) Equipment in operation, or under construction contract, on or before January 1, 1972, shall be
considered existing equipment. All equipment constructed or extensively altered after said date
shall be considered new.
2. The New Source Performance Standards of 391-3-1-.02(8) for such asphaltic concrete plants apply
to all such plants commencing construction on or after the effective date of such standards.
ThIS IS ThE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF SEPT 18, 1919
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 27, 1972 MAY 31, 1972 37 FR 10842
1st Revision: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
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(1) Conical Burners:
1. No conical burners under construction or modified after January 1, 1972, shall be allowed to operate
unless the burner is equipped with combustion controls acceptable to the Division to minimize smoke
emissions. To assure that these controls are in good maintenance and satisfactorily controlling the
combustion process, the flue gas exit temperature shall be monitored with a sensing and recording
device acceptable to the Division. These devices shall be m intained in good working order. The
recording charts shall be kept on file and made available to the Division upon request.
2. No person shall cause, let, suffer, permit, or allow visible emissions from any conical burner, the
opacity of which is equal to or greater than 40 percent.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF SEPT 18, 1979
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 27, 1972 MAY 31, 1972 37 FR 10842
1st Revision: DEC 16, 1975 AUG 20, 1976 41 FR 35184
2nd Revision: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
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(m) Repealed.
m is is THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF OCTOBER 3, 1975
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JUNE 30, 1975 OCT 3, 1975 40 FR 45818
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(n) Fugitive Dust:
1. All persons responsible for any operation, process, handling, transportation or storage facility which
may result in fugitive dust shall take all reasonable precautions to prevent such dust from becoming
airborne. Some reasonable precautions which could be taken to prevent dust from becoming airborne
include, but are not limited to, the following:
(i) Use, where possible, of water or chemicals for control of dust in the demolition of existing
buildings or structures, construction operations, the grading of roads or the clearing of land;
(ii) Application of asphalt, oil, water, or suitable chemicals on dirt roads, materials, stockpiles, and
other surfaces which can give rise to airborne dusts;
(iii) Installation and use of hoods, fans, and fabric filters to enclose and vent the handling of dusty
materials. Adequate containment methods can be employed during sandblasting or other similar
operations;
(iv) Covering, at all times when in motion, open bodied trucks, transporting materials likely to give
rise to airborne dusts;
(v) The prompt removal of earth or other material from paved streets onto which earth or other
material has been deposited.
2. The percent opacity from any fugitive dust source listed in paragraph (2)(n)1. above shall not equal
or exceed 20 percent.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF SEPT 18, 1979
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 27, 1972 MAY 31, 1972 37 FR 10842
1st Revision: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
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(o) Cupola Furnaces for Metallurgical Melting:
1. The emissions of particulate matter from all new and existing ferrous foundry cupolas with an input
process weight rate in excess of fiftY thousand (50,000) powicls per hour shall not exceed the amounts
determined from Table Ic and the accompanying equation of the Rules and Regulations.
2. The emission of particulate matter from all new and existing ferrous foundry cupolas with an input
process weight rate less than fifty thousand (50,000) pounds per hour shall not exceed the amounts
determined from Table Ic of the Rules and Regulations except as follows:
(i) Any jobbing foundry which operates its cupola furnaces or furnaces intermittently to melt ten
(10) tons or less per 24 hour day shall be deemed in compliance if particulate emissions do not
exceed six (6) pounds per ton of metal melted.
Table Ic
I Particulate Emissions from Ferrous Foundries
Process Weight
(lbs/hr)
Maximum Weight Discharge
( lbs/hr)
1,000
3.05
2,000
4.70
3,000
6.35
4,000
8.00
5,000
9.58
6,000
11.30
7,000
12.90
8,000
14.30
9,000
15.50
10,000
16.65
12,000
18.70
16,000
21.60
18,000
23.40
20,000
25.10
30,000
31.30
40,000
33.76
50,000
35.40
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iiifs is THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF MAY 31, 1972
Date Submjtt j Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 27, 1972 MAY 31, 1972 37 FR 10842
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(p) Particulate Emissions from Kaolin and Fuller’s Earth Processes:
1. The following equations shall be used to calculate the allowable rates of emission from kaolin and
fuller’s earth process equipment constructed or extensively modified after January 1, 1972, and shall
accompany Table Ha:
(i) E = 3.59P° 62; for process weight rate up to and including 30 tons per hour;
(ii) E = 17.3 1P°’ 6 ; for process input weight rate in excess of 30 tons per hour.
2. The following equation shall be used to calculate the allowable rates of emission from kaolin and
fuller’s earth process equipment constructed or put in operation on or before January 1, 1972, and
shall accompany Table Ub:
(i) E = 4. lP° ; for process weight input weight rate up to and including 30 tons per hour.
(ii) E = 55P° - 40; for process weight input rate above 30 tons per hour.
3. The combined particulate emissions from any kaolin or fuller’s earth plant site shall not exceed 250
pounds per hour.
E = allowable emission rate in pounds per hour;
P = process input weight rate in tons per hour.
Table ha
Allowable Rate of Emissions from Kaolin and Fuller’s Earth
Processes on New and Modified Equipment
Process Input Weight Rate
Obs/br)
Rate of Emissions
Obs/hr)
50
0.03
100
0.55
500
1.53
1,000
2.25
5,000
6.34
10,000
9.73
20,000
14.99
60,000
29.60
80,000
31.19
120,000
33.28
160,000
34.85
200,000
36.11
400,000
40.35
1,000,000
46.72
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Table lib
Allowable Rate of EmissloELs from Kaolin and Fuller’s Earth Processes
on Existing Equipment
process Input Weight Rate
Rate of Emission
Process Input Weight
Rate
Rate of Emission
lbs/hr
tons/hr
lbs/hr
lbs/hr
tons/hr
lbs/hr
100
0.05
0.551
16,000
8
16.5
200
0.10_—
0.877
18,000
9
17.9
400
0.20
1.40
20,000
10
19.2
600
0.30
1.83
30,000
15
25.2
800
0.40
2.22
40,000
20
30.5
1,000
0.50
2.58
50,000
25
35.4
1,500
0.75
3.38
60,000
30
40.0
2,000
1.00
4.10
70,000
35
41.3
2,500
1.25
4.76
80,000
40
42.5
3,000
1.50
5.38
90,000
45
43.6
3,500
1.75
5.96
100,000
50
44.6
4,000
2.00
6.52
120,000
60
46.3
5,000
2.50
7.58
140,000
70
47.8
6,000
3.00
8.56
160,000
80
49.0
7,000
3.50
9.49
200,000
100
51.2
8,000
4.00
10.4
1,000,000
500
69.0
9,000
4.50
11.2
2,000,000
1,000
77.6
10,000
5.00
12.0
6,000,000
3,000
92.7
12,000
6.00
13.6
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 20, 1976
Date Submitted
to EPA
Date Approved
by EPA
Original Reg:
1st Revision:
JAN 27, 1972
DEC 16, 1975
MAY31, 1972
AUG 20, 1976
37 FR 10842
41 FR 35184
Federal
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(q) Particulate Emissions from Cotton Gins:
1. The emission of particulate tter from any cotton ginning operation shall not exceed the amounts
determined from Table ifia and from the accompanying equation of the Rules and Regulations.
(1) The following equation shall be used to calculate the allowable rates of emission and shall
accompany Table Lila:
E 7 B° 3
E = allowable emission rate in pounds per hour
B = number of standard bales per hour -- A standard bale is defined as a finished bale
weighing 500 pounds.
Table ifia
Particulate Emissions from Cotton Gins
No. of Bales/hr
Allowable-lbs/hr
1
7.00
2
9.00
3
12.12
4
14.00
5
15.65
6
17.15
7
18.52
8
19.80
9
21.00
10
22.14
11
23.22
12
24.25
13
25.24
14
26.19
15
27.11
16
28.00
17
28.86
18
29.69
19
30.51
20
31.30
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This is ThE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF SEPT 22, 1972
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Onginal Reg: JAN 27, 1972 MAY 31, 1972 37 FR 10842
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(r) Particulate E sions from Granular and Mixed Fertilizer Manufacturing Units:
1. For the purpose of this regulation of the ammoniator, dryer, cooler and associated equipment will be
considered one unit.
2. The following equations shall be used to calculate the allowable rates of emission from granular and
mixed fertilizer manufacturing units:
(i) E = 3.59 P° ; for production rates up to and including 30 tons per hour;
(ii) E = 17.31 16; for production rates above 30 tons per hour;
E = allowable emission rate in pounds per hour;
P = production rate of finished product in tons per hours. Recycle will not be included.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF MAY 31, 1972
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 27, 1972 MAY 31, 1972 37 FR 10842
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(t) VOC Emissions from Automobile and Light Duty Truck Manufacturing:
1. No person shall cause, let, permit. suffer, or allow the emissions of VOC from automobile and/or
light duty truck manufacturing facilities to exceed:
(i) 1.2 pounds of VOC per gallon of coating, excluding water, as a monthly weighted average,
from each electrophoretic applied prime operation;
(ii) 15.1 pounds of VOC per gallon of applied coating solids, as a daily weighted average, from
each spray prime operation;
(iii) 15.1 pounds of VOC per gallon of applied coating solids, as a daily weighted average, from
each topcoat operation;
(iv) 4.8 pounds of VOC per gallon of coating delivered to the coating applicator from each final
repair operation. If any coating delivered to the coating applicator contains more than 4.8
pounds of VOC per gallon of coating, the limit shall be 13.8 pounds of VOC per gallon of
coating solids sprayed, as a daily weighted average.
(v) 3.5 pounds of VOC per gallon of sealer, excLuding water, delivered to an applicator that applies
sealers in amounts less than 25,000 gallons during a 12 consecutive month period;
(vi) 1.0 pounds of VOC per gallon of sealer, excluding water, delivered to a coating applicator that
applies sealers in amounts greater than 25,000 gallons during a 12 consecutive month period;
(vii) 3.5 pounds of VOC per gallon of adhesive, excluding water, delivered to an applicator that
applies adhesives, except body glass adhesives;
(viii) 6.9 pounds of VOC per gallon of cleaner, excluding water, delivered to an applicator that
applies cleaner to the edge of body glass prior to priming;
(ix) 5.5 pounds of VOC per gallon of primer, excluding water, delivered to an applicator that
applies primer to the body glass or to the body to prepare the glass and body for bonding;
(x) 1.0 pounds of VOC per gallon of adhesive, excluding water, delivered to an applicator that
applies adhesive to bond body glass to the body;
(xi) 4.4 pounds of VOC per gallon of coating delivered to any applicator that applies clear coating
to fascias. No coating may be used that exceeds this limit;
(xii) 4.4 pounds of VOC per gallon of coating delivered to any applicator that applies base coat to
fascias, on a daily weighted average basis;
(xiii) 3.5 pounds of VOC per gallon of material, excluding water, for all other materials not subject
to some other emission limitation stated in this paragraph.
2. The emission limits stated in paragraph 1, shall be achieved by the application of low solvent
technology or a system demonstrated to have equivalent control efficiency on the basis of pounds of
VOC per gallon of solids.
3. No person shall cause, let, permit, suffer or allow the emissions of VOC from the use of wipe-off
solvents to exceed 1.0 pounds per unit of production, as a rolling, 12-month average. Wipe-off
solvents shall include those solvents used to clean dirt, grease, excess sealer and adhesive, or other
foreign matter from the car body in preparation for painting or other production-related operation.
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4. No person shall cause, let permit, suffer or allow the emission of VOCs from solvents used to purge,
flush or clean paint application systems including paint lines, tanks and applicators, unless such
solvents are Captured to the maximum degree feasible by being directed into containers that prevent
evaporation into the atmosphere.
5. No person shall store solvents or waste solvents in drums, pails, cans or other containers unless such
containers have air-tight covers which are in place at all times when materials are not being
transferred into or out of the container.
6. No person shall cause, let, permit, suffer or allow the emissions of VOC from the cleaning of oil and
grease stains on the body shop floor to exceed 0.1 pounds per unit of production.
7. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions apply:
(i) “Manufacturing Plant” means a facility which assembles twenty (20) or more automobiles or
light duty trucks per day (either separately or in combination) ready for sale to vehicle dealers.
Customizers, body shops, and other repainters are not part of this definition;
(ii) “Automobile” means all passenger cars or passenger car derivatives capable of seating a
maximum of 12 or fewer passengers;
(iii) “Light-Duty Trucks” means any motor vehicles rated 8500 pounds gross weight or less which
are designated primarily for the purpose of transportation or are derivatives of such vehicles;
(iv) “Electrophoretic Applied Prime Operation” means the dip tank, flash-off area and bake oven(s)
which are used to apply and diy or cure the initial coating on components of automobile and
light-duty truck bodies by submerging the body components in a coating bath with an electrical
potential difference between the compouc. and the bath and drying or curing such coating on
the components in bake oven(s);
(v) “Spray Prime Operation” means the spray prime booth, flash-off area and bake oven(s) which
are used to apply and dry or cure a surface coating between the electrophoretic applied prime
and topcoat operations on the components of automobile and light-duty truck bodies;
(vi) “Topcoat Operation” means the topcoat spray booth, flash-off area and bake oven(s) which are
used to apply and dry or cure the final coating(s) on the components of automobile and light-
duty truck bodies;
(vii) “Final Repair Operation” means the final repair spray booth, flash-off area and bake oven(s)
which are used to apply and dry or cure the final repair coating(s) on automobile and light-duty
truck bodies after they are fully assembled.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF FEB 07, 1996
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
1st Revision: MAR 9, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
2nd Revision: JAN 3, 1991 OCT 13, 1992 57 FR 46780
APR03, 1991 OCT13, 1992 57FR46780
3rd Revision: NOV 15, 1994 FEB 02, 1996 61 FR 3817
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(u) VOC Emissions from Can Coating:
1. No person shall cause, let, permit, suffer, or allow the emissions of VOC from can coating operations
to exceed:
(I) 2.8 pounds per gallon, excluding water, delivered to the coating applicator from sheet basecoat
(exterior and interior) and overvarnish or two-piece can exterior (basecoat and overvarnish)
operations;
(ii) 4.2 pounds per gallon, excluding water, delivered to the coating applicator from two and
three-piece can interior body spray and two-piece can exterior end (spray and roll coat)
operations;
(iii) 5.5 pounds per gallon, excluding water, delivered to the coating applicator from three-piece can
side-seam spray operations;
(iv) 3.7 pounds per gallon, excluding water, delivered to the coating applicator from end seal
compound operations.
2. The emission limits in this subsection shall be achieved by:
(i) the application of low solvent content coating technology (compliance may be demonstrated by
averaging on a 24-hour weighted basis all VOC emissions from a single can coating line or
operation not complying under (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph; averaging across lines is not
allowed); or
(ii) incineration, with a capture system approved by the Director, provided that 90 percent of the
nonmethane volatile organic compounds (VOC measured as total combustible carbon) which
enter the incinerator arc oxidized to carbon dioxide and water; or
(iii) control equipment demonstrated to have control efficiency equivalent to or greater than required
in (i) or (ii) of this paragraph, and approved by the Director.
3. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions apply:
(1) “End Sealing Compound” means a synthetic rubber compound which is coated onto can ends
and which functions as a gasket when the end is assembled on the can;
(ii) “Exterior Base Coating” means a coating applied to the exterior protection to the metal and to
provide background for the lithographic or printing operation;
(iii) “Interior Base Coating” means a coating applied by roller coater or spray to the interior of a
can to provide a protective lining between the can metal and product;
(iv) “Interior Body Spray” means a coating sprayed on the interior of the interior of the can body
to provide a protective film between the product and the can;
(v) “Overvarnish” means a coating applied directly over ink to reduce the coefficient of friction,
to provide gloss and to protect the finish against abrasion and corrosion;
(vi) “Three-piece Can Side-seam Spray” means a coating sprayed on the exterior and interior of a
welded, cemented or solder seam to protect the exposed metal;
(vii) “Two-piece Can Exterior End Coating” means a coating applied by rolling coating or spraying
to the exterior end of a can to provide protection to the metal.
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THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 30, 1995 —
Date Submitted
to EPA
Date Approved
by EPA
Original Reg:
1st Revision:
2nd Revision:
JAN 17, 1979
MAR 9, 1979
JAN 3, 1991
APR03, 1991
SEPT 18, 1979
SEPT 18, 1979
OCT 13, 1992
OCT 13, 1992
44 FR 54047
44 FR 54047
57 FR 46780
57 FR 46780
Federal
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(v) VOC Emissions from Coil Coating:
1. No person shall cause, let, permit, suffer, or allow the emissions i voc from coil Coating operations
to exceed:
(I) 2.6 pounds per gallon, excluding water, delivered to the coating applicator from prime and
topcoat or singlecoat operations;
(ii) The emission limits in this subsection shall apply to the coating applicator(s), oven(s) and
quench area(s) of coil coating lines involved in prime and topcoat or single coat operations.
2. The emission limits in this subsection shall be achieved by:
(i) the application of low solvent content coating technology (compliance may be demonstrated by
averaging on a 24-hour weighted basis all VOC emissions from a single coil coating line or
operation not complying under (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph; averaging across lines is not
allowed); or
(ii) incineration, with a capture system approved by the Director, provided that 90 percent of the
nonmethane volatile organic compounds (VOC measured as total combustible carbon) which
enter the incinerator are oxidized to carbon dioxide and water; or
(iii) control equipment demonstrated to have control efficiency equivalent to or greater than required
in (i) or (ii) of this paragraph, and approved by the Director.
3. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions apply:
(i) ‘Coil coating” means the coating of any flat metal sheet or st i that comes in rolls or coils;
(ii) “Quench Area” means a chamber where the hot metal exiting the oven is cooled by either a
spray of water or a blast of air followed by water cooling.
rHIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 30, 1995
Date Submitted Date Approved
to EPA by EPA
Driginal Reg: JAN 17, 1979 SEFF 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
1st Revision: MAR 9, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
nd Revision: JAN 3, 1991 OCT 13, 1992 57 FR 46780
APR03, 1991 OCT 13, 1992 57 FR46780
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(w) VOC Emissions from Paper Coating:
1. No person shall cause, let, permit. suffer, or allow the emissions of VOC from paper coating
operations to exceed:
(1) 2.9 pounds per gallon, excluding water, delivered to the coating applicator from a paper coating
line. This limit shall apply to roll, knife or rotogravure coater(S) and diying oven(s) of paper
coating.
2. The emissions limits in this subsection shall be achieved by:
(i) the application of low solvent content coating technology (compliance may be demonstrated by
averaging on a 24-hour weighted basis all VOC emissions from a single paper coating line or
operation not complying under (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph; averaging across lines is not
allowed); or
(ii) incineration, with a capture system approved by the Director, provided that 90 percent of the
nonmethane volatile organic compounds (VOC measured as total combustible carbon) which
enter the incinerator are oxidized to carbon dioxide and water; or
(iii) control equipment demonstrated to have control efficiency equivalent to or greater than required
in (i) or (ii) of this paragraph, and approved by the Director.
3. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions apply:
(I) “Knife Coating” means the application of a coating material to a substrate by means of drawing
the substrate beneath a knife that spreads the coating evenly over the full width of the substrate;
(ii) “Paper Coating” means the application of a coating on paper and pressure sensitive tapes
regardless of substrate in which the coating is distributed uniformly across the web;
(iii) “Roll Coating” means the application of a coating material to a substrate by means of hard
rubber or steel rolls;
(iv) “Rotogravure Coating” means the application of a coating material to a substrate by means of
a roll coating technique in which the pattern to be applied is etched on the coating roll. The
coating material is picked up in these recessed areas and is transferred to the substrate.
THIS IS ThE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 30, 1995
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
1st Revision: MAR 9, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
2nd Revision: JAN 3, 1991 OCT 13, 1992 57 FR 46780
APR03, 1991 OCT13, 1992 57FR46780
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(x) VOC Emissions from Fabric and Vinyl Coating:
1. No person shall cause, let, permit, suffer,, or allow the emission of VOC from fabric or vinyl coating
operations to exceed:
(i) 2.9 pounds per gallon, excluding water, delivered to the coating applicator from fubric coating
lines;
(ii) 3.8 pounds per gallon, excluding water, delivered to the coating applicator from a vinyl coating
line;
(iii) The emission limits in this subsection shall apply to roll, knife, or rotogravure Coater(s) and
diying oven(s) of fabric and vinyl coating lines.
2. The emission limits in this subsection shall be achieved by:
(i) the application of low solvent content coating technology (compliance may be demonstrated by
averaging on a 24-hour weighted basis all VOC emissions from a single fabric and vinyl coating
line or operation not complying under (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph; averaging across lines is
not allowed); or
(ii) incineration, with a capture system approved by the Director, provided that 90 percent of the
nonniethane volatile organic compounds (VOC measured as total combustible carbon) which
enter the incinerator are oxidized to carbon dioxide and water; or
(iii) control equipment demonstrated to have control efficiency equivaLent to or greater than required
in (i) or (ii) of this paragraph, and approved by the Director.
3. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions apply:
(i) “Fabric Coating” means the coating of a textile substrate with a knife, roil, or rotogravure
coater to impart properties that are not initially present, such as strength, stability, water or acid
repellence, or appearance;
(ii) “Knife Coating” means the application of a coating material to a substrate by means of drawing
the substrate beneath a knife that spreads the coating evenly over the full width of the substrate;
(iii) “Roll Coating’ means the application of a coating material to a substrate by means of hard
rubber or steel rolls;
(iv) ‘Rotogravure Coating’ means the application of a coating material to a substrate by means of
a roll coating technique in which the pattern to be applied is etched on a coating roll. The
coating material is picked up in these recessed areas and is transferred to the substrate;
(v) “Vinyl Coating’ means applying a decorative or protective topcoat, or printing on vinyl coated
fabric or vinyl sheets, but shall not mean applying plastisol coating.
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This IS THE FEDERALL OVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 30, 1995
Original Reg:
1st Revision:
2nd Revision:
Date Submitted
Date Approved
Federal
to EPA
by EPA
Register
JAN 17, 1979
SEPT 18, 1979
44 FR 54047
MAR 9, 1979
SEPT 18, 1979
44 FR 54047
JAN3, 1991
OCT13, 1992
57FR46780
APR03, 1991
OCT13, 1992
57FR46780
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(y) VOC Emissions from Metal Furniture Coating:
I. No person shall cause, let, permit, suffer, or allow the emissions of VOC from metal furniture coating
operations to exceed:
(i) 3.0 pounds per gallon, excluding water, delivered to the coating applicator from prime and
topcoat of single coat operations;
(ii) The emission limit in this subsection shall apply to the application area(s), flashoff area(s) and
oven(s) of metal furniture coating lines involved in prime and topcoat or single coat operations.
2. The emission limit in this subsection shall be achieved by:
(i) the application of low solvent content coating technology (compliance may be demonstrated by
averaging on a 24-hour basis all VOC emissions from a single metal furniture coating line or
operation not complying under (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph; averaging across lines is not
allowed); or
(ii) incineration, with a capture system approved by the Director, provided that 90 percent of the
nonmethane volatile organic compounds (VOC measured as total combustible carbon) which
enter the incinerator are oxidized to carbon dioxide and water; or
(iii) control equipment demonstrated to have control efficiency equivalent to or greater than required
in (i) and (ii) of this paragraph, and approved by the Director.
3. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions appLy:
(i) “Application Area” means the area where the coating is applied by spraying, dipping or
flowcoating techniques;
(ii) “Metal Furniture Coating” means the surface coating of any furniture made of metal or any
metal part which will be assembled with other metal, wood, fabric, plastic or glass parts to
form a furniture piece.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 30, 1995
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
1st Revision: MAR 9, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
2nd Revision: JAN 3, 1991 OCT 13, 1992 57 FR 46780
APR03, 1991 OCT13, 1992 57FR46780
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(z) VOC Emissions from Large Appliance Surface Coating:
1. No person shall cause, let, permit, suffer, or allow the emissions of VOC from the surface coating
of large appliances to exceed:
(i) 2.8 pounds per gallon, excluding water, delivered to the coating applicator from prime, single
or topcoat operations;
(ii) The emission limit in this subsection shall apply to the application area(s), flashoff area(s) and
oven(s) of large appliance coating operations;
(iii) The emission limit in this subsection shall not apply to the use of quick drying lacquers used
for repair of scratches and nicks.
2. The emission limit in this subsection shall be achieved by:
(1) the application of low solvent content coating technology (compliance may be demonstrated by
averaging on a 24-hour weighted basis all VOC emissions from a single large appliance surface
coating line or operation not complying under (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph; averaging across
lines is not allowed); or
(ii) incineration, with a capture system approved by the Director, provided that 90 percent of the
nonmethane volatile organic compounds (VOC measured as total combustible carbon) which
enter the incinerator are oxidized to carbon dioxide and water; or
(iii) controL equipment demonstrated to have control efficiency equivalent to or greater than required
in (1) or (ii) of this paragraph, and approved by the Director.
3. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions apply:
(i) ‘Application Area’ means the area where the coating is applied by spraying, dipping or
flowcoating techniques;
(ii) ‘Single Coat’ means a single film of coating applied directly to the metal substrate omitting the
primer application;
(iii) “Large Appliances” means doors, cases, lids, panels and interior support parts of residential and
commercial washers, dryers, ranges, refrigerators, freezers, water heaters, dishwashers, trash
compactors, air conditioners and other similar products.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 30, 1995
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
1st Revision: MAR 9, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
2nd Revision: JAN 3, 1991 OCT 13, 1992 57 FR 46780
APR03, 1991 OCT13, 1992 57FR46780
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(aa) VOC Emissions from Wire Coating:
1. No parson Shall cause, let, permit, suffer, or allow the emission of VOC from wire coating operations
to exceed:
(i) 1.7 pounds per gallon, excluding water, delivered to the coating applicator from wire coating
Operations;
(ii) The emission limit in this subsection shall apply to the oven(s) of wire coating operations.
2. The emission limits in this subsection shall be achieved by:
(i) the application of low solvent content coating technology (compliance may be demonstrated by
averaging on a 24-hour weighted basis all VOC emissions from a single wire coating line or
operation not complying under (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph; averaging across lines is not
allowed); or
(ii) incineration, with a capture system approved by the Director, provided that 90 percent of the
nonmethane volatile organic compound (VOC measured as total combustible carbon) which
enter the incinerator are oxidized to carbon dioxide and water; or
(iii) control equipment demonstrated to have control efficiency equivalent to or greater than required
in (i) or (ii) of this paragraph, and approved by the Director.
3. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions apply:
(i) “Wire Coating” means the process of applying a coating of electrically insulating varnish or
enamel to aluminum or copper wire for use in electrical machinery.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 30, 1995
Date Submitted
to EPA
Date Approved
by EPA
Original Reg:
1st Revision:
2nd Revision:
JAN 17, 1979
MAR9, 1979
JAN 3, 1991
APR03, 1991
SEPT 18, 1979
SEPT 18, 1979
OCT 13, 1992
OCT 13, 1992
44 FR 54047
44 FR 54047
57 FR 46780
57 FR 46780
Federal
Register
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(bb) Petroleum Liquid Storage:
1. No person shall cause, let, permit, suffer, or allow the use of a fixed roof storage vessel with
capacities of 40,000 gallons or greater containing a volatile petroleum liquid where true vapor
pressure is greater than 1.52 psia unless:
(i) the vessel has been fitted with a floating roof; or
(ii) the vessel has been fitted with control equipment demonstrated to have control efficiency
equivalent to or greater than required in (i) of this paragraph, and approved by the Director.
2. The requirements of this subsection shall not apply to vessels:
(i) underground, if the total volume of petroleum liquids added to and taken from the tank annually
does not exceed twice the volume of the tank; or
(ii) having capacities less than 425,000 gallons used to store crude oil prior to lease custody
transfer.
3. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions apply:
(i) Crude Oil” means a naturally occurring mixture which consists of hydrocarbons and/or sulfur,
nitrogen and/or oxygen derivatives of hydrocarbons and which is a liquid at standard conditions;
(ii) “Floating Roof” means a storage vessel cover consisting of a double deck, pontoon single deck,
internal floating cover or covered floating roof, which rests upon and is supported by the
petroleum liquid being contained, and is equipped with a closure seal or seals to close the space
between the roof edge and tank wall;
(iii) “Petroleum Liquids” means crude oil, condensate, and any finished or intermediate products
manufactured in a petroleum refinery;
(iv) “Petroleum Refinery” means any facility engaged in producing gasoline, kerosene, distillate fuel
oils, residual fuel oils, lubricants, or other products through distillation of crude oils, or through
redistillation, cracking, extraction, or reforming of unfinished petroleum derivatives;
(v) “True Vapor Pressure” means the equilibrium partial pressure exerted by a petroleum liquid as
determined in accordance with methods described in American Petroleum Institute Bulletin
2517, “Evaporation Loss from Floating Roof Tanks,” 1962.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 30, 1995
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 19’79 44 FR 54047
1st Revision: MAR 9, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
2nd Revision: JAN 3, 1991 OCT 13, 1992 57 FR 46780
APR03, 1991 OCT13, 1992 57FR46780
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(cc) Bulk Gasoline Termij a 5 ;
1. No p n maY load gasoline into any tank trucks or trailers from any bulk gasoline terminal unless:
(i) The bulk gasoline terminal is equipped with vapor control equipment capable of complying with
subparagraph 1 .(v) of this paragraph 1., properly installed, in good working order, in operation,
and Consisting of one of the following:
(I) An absorber or condensation equipment which processes and recovers at least 90 percent
of all vapors and gases from the equipment being controlled; or
(II) Vapor collection equipment which directs all vapors to a fuel gas system; or
(ifi) Control equipment demonstrated to have control efficiency equivalent to or greater than
required in (I) or (II) of this paragraph, and approved by the Director; and
(ii) All displaced vapors and gases are vented only to the vapor control equipment; and
(iii) Complete drainage of any loading arm will be accomplished before it is removed from the tank;
and
(iv) All loading and vapor lines are equipped with fittings which make vapor-tight connections and
which close automatically when disconnected, or a loading arm with vapor return line and hatch
seal designed to prevent the escape of gases and vapors while loading;
(v) Sources and persons affected under this subsection may not allow mass emissions of volatile
organic compounds from control equipment to exceed 4.7 grains per gallon of gasoline loaded.
2. Sources and persons affected under this subsection shall comply with the vapor collection and control
system requirements of Rule 391-3-l-.02(2)(ss).
3. Tl e requirements of this subsection shall not apply to loading of gasoline into tank trucks or trailers
of less than 3000 gallons capacity outside those counties of Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKaIb, Douglas,
Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Paulding, and Rockdale.
4. The requirements of this subsection shall apply to loading of gasoline into tank trucks or trailers of
less than 3000 gallons capacity inside those counties of Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas,
Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Paulding, and rockdale after July 1, 1991.
5. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions apply:
(1) Bulk Gasoline Terminal means a gasoline storage facility which receives gasoline from
refineries primarily by pipeline, ship, or barge, and delivers gasoline to bulk gasoline plants or
to commercial or retail accounts primarily by tank truck and has an average daily throughput
of more than 20,000 gallons of gasoline.
(ii) NGasolineu means a petroleum distillate having a Reid vapor pressure of 4 psia or greater.
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üs IS THE FEDERALL jj OVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 30, 1995 —
Date Submgt j
to EPA
Date Approved
by EPA
Original Reg:
1st Revision:
2nd Revision:
JAN 17, 1979
MAR 9, 1979
JAN 3, 1991
APR03, 1991
SEPT 18, 1979
SEPT 18, 1979
OCT 13, 1992
OCT 13, 1992
44 FR 54047
44 FR 54047
57 FR 46780
57 FR 46780
Federal
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(dd) Cutback Asphalt:
1. After January 1, 1981, no person may cause, allow or permit the use of cutback asphalts for paving
purposes except as necessary for:
(i) long-life stockpile storage; or
(ii) the use or application at ambient temperatures less than 50 degrees F; or
(iii) solely as a penetrating prime coat; or
(iv) base stabilization.
2. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions shall apply:
(i) ‘Asphalt’ means a dark-brown to black cementitious material (solid, semisolid, or liquid in
consistency) in which the predominating constituents are bitumens which occur in nature as such
or which are obtained as residue in refining petroleum;
(ii) ‘Cutback Asphalt” means asphalt cement which has been liquefied by blending with petroleum
solvents (diluents). Upon exposure to atmospheric conditions the diluents evaporate, leaving
the asphalt cement to perform its function;
(iii) ‘Penetrating Prime Coat” means an application of low viscosity liquid asphalt to an absorbent
surface. It is used to prepare as untreated base for an asphalt surface. The prime penetrates
the base and plugs the voids, hardens the top, and helps bind it to the overlying asphalt course.
It also reduces the necessity of maintaining an untreated base course prior to placing the asphalt
pavement.
THIS IS ThE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF SEFF 18, 1979
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 17, 1979 SEFF 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
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(ee) Petroleum Refinery:
1. Persons responsible for any vacuum producing system at a petroleum refinery shall control the
emissions of any noncondensable volatile organic compound from the condensers, hot wells or
accumulators by:
(i) Piping the noncondensable vapors to a firebox or incinerator; or
(ii) Compressing the vapors and adding them to the refinery fuel gas; or
(iii) Controlling the vapors by using control equipment demonstrated to have control efficiency
equivalent to or greater than required in (i) or (ii) of this paragraph, and approved by the
Director.
2. Persons responsible for any wastewater (oil/water) separator at a petroleum refinery shall:
(i) Provide covers and seals approved by the Director, on all separators and forebays; and
(ii) Equip all openings in covers, separators, and forebays with lids or seals such that the lids or
seals are in the closed position at all times except when in actual use.
3. Before January 1, 1980 the owner or operator of any affected petroleum refinery located in this State
shall develop and submit to the Director for approval a detailed procedure for minimization of volatile
organic compound emissions during process unit turnaround. As a minimum, the procedure shall
provide for:
(i) Depressurization venting of the process unit or vessel to a vapor recovery system, flare or
firebox; and
(ii) No emission of volatile organic compounds from a process unit or vessel unless its internal
pressure is 19.7 psi or less.
4. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions shall apply:
(i) “Accumulator” means the reservoir of a condensing unit receiving the condensate from the
condenser;
(ii) “Condenser” means any heat transfer device used to liquefy vapors by removing their latent
heats of vaporization. Such devices include, but are not limited to, shell and tube, coil,
surface, or contact condensers;
(iii) “Firebox” means the chamber or compartment of a boiler or furnace in which materials are
burned but does not mean the combustion chamber of an incinerator;
(iv) “Forebays” means the primary sections of a wastewater separator;
(v) “Hot Well” means the reservoir of a condensing unit receiving the warm condensate from the
condenser;
(vi) “Petroleum Refinery” means any facility engaged in producing gasoline, kerosene, distillate fuel
oils, residual fuel oils, lubricants, or other products through distillation, cracking, extraction,
or refining of unfinished petroleum deriv ives;
(vii) “Refinery Fuel Gas” means any gas which is generated by a petroleum refinery process unit and
which is combusted, including any gaseous mixture of natural gas and fuel gas;
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(viii) “Turnaround” means the procedure of shutting a refinery wilt down after a run to do necessary
maintenance and repair work and putting the unit back on stream;
(ix) “Vacuum Producing System” means any reciprocating, rotary, or centrifugal blower or
compressor, or any jet ejector or device that takes suction from a pressure below atmospheric
and discharges against atmospheric pressure;
(x) “Vapor Recovery System” means a system that prevents releases to the atmospheric of no less
than 90 percent by weight of organic compounds emitted during the operation of any transfer,
storage, or process equipment;
(xi) “Wastewater (oil/water) Separator” means any device or piece of equipment which utilizes the
difference in density between oil and water to remove oil and associated chemicals from water
or any device, such as a flocculation tank, clarifier, etc., which removes petroleum derived
compounds from wastewater.
THIS is THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 30, 1995
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
1st Revision: MAR 9, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
2nd Revision: JAN 3, 1991 OCT 13, 1992 57 FR 46780
APR03, 1991 OCT13, 1992 57FR46780
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(if) Solvent Metal Cleaning:
1. No person shall cause, suffer, allow or permit the operation of a cold cleaner degreaser unless the
folLowing requjreme for control of emissions of the volatile organic compounds are satisfl d:
(i) The degreaser shall be equipped with a cover to prevent the escape of volatile organic
compounds during periods of’ non-use;
(ii) The degreaser shall be equipped with a facility for draining cleaned parts before removal;
(iii) If used, the solvent spray must be a solid, fluid stream (not a fine, atomized or shower type
spray) and at a pressure which does not cause excessive splashing;
(iv) If the solvent volatility is 0.60 psi or greater measured at 100 degrees F, or if the solvent is
heated above 120 degrees F, then one of the following control devices must be used:
(I) Freeboard that gives a freeboard ratio of 0.7 or greater;
(II) Water cover (solvent must be insoluble in and heavier than water);
(ifi) Other systems of equivalent control, such as a refrigerated chiller or carbon adsorption.
(v) Waste solvent shall be stored only in covered containers and shall not be disposed of by such
a method as to allow excessive evaporation into the atmosphere.
2. No person shall cause, suffer, allow, or permit the operation of an open top vapor greaser unless the
following requirements for control of emissions of volatile organic compounds are satisfied:
(i) The degreaser shall be equipped with a cover to prevent the escape of volatile organic
compounds during periods of non-use;
(ii) The degreaser shall be equipped with one of the following control devices:
(I) Freeboard ratio greater than or equal to 0.75;
(II) Refrigerated chiller;
(III) Enclosed design (cover for door opens only when the thy part is actually entering or
exiting the degreaser);
(IV) Carbon adsorption system, with ventilation greater than 50 cfm/ft2 of air/vapor area
(when cover is open), and exhausting less than 25 ppm solvent averaged over one
complete adsorption cycle; or
(V) Control equipment demonstrated to have control efficiency equivalent to or better than any
of the above.
(iii) The degreaser shall be operated in accordance with the following procedures. Operating
instructions summarizing these procedures shall be displayed on the degreaser.
(I) Keep cover closed at all times except when processing work loads through degreaser;
(II) Minimize solvent carry-out by the following measures:
I. Rack parts to allow full drainage;
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I! Degrease the work load in the vapor zone at least 30 seconds or until condensation
Ceases;
111. Tip out any pools of solvent on the cleaned parts before removal;
IV. Allow parts to dry within the degreaser for at least 15 seconds or until visually dry.
(III) Do not degrease porous or adsorbent materials, such as cloth, leather, wood or rope;
(IV) Work loads should not occupy more than half of the greaser’s open top area;
(V) The vapor level should not drop more than 4 inches when the work load enters the vapor
zone;
(VI) Never spray the vapor level;
(VII) Repair solvent leaks immediately, or shutdown the degreaser.
(Vifi) Ventilation fans should not be used near the degreaser opening;
(IX) Water should not be visually detectable in solvent exiting the water separator.
..(iv) Waste solvent shall be stored only in covered containers and shall not be disposed of or
transferred to another party by such a method as to allow excessive evaporation into the
atmosphere.
3. No person shall cause, suffer, allow, or permit the operation of a conveyorized degreaser unless the
following requirements for control of emissions of the volatile organic compounds are satisfied.
(i) The degreaser shall be equipped with a cover to prevent the escape of volatile organic
compounds during periods of non-use;
(ii) The degreaser shall be equipped with either a drying tunnel, or other means such as rotating
(tumbling) basket, sufficient to prevent cleaned parts from carrying out solvent liquid or vapor;
(iii) The degreaser shall be equipped with one of the following:
(I) Refrigerated chiller;
(II) Carbon adsorption system, with ventilation greater than 50 cfm ft 2 of air/vapor area (when
down-time covers are open), and exhausting less than 25 ppm of solvent by volume
averaged over a complete adsorption cycle; or
(111) Control equipment demonstrated to have control efficiency equivalent to or better than any
of the above.
(iv) The degreaser shall be operated in accordance with the following procedure. Operating
instructions summarizing these procedures shall be displayed on the degreaser.
(1) Exhaust ventilation should not exceed 65 cfm per ft 2 of degseaser opening, unless
necessary to meet OSHA requirements. Work place and should not be used near the
degreaser opening;
(II) Minimize carry-out emissions by:
I. Racking parts for best drainage;
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U. Maintaining vertiCal conveyer speed at less than 11 ftfmin.
(ifi) Repair solvent leaks immediately, or shutdown the degreaser
(IV) Water should not visibly be detectable in the solvent exiting the water separator;
(V) Down-time cover must be placed over entrances and exits of conveyorized degreasers
immediately after the conveyer and exhaust are shutdown and removed just before they
are started up.
(v) Waste solvent shall be stored only in covered containers and shall not be disposed of or
transferred to another party by such a method as to allow excessive evaporation into the
atmosphere.
4. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions shall apply:
(i) “Cold Cleaning” means the batch process of cleaning and removing soils from metal surfaces
by spraying, brushing, flushing or immersion while maintaining the solvent below its boiling
point. Wipe cleaning is not included in this definition;
(ii) “Conveyorized Degreasing” means the continuous process of cleaning and removing soils from
metal surfaces by operating with either cold or vaporized solvents;
(iii) “Freeboard Height” means the distance from the top of vapor zone to the top of the degreaser
tank;
(iv) “Freeboard Ratio” means the freeboard height divided by the width (smallest dimension) of the
degreaser;
(v) “Open Top Vapor Degreasing” means the batch process of cleaning and removing soils from
metal surfaces by condensing hot solvent vapor on the colder metal parts;
(vi) “Solvent Metal Cleaning” means the process of cleaning soils from metal surfaces by cold
cleaning or open top vapor degreasing or conveyorized degreasing.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 30, 1995
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: IAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
1st Revision: MAR 9, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
2nd Revision: JAN 3, 1991 OCT 13, 1992 57 FR 46780
APRO3, 199 1 OCr13,1992 57FR46780
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(gg) Kraft Pulp Mills:
I. ExCept as provided for in paragraph 2. of this subsection, no person shall cause, let, suffer, permit
or allow the emissions of TRS from any kraft pulp mill in operation, or under construction contract,
on or before September 24, 1976, in amounts equal to or exceeding the following:
(i) Recovery Furnaces:
(I) Old Recovery Furnaces: 20 parts per million of TRS on a dry basis and as a 24-hour
average, corrected to 8 volume percent oxygen; or
(II) New Recovery Furnaces: 5 parts per million of TRS on a dry basis and as a 24-hour
average, corrected to 8 volume percent oxygen; or
(Ill) Cross Recovery Furnaces: 25 parts per million of TRS on a dry basis and as a 24-hour
average, corrected to 8 volume percent oxygen.
