(Adopted October 5, 1979)(Amended March 7, 1980)

(Amended September 10, 1982)(Amended April 6, 1984)

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Rule 1305. Special Permit Provisions

(a) Modifications to Equipment Under Existing Permits

Any person operating permit units which are to be modified for the purpose of

effecting emission reductions required by Rule 1307, or for banking pursuant to

Rule 1309, shall submit applications for new permits to construct and operate for

both the basic and control equipment involved in such reductions, regardless of

whether modifications are to be made to the basic or control equipment.

(b) Surrender of Permits Existing permits to operate for:

(1) the basic and/or control equipment specified in section (a), shall be

surrendered and canceled at the time new permits to operate are issued.

(2) equipment taken out of service to effect an emission reduction under Rule

1307 shall be surrendered at the time the permit units for w ' hich offsets

are required are issued. permits to operate, or as specified by conditions on

such new permits.

(3) equipment taken out of service to effect an emission reduction for banking

under Rule 1309 shall be surrendered at the time application for ERC is

approved,

(c) Where equipment will be taken out of service without the removal being

associated with an application for permit to construct, the applicant may apply for

either:

(1) an ERC, pursuant to Rule 1309; or

(2) registration of the emission reduction for accumulation with the net

emission balance at the same source. Application for such registration

shall be in the same manner as for an ERC and approval of such

registration shall be subject to all the requirements of this regulation for

accumulation of emissions at a source.

(d) Evaluation

In evaluating the permit applications and applications for ERC or registration of

emissions reductions submitted pursuant to this regulation the Executive Officer

shall:

(1) Determine completeness of the application and inform the applicant of

such pursuant to Rules 210 and 1310(a); and
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(2) Evaluate only those portions of the applicant's operations which pertain to

the modifications to be made. No other review or analysis shall be made

for the purpose of issuing new permits pursuant to this regulation.

(3) Consider emission reductions only if before a complete application is

submitted, the same emission reductions from the same equipment type as

those proposed by the applicant are not:

(A) required by a Tactic in the AQMP which is identified therein as

being cost effective and has been assigned a target implementation

date. This exclusion shall remain in effect for 30 months from the

date of adoption of the AQMP by the District Board or until the

provisions of subsection (3)(C) become effective; or

(B) required by a proposed District rule for which the first public

workshop to consider such rule has been conducted. This

exclusion shall remain in effect for 12 months from the date of

such workshop, or until the Executive Officer determines that the

proposed rule is abandoned or the provisions of subsection (3)(C)

become effective; or

(C) required by an adopted District rule or regulation; or

(D) from a category or class of equipment included in a demonstration

program required by a District rule or regulation.

(E) The time limits in subparagraphs (3)(A) and (3)(B) may be

extended on a rule-by-rule basis by action of the Board.