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Regulation 61-62.5, Standard 2SOUTH CAROLINADEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLAIR POLLUTION CONTROL REGULATIONS AND STANDARDSREGULATION 61-62.5AIR POLLUTION CONTROL STANDARDSSTANDARD NO. 2AMBIENT AIR QUALITY STANDARDSThe following table, unless otherwise noted, constitutes the primary and secondary ambient air quality standards for the Stateof South Carolina.The computations for determining if the applicable standard ismet, along with the analytical methods to be used, will be thoseapplicable FederalReference Methods and Interpretations published in the Appendices to 40 CFR 50, or those methods designated as Federal Equivalent Methods (FEM)in accordance with 40 CFR 53. Appendices A-N as revisedJuly 18, 1997.In the case of Gaseous fluoridesFluorides, either the double paper tapesampler methods(ASTM D-3266-7991 or later), orthe sodium bicarbonate-coated glass tubeand particulate filter method (ASTM D-3268-7891 orlater), or an approved method may be used.PollutantReferenceMeasuring IntervalMicrograms Per Cubic Meter Unless Noted Otherwise(1)(2)Standard Levelmg/m3μg/m3ppmppb3 hours(secondary)-1300(4)0.5-24 hours(primary)-365(4)0.14-Sulfur Dioxide40 CFR 50.440 CFR 50.5aAnnual(primary)-800.030-PM1040 CFR 50.624 hours-150(3)--annual50(3)24 hours-35(3)--PM2.5(Primary andSecondaryStandards)40 CFR 50.13aAnnual-15(3)--PollutantReference Measuring IntervalMicrograms Per Cubic Meter Unless Noted Otherwise(1)(2)Standard Level1 hour(no secondary)40 mg percubic meter-35-Carbon Monoxide40 CFR 50.88 hour(no secondary)10 mg percubic meter-9-Ozone40 CFR 50.108 hours(1997)--0.08(3) (5)-40 CFR 50.158 hours(2008)--0.075(3)-12hr. avg.hour-3.7--24 hr. avg.hour-2.9--1 wk. avg.week-1.6--Gaseous Fluorides(as HF)State Regulation(1978)1 mo. avg.month-0.8--Nitrogen Dioxide40 CFR 50.11aAnnual-1000.05353Lead40 CFR 50.16Rolling 3-monthAverage-0.15--(1)Arithmetic Average except in case oftotal suspended particulate matter.(2)At 250C and 760 mm Hg.(3)Attainment determinations will be made based on the criteria contained in 40CFR 50 Appendices H, I, K and N.(4)Not to be exceeded more than once a year.(5)The 1997 standard–and the implementation rules for that standard–will remain in place for implementation purposes as EPA undertakesrulemaking to address transition from the 1997 ozone standard to the 2008 ozone standard.(6)Detailed explanation of the rolling 3-month average calculation can be found in 40CFR 50.16R. 61-62.5, Standard No. 2 History -South Carolina State Register:Vol. 9, Issue No. 5, (Doc. No. 457), May 24, 1985;Vol. 12, Issue No. 4, (Doc. No. 970), April 22, 1988;Vol. 13, Issue No. 2, (Doc. No. 868), February 24, 1989;Vol. 28, Issue No. 9, (Doc. No. 2912), September 24, 2004;Vol. 32, Issue No. 10, (Doc. No. 3224), October 24, 2008;Vol. 33, Issue No. 10, (Doc. No. 4082), October 23, 2009;Vol. 36, Issue No. 4, (Doc. No. 4280), April 27, 2012.

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Regulation 61-62.5, Standard 7SOUTH CAROLINA

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS

REGULATION 61-62.5

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL STANDARDS

STANDARD NO. 7

PREVENTION OF SIGNIFICANT DETERIORATION

(a)(1) Reserved.

(2) Applicability procedures.

(i) The requirements of this regulation apply to the construction of any new major stationary source (as defined in paragraph (b)(32)) or any project at an existing major stationary source in an area designated as

attainment or unclassifiable under 40 CFR 81.341.

(ii) The requirements of paragraphs (j) thr ough (r) apply to the construction of any new major stationary source or the major modification of any ex isting major stationary source, except as this section otherwise provides.

(iii) No new major stationary source or major m odification to which the requirements of paragraphs (j) through (r)(5) apply shall begin actual construction wit hout a permit that states that the major stationary source or major modification will meet those requirement s. The Department has authority to issue any such permit.

(iv) The requirements of the program will be applied in accordance with the principles set out in paragraphs (a)(2)(iv)(a) through (f).

(a) Except as otherwise provided in paragra phs (a)(2)(v) and (vi), and consistent with the definition of major modification contained in paragr aph (b)(30), a project is a major modification for a regulated New Source Review (NSR) pollutant if it causes two types of emissions increases – a significant emissions increase (as defined in paragraph (b)(50)), and a significant net emissions increase (as defined in paragraphs (b)(34) and (b)(49)). The project is not a major modification if it does not cause a significant emissions increase. If the project causes a significant emissions increase, then the project is a major modification only if it also results in a significant net emissions increase.