(ii) Digester System or Multiple-Effect Evaporator System” 5 parts per million of TRS on a dry
basis and a 24-hour average, corrected to 10 volume percent oxygen unless the following
conditions are met:
(I) The gases are combusted in a lime kiLn subject to the provisions of paragraph (iv) of this
subsection; or
(II) The gases are combusted in a recovery furnace subject to the provisions of paragraph (1)
of this subsection; or
( III) The gases are combusted with other gases in an incinerator or other device, or combusted
in a lime kiln or recovery boiler not subject to the provisions of this subsection, and are
subjected to a minimum temperature of 1200 degrees F for at least 0.5 second; or
( IV) The gases are controlled by a means other than combustion. In this case, the gases
discharged shall not contain TRS in excess of 5 parts per million on a dry basis and as
a 24-hour average, corrected to the actual oxygen content of the untreated gas stream.
(iii) Smelt Dissolving Tanks: 0.0168 pounds of TRS per ton of black liquor solids (dry weight).
(iv) Lime Kilns: 40 parts per million of TRS on a dry basis and as a 24-hour average, corrected to
10 volume percent oxygen.
2. Nothing in paragraph 1. shall prevent the owner or operator of a kraft pulp mill subject to the
provisions of this subsection (gg) from applying to the Director for permission to control TRS
emissions from the kraft pulp mill under the provisions of this subparagraph provided that:
(i) General Provisions:
(I) The owner or operator of such kraft pulp mill make such application in writing no later
than six months following the notification date; and
(II) In the event that the kiaft pulp mill contains TRS emitting process equipment which is
subject to the New Source Performance Standard for Kraft Pulp Mills,
391-3-l-.02(2)(b)23., then that TRS emitting process equipment must also comply with
the applicable New Source Performance Standard TRS emission limitation(s);
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(III) The owner or operator of such kraft pulp mill may not elect to control TRS emissions
from PrOCeSS equipment not subject to the provisions of this subsection (gg) in lieu of
Controlling TRS emissions from those sources subject to this subsection (gg); and
(IV) For the purpose of this paragraph 2.; the maximum allowable emissions of ‘IRS shall be
Calculated using the production rate (annual average or most recent 12 months of record)
for the kraft pulp mill expressed as tons of air dried pulp per day, and the allowable
emission rate of TRS from the kraft pulp mill shall be expressed as pounds of TRS per
ton of air dried pulp.
(V) For the purpose of this paragraph. ‘notification date’ means September 12, 1988, or the
date on which the US EPA grants final approval of the TRS compliance schedules of this
paragraph 9., whichever is later.
(ii) Emission Umitation: No person shall cause, let, suffer, permit, or allow the total emissions of
TRS from the following processes: recovery furnace(s), lime kiln(s), smelt dissolving tank(s).
digester system, multiple-effect evaporator system, equal to or exceeding the amount determined
by the following formula:
A RB + LK + 0.065 pounds of TRS per ton of air dried pulp;
The values for the terms RB and LK shall be determined using the following formula:
LK = (0.20U + 0.04V)/U + V
RB = (0.15W + 0.15X + 0.60Y + O.75Z)/W + X + Y + Z
Where:
A = the total amount of allowable TRS emissions from the kraft pulp mill expressed as
pounds as TRS per ton of air dried pulp.
LK = the fraction of the total allowable emission of ‘I RS in
RB = the fraction of the total allowable emission of TRS in pounds per ton of air dried
pulp for recovery furnaces;
U = tons per hour of lime mud solids calcined in lime kiln(s) not subject to the New
Source Performance Standard for Kraft Pulp Mills;
V = tons per hour of lime solids calcined in lime kiln(s) not subject to the New Source
Performance Standard for Kraft Pulp Mills;
W = pounds per hour of black liquor solids burned in recovery furnace(s) subject to the
New Source Performance Standard for Kraft Pulp Mills;
X = pounds per hour of black liquor solids burned in new recovery furnace(s);
Y = pounds per hour of black liquor solids burned in old recovery furnace(s);
Z = pounds per hour of black liquor solids burned in cross recovery furnace(s);
3. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions shall apply:
(i) ‘New Recovery Furnace’ means a recovery furnace which had stated in the purchase contract
a TRS performance guarantee or which included in the purchase contract a statement that the
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contiot of air pollutants was a design objective and which has incorporated into its design:
membrane wall or welded wall construction; and emission--control air systems.
(ii) “Old Recovery Furnace” means a recovery furnace which is not classified as a new recovery
furnace.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF SEPT 30, 1988
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
• Original Reg: APR 14, 1980 JULY 8, 1983 48 FR 50869
1st Revision: JAN 8, 1982 JULY 8, 1983 48 FR 50869
2nd Revision: JUNE 3, 1988 SEPT 30, 1988 53 FR 38290
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(hh) Petroleum Refinery Equipment Leaks:
1. No person shall cause, let, suffer, or allow the use of petroleum refinery equipment unless:
( ) A plan is sub nitted to the Di ctor by no later than July 1, 1981 for monitoring VOC leaks.
Such a program must contain:
(I) A list of refinery units and the quarter in which they will be monitored;
(Ii) A copy of the log book format;
(111) The make and model of the monitoring equipment to be used.
(ii) Monitoring for potential VOC leaks is carried out no less frequently than:
(I) Yearly using detection equipment for pump seals, pipeline valves in liquid service, and
process drains;
(II) Quarterly using detection equipment for compressor seals, pipeline valves in gaseous
service, and pressure relief valves in gaseous service;
(ifi) Weekly by visible inspection for all pump seals;
(IV) Immediately using detection equipment for any pump seals from which liquids are
observed dripping and immediately after repair of any component previously found to be
leaking;
(V) Within 24 hours for a relief valve after it has vented to the atmosphere.
(iii) All components which have emissions with a VOC concentration exceeding 10,000 ppm, as
determined by Method 21 of the reference in Section 391-3-1-.02(3)(a) of these Rules, shall be
affixed with a weatherproof and readily visible tag, bearing an identification number and the
date on which the leak is located. This tag shall remain in place until the leaking component
is repaired.
(iv) Leaking components as defined by (iii) above which can be repaired without a unit shutdown
shall be repaired and retested as soon as practicable but no later than 15 days after the leak is
identified.
(v) Leaking components as defined by (iii) above which require unit shutdown for repair may be
corrected at the regularly scheduled turnaround unless the Director at his discretion requires
early unit turnaround based on the number and severity of tagged leaks awaiting turnaround.
(vi) Except for safety pressure relief valves, no owner or operator of a petroleum refinery shall
install or operate a valve at the end of a pipe or line containing volatile organic compounds
unless the pipe or line is sealed with a second valve, a blind flange, a plug, or a cap. The
sealing device may be removed only when a sample is being taken or during maintenance
operations.
(vii) Pipeline valves and pressure relief valves in gaseous volatile organic compound service shall
be marked in some manner that will be readily obvious to both refinery personnel performing
monitoring and the Director.
(viii) Pressure relief devices which are connected to an operation flare header, vapor recovery device,
inaccessible valves, storage tank valves, and valves that are not externally regulated are exempt
from the monitoring requirements of this role.
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2. The owner or operator of a petroleum refinery shall maintain a ieaking components monitoring log.
Copies of the moii ing Log shall be retained by the owner or operator for a minimum of two years
after the date on which the record was macfe or the report repaired and shall immediately be made
available to the Director, upon verbal or written request, at any reasonable time. The monitoring log
shall contain the following data:
(i) The name nad the process unit where the component is located.
(ii) The type of component (e.g., valve, seal).
(iii) The tag number of the component.
(iv) The date on which a leaking component is discovered.
(v) The date on which a leaking component is repaired.
(vi) The date and instrument reading of the recheck procedure after a leaking component is repaired.
(vii) A record of the calibration of the monitoring instrument.
(viii) Those leaks that cannot be repaired until turnaround.
(ix) The total number of components checked and the total number of components found leaking.
3. The owner or operator of a petroleum refinery shall:
(i) Submit a report to the Director by the fifteenth day of January, April, July, and October that
lists all leaking components that were located during the previous three calendar months but not
repaired within fifteen days, all leaking components awaiting unit turnaround, the total number
of components inspected, and the total number of components found leaking.
(ii) Submit a signed statement with the report attesting to the fact that all monitoring and repairs
were performed as stipulated in the monitoring program.
(iii) The first quarterly report shall be submitted to the Director no later than Januaiy 1, 1982.
4. The Director, upon written notice, may modify the monitoring, record keeping and reporting
requirements.
5. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions apply:
(1) “Petroleum refinery” means any facility engaged in producing gasoline, aromatics, kerosene,
distillate fuel oils, residual fuel oils, lubricants, asphalt, or other products through distillation
of petroleum or through redistillation, cracking, rearrangement or reforming of unfinished
petroleum derivatives.
(ii) “Component” means any piece of equipment which has the potential to leak volatile organic
compounds when tested in the manner described in subparagraph 1.(üi). These sources include,
but are not limited to, pumping seals, compressor seals, seal oil degassing vents, pipeline
valves, pressure relief devices, process drains, and open ended pipes. Excluded from these
sources are valves which are not externally regulated.
(iii) “Liquid service” means equipment which processes, transfers or contains a volatile organic
compound or mixture of volatile organic compounds in the liquid phase.
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(iv) “Gas Service ’ means equipment which pmcesse , transfers or contains a volatile organic
compound or mixture of volatile organic compounds in the gaseous phase.
(v) Waives not externally regulated” means valves that have no external controls, such as in-line
check ValVes.
(vi) “Refineiy unitu means a set of compounds which are a part of a basic process operation, such
as, distillation, hydrotreating, cracking or reforming of hydrocarbons.
THIS ES THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF FEB 07, 1996
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: DEC 18, 1980 NOV 24, 1981 46 FR 57486
1st Revision: JUN 24, 1994 FEB 02, 1996 61 FR 3817
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(ii) VOC Emissions from Surface Coating of Miscellaneous Metal Parts and Products:
1. No person shall cause, let, permits suffer, or allow the emissions of voc from surface coating of
miscellaneous P Xt5 and products to exceed:
(i) 4.3 pounds per gallon of coating, excluding water, delivered to a coating applicator that applies
clear coatings;
(ii) 3.5 pounds per gallon of coating, excluding water, delivered to a coating applicator in a coating
application system that is air dried or forced warm air dried at temperatures up to 194 degrees
F;
(iii) 3.5 pounds per gallon of coating, excluding water, delivered to a coating applicator for all other
coatings and coating application systems.
2. If more than one emission limitation in this subsection applies to a specific coating, then the least
stringent emission limitation shall be applied.
3. All VOC emissions from solvent washings shall be considered in the emission limitations unless the
solvent is directed into containers that prevent evaporation into the atmosphere.
4. The emission limits in this subsection shall be achieved by:
(i) The application of low solvent content coating technology (compliance may be demonstrated by
averaging on a 24-hour weighted basis all VOC emissions from a single surface coating of
miscellaneous metal parts and products line or operation not complying under (ii) or (iii) of this
paragraph; averaging across lines is not allowed); or
(ii) Incineration, with a capture system approved by the Director, provided that 90 percent of the
nonmethane volatile organic compounds (VOC measured as total combustible carbon) which
enter the incinerator are oxidized to carbon dioxide and water; or
(iii) Control equipment demonstrated to have control efficiency equivalent to or greater or VOC
emissions equal to or less than required in (i) or (ii) of this paragraph, and approved by the
Director.
5. For the purpose of this subsection the following definitions apply:
(1) “Single coat” means one film of coating applied to a metal surface;
(ii) “Prime coat’ ns the first of two or more films of coating applied to a metal surface;
(iii) “Topcoat” means the final film or series of films of coating applied in a two-coat or more
operation;
(iv) “Low solvent coating” means coatings which contain less organic solvent than the conventional
coatings used by the industry. Low solvent coatings include water-borne, higher solids,
electrodeposition and powder coatings;
(v) “Heat sensitive material” means materials which cannot consistently be exposed to temperatures
greater than 200 degrees F;
(vi) “Transfer efficiency” means the weight (or volume) of coating solids adhering to the surface
being coated divided by the total weight (or volume) of coating solids delivered to the
applicator;
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(vii) “Air dried coating” means coating which are dried by the use of air or forced warm air at
temperatu up to 194 degreeS F;
(viii) “Clear coat” means a coating which lacks color and opacity or is transparent and us es the
undercoat as a r flectant base or undertone color;
(ix) “Extreme performance coatings” means coatings designed for harsh exposure of extreme
environmental conditions;
(x) “Coating application systems” means all operations and equipment which applies, conveys, and
dries a surface coating, including, but not limited to spray booths, flow coaters, flashoff areas,
air dryers and ovens; and
(xi) “Extreme environmental conditions” means exposure to any of: the weather all of the time,
temperatures consistently above 200 degrees F, detergents, abrasive and scouring agents,
solvents, corrosive atmospheres, or similar environmental conditions.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 30, 1995
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: DEC 18, 1980 NOV 24, 1981 46 FR 57486
1st Revision: JAN 3, 1991 OC ’l’ 13, 1992 57 FR 46780
APR03, 1991 OCT13, 1992 57FR46780
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(jj) VOC Emissions from Surface Coating of Flat Wood Paneling:
1. No person shall cause, let, permit, suffer,or allow the emissions of VOC from surface coating of flat
wood paneling to exceed:
(1) 6.0 pounds per 1000 square feet of coated finished iroduct from printed interior panels,
regardless of the number of coats applied;
(ii) 12.0 pounds per 1000 square feet of coated finished product from natural finish hardwood
plywood panels, regardless of the number of coats applied; and
(iii) 10.0 pounds per 1000 square feet of coated finished product from Class H finishes on hardboard
panels, regardless of the number of coats applied.
2. The emission limits in this subsection shall be achieved by;
(I) The application of low solvent content coating technology (compliance may be demonstrated by
averaging on a 24-hour weighted basis all VOC emissions from a single surface coating of flat
wood paneling line or operation not complying under (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph; averaging
across lines is not allowed); or
(ii) Incineration, with a capture system approved by the Director, provided that 90 percent of the
nonmethane volatile organic compounds (VOC measured as total combustible carbon) which
enter the incinerator are oxidized to carbon dioxide and water; or
(iii) Control equipment demonstrated to have control efficiency equivalent to or greater or VOC
emissions equal to or less than required in (i) or (ii) of this paragraph, and approved by the
Director.
3. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions also apply:
(i) “Class II hardboard paneling finish” means finishes which meet the specifications of Voluntary
Product Standard PS-59-73 as approved by the American National Standards Institute.
(ii) “Hardboard ” is a panel manufactured primarily from interfelted lignocellulosic fibers which are
consolidated under heat and pressure in a hot press.
(iii) “Hardwood plywood” is plywood whose surface layer is a veneer of hardwood.
(iv) “Natural finish hardwood plywood panels” means panels whose original grain pattern is
pnh nced by essentially transparent finishes frequently supplemented by fillers and toners.
(v) “Thin particleboard” is a manufactured board 1/4 inch or less in thickness made of individual
wood paiticles which have been coated with a binder and formed into flat sheets by pressure.
(vi) “Printed interior panels” means panels whose grain or natural surface is obscured by fillers and
basecoats upon which a simulated grain or decorative pattern is printed.
(vii) “lileboard” means paneling that has a colored waterproof surface coating.
(viii) “Coating application system” means all operations and equipment which apply, convey, and dry
a surface coating, including, but not limited to, spray booths, flow coaters, conveyers, flashoff
areas, air dryers and ovens.
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jI 1 is ThE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 30, 1995
Date Submjtte j Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: DEC 18, 1980 NOV 24, 1981 46 FR 57486
1st Revision: JAN 3, 1991 OCT 13, 1992 57 FR 46780
APR 03, 1991 OCT 13, 1992 57 FR 46780
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(kk) VOC Emissions from Synthesized Pharmaceutical Manufa g:
1. The owner or operator of a synthesized pharmaceutical manufacturing facility shall:
(i) Control the volatile organic compound emissions from all reactors, distillation operations,
crystallizers, centrifuges and vacuum dryers that emit 15 pounds per day or more of VOC.
Surface condensers or equivalent controls shall be used, provided that:
(I) If surface condensers are used, the condenser outlet gas temperature must not exceed:
1. -13 degrees F when condensing VOC of vapor pressure greater than 5.8 psi,
measured at 68 degrees F;
II. 5 degrees F when condensing VOC of vapor pressure greater than 2.9 psi, measured
at 68 degrees F;
III. 32 degrees F when condensing VOC of vapor pressure greater than 1.5 psi,
measured at 68 degrees F;
IV. 50 degrees F when condensing VOC of vapor pressure greater than 1.0 psi,
measured at 68 degrees F;
V. 77 degrees F when condensing VOC of vapor pressure greater than 0.5 psi,
measured at 68 degrees F.
(U) If equivalent controls are used, the VOC emissions must be reduced by at least as much
as they wouLd be using a surface condenser which meets the requirements of part (1) of
this subparagraph.
(ii) The owner or operator of a synthesized pharmaceutical manufacturing facility subject to this
regulation shall reduce the VOC emissions from all air dryers and production equipment exhaust
systems;
(I) By at least 90 percent if emissions are 330 pounds per day or more of VOC: or
(II) 33 pounds per day or less if emissions are less than 330 pounds per day of VOC:
(III) The owner or operator of a synthesized pharmaceutical manufacturing facility subject to
this regulation shall:
I. Provide a vapor balance system or equivalent control that is at least 90.0 percent
effective in reducing emissions from truck or railcar deliveries to storage tanks with
capacities greater than 2,000 gallons that store VOC with vapor pressure greater than
4.1 psi at 68 degrees F; and
H. Install pressure/vacuum conservative vents set on all storage tanks that store VOC
with vapor pressures greater than 1.5 psi at 68 degrees F unless a more effective
control system is used.
(iii) The owner or operator of a synthesized pharmaceutical facility subject to this regulation shall
include all centrifuges, rotary vacuum filters, and other filters having an exposed liquid surface,
where the liquid contains VOC and exerts a total VOC vapor pressure of 0.5 psi or more at 68
degrees F.
(iv) The owner or operator of a synthesized pharmaceutical facility subject to this regulation shall
install covers on all in-process tanks containing a volatile organic compound at any time. These
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covers must remain closed, unless production, sampling, maintenance, or inspection procedures
require Operator access.
(v) The Owner or operator of a synthesized pharmaceutical manufacturing facility subject to this
regulation shall repair all leaks from which liquid, containing VOC, can be observed running
or dripping. The repair shall be completed the first time the equipment is off-line for a period
of time long enough to complete the repair.
2. For the purpose of this regulation, the following definitions also apply:
(i) “Condenser’ means a device which cools a gas stream to a temperature which removes specific
organic compounds by condensation;
(ii) ‘Control system” means any number of control devices, including condensers, which are
designed and operated to reduce the quantity of VOC emitted to the atmosphere;
(iii) “Reactor” means a vat or vessel, which may be jacketed to permit temperature control, designed
to contain chemical reactions;
(iv) “Separation operation” means a process that separates a mixture of compounds and solvents into
two or more components. Specific mechanisms include extraction, centrifugation, filtration, and
ciystallization;
(v) “Synthesized pharmaceutical manufacturing” means manufacture of pharmaceutical products by
chemical synthesis.
(vi) “Production equipment exhaust system” means a device for collecting and directing out of the
work area VOC fugitive emissions from reactor openings, Ct:. ifugc openings, and other vessel
openings for the purpose of protecting workers from excessive VOC exposure.
TI-US IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF NOV 24, 1981
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: DEC 18, 1980 NOV 24, 1981 46 FR 57486
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(11) VOC Emissions from the Manufacture of Pneumatic Rubber Tires:
1. The owner or Operator of an undertread cementing, tread end cementing, or bead dipping operation
subject to this regulation shall:
(I) Install and operate a capture system, designed to achieve maximum reasonable capture from all
undertread cementing, tread end cementing and bead dipping operation; and install and operate
a control device that effects at least a 90.0 percent reduction efficiency, measured across the
control system, and has been approved by the Director;
(ii) The owner or operator of an undertread cementing operation, tread and cementing operation or
bead dipping operation may, in lieu of a vapor capture and control system for those operations,
make process changes which reduces emissions to a level equal to or below that which would
be achieved with emission controls as specified in subparagraph (1) above.
2. The owner or operator of a green tire spraying operation subject to this regulation shall:
(i) Substitute water-based sprays for the normal solvent based mold release compound; or
(ii) Comply with paragraph 1. of this regulation.
3. if the total volatile organic compound emissions from all undertreading cementing, tread end
cementing, bead dipping and green tire spraying operations at a pneumatic rubber tire manufacturing
facility do not exceed 57 grains per tire, paragraphs 1. and 2. above shall not apply.
4. For the purpose of this subsection the following definitions also apply:
(i) “Pneumatic rubber tire manufacturer’ means the undertread cementing, tread end cementing,
bead dipping, and green tire spraying associated with the production of pneumatic rubber,
passenger type tires on a mass production basis.