(b) The procedure for calculating (before begi nning actual construction) whether a significant emissions increase ( i.e. , the first step of the process) will occur depends upon the type of emissions units being modified, according to paragraphs (a)(2)(iv)(c ) through (f). The procedure for calculating (before beginning actual construction) whether a significant net emissions increase will occur at the major stationary

source ( i.e. , the second step of the process) is contained in the definition in paragraph (b)(34). Regardless of any such preconstruction projections, a major modification results if the project causes a significant emissions increase and a significant net emissions increase.

(c) Actual-to-projected-actual applicability test for projects that only involve existing

emissions units. A significant emissions increase of a regulated NS R pollutant is projected to occur if the sumof the difference between the projected actual emissions (as defined in paragraph (b)(41)) and the baseline actual emissions (as defined in paragraphs (b)(4)(i) a nd (ii)), for each existing emissions unit, equals or exceeds the significant amount for that polluta nt (as defined in paragraph (b)(49)).

(d) Actual-to-potential test for projects that on ly involve construction of a new emissions unit(s). A significant emissions increase of a regulated NSR po llutant is projected to occur if the sum of the difference between the potential to emit (as defined in paragraph (b)(37)) from each new emissions unit following completion of the project and the baseline actua l emissions (as defined in paragraph (b) (4)(iii)) of these units before the project equals or exceeds the significant amount for that pollutant (as defined in paragraph (b)(49)).

(e) [Reserved]

(f) Hybrid test for projects that involve multiple types of emissions units. A significant emissions increase of a regulated NSR pollutant is projected to occur if the sum of the emissions increases for each emissions unit, using the method specified in paragr aphs (a)(2)(iv)(c) and (d) as applicable with respect to each emissions unit, equals or exceeds, the significan t amount for that pollutant (as defined in paragraph (b)(49)).

(v) For any major stationary source for a Plan twide Applicability Limitation (PAL) for a regulated NSR pollutant, the major stationary source shall co mply with the requirements under paragraph (aa).

(b) Definitions.

For the purposes of this regulation:

(1)(i) “Actual emissions” means the actual rate of emissions of a regulated NSR pollutant from an emissions unit, as determined in accordance with pa ragraphs (b)(1)(ii) through (iv), except that this definitions shall not apply for calculating whether a significant emissions increase has occurred, or for establishing a PAL under paragraph (aa). Instead, para graphs (b)(41) and (b)(4) shall apply for those

purposes.

(ii) In general, actual emissions as of a particular date shall equal the average rate, in tons per year, at which the unit actually emitted the pollutant during a consecutive 24-month period which precedes the particular date and which is representative of normal source operation. The Department shall allow the use of a different time period upon a determination that it is more representative of normal source operation. Actual emissions shall be calculated using the unit' s actual operating hours, production rates, and types of materials processed, stored, or combusted during the selected time period.

(iii) The Department may presume that s ource-specific allowable emissions for the unit are equivalent to the actual emissions of the unit.

(iv) For any emissions unit that has not begun normal operations on the particular date, actual emissions shall equal the potential to emit of the unit on that date.

(2) “Adverse impact on visibility” means visibility impairment 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 ta king into account the geographic extent, intensity, duration, frequency and time of visibility impairment, and how these factors correlate with (1) times of visitor use of the Federal Class I area, and (2) the frequency a nd timing of natural conditions that reduce visibility.(3)“ Allowable emissions” means the emissions rate of a stationary source calculated using the maximum rated capacity of the source (unless the source is subject to federally enforceable limits which restrict the operating rate, or hours of opera tion, or both) and the most stringent of the following:

(i) The applicable standards as set forth in 40 CFR 60 and 61;

(ii) The applicable State Implementation Plan emissions limitation, including those with a future compliance date; or

(iii) The emissions rate specified as a federally enforceable permit condition, including those with a future compliance date.

(4) “Baseline actual emissions” means the rate of emissions, in tons per year, of a regulated NSR pollutant, as determined in accordance w ith paragraphs (b)(4)(i) through (iv).

(i) For any existing electric utility steam generating unit, baseline actual emissions means the average rate, in tons per year, at which the unit actually emitte d the pollutant during any consecutive 24-month period selected by the owner or operator within the 5-year period immediately preceding when the owner or operator begins actual construction of the project. The Departme nt shall allow the use of a different time period upon a determination that it is more repr esentative of normal source operation.

(a) The average rate shall include fugitive em issions to the extent quantifiable, and emissions associated with startups and shutdowns.

(b) The average rate shall be adjusted dow nward to exclude any non-compliant emissions that occurred while the source was operating above any emissi on limitation that was legally enforceable during the consecutive 24-month period.

(c) For a regulated NSR pollutant, when a project involves multiple emissions units, only one consecutive 24-month period must be used to determine the baseline actual emissions for the emissions units being changed. A different consecutive 24-month peri od can be used for each regulated NSR pollutant.

(d) The average rate shall not be based on any consecutive 24-month period for which there is inadequate information for determini ng annual emissions, in tons per year, and for adjusting this amount if required by paragraph (b)(4)(i)(b).

(ii) For an existing emissions unit (other than an electric utility steam generating unit), baseline actual emissions means the average rate, in tons per year, at which the emissions unit actually emitted the pollutant during any consecutive 24-month period selected by th e owner or operator within the 10-year period immediately preceding either the date the owner or opera tor begins actual construction of the project, or the date a complete permit application is received by the Department for a permit required under this section or under a plan approved by the Administrator, whicheve r is earlier, except that the 10-year period shall not include any period earlier than November 15, 1990. The Department reserves the right to determine if the 24- month period selected is appropriate.

(a) The average rate shall include fugitive em issions to the extent quantifiable, and emissions associated with startups and shutdowns.

(b) The average rate shall be adjusted dow nward to exclude any non-compliant emissions thatoccurred while the source was operating above an emissi on limitation that was legally enforceable during the consecutive 24-month period.

(c) The average rate shall be adjusted downward to exclude any emissions that would have exceeded an emission limitation with which the major stationa ry source must currently comply, had such major stationary source been required to comply with su ch limitations during the consecutive 24-month period. However, if an emission limitation is part of a maxi mum achievable control technology standard that the Administrator proposed or promulgated under 40 CFR 63, the baseline actual emissions need only be adjusted

if the State has taken credit for such emissions reductions in an attainment demonstration or maintenance plan consistent with the requirement s of 40 CFR 51.165(a)(3)(ii)(G).

(d) For a regulated NSR pollutant, when a project involves multiple emissions units, only one consecutive 24-month period must be used to determin e the baseline actual emissions for all the emissions units being changed. A different consecutive 24-month period can be used for each regulated NSR pollutant.

(e) The average rate shall not be based on any consecutive 24-month period for which there is inadequate information for determini ng annual emissions, in tons per year, and for adjusting this amount if required by paragraphs (b)(4)(ii)(b) and (c).

(iii) For a new emissions unit, the baseline actua l emissions for purposes of determining the emissions

increase that will result from the initial construction and operation of such unit shall equal zero; and thereafter, for all other purposes, shall equal the unit's potential to emit.

(iv) For a PAL for a stationary source, the base line actual emissions shall be calculated for existing electric utility steam generating units in accordance with the procedures contained in paragraph (b)(4)(i), for other existing emissions units in accordance with the pr ocedures contained in paragraph (b)(4)(ii), and for a new emissions unit in accordance with the pr ocedures contained in paragraph (b)(4)(iii).

(5)(i) “Baseline area” means any intrastate area (and every part thereof) designated as attainment or unclassifiable under section 107(d)(1)(D A)(ii) or (E iii) of the Clean Air Act in which the major source or major modification establishing the minor source baseline date would construct or would have an air quality impact for the pollutant for which the base line date is established, as follows: equal Equal to or greater than 1 μg/m 3 (annual average) of the pollutant for which the minor source baseline date is established for SO 2 , NO 2 , or PM 10 ; or equal or greater than 0.3 μg/m 3 (annual average) for PM 2.5

.

(ii) Area redesignations under section 107(d)(1)(D A)(ii) or (E iii) of the Clean Air Act cannot intersect or be smaller than the area of impact of any major stationary source or major modification which:

(a) Establishes a minor source baseline date; or

(b) Is subject to 40 CFR 51.166 and would be constructed in the same state as the state proposing the redesignation.

(iii) Any baseline area established originally for the TSP increments shall remain in effect and shall apply for purposes of determining the amount of available PM 10 increments, except th at such baseline area shall not remain in effect if the Department r escinds the corresponding minor source baseline date in accordance with paragraph (b)(31)(iv).

(6)(i) “Baseline concentration” means that ambient concentration level that exists in the baseline area at the time of the applicable minor source baseline date . A baseline concentration is determined for eachpollutant for which a minor source baselin e date is established and shall include:

(a) The actual emissions, as defined in paragr aph (b)(1), representative of sources in existence on the applicable minor source baseline date, ex cept as provided in paragraph (b) (6)(ii); and

(b) The allowable emissions of major stati onary sources that commenced construction before the major source baseline date, but were not in opera tion by the applicable minor source baseline date.

(ii) The following will not be included in the b aseline concentration and will affect the applicable maximum allowable increase(s):

(a) Actual emissions, as defined in paragr aph (b)(1), from any major stationary source on

which construction commenced after the major source baseline date; and

(b) Actual emissions increases and decreases, as defined in paragraph (b)(1), at any stationary source occurring after the minor source baseline date.

(7)“ Begin actual construction” means, in general, initiation of phy sical on-site construction activities on an emissions unit which are of a permanent nature. Su ch activities include, but are not limited to, installation of building supports and foundations , laying underground pipework and c onstruction of permanent storage structures. With respect to a change in method of opera tions, this term refers to those on-site activities other than preparatory activities which mark the initiation of the change.

(8) “Best available control technology” means an emissions limitation (including a visible emission standard) based on the maximum degree of reduction for each regulated NSR pollutant which would beemitted from any proposed major stationary source or major modification which the Department, on a caseby-case basis, taking into account energy, environmental, and economic impacts and other costs, determines is achievable for such source or modification through app lication of production processes or available methods, systems, and techniques, including fuel cleaning or treatment or innovative fuel combustion techniques for control of such pollutant. In no event shall application of best available control technology result in emissions of any pollutant which would exceed the emissions a llowed by any applicable standard under 40 CFR 60 and 61. If the Department determines that technological or economic limitations on the application of measurement methodology to a particular emissions unit would make the imposition of an emissions standard infeasible, a design, equipment, work practice, ope rational standard, or combination thereof, may be prescribed instead to satisfy the requirement for the a pplication of best available control technology. Such standard shall, to the degree possible, set forth the em issions reduction achievable by implementation of such design, equipment, work practice or operation, and shall provide for compliance by means which achieve equivalent results.