(ii) “Passenger type tire’ means agricultural, airplane, industrial, mobile home, light and medium
duty truck, and passenger vehicle tires with a bead diameter up to but excluding 20.0 inches and
cross section dimension up to 12.8 inches.
(iii) ‘Undertread cementing’ means the application of a solvent based cement to the underside of a
tire tread.
(iv) “Bead dipping’ means the dipping of an assembled tire bead into a solvent based cement.
(v) ‘Tread end cementing’ means the application of a solvent based cement to the tire tread ends.
(vi) ‘Green tires’ means assembled tires before molding and curing have occurred.
(vii) ‘Green tire spraying’ means the spraying of green tires, both inside and outside, with release
compounds which help remove air from the tire during molding and prevent the tire from
sticking to the mold after curing.
(viii) ‘Water based spray’ means release compounds, sprayed on the inside and outside of green tires,
in which solids, water, and emulsifiers have been substituted for organic solvents.
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i iöiis THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF NOV 24, 1981
Date Submjtt j Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: DEC 18, 1980 NOV 24, 1981 46 FR 57486
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(mm) VOC Emissions from Graphic Arts Systems:
1. No person shall cause, let, pe it, suffer, or allow the operation of a packaging rotogravure,
pubhcation rotogravure or flexographiC printing facility employing solvent containing ink unless:
(i) The volatile fraction of ink, it is applied to the substrate, contains 25.0 percent by volume
or less of organic solvent and 75.0 percent by volume or more nonvolatile material or non
organic solvent (compliance may be demonstrated by averaging on a 24-hour weighted basis the
volatile fraction of all machine-ready inks used on a single packaging rotogravure, publication
rotogravure or flexographic printing line; averaging across lines is not allowed); or
(ii) The ink as it is applied to the substrate, less water, contains 60.0 percent by volume or more
nonvolatile material (compliance may be demonstrated by averaging on a 24-hour weighted basis
the non-volatile fraction of all machine ready inks, less water, used on a single packaging
rotogravure, publication rotogravure or flexographic printing line; averaging across lines is not
allowed); or
(iii) The owner or operator installs and operates volatile organic compound emission reduction
equipment approved by the Director to have at least 90.0 percent reduction efficiency, measured
across the control equipment together with an adequate capture system.
2. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions shall apply:
(i) “Packaging rotogravure printing” means rotogravure printing upon paper, paperboard, metal
foil, plastic film, and other substrates, which are, in subsequent operations, formed into
packaging products and labels for articles to be sold.
(ii) “Publishing rotogravure printing” means rotogravure printing upon paper which is subsequently
formed into books, magazines, catalogues, brochures, directories, newspaper supplements, and
other types of printed materials.
(iii) “Flexographic printing” means the application of words, designs and pictures to a substrate by
means of a roll printing technique in which the pattern to be applied is raised above the printing
roll and the image carrier is made of rubber or other elastomeric materials.
(iv) “Rotogravure printing” means the application of words, designs and pictures to a substrate by
means of a roll printing technique which involved an intaglio or recessed image areas in the
form of cells.
(v) “Roll printing” means the application of words, designs and pictures to a substrate usually by
means of a series of hard rubber or steel rolls each with only partial coverage.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 30, 1995
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: DEC 18, 1980 NOV 24, 1981 46 FR 57486
1st Revision: JAN 3, 1991 OCT 13, 1992 57 FR 46780
APR03, 1991 OCT 13, 1992 57FR46780
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(nii) VOC Emissions froni External Floating Roof Tanks:
1. No person shall cause, let, permit suffer, or allow the storage of petroleum liquids in external
floating roof tanks having capacities greater than 40,000 gallons unless:
(i) The vessel has been fitted with:
(1) A continuous secondary seal extending from the floating roof to the tank wall
(rim-mounted secondary seal); or
(11) A closure or other device which controls VOC emissions wi an effectiveness equal to or
greater than a seal required under part (a) 1 .(i) of this section and approved by the
Director.
(ii) All seal closure devices meet the following requirements:
(I) There are no visible holes, tears, or other openings in the seal(s) or seal fabric;
(LI) The seal(s) are intact and uniformly in place around the circumference of the floating roof
between the floating roof and the tank wall; and
(ifi) For vapor mounted primary seals, the accumulated area of gaps exceeding 1/8 inch in
width between the secondary seal and the tank wall shall not exceed 1.0 inch 2 per foot
of tank diameter.
(iii) All openings in the external floating roof, except for automatic bleeder vents, rim space vents,
and leg sleeves are:
(I) Equipped with covers, seals, or lids in the closed position except when the openings are
in actual use; and
(II) Equipped with projections into the tank which remain below the liquid surface at all
times.
(iv) Automatic bleeder vents are closed at all times except when the roof is floated off or landed on
the roof leg supports;
(v) Rim vents aie set to open when the roof is being floated off leg supports or at the
manufacturer’s recommended setting; and
(vi) Emergency roof drains are provided with slotted membrane fabric covers or equivalent covers
which cover at least 90 percent of the opening.
2. The owner or operator of a petroleum liquid storage vessel with an external floating roof subject to
this regulation shall:
(i) Perform routine inspections semi-annually in order to insure compliance with paragraph 1. of
this subsection and the inspections shall include a visual inspection of the secondary seal gap;
(ii) Measure the secondary seal gap annually when the floating roof is equipped with a
vapor-mounted primary seal; and
(iii) Maintain records of the types of volatile petroleum liquids stored, the maximum true vapor
pressure of the liquid as stored, and the results of the inspections performed in subparagraphs
2.(i) and (ii).
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3. Copies ? I1 records under paragraph 2. of this subsection shall be retained by the owner or operator
for a minimum of two years after the date on which the record was made.
4. Copies of all records under this section shall immediately be made available to the Director, upon
verbal or written request, at any reasonable time.
5. The Director may, upon written notice, require more frequent inspections or modify the monitoring
and record keeping requirements, when necessary to accomplish the purposes of this regulation.
6. The regulation does not apply to petroleum liquid storage vessels which:
(I) Are used to store waxy, heavy pour crude oil;
(ii) Have capacities less than 420,000 gallons and arc used to store produced crude oil and
condensate prior to lease custody transfer;
(iii) Contain a petroleum liquid with a true vapor pressure of less than 1.5 psia;
(iv) Contain a petroleum liquid with a true vapor pressure of less than 4.0 psia; and
(I) Are of welded construction; and
(II) Presently possess a metallic-type shoe seal, a liquid mounted foam seal, a liquid-mounted
liquid filled type seal, or other closure device of demonstrated equivalence approved by
the Director; or
(ifi) Are of welded construction, equipped with a metallic-type shoe primary seal and has a
secondary seal from the top of the shoe to the tank wall (shoe-mounted secondary seal).
7. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions shall apply:
(i) “Condensate” means hydrocarbon liquid separated from natural gas which condenses due to
changes in the temperature and/or pressure and rcmain liquid at standard conditions.
(ii) “Crude oil” means a naturally occurring mixture which consists of hydrocarbon and sulfur,
nitrogen and/or oxygen derivatives of hydrocarbons which is a liquid at standard conditions.
(iii) “Lease custody transfer” means the transfer of produced crude oil and/or condensate, after
processing and/or treating in the producing operations, from storage tanks or automatic transfer
facilities to pipelines or any other forms of transportation.
(iv) “External floating roof” means a storage vessel cover in an open top tank consisting of a double
deck or pontoon single deck which rests upon and is supported by the petroleum liquid being
contained and is equipped with a closure seal or seals to close the space between the roof edge
and tank wall.
(v) “Liquid-mounted seal” means a primary seal mounted in continuous contact with the liquid
between the tank wall and the floating roof around the circumference of the tank.
(vi) “Petroleum liquids” means crude oil, condensate, and any finished or intermediate products
manufactured or extracted in a petroleum refinery.
(vii) “Vapor-mounted seal” means a primary seal mounted so there is an annular vapor space
underneath the seal. The annular vapor space is bounded by the bottom of the primary seal,
the tank wall, the liquid surface, and the floating roof.
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(viii) “Waxy, heavy pour crude oil” means a crude oil with a pour 1 ,oint of SO degrees F or higher
as detenr jn j by the American Society for Testing and Materials Standards D97-66, Test for
Pour Point of Petroleum Oils.”
This is ThE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF NOV 24, 1981
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: DEC 18, 1980 NOV 24, 1981 46 FR 57486
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(oo) Fiberglass Insulatjo Manufacturing Plants:
1. No person shall cause, let, suffer, permit, or allow the emission of particulate matter from any
fiberglass insulation production line to exceed a concentration of 0.04 grains per standard dry cubic
foot.
2. For the purpose of this subsection, “Fiberglass insulation production line” means any combination of
equipment, devices or contrivances for the manufacture of fiberglass insulation. This does not include
glass melting furnaces, equipment associated with the process which is defined herein a “Fuel-burning
Equipment,” equipment the primaiy purpose of which involves the handling, storing or packaging of
the fiberglass insulation or equipment the primary purpose of which involves the handling, storing or
conveying of raw products for input into the glass melting furnace.
ThIs IS ThE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF NOV 24, 1981
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: DEC 18, 1980 NOV 24, 1981 46 FR 57486
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(pp) Bulk Gasoline Plants:
1. After July 1, 1991, no owner or operator of a bulk gasoline plant may permit the receiving or
dispensing of gasoline by its stationary storage tanks unless:
(i) Each tank is equipp el with a submerged fill pipe, approved by the Director; or
(ii) Each tank is equipped with a fill line whose discharge opening is at the tank bottom;
(iii) Each tank has a vapor balance system consisting of the following major components:
(I) A vapor space connection on the stationasy storage tank equipped with fittings which are
S vapor tight and will automatically and immediately close upon disconnection so as to
prevent release of gasoline or gasoline vapors; and
(II) A connecting pipe or hose equipped with fittings which are vapor tight and will
automatically and immediately close upon disconnection so as to prevent release of
gasoline or gasoline vapors.
2. After July 1, 1991, no owner or operator of a bulk gasoline plant, or the owner or operator of a tank
truck or trailer may permit the transfer of gasoline between the tank truck or trailer and stationaly
storage tank unless:
(i) The vapor balance system is in good working order and is connected and operating; and
(ii) The gasoline transport vehicle is maintained to prevent the escape of fugitive vapors and gases
during loading operations; and
(iii) A means is provided to prevent liquid drainage from the loading device when it is not in use
or to accomplish complete drainage before the loading device is disconnected; and
(iv) The pressure relief valves on storage vessels and tank trucks or trailers are set to release at 0.7
psia or greater unless restricted by state or local fire codes or the National Fire Prevention
Association guidelines in which case the pressure relief valve must be set to release at the
highest possible pressure allowed by these codes or guidelines.
3. The requirements of this subsection shall not apply to stationary storage tanks of less than 2,000
gallons:
4. Sources and persons affected under this subsection shall comply with the vapor collection and control
system requirements of Rule 391-3-l-.02(2)(ss).
5. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions shall apply:
(i) ‘Bottom filling’ means the filling of a tank truck or stationary storage tank through an opening
that is located at the tank bottom.
(ii) “BuLk gasoline plant” means a gasoline storage and distribution facility with an average daily
throughput of more than 4,000 gallons but less than 20,000 gallons which receives gasoline
from bulk terminals by rail andior trailer transport, stores it in tanks, and subsequently
dispenses it via account trucks to local farms, businesses, and service stations;
(iii) “Bulk gasoline terminal’ means a gasoline storage facility which receives gasoline from
refineries primarily by pipeline, ship, or barge, and delivers gasoline to bulk gasoline plants or
to commercial or retail accounts primarily by tank truck and has an average daily throughput
of more than 20,000 gallons of gasoline.
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(iv) “Gasolitie” , eum distillate having a Reid vapor pressure of 4.0 psia or greater.
(v) “Submerged filling” means the filling of a tank truck or stationary tank through a pipe or hose
whose discharge opening is not more than six inches from the tank bottom.
(vi) “Vapor balance system” means a combination of pipes or hoses which create a closed system
between the vapor spaces of an unloading tank and a receiving tank such that vapor spaces
displaced from the receiving tank are transferred to the tank being unloaded.
6. The requirements contained in this subsection shall apply to all bulk gasoline plants located in those
counties of Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKaib, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Paulding
and Rockdale.
7. For the purposes of this subsection “Stationary Storage Tank” means all underground vessels and any
aboveground vessels never intended for mobile use.
mis is THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 30, 1995
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 3, 1991 OCT 13, 1992 57 FR 46780
APR03, 1991 OCT 13, 1992 57 FR 46780
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(qq) VOC Emissions from Large Petroleum Dry Cleaners:
1. No person shall cause, let, permit, suffer, or allow the emissions of VOC from a large petroleum dry
cleaner facility to exceed 3.5 pounds per 100 pounds dry weight of articles dry cleaned.
2. The VOC content in all filtration waste shall be reduced to one pound or less per hundred pounds dry
weight of articles dry cleaned before disposal and exposure to the atmosphere from a petroleum
solvent filtration system; or
3. Install and operate a cartridge filtration system and drain the filter cartridges in the sealed housing for
eight hours or more before their removal.
4. Each owner or operator of a large petroleum dry cleaner shall inspect all equipment for leaks every
15 days and repair all petroleum solvent vapor and liquid leaks within three working days after
identifying the source of the leaks.
5. Each owner or operator of a large petroleum dry cleaner shall maintain sufficient records to
demonstrate compliance and provide them to the Division upon request, for a period of two years.
6. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions shall apply:
(i) “Cartridge filter” means perforated canisters containing filtration paper and activated carbon that
are used in the pressurized system to remove solid particles and fugitive dyes from soil-laden
solvents.
(ii) “Large petroleum dry cleaner” means any facility engaged in the process of the cleaning of
textile and fabric products in which articles are washed in a nonaqua solution (solvent), then
dried by exposure to a heated air stream and consumes 25 tons or more of petroleum solvent
annually.
(iii) “Solvent recovery dryer” means a class of dry cleaning dryers that employs a condenser to
liquefy and recover solvent vapors evaporated in a closed loop recirculating stream of heated
air.
THIS IS ThE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 30, 1995
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 3, 1991 OCT 13, 1992 57 FR 46780
APRO3,199 1 Oc’r 13, 1992 57FR46780
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(rr) Gasoline Dispensing Facility--Stage I:
1. After the compliance date in paragraph 2. of this subsection, no person may transfer or
cause or allow the transfer of gasoline from any delivery vessel into any stationary storagp tank
subject to this subsection, unless the tank is equipped with a submerged fill pipe and the vapors
displaced from the storage tank during filling are controlled by one of the following:
(i) A vapor-tight line from the storage lank to the delivery vessel and a system that will ensure the
vapor line is connected before gasoline can be transferred into the tank; or
(ii) A refrigeration-condensation system or a carbon adsorption system is utilized and recovers at
least 90 percent by weight of the organic compounds in the displaced vapor.
2. The compliance date for gasoline dispensing facilities governed by this subsection shall be as follows:
for facilities dispensing 150,000 gallons or greater per month--April 1, 1986; for facilities dispensing
75,000 gallons to 150,000 gallons per month--June 1, 1986; for facilities dispensing 20,000 gallons
to 75,000 gallons per month--August 1, 1986; and for facilities dispensing 10,000 gallons to 20,000
gallons per month--July 1, 1991.
3. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions shall apply:
(i) “Gasoline” means a petroleum distillate having a Reid vapor pressure of 4.0 psia or greater.
(ii) “Delivery vessel” means tank trucks or trailers equipped with a storage tank and used for the
transport of gasoline from sources of supply to stationary storage tanks of gasoline dispensing
facilities.
(iii) “Submerged fill pipe” means any fill pipe with a discharge op ning which is within six inches
of the tank bottom.
(iv) ‘Gasoline dispensing facility” means any site where gasoline is dispensed to motor vehicle
gasoline tanks from stationary storage tanks.
(v) ‘Stationary storage tank” means all underground vessels and any aboveground vessels never
intended for mobile use.
4. The requirements contained in this subsection shall apply to all stationary storage tanks with capacities
of 2,000 gallons or more which were in place before January 1, 1979 and stationary storage tanks
with capacities of 250 gallons or more which were in place after December 31, 1978 located at
gasoline dispensing facilities located in those counties of Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKaib, Douglas,
Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Paulding, and Rockdale.
5. After July 1, 1991, the requirements of this subsection shall apply to all stationary storage tanks
subject to this subsection with less than 4000 gallons capacity.
6. The requirements of this subsection shall not apply to stationary storage tanks of less than 550 gallons
capacity used exclusively for the fueling of implements of husbandry, provided the tanks are equipped
with submerged fill pipes.
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TmS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED R liON AS OF AUG 30, 1995
Date Subnñtt j Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 3, 1991 OCT 13, 1992 57 FR 46780
APR03, 1991 ocT13, 1992 57FR46780
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(ss) Gasolme Transport Vehicles and Vapor Collection Systems:
1. No person shall cause, let, permit, suffer, or allow the loading or unloading of gasoline from a
gasoline transport vehicle of 4,000 gallons capacity after April 1, 1986, or from a gasoline transport
vehicle of any size capacity after July 1, 1991 unless:
(i) The tank sustains a pressure change of not more than 3 inches of water in 5 minutes when
IM SSUflZed to 18 inches of water and evacuated to 6 inches of water as tested at least once per
year in accordance with test procedures specified by the Division; and
(ii) Displays a marking on the right front (passenger) side of the tank, in characters at least 2 inches
high, which reads P/V TEST DATE and the date on which the gasoline transport tank was last
tested; and
(iii) The tank has no visible liquid leaks and no gasoline vapor leaks as measured by a combustible
gas detector; and
(iv) The owner or operator of the gasoline transport vehicle has submitted to the Division a data
sheet containing at a minimum the following information: name of person(s) or company that
conducted the test, date of test, test results including a list of any repairs made in the transport
vehicle to bring it into compliance and the Georgia license plate number of the tank truck or
trailer; and
(v) The transport vehicle has been equipped with fitting which are vapor tight and will automatically
and immediately close upon disconnection so as to prevent release of gasoline or gasoline
vapors, with a vapor return line and hatch seal designed to prevent the escape of gasoline or
gasoline vapors while loading.
2. The owner or operator of a vapor collection or control system shall:
(i) Design and operate the vapor collection and control system and the gasoline loading equipment
in a manner that prevents:
(I) Gauge pressure from exceeding 18 inches of water and vacuum from exceeding 6 inches
of water in the gasoline tank truck;
(Ii) A reading equal to or greater than 100 percent of the lower explosive limit (LEL,
measured as propane) at 1 inch from all points on the perimeter of a potential leak source
when measured (in accordance with test procedures specified by the division) during
loading or unloading operations at gasoline dispensing facilities, bulk gasoline plants and
bulk gasoline terminals;
(ifi) Avoidable visible liquid leaks during loading or unloading operations at gasoline
dispensing facilities, bulk gasoline plants and bulk gasoline terminals; and
(ii) Within 15 days, repair and retest a vapor collection or control system that exceeds the limits
in (i) above.
3. The requirements of this subsection shall apply only to those vapor collection and control systems and
transport vehicles loading or unloading gasoline in those counties of Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb,
Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Paulding, and Rockdale.
4. The Division may require a pressure/vacuum retest or leak check for any transport vehicle or vapor
collection or control system subject to this subsection.
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(I) A transport vehicle or vapor collection or control system for which the Division has required
a pressure/vacuum retest or leak check shall:
(I) Cease loading and unloading operations within fourteen (14) days of the date of the initial
retest or leak check request unless the retest or leak check has been completed to the
satisfaction to of the Division; and
(11) Provide written advance notification to the Division of the scheduled time and place of
the test in order to provide the Division an opportunity to have an observer present; and
(111) Supply a copy of the results of all such tests to the Division.
5. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions shall apply:
(i) “Combustible Gas Detector” means a portable VOC gas analyzer with a minimum range of 0-
100 percent of the LEL as propane.
(ii) “Gasoline Transport Vehicle’ means any mobile storage vessel including tank trucks and trailers
used for the transport of gasoline from sources of supply to stationary storage tanks of gasoline
dispensing facilities, bulk gasoline plants or bulk gasoline terminals.
(iii) “Gasoline Vapor Leak” means a reading of 100 percent or greater of the Lower Explosive Limit
(LEL) of gasoline when measured as propane at a distance of one inch.
(iv) “Vapor Collection System” means a vapor transport system, including any piping, hoses and
devices, which uses direct displacement by the gasoline being transferred to force vapors from
the vessel being loaded into either a vessel being unloaded or vapor control system or vapor
holding tank.
(v) “Vapor Control System” means a system, including any piping, hoses, equipment and devices,
that is designed to control the release of volatile organic compounds displaced from a vessel
during transfer of gasoline.
6. The requirements of this subsection shall apply only to those transport vehicles which load or unload
gasoline at bulk gasoline terminals, bulk gasoline plants, and gasoline dispensing facilities subject to
VOC vapor control requirements contained in other sections of this Rule.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 30, 1995
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 03, 1991 OCT 13, 1992 57 FR 46780
APR03, 1991 OCT13, 1992 57FR46780
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(uu) Visibility Protection:
1. The Director shall provide written notice of any permit application or written advance notice of a
permit application for a proposed major stationary source or major modification to an existing major
stationary source of emissions from which may have an impact on visibility in a Class I area to the
federal land manager and the federal official charged with direct responsibility for management of any
land within any such area.