(9) “Building, structure, facility, or installation” means all of the pollutant-emitting activities which belong to the same industrial grouping, are located on one or more contiguous or adjacent properties, and are under the control of the same person (or persons under common control) except the activities of any vessel. Pollutant-emitting activities shall be considered as part of the same industrial grouping if they belong to the same "Major Group" (i.e., which have the same first two digit code) as described in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, as amended by the 1977 S upplement (U.S. Government Printing Office stock numbers 4101-0066 and 003-005-00176-0, respectively).

(10) “Clean coal technology” means any technology, including technologies applied at the precombustion, combustion, or post combustion stage, at a new or ex isting facility which will achieve significant reductions in air emissions of sulfur dioxide or oxides of nitrogen associated with the utilization of coal in the generationof electricity, or process steam which was not in widespread use as of November 15, 1990.

(11) “Clean coal technology demonstration project” means a project using funds appropriated under the heading “Department of Energy-Clean Coal Technology,” up to a total amount of $2,500,000,000 for commercial demonstration of clean coal technology, or similar projects funded through appropriations for the Environmental Protection Agency. The Federal contri bution for a qualifying project shall be at least 20 percent of the total cost of the demonstration project.

(12) [Reserved]

(13) “Commence” as applied to construction of a major stationary source or major modification means that the owner or operator has all necessary preconstruc tion approvals or permits and either has:

(i) Begun, or caused to begin, a continuous program of actual on-site construction of the source, to be completed within a reasonable time; or

(ii) Entered into binding agreements or cont ractual obligations, which cannot be cancelled or modified without substantial loss to the owner or operator, to undertake a program of actual construction of the source to be completed within a reasonable time.

(14) “Complete” means in reference to an application for a perm it, that the application contains all of the information necessary for processing the application.

(15) “Construction” means any physical change or change in the method of operation (including

fabrication, erection, installation, demolition, or modi fication of an emissions unit) that would result in a change in actual emissions.

(16) “Continuous emissions monitoring system (CEMS)” means all of the equipment that may be required to meet the data acquisition and availability re quirements of this regulation, to sample, condition (if applicable), analyze, and provide a record of emissions on a continuous basis.

(17) “Continuous emissions rate mo nitoring system (CERMS)” means the total equipment required for the determination and recording of the pollutant mass emissions rate (in terms of mass per unit of time).

(18) “Continuous parameter monitoring system (CPMS)” means all of the equipment necessary to meet the data acquisition and availability requirements of th is regulation, to monitor process and control device operational parameters (for example, control device secondary voltages and electric currents) and other information (for example, gas flow rate, O 2 or CO 2 concentrations), and to record average operational parameter value(s) on a continuous basis.

(19) “Electric utility steam generating unit” means any steam electric genera ting unit that is constructed for the purpose of supplying more than one-third of its potential electric output capacity and more than 25 MW electrical output to any utility power distributi on system for sale. Any steam supplied to a steam distribution system for the purpose of providing steam to a steam-electric generator that would produce electrical energy for sale is also considered in determ ining the electrical energy output capacity of the affected facility.

(20) “Emissions unit” means any part of a stationary source that emits or would have the potential to emit any regulated NSR pollutant and includes an electric utility steam generating unit as defined in paragraph (b)(19). For purposes of this regulation, there are two types of emissions units as described in paragraphs(b)(20)(i) and (ii).

(i) A new emissions unit is any emissions unit th at is (or will be) newly constructed and that has existed for less than 2 years from the da te such emissions unit first operated.

(ii) An existing emissions unit is any emissions unit that does not meet the requirements in paragraph (b)(20)(i). A replacement unit, as defined in para graph (b)(45), is an existing emissions unit.

(21) “Federal Land Manager” means, with respect to any lands in the United States, the Secretary of the department with authority over such lands.

(22) “Federally enforceable” means all limitations and conditions which are enforceable by the Administrator, including those requirements develope d pursuant to 40 CFR 60 and 61, requirements within any applicable State implementation plan, any permit requirements established pursuant to 40 CFR 52.21 or under regulations approved pursuant to 40 CFR 51, subpart I, including operating permits issued under an EPA-approved program that is incorporated into the State implementation plan and expressly requires adherence to any permit issued under such program.

(23) “Fugitive emissions” means those emissions which could not reasonably pass through a stack, chimney, vent, or other functionally equivalent opening.

(24) “High terrain” means any area having an elevation 900 feet or more above the base of the stack of a

source.

(25) “Indian Governing Body” means the governing body of any tribe, band, or group of Indians subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and rec ognized by the United States as possessing power of self

government.

(26) “Indian Reservation” means any federally recognized reservation established by Treaty, Agreement, Executive Order, or Act of Congress.

(27) “Innovative control technology” means any system of air pollution control that has not been adequately demonstrated in practice, but would have a substantial likelihood of achieving greater continuous emissions reduction than any control system in current practice or of achieving at least comparable reductions at lower cost in terms of energy, economics, or nonair quality environmental impacts.

(28) “Low terrain” means any area other than high terrain.

(29) “Lowest achievable emission rate (LAER)” is as defined in paragra ph (c)(5) of Regulation 61-62.5

Standard 7.1, “ Nonattainment New Source Review. ”

(30)(i) “Major modification” means any physical change in or change in the method of operation of a major stationary source that would result in: a significan t emissions increase (as defined in paragraph (b)(50)) of a regulated NSR pollutant (as defi ned in paragraph (b)(44)); and a significant net emissions increase of that pollutant from the major stationary source.

(ii) Any significant emissions increase (as defined in paragraph (b)(50)) from any emissions units or net emissions increase (as defined in paragraph (b)(34)) at a major stationary source that is significant for volatile organic compounds or oxides of nitroge n shall be considered significant for ozone.(iii) A physical change or change in the method of operation shall not include:

(a) Routine maintenance, repair and replacement;

(b) Use of an alternative fuel or raw material by reason of an order under sections 2(a) and (b) of the Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act of 1974 (or any superseding legislation) or by reason of a natural gas curtailment plan pursuant to the Federal Power Act;

(c) Use of an alternative fuel by reason of an order or rule under section 125 of the Clean Air

Act;

(d) Use of an alternative fuel at a steam gene rating unit to the extent that the fuel is generated from municipal solid waste;

(e) Use of an alternative fuel or raw material by a stationary source which:

(1) The source was capable of accommodating before January 6, 1975, unless such change would be prohibited under an y federally enforceable permit c ondition which was established after January 6, 1975 pursuant to 40 CFR 52.21 or under regula tions approved pursuant to 40 CFR subpart I or 40

CFR 51.166; or

(2) The source is approved to use under any permit issued under 40 CFR 52.21 or under regulations approved pursuant to 40 CFR 51.166;

(f) An increase in the hours of operation or in the production rate, unless such change would be prohibited under any federally enforceable permit condition which was established after January 6, 1975, pursuant to 40 CFR 52.21 or under regulations approved pursuant to 40 CFR subpart I or 40 CFR 51.166.

(g) Any change in ownership at a stationary source.

(h) [Reserved]

(i) The installation, operation, cessation, or removal of a temporary clean coal technology demonstration project, provided that the project complies with:

(1) The State implementation plan for th e State in which the project is located, and

(2) Other requirements necessary to attain and maintain the national ambient air quality standards during the project and after it is terminated.

(j) The installation or operation of a permanent clean coal technology demonstration project that constitutes repowering, provided that the project do es not result in an increase in the potential to emit of any regulated pollutant emitted by the unit. This exem ption shall apply on a pollutant-by-pollutant basis.

(k) The reactivation of a very clean coal-fired electric utility steam generating unit.

(iv) This definition shall not apply with respect to a particular regulated NSR pollutant when the major stationary source is complying with the requireme nts under paragraph (aa) for a PAL for that pollutant. Instead, the definition at paragraph (aa)(2)(viii) shall apply.(31)(i) “Major source baseline date” means:

(a) In the case of particulate matter PM 10 and sulfur dioxide, January 6, 1975, and ;

(b) In the case of nitrogen dioxide, February 8, 1988. ; and

(c) In the case of PM 2.5 , October 20, 2010.

(ii) “Minor source baseline date” means the earliest date after the trigger date on which a major stationary source or a major modification subject to 40 CFR 52.21 or to regulations approved pursuant to 40 CFR 51.166 submits a complete application under th e relevant regulations. The trigger date is:

(a) In the case of particulate matter PM 10 and sulfur dioxide, August 7, 1977, and ;

(b) In the case of nitrogen dioxide, February 8, 1988. ; and

(c) In the case of PM 2.5 , October 20, 2011.

(iii) The baseline date is established for each po llutant for which increments or other equivalent

measures have been established if:

(a) The area in which the proposed source or modification would construct is designated as attainment or unclassifiable under section 107(d)(i 1)(D A)(ii) or (E iii) of the Federal Clean Air Act for the pollutant on the date of its complete application under 40 CFR 52.21 or under regul ations approved pursuant

to 40 CFR 51.166; and

(b) In the case of a major stationary sour ce, the pollutant would be emitted in significant amounts, or, in the case of a major modification, there would be a significant net emissions increase of the pollutant.

(iv) Any minor source baseline date established originally for the TSP increments shall remain in effect and shall apply for purposes of determining the amount of available PM 10 increments, except that the Department shall rescind a minor source baseline date where it can be shown, to the satisfaction of the Department, that the emissions increase from the major stationary source, or net emissions increase from the major modification, responsible for triggering that date did not result in a significant amount of PM 10 emissions.