2. The Director shall provide such notice within 30 days after receiving an application or written advance
notice from a source as described in paragraph 1. above. The notification of a permit application
shall include an analysis of the proposed source’s anticipated impact on visibility in any federal Class
I area and all materials in the application. In addition, the Director shall provide the Federal Land
Manager a 60-day notice of any public hearing on that permit application.
3. The Director shall consider any analysis performed and/or written comments made by the federal land
manager in any final determination regarding the issuance of the permit provided that such analysis
and/or comments are received within 30 days of having been notified by the Division. Where such
analysis does not demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Director that an adverse impact will occur, the
Director shall explain his decision and give notice of where the explanation can be obtained.
4. The provisions of this paragraph shall apply regardless of whether the proposed facility is to be
located in an attainment, unclassified or nonattainmant area.
5. The Director may require the source to monitor visibility in any Class I federal area near the proposed
new stationary source or major modification for such purposes and by such means as the Director
deems necessary and appropriate.
6. For the purpose of this paragraph, major stationary source or major modification to an existing source
shall be defined as in 40 CFR 51.24, but only for the pollutants of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide
and nitrogen oxides.
7. Prior to the issuance of any permit, the Director shall ensure that the source’s emissions will be
consistent with making reasonable progress towards the national visibility goal of preventing any
future, and remedying any existing, impairment of visibility in mandatory Class I areas which
impairment results from manmade air pollution. The Director may take into account the cost of
compliance, the time necessary for compliance, the energy and non-air quality environmental impacts
of compliance, and the useful life of the source.
8. For the purpose of this paragraph, •i n t on visibiity means visibility impairment (reductions in
visual range and atmospheric discoloration) which interferes with the management, protection,
preservation or enjoyment of the visitor’s visual experience of the federal Class I area. This
determination must be made on a case-by-case basis taking into account the geographic extent,
intensity, duration, frequency and time of visibility impairment, and must have these factors correlate
with:
(i) Times of visitor use of the federal Class I area; and
(ii) The frequency and timing of natural conditions that reduce visibility.
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THIS IS ThE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF JAN 28, 1986
Date Submitted
to EPA
Date Approved
by EPA
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Original Reg:
1st Revision:
2nd Revision:
JAN 27, 1972
DEC 16, 1975
MAY 22, 1985
OCT 31, 1985
MAY 31, 1972
AUG 20, 1976
JAN 28, 1986
JAN 28, 1986
37 FR 10842
41 FR 35184
51 FR 3466
51 FR 3466
Federal
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(ww)Perchloroethylene Dry Cleaners:
1. The owner or Operator of a percb1oroethyle e diy cleaning facility which consumes more than 3
pounds per hour or 15 pounds per day of perchioroethylene shall:
(1) vent the entire dryer exhaust through a property functioning carbon adsorption system or equally
effective control device;
(ii) emit no more than 100 ppm, of volatile organic compounds from the dryer control device before
dilution;
(iii) immediately repair all components found to be leaking liquid volatile organic compounds;
(iv) cook or treat all diatomaceous earth filters so that the residue contains 25 pounds or less of
volatile organic compounds per 100 pound of wet waste material;
(v) reduce the volatile organic compounds from all solvent stills to 60 pounds or less per 100
pounds of wet waste material;
(vi) drain alt filtration cartridges, in the filter housing, for at least 24 hours before discarding the
cartridges; and
(vii) when possible, dry all drained cartridges without emitting volatile organic compounds to the
atmosphere.
2. The provisions of subparagraphs 1.(i) and 1.(ii) are not applicable to perchioroethylene dry cleaning
facilities which are coin-operated; facilities where an absorber cannot be accommodated because of
inadequate space, or facilities with insufficient steam capacity to desorb absorbers.
3. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions shall apply:
(i) ‘Dry cleaning facility’ means a facility engaged in the cleaning of fabrics in an essentially
nonaqueous solvent by means of one or more washes in solvent, extraction of excess solvent
by spinning, and drying by tumbling in an airstream. The facility includes by is not limited to
any washer, dryer, filter and purification systems, waste disposal systems, holding tanks,
pumps, and attendant piping and valves.
4. The requirements contained this subsection shall apply to all such sources located in those counties
of Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Paulding, and
Rockdale.
5. The owner or operator subject to any requirement of this subsection shall comply with the increments
of progress contained in the following schedule:
(i) Binding contracts or purchase orders must be entered into no later than tweLve (12) months
following the notification date for the installation of emission control systems and/or the
modification of the process and/or process equipment.
(ii) On-site construction of emission control systems and/or modification of the process and/or
process equipment must begin no later than eighteen (18) months following the notification date.
(iii) On-site construction of emission control systems and/or modification of the process and/or
process equipment must be completed no later than thirty-six (36) months following the
notification date.
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(iv) Full Compliance with the applicable requirements of these Rules (Chapter 391-3-1) must be
demonstrated by approved methods and procedures no later than forty (40) months following
the notification date.
(v) For the purpose of this subparagraph, the phrase “notification date” means the date four (4)
months after the U.S. EPA grants final approval of this VOC Rule (ww).
6. The owner or operator of a dry cleaning facility subject to this subsection shall meet alL requirements
enumerated herein. So long as all requirements are satisfied, the facility shall be considered to have
an air quality permit.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 30, 1995
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 03, 1991 OCT 13, 1992 57 FR 46780
APR03, 1991 OCT13, 1992 57FR46780
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(ccc) VOC Emissions from BuLk Mixing Tanks:
1. No person shall let, permit, suffer, or allow the operation of a mixing tank unless the following
requirements for control of emissions of volatile Organic compounds are satisfied;
(i) All portable and stationary mixing tanks used for the manufacture of any VOC containing
material shall be equipped with covers which completely cover the tank except for an opening
no larger than necessary to allow for safe clearance of the mixer shaft. The tank opening shall
be covered at all times except when operator access is necessary.
(ii) Free fall of VOC containing material into product containers shall be accomplished by
utilization of drop tubes, till pipes or low-clearance equipment design on filling equipment
unless demonstrated to the Division impractical for a specific operation.
(iii) Detergents or non-VOC containing cleaners shall be utilized for both general and routine
cleaning Operations of floors, equipment, and containers unless the cleanup cannot be
accomplished without the use of VOC containing cleaners.
(iv) All waste solvents shall be stored in closed containers or vessels, unless demonstrated to be a
safety hazard, and shall be disposed or reclaimed such solvents in a manner approved by the
Division.
2. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions shall apply;
(i) “Mixing Tanks” means any vessel in which resin, coating or other materials, or any
combination thereof, are added to produce product blend.
3. The requirements of this subsection shall apply to facilities with potential emissions of volatile organic
emissions exceeding 25 tons per year, located in those counties of Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta,
DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Paulding and Rockdale.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF FEB 07, 1996
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: NOV 15, 1994 FEB 02, 1996 61 FR 3817
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(eee)VOC Emissions from Expanded Polystyrene PrOdUCtS Manufacturing:
1. Except as PrOvided in paragraphs 2., 3., and 4. of this paragraph, no person shall cause, let, permit,
suffer, or allow the VOC emissions from an expandable polystyrene product manufacturing facility
to exceed 0.0 15 lbs VOC/Ib bead utilized.
2. No person shall cause, let, permit, suffer, or allow the operation of an expandable polystyrene cup
manufacturing facility existing before November 1, 1987 unless the facility has installed and operates
volatile Organic compound emission reduction equipment on the pre-expanders having at least a 90.0
percent reduction efficiency and a capture system approved by the Director.
3. No person shall cause, let, permit, suffer, or allow the operation of an expandable polystyrene board
insulation manufacturing facility existing before January 1, 1990 unless the facility has installed and
operates volatile organic compound emission reduction equipment on the pre-expanders so as to
achieve at least a 90.0 percent reduction efficiency and a capture system approved by the Director;
or limits VOC emissions from the entire facility to no greater than 0.0175 lb VOC/ib bead utilized.
4. No person shall cause, let, permit, suffer, or allow the operation of an expandable polystyrene custom
shape manufacturing facility existing before January 1, 1990 unless the facility utilizes a batch
expander and bead containing no more than 4.5 percent initial VOC content.
5. For the purposes of this subsection, VOC emitted after the average curing time shall not be considered
to be emitted from the facility.
6. For the purpose of this subsection, the following definitions shall apply:
(i) “Expandable Polystyrene Products Manufacturing” means the manufacturing of products
utilizing expandable polystyrene bead impregnated with a VOC blowing agent.
(ii) “Board Insulation Manufacturers” means produced of thermal insulation, display foam, or
floatation products. Thermal insulation production usually requires densities as specified in
ASTM C-578, the industry standard for both EPS and XPS insulation applications.
(iii) “Custom Shape Manufacturers” means producers of a variety of different products ranging in
density and size and based primarily on customer specifications.
(iv) “Pm-expander” means the system where initial expansion of the bead occurs.
(v) “Process” means the point from the opening of the gaylord to the end of the average curing
thne.
7. The requirements of this subsection shall apply to facilities with potential emissions of volatile organic
emissions exceeding 25 tons per year, located in those counties of Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta,
DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Paulding and Rockdale.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF FEB 07, 1996
Date’ Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: NOV 15, 1994 FEB 02, 1996 61 FR 3817
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(3) SAMPUNG
(a) Any sampling, computation, and analysis to determine the compliance with any of the emission limitations
set forth herein shall be in accordance with applicable procedures and methods specified in the Georgia
Department of Natural Resources Procedures for Testing and Monitoring Sources of Air Pollutants
dated September 1, 1994. When no applicable test method or procedure is published therein, the Director
shall specif ’ or approve an applicable method or procedure prior to its use.
• (b) The owner or operator of any equipment which is being sampled for the purpose of determining
compliance with the Regulations shall operate such equipment at the maximum expected operating capacity
during the sampling period.
(c) The owner or operator of any source shall provide performance testing facilities as follows:
1. Sampling ports adequate for test methods applicable to such source;
2. Safe sampling platforms;
3. Safe access to sampling platforms;
4. Electric power for sampling and testing equipment.
THIs iS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF FEB 07, 1996
Date Submitted
to EPA
Date Approved
by EPA
Original Reg:
1st Revision:
2nd Revision:
JAN 27, 1972
JAN03, 1991
APR03, 1991
NOV 15, 1994
MAY 31, 1972
OCF 13, 1992
OCT 13, 1992
FEB02, 1996
37 FR 10842
57 FR 46780
57 FR 46780
61 FR3817
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(4) AMBIENT AIR STANDAJ S:
(a) No person shall cause, suffer, permit, or allow the emission from any source the quantities of compounds
listed below which would came the ambient air concentrations listed to be exceeded. This does not exempt
such sources from controlling their emissions to a point equal to or lower than the levels required to
comply with a specific emission standard enumerated in other sections of these Rules.
(b) Sulfur Dioxide:
1. The concentration of sulfur dioxide at ground level for any three hour period shall not exceed 1300
micrograms per cubic meter for more than one such three hour period per year.
2. The concentration of sulfur dioxide at ground level for any twenty-four hour period shall not exceed
365 micrograms per cubic meter for more than one such twenty-four hour period per year.
3. The annual arithmetic mean concentration of sulfur dioxide at ground level shall not exceed 80
micrograms per cubic meter.
4. Standard conditions for sulfur dioxide measurements shall be considered to be 25 degrees C and 760
mm.Hg. The specific standard procedure for measuring ambient air concentrations for all sulfUr
dioxide shall be West-Gaeke or equivalent method.
(c) Particulate Matter:
1. The concentration of PM 10 in the ambient air for any 24-hour period shall not exceed 150 micrograms
per cubic meter for more than one such 24-hour period per year. The standard is attained when the
expected number of days per calendar year with a 24-hour average concentration above 150
micrograms per cubic meter, as determined in accordance with Appendix K of 40 CFR Part 50 is
equal to or less than 1.
2. The annual arithmetic mean concentration of PM 10 in the ambient air shall not exceed 50 micrograms
per cubic meter. The standard is attained when the expected annual arithmetic mean concentration,
as determined in accordance with Appendix K of 40 CFR Part 50 is less than or equal to 50
micrograms per cubic meter.
3. PM 10 shall be measured in the ambient air as PM 10 (particles with an aerodynamic diameter less than
or equal to a nominal ten micrometers) by a reference method based upon 40 CFR Part 50, Appendix
J.
(d) Carbon Monoxide:
1. Carbon monoxide concentration, at ground level, shall not be allowed to exceed 40 milligrams per
cubic meter for a one-hour average or 10 milligrams per cubic meter for an eight-hour average.
Standard conditions for carbon monoxide measurements shall be considered to be 25 degrees C and
760 nun.Hg.
2. The specific standard procedure for measuring ambient air concentrations of carbon monoxide shall
be the non-dispersive infrared or equivalent method.
(e) Ozone:
1. The ambient air standard for ozone is 0.12 part per million (235 micrograms per cubic meter). The
standard is attained when the expected number of days per calendar with maximum hourly average
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concentration above 0.12 parts per million (235 micrograms per cubic meter) is equal to or less than
1 as determined by Appendix H of 40 CFR part 50.
2. The specific standard procedure for measuring ambient air concentrations of ozone shall be the
Chemiluminescence or equivalent method.
(f) Lead:
1. The mean concentration of lead at ground level shall not exceed 1.5 micrograms per cubic meter
averaged over a calendar quarter.
2. The specified standard procedure for measuring ambient air concentrations of lead shall be those
required to comply with Federal law or other Federal authority.
(g) Nitrogen Dioxide:
1. The annual arithmetic mean concentration of nitrogen dioxide at ground level shall not exceed 100
micrograms per cubic meter. Standard conditions for nitrogen dioxide measurements shall be
considered to be 25 degrees C and 760 inm.Hg.
2. The specified standard procedure for measuring ambient air concentrations of nitrogen dioxide shall
be Chemiluminescence or equivalent method.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 30, 1995
Date Submitted
to EPA
Date Approved
by EPA
Original Reg:
1st Revision:
2nd Revision:
3rd Revision:
JAN 27, 1972
DEC 16, 1975
JAN 17, 1979
APR 15, 1988
JAN 03, 1991
APR03, 1991
MAY31, 1972
AUG 20, 1976
SEPT 18, 1979
DEC 14, 1992
DEC 14, 1992
DEC 14, 1992
37 FR 10842
41 FR35184
44 FR 54047
57 FR 58989
57 FR 58989
57 FR 58989
Federal
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(5) OPEN BURNING:
(a) No person shall cause, suffer, allow, or permit open burning in any area of the State except as follows:
1. Reduction of leaves on the premises on which they fall by the person in control of the premises,
unless prohibited by local ordinance and/or regulation;
2. Carrying out recognized agricultural procedures necessary for production or harvesting of crops;
3. Destruction of combustible demolition or construction materials either on site or transported to a
burning facility approved by the Director, unless prohibited by local ordinance and/or regulation;
4. The burning over of any forest land by the owners of such land;
5. For recreational purposes or cooking fbod for immediate human consumption;
6. Fires set for purposes of training fire-fighting personnel when authorized by the appropriate
governmental entity and the guidelines set forth by the Director are strictly observed;
7. Disposal of tree limbs from storm damage;
8. For weed abatement, disease, and pest prevention;
9. Operation of devices using open flames such as tar kettles, blow torches, welding torches, portable
heaters and other flame- making equipment;
10. Setting and maintenance by contractors and tradesmen of miscellaneous small fires necessary
to such activities as street- paving work installationor repair of utilities, provided that such fires
are kept small in size, no smoke emissions exceed 40 percent opacity, and that local ordinances
and regulations do not prohibit such actions.
11. Open burning in other than predominantly residential areas for the purpose of land clearing or
construction or right-of-way maintenance provided the following conditions are met:
(i) Prevailing winds at the time of the burning are away from the major portion of the area’s
population,
(ii) The location of the burning is at least 1,000 feet from any dwelling located in a predominantly
residential area,
(iii) The amount of dirt on or in the material being burned is minimized,
(iv) Heavy oils, asphaltic materials, items containing natural or synthetic rubber, or any materials
other than plant growth are not being burned,
(v) No more than one pile 60 feet by 60 feet, or equivalent, is being burned within a 9 acre area
at one time;
12. Disposal of all packaging materials previously containing explosives, in accordance with U.S.
Department of Labor Safety Regulations;
(b) In those counties whose total population, as listed in the latest census, exceeds 65,000, the only legal
exceptions to the general prohibition against open burning shall be exceptions nos. 1. ,2. ,4. ,5. ,6. ,9.,10.,
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and 12. under subsection (a) above. Provided, however, that such burning, whenever feasible, be
conducted between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. If adequate disposal facilities for the partiCular combustible
materials rnvolved are not reasonably available, the other items under subsection (a) shall also be
permitted except that in no event shall the open burning of more than 100 cubic yards per day of material
described in exception ii. of subsection (a) be permitted unless the person performing such burning shall
have first given two (2) days written notice of the time and place of such burning to the Director.
(c) A written notification to a person of a violation at one site shall be considered adequate notice of the rules
and regulations and subsequently observed violations by the same person at the same or different site will
result in immediately appropriate legal action by the Director.
(d) Except for a reasonable period to get a fire started, no smoke the opacity of which is equal to or greater
than 40 percent shall be emitted from any source of open burning listed in subsections (a) and (b) above.
(e) During an air pollution episode declared by the proper authorities, no open burning of any kind shall be
permitted unless open burning is required in the performance of an official duty of any public office, or
a fire is necessary to thwart or prevent a hazard which cannot be properly managed by any other means,
or is necessary for the protection of public health.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 09, 1988
Date, Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 27, 1972 MAY 31, 1972 37 FR 10842
1st Revision: DEC 16, 1975 AUG 20, 1976 41 FR 35184
2nd Revision: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
3rd Revision: MAY 22, 1985 AUG 09, 1988 53 FR 29890
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(6) SOURCE MONITORING:
(a) Specific monitoring and reporting requirements for particular sources:
1. Sources, and owners and operators of sources, subject to any New Source Performance Standard of
or pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 7411, amended, shall meet the monitoring and related requirements
specified in the applicable New Source Performance Standard.
2. Existing sources, as herein designated, shall provide for the continuous monitoring of emissions as
prescribed below:
(i) Fossil Fuel-fired Steam Generators. The owner or operator of any fossil fuel-fired steam
generator, except as provided for in subparagraph (iii) of this paragraph, with an annual average
capacity factor of greater than 30 percent, as reported to the Federal Power Commission for
calendar year 1974, or as otherwise demonstrated to the Director by the owner or operator,
shall install, calibrate, operate, and maintain all monitoring equipment necessary for the
continuous monitoring of the following:
(I) Opacity, if such steam generator has a heat input greater than 250 million BTU’s per
hour, except where:
I. Gaseous fuel is the only fuel burned; or
II. Oil or mixture of gas and oil are the only fuels burned and the source is able to
I comply with the applicable particulate matter and opacity regulations without
utilization of particulate matter collection equipment, and the source has never been
found, through any administrative or judicial proceedings, to be in violation of any
visible emission standard;
(II) Sulfur dioxide, if such steam generator has a heat input greater than 250 million BTU’s
per hour and has installed sulfur dioxide emission control equipment;
(Ill) The percent oxygen, or carbon dioxide, in the flue gas as necessary to accurately convert
sulfur dioxide continuous emission monitoring data to units (pounds per hour) of the
emission standard.
(ii) Sulfuric Acid Plants:
(I) The owner or operator of any sulfuric acid plant of greater than 300 tons per day
production capacity, the production being expressed as 100 percent acid, shall, except as
provided for in subparagraph (iv) of this paragraph, install, calibrate, maintain, and
pperate a continuous monitoring system for the measurement of sulfur dioxide for each
sulfuric acid production facility within such plant.
(iii) Wood Waste Fired Combination Boilers:
(I) The owner or operator of any boiler which fires wood waste or wood waste in
combination with fossil fuel(s) with a total heat input equal to or greater than 100 million
STU’s per hour shall, except as provided for in paragraph (iv) of this subsection, install,
calibrate, operate and maintain a continuous monitoring system for the measurement of
opacity;
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(LI) Boilers subject to this subparagraph (iii) shall comply with the opacity monitoring
requireme as specified for fossil fuel fired steam generators. In any nile or subdivision
thereof dealing with opacity monitoring requirements for fossil fuel- fired steam
generators, where reference is made to “Fossil Fuel Fired Steam Generators” the term
“Wood Waste Combination Boilers” should be inserted for the purpose of this
subparagraph.
(iv) Exemptions. A facility is exempt from the requirements otherwise imposed by this paragraph
(a)(iv) if:
(1) It is subject to a New Source Performance Standard promulgated in 40 CFR, Part 60,
pursuant to Section ifi of the Federal Act; or
(II) It is not subject to an applicable emission st nckrd, or;
(III) The source is scheduled for retirement by October 6, 1980, provided that the source will
cease operation prior to such date and adequate provisions are made for monitoring if
retirement does not occur as scheduled.
(v) Monitoring Equipment:
(I) The monitoring equipment required pursuant to the previous subparagraphs (i) through
(iv) shall be demonstrated by the owners or operators of such monitoring equipment to
meet the performance specifications specified in the Georgia Department of Natural
Resources Procedures for Testing and Monitoring Sources of Air Pollutants dated
September 1, 1994.