(32)(i) “Major stationary source” means:

(a) Any of the following stationary sources of air pollutants which em its, or has the potential to emit, 100 tons per year or more of any regulated NSR pollutant: Fossil fuel-fired steam electric plants of more than 250 million British thermal units per hour heat input, coal cleaning plants (with thermal dryers), kraft pulp mills, portland cement plants, primary zinc sm elters, iron and steel mill plants, primary aluminum ore reduction plants, primary copper smelters, municipal incinerators capable of charging more than 250 tons of refuse per day, hydrofluoric, sulfuric, and nitric acid plants, petroleum refineries, lime plants, phosphate rock processing plants, coke oven batteries, sulfur recovery plants, carbon black plants (furnace process), primary lead smelters, fuel conversion plants, sinter ing plants, secondary metal production plants, chemical process plants (which does not include ethanol pr oduction facilities that produce ethanol by natural fermentation included in NAICS codes 325193 or 312140), fossil fuel boilers (or combinations thereof) totaling more than 250 million British thermal units per hour heat input, petroleum storage and transfer unitswith a total storage capacity exceeding 300,000 barrels, t aconite ore processing plants, glass fiber processing plants, and charcoal production plants;

(b) Notwithstanding the stationary source size specified in paragraph (b)(32)(i), any stationary source which emits, or has the potential to emit, 250 tons per year or more of a regulated NSR pollutant; or

(c) Any physical change that would occur at a stationary source not otherwise qualifying under paragraph (b)(32), as a major stationary source, if the changes would constitute a major stationary source by itself.

(ii) A major stationary source that is major fo r volatile organic compounds or oxides of nitrogen shall be considered major for ozone.

(iii) The fugitive emissions of a stationary source shall not be included in determining for any of the purposes of this regulation whether it is a major stationary source, unless the source belongs to one of the following categories of stationary sources:

(a) Coal cleaning plants (with thermal dryers);

(b) Kraft pulp mills;

(c) Portland cement plants;

(d) Primary zinc smelters;

(e) Iron and steel mills;

(f) Primary aluminum ore reduction plants;

(g) Primary copper smelters;

(h) Municipal incinerators capable of ch arging more than 250 tons of refuse per day;

(i) Hydrofluoric, sulfuric, or nitric acid plants;

(j) Petroleum refineries;

(k) Lime plants;

(l) Phosphate rock processing plants;

(m) Coke oven batteries;

(n) Sulfur recovery plants;

(o) Carbon black plants (furnace process);

(p) Primary lead smelters;(q) Fuel conversion plants;

(r) Sintering plants;

(s) Secondary metal production plants;

(t) Chemical process plants – The term ch emical processing plant shall not include ethanol production facilities that produce ethanol by natura l fermentation included in NAICS codes 325193 or

312140;

(u) Fossil-fuel boilers (or combination th ereof) totaling more than 250 million British thermal units per hour heat input;

(v) Petroleum storage and transfer units with a total storage capacity exceeding 300,000

barrels;

(w) Taconite ore processing plants;

(x) Glass fiber processing plants;

(y) Charcoal production plants;

(z) Fossil fuel-fired steam electric plants of more that 250 million British thermal units per hour heat input, and

(aa) Any other stationary source category which, as of August 7, 1980, is being regulated

under section 111 or 112 of the Federal Clean Air Act.

(33) “Necessary preconstruction approvals or permits” means those permits or approvals required under federal air quality control laws and regulations and those air quality cont rol laws and regulations which are part of the applicable State Implementation Plan.

(34)(i) “Net emissions increase” means, with respect to any regulated NSR pollutant emitted by a major stationary source, the amount by which the sum of the following exceeds zero:

(a) The increase in emissions from a particular physical change or change in method of operation at a stationary source as calcula ted pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)(iv); and

(b) Any other increases and decreases in actual em issions at the major stationary source that are contemporaneous with the particular change and are otherwise creditable. Baseline actual emissions for calculating increases and decreases under this paragraph (b )(34)(i)(b) shall be determined as provided in paragraph (b)(4), except that paragraphs (b)(4)(i)(c) and (b)(4)(ii)(d) shall not apply.

(ii) An increase or decrease in actual emissions is contemporaneous with the increase from the particular change only if it occurs between:

(a) The date five years before constr uction on the particular change commences; and

(b) The date that the increase from the particular change occurs.(iii) An increase or decrease in actual emissions is creditable only if:

(a) The Department has not relied on it in issuing a permit for the source under this section, which permit is in effect when the increase in actua l emissions from the particular change occurs; and

(b) [Reserved]

(c) It occurs within five years before th e date that the increase from the particular change

occurs.

(iv) An increase or decrease in actual emissions of sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, or nitrogen oxide, that occurs before the applicable minor source b aseline date is creditable only if it is required to be considered in calculating the amount of maximum allowable increases remaining available

(v) An increase in actual emissions is creditable only to the extent that the new level of actual

emissions exceeds the old level.

(vi) A decrease in actual emissions is creditable only to the extent that:

(a) The old level of actual emissions or th e old level of allowable emissions, whichever is

lower, exceeds the new level of actual emissions;

(b) It is federally enforceable at and afte r the time that actual construction on the particular change begins; and

(c) It has approximately the same qualitative significance for public health and welfare as that attributed to the increase from the particular change.

(vii) [Reserved]

(viii) An increase that results from a physical cha nge at a source occurs when the emissions unit on which construction occurred becomes operational and begins to emit a particular pollutant. Any replacement unit that requires shakedown becomes operational only after a reasonable shakedown period, not to exceed 180 days.

(ix) Paragraph (b)(1)(ii) shall not apply for determining creditable increases and decreases.

(35) [Reserved]

(36) [Reserved]

(37) “Potential to emit” means the maximum capacity of a stationary source to emit a pollutant under its physical and operational design. Any physical or operati onal limitation on the capacity of the source to emit a 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.

(38) “Predictive emissions monitoring system (PEMS)” means all of the equipment necessary to monitor process and control device operational parameters (fo r example, control device secondary voltages andelectric currents) and other information (for example, gas flow rate, O 2 or CO 2 concentrations), and calculate and record the mass emissions rate (for example, lb/hr) on a continuous basis.

(39) “Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) program” means the EPA-implemented major source preconstruction permit programs or a major s ource preconstruction permit program that has been approved by the Administrator and incorporated into the State Implementation Plan pursuant to 40 CFR 51.166 to implement the requirements of that section. Any permit issued under such a program is a major NSR permit.

(40) “Project” means a physical change in, or change in the method of operation of, an existing major stationary source.

(41)(i) “Projected actual emissions” means the maximum annual rate, in tons per year, at which an existing emissions unit is projected to emit a regulated NSR pollutant in any one of the 5 years (12-month period) following the date the unit resumes regular operation after the project, or in any one of the 10 years following that date, if the project involves increasing th e emissions unit's design capacity or its potential to emit that regulated NSR pollutant and full utilization of the unit would result in a significant emissions increase or a significant net emissions increase at the major stationary source.

(ii) In determining the projected actual emissi ons under paragraph (b)(41)(i) (before beginning actual construction), the owner or operator of the major stationary source:

(a) Shall consider all relevant information, in cluding but not limited to, historical operational data, the company's own representations, the company's exp ected business activity and the company's highest projections of business activity, the company's filings with the State or Federal regulatory authorities, and compliance plans under the approved State Implementation Plan; and

(b) Shall include fugitive emissions to the extent quantifiable and emissions associated with startups and shutdowns; and

(c) Shall exclude, in calculating any increase in em issions that results from the particular project, that portion of the unit's emissions following the project th at an existing unit could have accommodated during the consecutive 24-month period used to establish the base line actual emissions under paragraph (b)(4) and that are also unrelated to the particular project, includi ng any increased utilization due to product demand growth;

or

(d) In lieu of using the method set out in pa ragraph (b)(41)(ii)(a) through (c), may elect to use the emissions unit's potential to emit, in tons per year, as defined under paragraph (b)(37).

(42) “Reactivation of a very clean coal-fired electric utility steam generating unit” means any physical change or change in the method of operation associat ed with the commencement of commercial operations by a coal-fired utility unit after a period of discontinued operation where the unit:

(i) Has not been in operation for the two-year period prior to the enactment of the Clean Air Act

Amendments of 1990, and the emissions from such unit c ontinue to be carried in the permitting authority's emissions inventory at the time of enactment;

(ii) Was equipped prior to shut-down with a con tinuous system of emissions control that achieves a removal efficiency for sulfur dioxide of no less than 85 percent and a removal efficiency for particulates of no less than 98 percent;(iii) Is equipped with low-NOx burners prior to the time of commencement of operations following

reactivation; and

(iv) Is otherwise in compliance with the requirements of the Clean Air Act.

(43) “Reasonably available control technology (RACT)” is as defined in 40 CFR 51.100(o).

(44) “Regulated NSR pollutant,” for purposes of this regulation, means the following:

(i) Any pollutant for which a national ambient air quality standard has been promulgated and any constituents or precursors for such pollu tants identified by the Administrator ( e.g. , volatile organic compounds are precursors for ozone);

(ii) Any pollutant that is subject to any sta ndard promulgated under section 111 of the Clean Air Act;

(iii) Any Class I or II substance subject to a standa rd promulgated under or established by title VI of the

Clean Air Act; or

(iv) Any pollutant that otherwise is subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act; except that any or all hazardous air pollutants either listed in section 112 of the Clean Air Act or added to the list pursuant to section 112(b)(2) of the Clean Air Act, which have not been delisted pursuant to section 112(b)(3) of the Clean Air Act, are not regulated NSR pollutants unless the listed hazardous air pollutant is also regulated as a constituent or precursor of a general pollutant listed under section 108 of the Clean Air Act.

(45) “Replacement unit” means an emissions unit for which all the criteria listed in paragraphs (b)(45)(i) through (iv) are met. No credible emission reductions shall be generated from shutting down the existing emissions unit that is replaced.

(i)The emissions unit is a reconstructed unit within the meaning of 40 CFR 60.15(b)(1), or the emissions unit completely takes the place of an existing emissions unit.

(ii) The emissions unit is identical to or functionally equivalent to the replaced emissions unit.

(iii) The replacement does not alter the basic design parameters of the process unit.

(iv) The replaced emissions unit is permanently removed from the major stationary source, otherwise permanently disabled, or permanently barred from opera tion by a permit that is enforceable as a practical matter. If the replaced emissions unit is brought back in to operation, it shall constitute a new emissions unit.

(46)(i) “Repowering” means replacement of an existing coal-fire d boiler with one of the following clean coal technologies: atmospheric or pressurized fluidized bed combustion, integrated gasification combined cycle, magnetohydrodynamics, direct and indirect coal-fired turbines, integrated gasi fication fuel cells, or as determined by the Administrator, in consultation with th e Secretary of Energy, a derivative of one or more of these technologies, and any other technology capable of controlling multiple combustion emissions simultaneously with improved boiler or generation efficiency and with significantly greater waste reduction relative to the performance of technology in wid espread commercial use as of November 15, 1990.