(11) Any source which has purchased an emission monitoring system(s) prior to September 11,
1974, is exempt from meeting the applicable test procedures prescribed in Appendix B
of Part 60, as amended, for a period not to exceed five years from the effective date of
this paragraph. Thereafter, the requirements of (v)(1) above apply.
(III) For sulfur dioxide monitoring systems installed on fossil fuel-fired steam generators or
sulfuric acid plants, pursuant to subparagraphs 2.(i) and 2.(ii), respectively, the pollutant
gas used to prepare calibration gas mixture shall be sulfur dioxide (50 2). Span and zero
gases should be traceable to National Bureau of Standards and analyses of such gases shall
be performed at times by methods prescribed by the Director.
(IV) Cycling times shall include the total time a monitoring system requires to sample, analyze,
and record an emission measurement.
I. Continuous monitoring systems for measuring opacity shall complete a minimum of
one cycle of operation (sampling, analyzing, and data recording) for each successive
ten second period;
II. Continuous monitoring systems for measuring carbon dioxide, oxygen, or sulfur
dioxide shall complete a minimum of one cycle of operation (sampling, analyzing,
and data recording) for each successive 15-minute period.
(V) The owner or operator of any continuous monitoring system required pursuant to this
paragraph shall:
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I. Record the zero and span drift in accordance with the method Prescribed by the
manufacturer of such instruments;
II. Subject the instruments to the manufacturer’s recommended Zero and span check at
least once daily unless the manufacturer has recommended adjustments at shorter
intervals, in such cases such recommendations shall be followed;
III. Adjust the zero and span whenever the 24-hour zero drift or 24-hour calibration drift
limits of the applicable performance specification in Appendix B of 40 CFR, Part 60,
as amended, are exceeded, and;
IV. Adjust continuous monitoring systems purchased or installed prior to September 11,
1974, whenever the 24-hour zero drift or 24-hour calibration drift exceed 10 percent
of the emission standard.
(VI) Instrument span shall be approximately 200 percent of the expected instrument data
display output corresponding to the emission standard for the source.
(VII) The owner or operator of a source subject to this rule or regulation shall install the
required continuous monitoring systems or monitoring devices such that representative
measurements of emissions or process parameters (i.e. oxygen or carbon dioxide) from
the affected facility are obtained.
(VIII) When the emissions from two or more affected facilities of similar design and operating
characteristics are combined before being released to the atmosphere, the owner or
operator of a source subject to this paragraph (a)2. may install monitoring systems on
the combined sessions. When the affected facilities are not of similar design and
operating characteristics, or when the effluent from one affected facility is released to
the atmosphere through more than one point, the owner or operator should establish
alternative procedures to implement the intent of this requirement subject to approval
by the Director.
(vi) Data Reporting:
(I) The owner or operator of a facility subject to the requirements of this paragraph 2. shall
submit a written report for each calendar quarter and, if excess emissions have occurred,
the report shall state the nature and cause of the excess emissions, if known. The
averaging period used for data reporting shall correspond to the averaging period
specified in the emission test method used to determine compliance with an emission
standard for the pollutant/source categoly in question. The required report shall include,
as a minimum, the data specified in this subsection.
I. For opacity measurements, the summary shall consist of the magnitude in actual
percent opacity of six minute average of opacity which is greater than the opacity
standard applicable to the source. If more than one opacity stRnlkrd applies, excess
emissions data must be submitted in relation to all such standards.
IL For gaseous measurements, the summary shall consist of emission averages in the
units of the applicable standard, for each averaging period during which the
applicable standard was exceeded.
Ill. The data and time identifying each period during which the continuous monitoring
system was inoperative, except for zero and span checks, and the nature of system
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repairs or adjustments shall be reported. The Director may require proof of
Continuous monitoring system performance whenever system repairs or adjustments
have been made.
IV. When no excess emissions have occurred and the continuous monitoring system(s)
have not been inoperative, repaired, or adjusted, such information shall be included
in the report.
V. The owners or operators of sources or facilities subject to this paragraph (a)2. shall
maintain a fite of all information reported in the quarterly summaries, and all other
data collected either by the continuous monitoring system or as necessary to convert
monitoring data to the units of the applicable standard for a minimum of two years
from the date of collection of such data or submission of two summaries.
(vii) Data Conversion. The owner or operator of a source subject to this paragraph (a)2. shall use
the following procedures for converting monitoring data to units of the applicable standard:
(I) For fossil fuel-fired steam generators, the procedures of Section 2.1 of the Georgia
Department of Natural Resources Procedures for Testing and Monitoring Sources of
Air Pollutants dated September 1, 1994 shall be used to convert gaseous emissions
monitoring data in ppm to pounds/million BTU where necessary.
(LI) For sulfuric acid plants the owner or operator shall:
1. Establish a conversion factor three times daily according to the procedures in Section
2.5 of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Procedures for Testing and
Monitoring Sources of Air Pollutants dated September 1, 1994.
II. Multiply the conversion factor by the average sulfur dioxide concentration in the flue
gases to obtain average sulfur dioxide emissions in lb/short ton, and;
LII. Report the average sulfur dioxide emission for each averaging period in excess of
the applicable emission standard in the quarterly summary.
(ifi) The owner or operator of a source subject to this regulation may employ data reporting
or reduction procedures varying from those specified in this subparagraph(a)2.(vii) if such
owner or operator shows to the satisfaction of the Director that such procedures are at lest
as the procedures identified in this subparagraph. Such procedures may include, but are
not limited to the following:
I. Alternative procedures for computing emission averages that do not require
integration of data (e.g., some facilities may demonstrate that the variability of their
emissions is sufficiently small to allow accurate reduction of data based upon
computing averages from equally spaced data points over the averaging period);
II. Alternative methods of converting pollutant concentration measurements to the units
of the emission standards.
(viii) In cases where the owner or operator of a source subject to this paragraph wishes to utilize
different, but, equivalent, procedures for continuous monitoring systems and/or alternative
monitoring and data reporting procedures or other alternative equivalents to comply with the
intent of this paragraph then:
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(I) The owner or operator must submit:
1. A detailed summary of the limitations prohibiting the installation of a continuous
monitor; and;
H. Alternative and/or equivalent emission monitoring and reporting requirements (e.g.,
periodic manual stack tests) to satisfy the intent of this paragraph.
(11) The use of any alternative or equivalent method for compliance with any requirement of
this paragraph .02(6)(a)2. shall be subject to approval of the Director.
(ix) Monitor Malfunction:
(I) The requirements of this paragraph shall not apply during any period of monitoring system
malfunction, provided that the source owner or operator shows, to the satisfaction of the
Director that the malfunction was unavoidable and is being or was repaired as
expeditiously as practicable.
(x) Implementation Period:
(I) The owner or operator of any source subject to this regulation:
I. Shall complete the installation and performance tests of the equipment required by
this paragraph and begin required monitoring and recording within 18 months from
promulgation of this rule and regulation, but;
IL May request an extension of time to install any monitor required by this paragraph,
provided such owner or operator demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Director that
good faith efforts have been made to obtain and install such devices within such
prescribed timeframe.
(xi) Kraft Pulp Mills:
(I) On or before March 1, 1984, unless otherwise specified in an alternate compliance
schedule as provided for in paragraph 391-3.1-.02(2)(a)9., the owner or operator of any
‘kraft pulp mill subject to any limitation or requirement of, or under subsection (gg) of
section 391-3-1-.02(2) shall, except as provided in part (II) of this subparagraph, install,
calibrate, operate, and maintain a system to continuously measure and record the
concentration of TRS emissions on a dry basis in the gases discharged from any lime kiln,
recovery furnace, digester system, or multiple-effect evaporator system.
(II) ‘The owner or operator of any kraft pulp mill which incinerates effluent gases emitted from
any digester system or multiple-effect evaporator system subject to any limitation or
requirement of, or under subsection (gg) of section 391-3-1- .02(2) shall install, calibrate,
operate, and maintain a system to continuously measure and record the combustion
temperature at the point of incineration.
3. All sources, and owners and operators of sources, subject to any limitation of paragraphs (2)(t)
through (2)(aa) [ inclusive]; (2)(ii); (2)(jj); (2)(ll); (2)(mm); and (2)(tt) (inclusive] shall maintain, as
specified by the Director, at the source, for a period of at least 2 years, records containing the
following information for each production line:
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(1) Process information, including, but not limited to,m hours of operation, method of application,
and diying method.
(ii) Coating formulation and analytical data, including, but not limited to, the name of inics or
coatings, coating or ink density, VOC content (weight or volume percent), and solids content
(volume percent).
(iii) Coating consumption data, including, but not limited to, name of ink or coating used, amount
of ink or coating used, name of diluent and amount of diluent used.
(iv) Capture and control equipment data, including, but not limited to, the destruction and removal
efficiency, emission test results, and the capture efficiency.
(v) Transfer Efficiency Data, including, but not limited to, baseline transfer efficiency, actual
transfer efficiency, and results of efficiency test.
(b) General Monitoring and Reporting Requirements:
1. All Sources:
(i) Any person engaged in operations which cause emissions to be released into the atmosphere
which may result in air pollution may be required to install, maintain, and use emission
monitoring devices, to sample such specific emissions as prescribed by the Director; to make
periodic reports on the nature and amounts of emissions and provide such other information as
the Director may reasonably require; and to maintain such records as the Director may
prescribe so as to determine whether emissions from such operations are in compliance with the
provisions of this Act or any rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
(ii) Specific types of information and/or equipment installation which may be requested may
include, but are not limited to, the following items:
(1) Photoelectric or other type smoke detector and recorders for continuous measurement and
recording of smoke density emissions;
(II) Sulfur contents of solid and liquid fuels, the determination of which shall be conducted in
accordance with acceptable and appropriate American Society for Testing and Materials
procedures;
(111) Heating value and ash content of solid and liquid fuels;
(IV ) As technology permits, instrumentation for continuously monitoring particulate and
I gaseous emissions;
(V) incinerators, burning rates and hours of operation and monthly summaries of this
information;
(VI) Daily production and feed rates, daily hours of operation and monthly summaries of this
information.
(iii) Records of information requested shall be submitted on forms supplied by the Director, or when
forms are not supplied, in a format acceptable to and approved by the Director. The
information obtained on request of the Director shall be retained for a period and shall be
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reported at time intervals to be specified. Records shall be kept current and be available for
InspeCtion at the discretion of the Director.
(iv) In the event of any malfunction or breakdown or process, fuel-burning, or emission control
equipment for a period of four hours or more which results in excessive emissions for a major
source, the owner or operator or such major source shall notif , the Division by a written report
which would describe the cause of the breakdown, the corrective actions taken, and the plans
to prevent future occurrences. Unless otherwise specified in a permit or order, the report must
be submitted no later than seven (7) days after the occurrence. The information submitted shall
be adequate to allow the Director to determine whether the excessive emissions were due to a
sudden and unavoidable breakdown. The reporting requirements of this subparagraph (iv) shall
be in addition to any other reporting requirement under these rules (Chapter 391-3-1), and such
reporting shall in no event serve to excuse, otherwise justilS ’ or in any manner affect any
potential liability or enforcement action.
(v) All data gathered in the process of enforcing this or other Air Quality Control Rule or
Regulation shall be considered public information and shall be made available upon request,
except such information which is required to be kept confidential by Ga. Code Ann. 43-2722,
as amended.
(vi) Any continuous monitoring system or monitoring device shall be installed, operated, calibrated
and maintained and information reported in accordance with the applicable procedures and
performance specifications of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Procedures for
Testing and Monitoring Sources of Air Pollutants dated September 1, 1994. Where no
applicable procedure or performance specification for such installation, operation or reporting
of data is published therein, the Director shall, as needed, specii y or approve an applicable
procedure or performance specification prior to operation of the monitoring system or
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THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF FEB 07, 1996
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
1st Revision: JAN 03, 1991 OCT 13, 1992 57 FR 46780
APR03, 1991 OCT13, 1992 57FR46780
2nd Revision: NOV 15, 1994 FEB 02, 1996 61 FR 3817
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(7) PREVENTION OF SIGNWIC Q T DETERIORATION OF AIR QUALITY:
(a) General Requirement:
1. The provisions of this section (7) shall apply to any source and the owner or operator of any source
subject to any requirement under 40 Code of Federal Regulations (hereinafter, CFR), Part 52.21 as
amended.
2. Definitions: For the purpose of this section, 40 CFR, Part 52.21(b), as amended, is hereby
incorporated by reference.
(b) Prevention of Significant Deterioration Standards:
1. Ambient air increments: 40 CFR, Part 52.2 1(c), as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by
reference.
2. Ambient air ceilings: 40 CFR, Part 52.2 1(d), as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by
reference.
3. Restrictions on area classifications: 40 CFR, Part 52.21(e), as amended, is hereby incorporated and
adopted by reference.
4. Stack heights: 40 CFR, Part 52.21(h), as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
5. Review of major stationary sources and major modifications- -source applicability and general
exemptions: 40 CFR, Part 52.21(i), as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
6. Control technology review: 40 CFR, Part 52.21 (j), as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted
by reference.
7. Source impact analysis: 40 CFR, Part 52.21(k), as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by
referen e.
8. Air quality models: 40 CFR, Part 52.21(1), as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by
reference.
9. Air quality analysis: 40 CFR, Part 52.21(m), as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by
reference.
10. Source information: 40 CFR, Part 52.21(n), as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted
by reference.
11. Additional impact analyses; 40 CFR, Part 52.21(o), as amended, is hereby incorporated and
adopted by reference.
12. Sources impacting Federal class I areas--additional requirements: 40 CFR, Part 52 . 2 l(p), as
amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
13. Public participation: 40 CFR, Part 52.21(q), as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted
by reference.
14. Source obligation: 40 CFR, Part 52.21(r), as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by
reference.
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15. Innovative Control technology: 40 CFR, Part 52.21(v), as amended, is hereby incorporated and
adopted by reference.
16. Permit rescission: 40 CFR, Part 52.21(w), as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted
by reference.
EDITORIAL NOTE: The word NAdministratoru as used in regulations adopted in this section should be read as
the ‘Director of EPD.U
Date Submitted
to EPA
Date Approved
by EPA
Original Reg:
1st Revision:
2nd Revision:
3rd Revision:
4th Revision:
JAN 17, 1979
DEC 18, 1980
JAN 03, 1991
APR 15, 1988
JAN 03, 1991
APR03, 1991
JUN24, 1994
SEPT 18. 1979
FEB 10, 1982
JUNE09, 1992
DEC 14, 1992
DEC 14, 1992
DEC 14, 1992
FEB 02, 1996
44 FR 54047
47 FR 6017
57 FR 24371
57 FR 58989
57 FR 58989
57 FR 58989
61 FR 3817
THIS IS THE
FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF FEB 07, 1996
Federal
Register
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(8) NEW SOURCE PERFORMANCE STANDARDS (NSPS):
(a) General Requirement. No person shall construct or operate any facility or source which fails to comply
with the New Source Performance Standards contained in 40 Code of Federal Regulations (hereinafter,
CFR), Part 60, as amended, including but not limited to (unless specifically excluded below), the subparts
hereby adopted through incorporation by reference in paragraph (b) of this subsection.
(1,) New Source Performance Standards:
1. General Provisions. For purposes of applying New Source Performance Standards, 40 CFR,Part 60,
subpart A (excluding 60.4 and 60.9) is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference. The word
‘Administrator as used in regulations adopted in this subsection shall mean the Director of EPD.
2. Standards of Performance for Fossil-fuel Fired Steam Generators: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart D, as
amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
3. Standards of Performance for Electric Utility Steam Generating Units: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart Da,
as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
4. Standards of Performance for Incinerators: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart E, as amended, is hereby
incorporated and adopted by reference.
5. Standards of Performance for Portland Cement Plants: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart F, as amended, is
hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
6. Standards of Performance for Nitric Acid Plants: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart G, as amended, as
amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
7. Standards of Performance for Sulfuric Acid Plants: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart H, as amended, is
hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
8. Standards of Performance for Asphalt Concrete Plants: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart I, as amended,is
hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
9. Standards of Performance for Petroleum Refineries: 40 CFR, Part 60,subpart 3, as amended, is
hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
10. Standards of Performance for Storage Vessels for Petroleum Liquids: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart
K, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
11. Standards of Performance for Storage Vessels for Petroleum Liquids: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart
Ka, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
12. Standards of Performance for Secondary Lead Smelters: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart L, as
amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
13. Standards of Performance for Secondary Brass and Bronze Ingot Production Plants: 40 CFR,
Part 60, subpart M, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
14. Standards of Performance for Iron and Steel Plants: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart N, as amended,
is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
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15. Standards of Performance for Sewage Treatment Plants. 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart 0, as
amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
16. Standards of Performance for Primary Copper Smelters; 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart P, as
amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
17. Standards of Performance for Primary Zinc Smelters: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart Q, as amended,
is hereby ncorpor iJ and adopted by reference.
18. Standards of Performance for Primary Lead Smelters: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart R, as amended,
is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
19. Standards of Performance for Primary Aluminum Reduction Plants: 40 CFR,Part 60,subpart
S, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
20. Standards of Performance for Phosphate Fertilizer Industry: Wet-Process Phosphoric Acid
Plants: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart T, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by
reference.
21. Standards of Performance for Phosphate Fertilizer Industry: Superphosphoric Acid Plants: 40
CFR, Part 60, subpart U, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
22. Standards of Performance for Phosphate Fertilizer Industry: Diammonium Phosphate Plants:
40 CFR, Part 60, subpart V, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
23. Standards of Performance for PI osphate Fertilizer Industry: Triple Superphosphate Plants: 40
CFR, Part 60, subpart W, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
24. Standards of Performance for Phosphate Fertilizer Industry: Granular Triple Superphosphate
Storage Facilities: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart X, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted
by reference.
25. Standards of Performance for Coal Preparation Plants: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart Y, as
amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
26. Standards of Performance for Ferroalloy Production Facilities: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart Z, as
amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
27. Standards of Performance for Steel Plants: Electric Arc Furnaces: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart
AA, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
28. Standards of Performance for Steel Plants: Electric Arc Furnaces and Argon-Oxygen
Deca burization Vessels Constructed After August 17, 1983: 40 CFR 60, subpart AAa, as
amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
29. Standards of Performance for Kraft Pulp Mills: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart BB, as amended,
is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
30. Standards of Performance for Glass Manufacturing Plants: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart CC, as
amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
31. Standards of Performance for Grain Elevators: 40 CFR,Part 60, subpart DD, as amended, is
hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
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32. Standards of Performance for Surface Coating of Metal Furniture: 40 CFR, Part 60,- subpart
EE, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
33 Standards of Performance for Stationary Gas Thrbines: 40 CFR, Part 60,subpart GG, as
amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
34. Standards of Performance for Lime Manufacturing Plants: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart HH, as
amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
35. Standards of Performance for Lead-Acid Battery Manufacturing Plants: 40 CFR, Part 60,
subpart KK, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
36. Standards of Performance for Metallic Mineral Processing Plants: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart
LL, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
37. Standards of Performance for Automobile and Light-Duty Truck Coating Operations: 40 CFR,
Part 60, subpart MM, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
38. Standards of Performance for Phosphate Rock Plants: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart 00, as
amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
39. Standards of Performance for Ammoniunt Sulfate Manufacture: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart PP,
as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
40. Standards of Performance for Graphic Arts Industry: Publication Rotogravure Printing: 40 CFR,
Part 60, subpart QQ, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
41. Standards of Performance for Pressure Sensitive Tape and Label Surface Coating Operations:
40 CFR, Part 60, subpart RR, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
42. Standards of Performance for Industrial Surface Coating: Large Appliances: 40 CFR, Part 60,
subpart SS, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
43. Standards of Performance for Metal Coil Surface Coating: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart ‘lF, as
amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
44. Standards of Performance for Asphalt Processing and Asphalt Roofing Manufacture: 40 CFR,
Part 60, subpart UU, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
45. Standards of Performance for Equipment Leaks of VOC in the Synthetic Organic Chemical
Manufacturing Industry: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart VV, as amended, is hereby incorporated and
adopted by reference.
46. Standards of Performance for Beverage Can Surface Coating Industry: 40 CFR, Part 60,
subpart WVI, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
47. Standards of Performance for Bulk Gasoline Terminals: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart as amended,
is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference XX,
48. Standards of Performance for Flexible Vinyl and Urethane Printing and Coating: 40 CFR, Part
60, subpart FFF, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
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49. Standards of Performance for Equipment Leaks of VOC in Petroleum Refineries: 40 CFR, Part
60, subpart GGG, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
50. Standards of Performance for Synthetic Fiber Production Facilities: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart
HHH, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
51. Standards of Performance for Petroleum Dry Cleaners: 40 CFR, Part 60, subpart JJJ, as
amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
52. Standards of Performance for Wool Fiberglass Insulation Manufacturing Plants: 40 CFR, Part
60, subpart PPP, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
THIS IS ThE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF SEPT 18, 1979.
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
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(9) EMISSION STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS:
(a) General Requirements:
1. The provisions of this subsection shall apply to any stationary source and to the owner or operator
of any stationary source for which a standard is prescribed de 40 Code of Federal Regulations
(hereinafter CFR), Part 61, including, but not limited to (unless specifically excluded below) the
subparts hereby adopted through incorporation by reference in paragraph (h)of this subsection. For
purposes of applying emission standards for hazardous air pollutants, 40 CFR, Part 61 (excluding 61.4
and 61.15), as amended, is hereby incorporated by reference. The word “Administ r ator as used in
regulations adopted in this subsection shall mean the Director of EPD.
(b) Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants:
1. Emission Standard for Beryllium: 40 CFR, Part 61, subpart, as amended, is hereby incorporated and
adopted by reference.
2. Emission Standard for Beryllium Rocket Motor Firing: 40 CFR, Part 61, subpart D, as amended, is
hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
3. Emission Standard for Mercury: 40 CFR, Part 61, subpart E, as amended, is hereby incorporated and
adopted by reference.
4. Emission Standard for Vinyl Chloride: 40 CFR, Part 61, subpart F, as amended, is hereby
incorporated and adopted by reference.
5. Emission Standard for Equipment Leaks (Fugitive Emission Sources) of Benzene: 40 CFR, Part 61,
subpart I, as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
6. Emission Standard for Asbestos (inc. work practices): 40 CFR, Part 61, subpart M., as amended, is
hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
7. Emission Standard for Equipment Leaks (Fugitive Emission Sources)(of VHAP]: 40 CFR, Part 61,
subpart V. as amended, is hereby incorporated and adopted by reference.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF SEPT 18, 1979
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
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391-3-1-.03 PERMITS. AMENDED.
(1) CONSTRUCTION (SIP) PERMiT:
(a) Any person prior to begirming the construction or modification of any facility which may result in air pollution
shall obtain a permit for the construction or modification of such facility from the Director.
(b) The application for a construction permit shall be made on forms supplied by the Director, and shall be signed
by the applicant. Such application shall be filed with the Director well in advance of any critical date involved
in the construction or modification of such facility, so that adequate time will be available for review,
discussion, and revision where necessary. Said application shall include and/or be accompanied by all pertinent
information as the Director may require for a full evaluation of the proposed construction or modification of
the facility, such as: process flow diagrams; plot plans; description of control devices; description of the
proposed new or modified operation; type of operation; raw materials and chemicals to be use; the finished
products; type, quantity and peak output of fuels to be used; the amount of combustible waste that will be
generated and the method of disposing of same; characteristics and amounts of emissions into the atmosphere;
engineering reports, plans, and specifications; time schedules and reports of progress; records; and related
information.
(c) The permit for the construction or modification of any facility shall be issued upon a determination by the
Director that the facility can reasonably be expected to comply with all the provisions of the Act and the rules
and regulations promulgated thereunder.
(2) OPERATING (SIP) PERMif:
(a) Any person operating a facility or performing an activity which is not exempted under 391-3-1-.03(6) from
which air contaminants are or may be emitted shall obtain an Operating (SIP) Permit from the Director.
(b) Application for an operating permit must be made within thirty (30) days after commencement of normal
operations. Said application for an operating permit shall be accompanied by such plans, specifications, and
other information deemed necessary by the Director to make full evaluation of the performance of the facility.
If any of the necessary information cannot be provided within the required time, the application shall include
a schedule, subject to the approval of the Director, for submission of all such information as soon as
practicable.
(c) An operating permit will be issued upon evidence satisfactory to the Director of compliance with the provisions
of the Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. Said permit shall specify the conditions under
which the facility shall be operated in order to comply with the Act and rules and regulations. As a condition
for the issuance of an operating permit, the Director may require the applicant to conduct performance tests
and monitoring and provide reports concerning operations, to demonstrate compliance with the Act and the
rules and regulations. Such tests and monitoring shall be conducted, and such required reports submitted, in
accordance with methods and procedures approved by the Director.
(d) The Director may: grant a temporary operating permit for such period of time and under such conditions as he
shall specify in the permit, in order to allow the applicant a reasonable period of time in which to correct
deficiencies in any existing facility. The temporary operating permit shall specify a schedule for bringing the
existing facility into compliance with the Act and rules and regulations in the shortest practical time period.
(e) Not federally approved
(f) Any person operating a vacility or performing an activity from which air contaminants are or may be emitted,
may be required to obtain a Permit by Rule, a Generic Permit or a Part 70 Permit from the Director in addition
to an Operating (SIP) Permit.
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(g) Under penalty law, the holder of any Air Quality Permit must adhere to the terms, limitations, and conditions
of that permit.
(h) The limitations, controls, nd requirements in federally enforceable operating permits are permanent,
quanifiable, and otherwise enforceable as a practical matter.
(1) Prior to the issuance of any federally enforceable operating permit, EPA and the public will be notified and
given a chance for comment on the draft permit.
(3) RECREATION, SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION OR AMENDMENT OF PERMiTS:
(a) Any permit issued by the Director shall be subject to periodic review and the Director may revoke, suspend,
modil r or amend any permit issued, for cause, including but not limited to, the following:
1. Violation of any condition of said permit, or failure to comply with a final order of the Director;
2. Failure to comply with any applicable rules or regulations in effect pursuant to this Chapter;
3. Obtaining a permit by misrepresentation, or failure to disclose fully all relevant fucts, or failure to inform
the Division of modifications affecting emissions;
4. Modifications which affect emissions. In the event of modification, amendment, suspension or revocation
of a permit, the Director shall serve written notice of such action on the permit holder and shall set forth
in such notice the reason for the action.
5. The Directormay amend any permit to establish an emission imitation based on existing equipment design
and reasonable operation and maintenance practices. Such limitations shall not allow emissions greater
than those allowed by other provisions and emission limits specified elsewhere in the Rules, Chapter
391-3-1.
(4) PERMITS NOT TRANSFERABLE. A permit is not transferable from one person to another nor from one facility
to another facility.
(5) PERMITS PUBUC RECORDS. Except as to information required to be kept confidential by Section 22 of the Act
(Ga. Code Ann. 43-2722, as amended), all applications for construction permits and operating permits shall be public
records.
(6) EXEMPTIONS. Permits under this rule to construct and operate new sources shall not be required for:
(a) Air conditioning or v ntil ting systems not designed to remove air contaminants generated by or released from
such equipment;
(b) Fuel burning equipment burning only gas as a fuel and having a total heat input of 50 million BTUs per hour
or less, or fuel burning equipment having a total heat input of 10 million BTU’s per hour or less by burning
only gas and/or distillate fuel oil containing 0.50% sulfur by weight or less;
(c) Internal combustion engines under 3,000 horsepower;
(d) Laboratory equipment used exclusively for chemical or physical analyses;
(e) Small gas-fired incinerators installed in private residential dwellings that are of a design a ,proved by the
Director;
(t) Sources of minor significance as specified by the Director;
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(g) Sources for which there is no applicable emission standard or other emission requirement established under,
by, or pursuant to the Act; and
(h) Mobile sources, whether or not designated as subject to mandatory inspection, maintenance, or emission
requirements pursuant to Ga. Code Ann. 43-1705(10). This exemption relates only to the requirement for a
permit issued under the Act, not to any other requirement for a permit issued under the Act, and in no way
affects any requirement for a permit, license, or a certificate under any other law. This limited exemption from
the permit requirements of the Act shall in no way affect the applicability of any other requirement related to
mobile sources, or any other requirement or limitation which may affect mobile sources.
(7) COMBINED PERMITS AND APPUCATIONS. The Director may combine the requirements of and the permits
for construction and operation (temporary or otherwise) into one permit. He may likewise combine the requirements
of and applicants for construction and operating permits into one application.
(8) PERIvUT REQUIREMENTS:
(a) Each application for a permit to construct a new stationary source or modify an existing stationary source shall
be subjected to a preconstruction or premodification review by the Director. The Director shall determine prior
to issuing any permit that the proposed construction or modification will not cause or contribute to a failure to
attain (as expeditiously as practicable) or maintain any ambient air quality standard, a significant deterioration
of air quality, or a violation of any applicable emission limitation or standard of performance or other
requirement under the Act or this Chapter (391-3-1). Each person applying to the Director for a permit to
construct a new stationary source or modify an existing stationary source shall provide information required
by the Director to make such determination.
(b) In addition to any other requirement under the Act, or this Chapter (39 1-3-1), no permit to construct a new
stationary source or modify an existing stationary source shall be issued unless such proposed source meets
all the requirements for review and for obtaining a permit prescribed in Title!, Part C of the Federal Act, and
Section 391-3-1-.02(7) of these Rules.
(c) In addition teeny other requirement under the Act or this Chapter (391-3-1), no permit to construct a new or
modified major stationary source [ to be located in any area of the State determined and designated by the U.
S. EPA Administrator or the Director as not attaining a National Ambient Air Quality Standard or in areas
contributing to the ambient air levels of such pollutants in such areas of nonattainment] shall be issued unless:
1. The Director determines that by the time the source is to commence operation, sufficient offsetting
emissions reductions have been obtained, such that total allowable emissions from existing sources in the
region, from new or modified sources which are not major emitting facilities, and from the proposed
source, will be sufficiently less than total emissions from existing sources allowed prior to the application
for such permit to construct or modify, so as to represent (when considered together with other air
pollution control measures legally enforced in such area or region) reasonable further progress (as defined
in Section 171 of the Federal Act); and
2. The proposed sburce is required to comply with the lowest achievable emission rate; and
3. The owner or operator of the proposed new or modified source has demonstrated that all major stationary
sources owned or operated by such person (or by an entity controlling, controlled by, or under common
control with such person) in this State, are subject to emission limitations and are in compliance, or on a
schedule for compliance, with all applicable emission limitations and standards under the Act; and
4. An analysis (by the person proposing such construction or modification) of alternative sites, sizes,
production processes and environmental control techniques for such proposed source demonstrates to the
satisfaction of the Director that benefits of the proposed source significantly outweigh the environmental
and social costs imposed as a result of its proposed location, construction or modification; and
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5. The State’s Implementation Plan (approved by the Administrator pursuant to the Federal Act) is being
carried out in the nonattainment area in which the proposed source is to be constructed or modified in
accordance with the requirements of Title I, Part D of the Federal Act.
6. The offset baseline for determining credits for emission reductions at a source is the applicable emission
limits in this Chapter or the actual emissions at the time the application to construct is ified, whichever is
less. Creditable reductions must occur within two years prior to the filing of the permit application and
the time the newly permitted source emissions commence.
7. Emission reductions achieved by shutting down an existing source or permanently curtailing production
or operating hours below baseline levels may be credited, provided that the work force to be affected has
been notified of the proposed shutdown or curtailment. Source shutdowns and curtailments in production
or operating hours occurring prior to the date of the new source application may be used for offset credits
if the applicant can establish that the shutdown or curtailment of production occurred less than one year
prior to the date of permit application and the proposed new source is a replacement for the shutdown in
whole or in part.
8. No emission offset credit may be aliowed for replacing one VOC compound with another of less reactivity.
9. Procedures relating to the permissible location of offsetting emissions shall be followed which are at least
as stringent as those contained in 40 CFR, Part 52, Appendix S, Section W.D.
10. Offset credit for an emission reduction can be claimed to the extent that the Director has not relied on it
in issuing any other permit or has not relied on it in demonstrating attainment of reasonable further
progress.
11. The Director may elect not to consider fugitive emissions, to the extent they are quantifiable, in calculating
the potential to emit from a stationary source or modification in determining whether the source is major
and the source does not belong to any of the following categories:
(i) Coal cleaning plants (with thermal dryers);
(ii) Kraft pulp mills;
(iii) Portland cement plants;
(iv) Primary zinc smelters;
(v) Iron and steel mills;
(vi) Primary aluminum ore reduction plants;
(vii) Primary copper smelters;
(viii) Municipal incinerators capable of charging more than 250 tons of refuse per day;
(ix) Hydrofluoric, sulfuric, or nitric acid plants;
(x) Petroleum refineries;
(xi) Lime plants;
(xii) Phosphate rock processing plants;
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(xiii) Coke oven batteries;
(xiv) Sulfur recovery plants;
(xv) Carbon black plants (furnace process);
(xvi) Primary lead smelters;
(xvii) Fuel conversion plants;
(xviii) Sintering plants;
(xix) Secondary metal production plants;
(xx) Chemical process plants;
(xxi) Fossil-fuel boilers (or combination thereot) totaling more than 250 million British thermal units per
hour heat input;
(xxii) Petroleum storage and transfer units with a total storage capacity exceeding 300,000 barrels;
(xxiii)Taconite ore processing plants;
(xxiv)Glass fiber processing plants;
(xxv) Charcoal production plants;
(xxvi) Fossil fuel-fired steam electric plants of more than 250 million British thermal units per hour
heat input;
(xxvii)Any other stationary source category which as of August 7, 1980, is being regulated under
Section 111 or 112 of the Act.
12. Offsets:
(i) The owner or operator of a new or modified major stationary source may comply with any offset
requirement in effect under this subsection for increased emissions of any air pollutant only by
obtaining emission reductions of such air pollutants from the same source or other sources in the
same nonattainment area, except that the Director may allow the owner or operator of a source to
obtain such emission reductions in another nonattainment area if:
(I) The other area has an equal or higher nonattainment classification than the area in which the
source is located; and
(II) Emissions from such other area contribute to a violation of the national ambient air quality
standani in the nonattainment area in which the source is located.
Such emission reductions shall be, by the time a new or inodlifled source commences operation,
in effect and enforceable and shall assure that the total tonnage of increased emissions of the
air pollutant from the new or modified source shall be offset by an equal or greater reduction,
as applicable, in the actual emissions of such air pollutant from the same or other sources in
the area.
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(ii) Emission reductions otherwise required by the Federal Act shall not be creditable as emissions
reductions for purposes of any such offset requirement. Incidental emission reductions which are
not otherwise required by the Federal Act shall be creditable as emission reductions for such
purposes if such emission reductions meet the requirements of paragraph (1) of this subsection.
13. Additional Provisions for ozone Nonattainment Areas:
(1) In Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKaib, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Heniy,
Paulding, and Rockdale counties, the terms ‘major source’ and ‘major stationary source’ include
any stationary source or group of sources located within a contiguous area and under common
control that emits, or baa the potential to emit, at least 50 tons per year of volatile organic
compounds or nitrogen oxides.
(ii) Increased emissions of volatile organic compounds or nitrogen oxides resulting from any physical
change in, or change in the method of operation of, a stationary source located in these counties shall
not be considered de minimis for purposes of determining the applicability of the permit
requirements established by this subsection unless the net emissions increase of such air pollutant
from such source does not exceed 25 tons when aggregated over any period of five consecutive
calendar years which includes the calendar year in which such increase occurred.
(iii) In the case of any major stationary source located in these counties which emits or has the potential
to emit less than 100 tons of volatile organic compounds or nitrogen oxides per year, whenever any
change (as described in Section lll(a)(4) of the Federal Act) at that source results in any increase
(other than a de rninirril, , increase) in emissions of volatile organic compounds or nitrogen oxides
from any discrete operation, unit, or other pollutant emitting activity at the source, such increase
shall be considered a modification for purposes of this subsection, unless the owner or operator of
the source elects to offset the increase by a greater reduction in emissions of volatile organic
compounds or nitrogen oxides from other operations, units, or activities within the source at an
internal offset ratio of at least 1.3 to 1. if the owner or operator does not make such election, such
change shall be considered a modification for such purposes. In applying this subsection in the case
of any such modification, the best available control technology (BAd), as defined by the Federal
Act, shall be substituted for the lowest achievable emission rate (LAER).
(iv) In the case of any major stationary source located in these counties which emits or has the potential
to emit more than 100 tons of volatile organic compounds or nitrogen oxides per year, whenever any
change (as described in Section 111(a) (4) of the Federal Act) at that source results in any increase
(other than a de nhinimis increase) in emissions of volatile organic compounds or nitrogen oxides
from any discrete operation, unit, or other pollutant emitting activity at the source, such increase
shall be considered a modification for purposes of this subsection, except that if the owner or
operator of the source elects to offset the increase by a greater reduction in omissions of volatile
organic compounds or nitrogen oxides from other operations, units, or activities within the source
at an interns] offset ratio of at least 1.3 to 1, the requirements of this subsection concerning lowest
achievable emission rate (LAER) shall not apply.
(v) For purposes of satisfying the emission offset requirements of this subsection, the ratio of total
emission reductions of volatile organic compounds or nitrogen oxides to total increased emissions
of such air pollutant shall be at least 1.2 to 1 for emission offsets external to the contiguous area
under common control at which the proposed new emission point is located.
(d) With respect to the permitting of sources to be constructed or modified before July 1, 1979, the review and
other requirements of Section 129A of the Federal Act shall be met prior to issuance of any permit.
(e) The Director shall, upon analysis of the ambient air in the State, determine, and so designate, those areas of
the State, if any, which are not attaining any National Ambient Air Quality Standards specified under the
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Federal Act, and any area contributing to the ambient air level of any such pollutant (for which such a standard
has been established) in such areas of nonattainment. The Director’s analyses, determinations, and designations
hereunder shall be used for the purpose of implementing the requirements of this section, shall be continuing,
and shall be conducted in a manner sufficient to meet the requirements of Title I, Part D of the Federal Act.
(9) Not Federally approved.
(10) Not Federally approved.
(11) Not Federally approved.
(12) GENERIC PERMIT
(a) Under penalty of law, the holder of any Air Quality General Generic Permit must adhere to the terms,
limitations, and conditions of that permit and subsequest revisions of that permit.
(b) The limitations, controls, and requirements in federally enforceable operating permits are permanent,
quantifiable, and flherwise enforceable as a practical matter.
(c) Prior to the issuance of any federally enforceable operating permit, EPA and the public will be notified and
given a chance for comment on the draft permit.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF MAR 15, 1995.
Date Submitted
to EPA
Date Approved
by EPA
AUG 20, 1976
SEP 18, 1979
MAR08, 1995
MAR08, 1995
Aug 30, 1995
Federal
Register
41 FR 35184
44 FR 54047
60 FR 12688
60 FR 12688
60 FR 45048
Original Reg: DEC 16, 1975
1st Revision: JAN 17, 1979
2nd Revision: DEC 15, 1986
NOV 13, 1992
3rd Revision MAR 15, 1995
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391-3-1-.03 PERMiTS. AM i ED
(1) CONSTRUCTION PERMiT
(a) Any person prior to beginning the coiistruCtiOn or modification of any facilit’ which may result in air
pollution shall obtain a permit for the construction or modification of such facility from the Director.
(b) The application for a construction permit shall be made on forms supplied by the Director, and shall be
signed by the applicant. Such application shall be filed with the Director well in advance of any critical
date involved in the construction or modification of such facility, so that adequate time will be available
for review, discussion, and revision where necessary. Said application shall include and/or be
accompanied by all pertinent information as the Director may require for a full evaluation of the proposed
construction or modification of the facility, such as: process flow diagrams; plot plans; description of
control devices; description of the proposed new or modified operation; type of operation; raw materials
and chemicals to be use; the finished products; type, quantity and peak output of fuels to be used; the
amount of combustible waste that will be generated and the method of disposing of same; characteristics
and amounts df emissions into the atmosphere; engineering reports, plans, and specifications; time
schedules and reports of progress; records; and related information.
(c) The permit for the construction or modification of any facility shall be issued upon a determination by
the Director that the facility can reasonably be expected to comply with all the provisions of the Act and
the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
(2) OPERATING PER!vUT:
(a) Any person operating a facility from which air contaminants are or may be emitted shall obtain a permit
to operate said facility from the Director.
(b) Application for an operating permit must be made within thirty (30) days after commencement of normal
operations. Said application for an operating permit shall be accompanied by such plans, specifications,
and other information deemed necessary by the Director to make full evaluation of the performance of
the facility. If any of the necessary information cannot be provided within the required time, the
application shall include a schedule, subject to the approval of the Director, for submission of all such
information as soon as practicable.
(c) An operating permit will be issued upon evidence satisfactory to the Director of compliance with the
provisions of the Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. Said permit shall specify the
conditions under which the facility shall be operated in order to comply with the Act and rules and
regulations. As a condition for the issuance of an operating permit, the Director may require the applicant
to conduct performance tests and monitoring and provide reports concerning operations, to demonstrate
compliance with the Act and the rules and regulations. Such tests and monitoring shall be conducted, and
such required reports submitted, in accordance with methods and procedures approved by the Director.
(d) The Director may grant a temporary operating permit for such period of time and under such conditions
as he shall specify in the permit, in order to allow the applicant a reasonable period of time in which to
correct deficiencies in any existing facility. The temporary operating permit shall specify a schedule for
bringing the existing facility into compliance with the Act and rules and regulations in the shortest
practical time period.
(3) RECREATION, SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION OR AMENDMENT OF PERMITS:
(a) Any permit issued by the Director shall be subject to periodic review and the Director may revoke,
suspend, modify or amend any permit issued, for cause, including but not limited to, the following:
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1. Violation of any Condition of said permit, or failure to comply with a final order of the Director;
2. Failure to comply with any applicable rules or regulations in effect pursuant to this Chapter;
3. Obtaining a permit by misrepresentation, or failure to disclose fully all relevant facts, or failure to
inform the Division of modifications affecting emissions;
4. Modifications which affect emissions. In the event of modification, amendment, suspension or
revocation of a permit, the Director shall serve written notice of such action on the permit holder and
shall set forth in such notice the reason for the action.
5. The Director may amend any permit to establish an emission imitation based on existing equipment
design and reasonable operation and maintenance practices. Such limitations shall not allow emissions
greater than those allowed by other provisions and emission limits specified elsewhere in the Rules,
Chapter 391-3-1.
(4) PERMITS NOT TRANSFERABLE. A permit is not transferable from one person to another nor from one
facility to another facility.
(5) PERMITS PUBLIC RECORDS. Except as to information required to be kept confidential by Section 22 of
the Act (Ga. Code Ann. 43-2722, as amended), all applications for construction permits and operating permits
shall be public records.
(6) EXEMPTIONS. Permits under this rule to construct and operate new sources shall not be required for:
(a) Air conditioning or ventilating systems not designed to remove air contaminants generated by or released
from such equipment;
(b) Fuel burning equipment burning only gas as a fuel and having a total heat input of 50 million BTU’s per
hour or less, or fuel burning equipment having a total heat input of 10 million BTU’s per hour or less by
burning only gas and/or distillate fuel oil containing 0.50% sulfur by weight or less;
(c) Internal combustion engines under 3,000 horsepower;
(d) Laboratory equipment used exclusively for chemical or physical analyses;
(e) Small gas-fired incinerators installed in private residential dwellings that are of a design approved by the
Director;
(f) Sources of minor significance as specified by the Director;
(g) Sources for which there is no applicable emission standard or other emission requirement established
under, by, or p rsuant to the Act; and
(h) Mobile sources, whether or not designated as subject to mandatory inspection, maintenance, or emission
requirements pursuant to Ga. Code Ann. 43-1705(10). This exemption relates only to the requirement for
a permit issued under the Act, not to any other requirement for a permit issued under the Act, and in no
way affects any requirement for a permit, license, or a certificate under any other law. This limited
exemption from the permit requirements of the Act shall in no way affect the applicability of any other
requirement related to mobile sources, or any other requirement or limitation which may affect mobile
sources.
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(7) COMBINED PERMITS AND APPLICATIONS. The Director may combine the requirements of and the
permits for Construction and operation (temporary or otherwise) into one permit. He may likewise combine
the requirements of and applicants for construction and operating permits into one application.
(8) PERMIT REQUIREMENTS;
(a) Each application for a permit to construct a new stationary source or modify an existing stationary source
shall be subjected to a preconstruction or premodification review by the Director. The Director shall
determine prior to issuing any permit that the proposed construction or modification will not cause or
contribute to a failure to attain (as expeditiously as practicable) or maintain any ambient air quality
standard, a significant deterioration of air quality, or a violation of any applicable emission limitation or
standard of performance or other requirement under the Act or this Chapter (391-3-1). Each person
applying to the Director for a permit to construct a new stationary source or modify an existing stationary
source shall provide information required by the Director to make such determination.
(b) In addition to any other requirement under the Act, or this Chapter (391-3-1), no permit to construct a
new stationary source or modify an existing stationary source shall be issued unless such proposed source
meets all the requirements for review and for obtaining a permit prescribed in Title I, Part C of the
Federal Act, and Section 391-3-1-.02(7) of these Rules.
(c) In addition to any other requirement under the Act or this Chapter (39 1-3-1), no permit to construct a new
or modified major stationary source [ to be located in any area of the State determined and designated by
the U. S. EPA Administrator or the Director as not attaining a National Ambient Air Quality Standard
or in areas contributing to the ambient air levels of such pollutants in such areas of nonattainnient] shall
be issued unless.
1. The Director determines that by the time the source is to commence operation, sufficient offsetting
emissions reductions have been obtained, such that total allowable emissions from existing sources
in the region, from new or modified sources which are not major emitting facilities, and from the
proposed source, will be sufficiently less than total emissions from existing sources allowed prior to
the application for such permit to construct or modify, so as to represent (when considered together
with other air pollution control measures legally enforced in such area or region) reasonable further
progress (as defined in Section 171 of the Federal Act); and
2. The proposed source is required to comply with the lowest achievable emission rate; and
3. The owner or operator of the proposed new or modified source has demonstrated that all major
stationary sources owned or operated by such person (or by an entity controlling, controlled by, or
under common control with such person) in this State, are subject to emission limitations and are in
compliance, or on a schedule for compliance, with all applicable emission limitations and standards
under the Act; and
4. An analysis (by the person proposing such construction or modification) of alternative sites, sizes,
production processes and environmental control techniques for such proposed source demonstrates to
the satisfaction of the Director that benefits of the proposed source significantly outweigh the
environmental and social costs imposed as a result of its proposed location, construction or
modification; and
S. The State’s Implementation Plan (approved by the Administrator pursuant to the Federal Act) is being
carried out in the nonattkinment area in which the proposed source is to be constructed or modified
in accordance with the requirements of Title I, Part D of the Federal Act.
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6. The offset baseline for determining credits for emission reductions at a source is the applicable
emission limits in this Chapter or the actual emissions at the time the application to construct is ified,
whichever is less. Creditable reductions must occur within two years prior to the filing of the permit
application and the time the newly permitted source emissions commence.
7. Emission reductions achieved by shutting down an existing source or permanently curtailing
production or operating hours below baseline levels may be credited, provided that the work force to
be affected has been notified of the proposed shutdown or curtailment. Source shutdowns and
curtailments in production or operating hours occurring prior to the date of the new source application
may be used for offset credits if the applicant can establish that the shutdown or curtailment of
production occurred less than one year prior to the date of permit application and the proposed new
source is a replacement for the shutdown in whole or in part.
8. No emission offset credit may be allowed for replacing one VOC compound with another of less
reactivity. -
9. Procedures relating to the permissible location of offsetting emissions shall be followed which are at
least as stringent as those contained in 40 CFR, Part 52, Appendix S, Section IV.D.
10. Offset credit for an emission reduction can be claimed to the extent that the Director has not
relied on it in issuing any other permit or has not relied on it in demonstrating attainment of
reasonable further progress.
11. The Director may elect not to consider fugitive emissions, to the extent they are quantifiable,
in calculating the potential to emit from a stationary source or modification in determining
whether the source is major and the source does not belong to any of the following categories:
(i) Coal cleaning plants (with thermal dryers);
(ii) Kraft pulp mills;
(iii) •Portland cement plants;
(iv) Primary zinc smelters;
(v) Iron and steel mills;
(vi) Primary aluminum ore reduction plants;
(vii) Primary copper smelters;
(viii) Municipal incinerators capable of charging more than 250 tons of refuse per day;
(ix) Hydrofluoric, sulfuric, or nitric acid plants;
(x) Petroleum refineries;
(xi) Lime plants;
(xii) Phosphate rock processing plants;
(xiii) Coke oven batteries;
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(xiv) Sulfur recovery plants;
(xv) Carbon black plants (furnace process);
(xvi) Primary lead smelters;
(xvii) Fuel conversion plants;
(xviii) Sintering plants;
(xix) Secondary metal production plants;
(xx) Chemical process plants;
(xxi) Fossil-fuel boilers (or combination thereof) totaling more than 250 million British thermal units
per hour heat input;
(xxii) Petroleum storage and transfer units with a total storage capacity exceeding 300,000 barrels;
(xxiii)Taconite ore processing plants;
(xxiv)Glass fiber processing plants;
(xxv) Charcoal production plants;
(xxvi) Fossil fuel-fired steam electric plants of more than 250 million British thermal units per hour
heat input;
(xxvii)Any other stationary source category which as of August 7, 1980, is being regulated under
Section 111 or 112 of the Act.
12. Offsets:
(i) The owner or operator of a new or modified major stationary source may comply with any
offset requirement in effect under this subsection for increased emissions of any air pollutant
only by obtaining emission reductions of such air pollutants from the same source or other
sources in the same nonattainment area, except that the Director may allow the owner or
operator of a source to obtain such emission reductions in another nonattainment area if:
(1) The other area has an equal or higher nonattainment classification than the area in which
theisource is located; and
(II) Emissions from such other area contribute to a violation of the national ambient air quality
staz dard in the nonattainment area in which the source is located.
Such emission reductions shall be, by the time a new or modified source commences
operation, in effect and enforceable and shall assure that the total tonnage of increased
emissions of the air pollutant from the new or modified source shall be offset by an equal
or greater reduction, as applicable, in the actual emissions of such air pollutant from the
same or other sources in the area.
(ii) Emission reductions otherwise required by the Federal Act shall not be creditable as emissions
reductions for purposes of any such offset requirement. Incidental emission reductions which
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are not Otherwise required by the Federal Act shall be creditable as emission reductions for such
purposes if such iiss n reductions meet the requirements of paragraph (1) of this subsection.
j . Additional Provisions for ozone Nonattainment Areas:
(i) In Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKaib, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett,
Henry, Paulding, and Rockdale counties, the terms “major source” and “major stationary
source” include any stationary source or group of sources located within a contiguous area and
under Common control that emits, or has the potential to emit, at least 50 tons per year of
volatile organic compounds or nitrogen oxides.
(ii) Increased emissions of volatile organic compounds or nitrogen oxides resulting from any
physical change in, or change in the method of operation of, a stationary source located in these
counties shall not be considered de minimis for purposes of determining the applicability of the
permit requirements established by this subsection unless the net emissions increase of such air
pollutant from such source does not exceed 25 tons when aggregated over any period of five
consecutive calendar years which includes the calendar year in which such increase occurred.
(iii) In the case of any major stationary source located in these counties which emits or has the
potential to emit less than 100 tons of volatile organic compounds or nitrogen oxides per year,
whenever any change (as described in Section 11 1(a)(4) of the Federal Act) at that source
results in any increase (other than a de minimis increase) in emissions of volatile organic
compounds or nitrogen oxides from any discrete operation, unit, or other pollutant emitting
activity at the source, such increase shall be considered a modification for purposes of this
subsection, unless the owner or operator of the source elects to offset the increase by a greater
reduction in emissions of volatile organic compounds or nitrogen oxides from other operations,
units, or activities within the source at an internal offset ratio of at least 1.3 to 1. If the owner
or operator does not make such election, such change shall be considered a modification for
such purposes. In applying this subsection in the case of any such modification, the best
available control technology (BACT), as defined by the Federal Act, shall be substituted for the
lowest achievable emission rate (LAER).
(iv) In the case of any major stationary source located in these counties which emits or has the
potential to emit more than 100 tons of volatile organic compounds or nitrogen oxides per year,
whenever any change (as described in Section 111(a) (4) of the Federal Act) at that source
results in any increase (other than a de minimis increase) in emissions of volatile organic
compounds or nitrogen oxides from any discrete operation, unit, or other pollutant emitting
activity at the source, such increase shall be considered a modification for purposes of this
subsection, except that if the owner or operator of the source elects to offset the increase by a
greater reduction in emissions of volatile organic compounds or nitrogen oxides from other
operations, units, or activities within the source at an internal offset ratio of at least 1.3 to 1,
the req irementa of this subsection concerning lowest achievable emission rate (LAER) shall
not apply.
(v) For purposes of satisfying the emission offset requirements of this subsection, the ratio of total
emission reductions of volatile organic compounds or nitrogen oxides to total increased
emissions of such air pollutant shall be at least 1.2 to 1 for emission offsets external to the
contiguous area under common control at which the proposed new emission point is located.
(d) With respect to the permitting of sources to be constructed or modified before July 1, 1979, the review
and other requirements of Section 129A of the Federal Act shall be met prior to issuance of any permit.
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(e) The Director shall, Upon analysis of the ambient air in the State, determine, and so designate, thone areas
of the State, if any, which are not attaining any National Ambient Air Quality Standards specified under
the Federal Act, and any area contributing to the ambient air level of any such pollutant (for which such
a standard has been established) in such areas of nonattainment. The Director’s analyses, determinations,
and designations hereunder shall be used for the purpose of implementing the requirements of this section,
shall be continuing, and shall be conducted in a manner sufficient to meet the requirements of Title I, Part
D of the Federal Act.
ThIS IS ThE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF MAR 15, 1995.
Date Submitted
to EPA
Date Approved
by EPA
Original Reg:
1st Revision:
2nd Revision:
DEC 16, 1975
JAN 17, 1979
DEC 15, 1986
NOV 13, 1992
AUG 20, 1976
SEP 18, 1979
MAR08, 1995
MAR08, 1995
41 FR 35184
44 FR 54047
60 FR 12688
60 FR 12688
Federal
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391-3-l-.04 AIR POLLUTION EPISODES. AMENDED.
(1) In order to prevent the occurrence of air contaminant concentrations great enough to cause danger to the public
health, the Director will proclaim that an Air Pollution Alert, Air Pollution Warning, or Air Pollution
Emergency exists when the meteorological conditions are such that an air stagnation condition is in existence
and/or the accumulation of air contaminants in any place is attaining or has attained levels which could, if such
levels are sustained or exceeded, lead to a substantial threat to the health of persons in the specific area
affected.
• (2) The Director will maintain a listing of specific air contaminant concentrations which, if reached or exceeded
at any monitoring site, will give rise to the proclamation of a respective air pollution episode level. The listing
will be available and furnished to any interested person, upon request to the Director. These ambient
concentration levels will be in graded levels with more restrictive control requirements being necessary as the
concentrations progress upward, with the Air Pollution Emergency level being one which should never be
reached and the most stringent control actions are necessary for reduction of air contaminant levels in the
atmosphere.
(3) The proclamation of an air pollution episode level can be for a specific, limited area affected by certain
emissions, and shall always be accompanied by the expectation of air stagnation conditions for twelve (12)
hours or more.
(4) Upon the request of the Director, any source owner, operator, or lessee shall prepare and furnish to the
Director written Air Pollution Episode plans for use in reducing the emission of air contaminants when the
source is notified of the existence of an Air Pollution Alert, Warning or Emergency in its area of influence.
Such plans shall identify the sources of air contaminants, the amount of reduction to be achieved, the method
by which the reduction will be accomplished, and the times required to put each such reduction step into effect.
The plan will specify progressively more stringent control actions to be taken at each of the air pollution
episode levels, with the Alert level needing the least reduction and the Emergency level requiring the most
reduction of emissions. The submitted Air Pollution Episode plan shall be subject to review and approval by
the Director. If the plan is judged to be inadequate by the Director, it shall be disapproved and an amended
plan will be prepared and resubmitted by the source owner, operator, or lessee.
• (5) When notified by the Director of the existence of an Air Pollution Alert, Warning, or Emergency in an area
influenced by its emissions, the source owner, operator, or lessee shall immediately put into effect the control
actions enumerated in the approved pollution episode plan on file with the Director, as appropriate for the
specific episode level in effect.
(6) Once proclaimed by the Director, an air pollution episode level will remain in effect until the criteria for air
contaminant concentrations applicable to the respective level are not longer met. At such time, the next lower
status will be assumed.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 20, 1976
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: DEC 16, 1975 AUG 20, 1976 41 FR 35184
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391-3.1-.O5 REGULATORy EXCEpHONS. AMENDED.
(1) The Director may grant specific or general classes of exceptions to the particular requirements of any rule,
regulation, or general order, to such specific persons or class of persons or such specific existing stationary
(as of June 1, 1972) source or general class of such sources subject to any requirement of, under, or pursuant
to the Georgia Air Quality Act of 1978, upon such conditions as he may deem necessary to protect the public
health, and welfare, if, upon petition, he finds that strict compliance with such rule, regulation, or general
order is inappropriate for one of the following reasons:
(a) Because of conditions beyond the control of petitioner; or
(b) Because of special circumstances which would render strict compliance unreasonable, unduly burdensome,
or impracticable due to special physical conditions or causes; or
(c) Because strict compliance would result in substantial curtailment or closing of the business or operation;
or
(d) Because no alternative facility or method of handling is available.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) above, the Director shall not in any case authorize an
exception to any requirement, unless such exception fully complies with an approved State Implementation Plan
meeting all the requirements of Title I, Part D, of the Federal Act, all the requirements for an approvable
revision to the State Implementation Plan pursuant to 40 USC §7411, as amended, and 42 Usc §2712, as
amended. Any exception granted is and shall be subject to the Director’s emergency powers under Ga. Code
Ann §43-2715, as amended, and the Administrator’s emergency powers under Title ifi, Section 303 of the
Federal Act. No exception to any State Implementation Plan requirement shall become effective until the Plan
revision based upon an exception is approved by EPA. If a State Plan revision based upon an exception has
been approved as part of the State Implementation Plan by EPA, an is subsequently disapproved by EPA, the
exception shall be immediately void and of no affect, and the general regulatory requirement shall apply to the
person or source to which such exception applied before the disapproval. In the event of such disapproval,
the affected person or source shall meet the regulation requirements as expeditiously as practicable.
(3) Any person or person seeking an exception to any regulation requirement shall do so by filing a petition for
such exception with the Director. The Director shall promptly investigate such petition and shall cause the
petitioner to have published in a newspaper of general circulation in the area of the source to which the
exception, if granted, is to apply, notice of the request for such exception, notice of the date, time, and place
of a public hearing to be held to receive comments upon and evidence with regard to the granting of such
petition, and notice of the person to whom and the address at which comments may be mailed, within 30 days
after the notice is published. Upon consideration of all the evidence and supporting data submitted by the
petitioner, and upon consideration of all evidence and comments received by mail, postmarked within 30 days
of the date of publication of the notice, the Director shall issue an order, either denying or granting the
requested exception. Any exception granted may be limited in time. Any exception may be conditioned upon
compliance with interim or alternate standards, limitations, or requirements and shall contain a schedule
requiring compliance with the regulation to which the exception is granted as expeditiously as practicable. The
Director shall evaluate the petition and the consequences of granting or denying the requested exception, giving
due regard to the factors listed in Ga. Code Ann. 43-2708, as amended, consistent with the public health,
safety and welfare.
(4) Any person aggrieved by the order of the Director upon such petition may request a review of such order in
accordance with the provisions of Ga. Code Ann. 43-2717.
(5) Any exception granted may be revoked or modified by the Director after a public hearing which shall be held
after giving at least fifteen (15) days notice to all persons known to the Director who will be subjected to
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greater restrictions or more stringent regulatory requirements if such exception is revoked or modified, and
to any person or persons who have filed with the Director a specific written request for such modification.
Any order of the Director revoking or modif ’ing any exception previously granted, may be reviewed in
accordance with the provisions of Ga. Code Ann. 43-2717; provided, however, that during the pendency of
any such review the Source or person to whom the exception applied prior to such revocation or modification
shall as expeditiously as practicable comply fully with the general regulatory requirements if the order is one
of revocation, or the terms of modified exception if the order is one of modification, after issuance and notice
of the Director’s order of revocation or modification. Any notice required herein may be made upon petitioner
by mailing (U. S. Post Office, adequate postage, a copy of the notice to order to either the address appearing
on the application for a permit for the affected source to such other address as the petitioner may provide, and
upon any other person by mailing to the address provided in the persons specific request for notification.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF SEPT 18, 1979.
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
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391.3- 1-.07 INSPECTIONS AND INVESTIGATIONS. AMENDED. In carrying out the provisions of these
rules and regulations, the Director, or his duly authorized representative, shall have the power to enter at reasânable
times upon any private or public property, and the owner, managing agent, or occupant of such property shall
permit such entry for the purpose of inspecting and investigating conditions relating to pollution or the possible
pollution of the air of the state.
ThIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 20, 1976.
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: DEC 16, 1975 AUG 20, 1976 41 FR 35184
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391-34.08 CONFIDENTIALrry OF INFORMATIO AMENDED. Information relating to secret processes,
devices, or methods of manufacture or production obtained by the Division shall be kept confidential. Provided,
however, reports on the nature and amounts of stationary source emissions obtained by the Division shall be
available for public inspections from the Division.
ThIS IS ThE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF AUG 20, 1976.
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: DEC 16, 1975 AUG 20, 1976 41 FR 35184
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391-3-1-09 ENFORCEMENT. AMENDED.
(I) The administration and enforcement of these rules and regulations shall be as prescribed in Ga. Code Ann.
43-2701, et seq., as amended (Ga. Laws 1978, p. 275 et seq., as amended), Section ha of the Executive
Reorganization Act of 1972, as amended (Georgia Laws 1972, pages 1015, 1926-27, as amended), and is
compliance with the applicable minimum requirements as prescribed by the Georgia Administrative Procedure
Act (Georgia Laws 1964, page 338, as amended).
To the extent provided by law, the Director will make every effort to remedy any violation of the provisions
of this Act, the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder or any order of the Director, by conference,
conciliation, and persuasion prior to undertaking enforcement action in accordance with the Act.
THIS IS ThE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF SEPT 18, 1979.
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: DEC 16, 1975 AUG 20, 1976 41 FR 35184
1st Revision: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
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391-3-1-.1O CONTINUANCE OF PRIOR RULES. In furtherance of the legislative intent expressed in Ga. Code
Ann. 43-2723, all rules or regulations, ar amendments thereof, promulgated or enacted by the Board of Natural
Resources prior to the effective date (March 6, 1978) of the Georgia Air Quality Act of 1978, Ga. Laws 1978, p.
275, et seq. (Ga. Code Ann. 43-2701 c i seq.), are hereby readopted and continued as so amended as rules or
regulations adopted by the authority of the Georgia Air Quality Act of 1978. As readopted, such rules or
regulations are and shall be subject to all revisions, repeals, additions, or amendments promulgated or adopted by
the Board of Natural Resources subsequent to March 6, 1978.
THIS IS THE FEDERALLY APPROVED REGULATION AS OF SEPT 18, 1979.
Date Submitted Date Approved Federal
to EPA by EPA Register
Original Reg: JAN 17, 1979 SEPT 18, 1979 44 FR 54047
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