(ii) Repowering shall also include any oil and/or gas-fired unit which has been awarded clean coal technology demonstration funding as of January 1, 1991, by the Department of Energy.(iii) The Department shall give expedited consideration to permit applications for any source that satisfies the requirements of this subsection and is granted an extension under section 409 of the Clean Air

Act.

(47) Reserved

(48) “Secondary emissions” means emissions which would occur as a result of the construction or operation of a major stationary source or major modi fication, but do not come from the major stationary source or major modification itself. For the purposes of this section, secondary emissions must be specific, well defined, quantifiable, and impact the same genera l areas the stationary source modification which causes secondary emissions. Secondary emissions include emi ssions from any offsite support facility which would not be constructed or increase its emissions except as a result of the construction or operation of the major stationary source or major modification. Secondary emissions do not include any emissions which come directly from a mobile source, such as emissions from the tailpipe of a motor vehicle, from a train, from a vessel; or from the following:

(i) Emissions from ships or trains coming to or from the new or modified stationary source; and

(ii) Emissions from any offsite support facility which would not otherwise be constructed or increase its emissions as a result of the construction or operation of the major stationary source or major modification.

(49)(i) “Significant” means, in reference to a net emissions incr ease or the potential of a source to emit any of the following pollutants, a rate of emissions that would equal or exceed any of the following rates:

Pollutant and Emissions Rate

Carbon monoxide: 100 tons per year (tpy)

Nitrogen oxides: 40 tpy

Sulfur dioxide: 40 tpy

Particulate matter: 25 tpy of particulate matter emissions; 15 tpy of PM 10 emissions

Ozone: 40 tpy of volatile organic compounds or oxides of nitrogen

Lead: 0.6 tpy

Fluorides: 3 tpy

Sulfuric acid mist: 7 tpy

Hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S): 10 tpy

Total reduced sulfur (including H 2 S): 10 tpyReduced sulfur compounds (including H 2 S): 10 tpy

Municipal waste combustor organics (measured as total tetra- through octa-chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans): 3.2 x 10 -6 megagrams per year (3.5 x 10 -6 tons per year).

Municipal waste combustor metals (measured as partic ulate matter): 14 megagrams per year (15 tons per year)

Municipal waste combustor acid gases (measured as sulfur dioxide and hydrogen chloride): 36 megagrams per year (40 tons per year)

Municipal solid waste landfills emissions (measu red as nonmethane organic compounds): 45 megagrams per year (50 tons per year)

(ii) “Significant” means, in reference to a net emissions increase or the potential of a source to emit a regulated NSR pollutant that paragraph (b)(49)(i), does not list, any emissions rate.

(iii) Notwithstanding paragraph (b)(49)(i), significant means any emissions rate or any net emissions increase associated with a major stationary source or major modification, which would construct within 10 kilometers of a Class I area, and have an impact on such area equal to or greater than 1 μg/m 3 , (24-hour average).

(50) “ Significant emissions increase” means, for a regulated NSR pollutant, an increase in emissions that is significant (as defined in paragraph (b)(49)) for that pollutant.

(51) “Stationary source” means any building, structure, facility, or installation which emits or may emit a regulated NSR pollutant.

(52) “Temporary clean coal technology demonstration project” means a clean coal technology demonstration project that is operated for a period of 5 years or less, and which complies with the State implementation plans for the State in which the project is located and other requirements necessary to attain and maintain the national ambient air quality standa rds during the project and after it is terminated.

(53) “Volatile organic compounds (VOC)” is as defined in Regulation 61-62.1, Section I, Definitions

.

(c) Ambient air increments.

In areas designated as Class I, II or III, increases in po llutant concentration over the baseline concentration shall be limited to the following:

CLASS I

Pollutant Maximum Allowable Increase (micrograms per cubic meter)

annual arithmetic mean 1 PM 2.5 : 24-hr maximum 2

PM 10 , annual arithmetic mean 4 Particulate Matter PM 10 : PM 10 , 24-hr maximum 8

annual arithmetic mean 2

24-hr maximum 5 Sulfur dioxide:

3-hr maximum 25CLASS I Nitrogen dioxide: annual arithmetic mean 2.5

CLASS II

Pollutant Maximum Allowable Increase (micrograms per cubic meter)

annual arithmetic mean 4 PM 2.5 : 24-hr maximum 9

PM 10 , annual arithmetic mean 17 Particulate Matter PM 10 : PM 10 , 24-hr maximum 30

annual arithmetic mean 20

24-hr maximum 91 Sulfur dioxide:

3-hr maximum 512 Nitrogen dioxide: annual arithmetic mean 25

CLASS III

Pollutant Maximum Allowable Increase (micrograms per cubic meter)

annual arithmetic mean 8 PM 2.5 :

24-hr maximum 18

PM 10 , annual arithmetic mean 34 Particulate Matter PM 10 : PM 10 , 24-hr maximum 60

annual arithmetic mean 40

24-hr maximum 182 Sulfur dioxide:

3-hr maximum 700 Nitrogen dioxide: annual arithmetic mean 50

For any period other than an annual period, the a pplicable maximum allowable increase may be exceeded during one such period per year at any one location.

(d) Ambient air ceilings.

No concentration of a pollutant shall exceed:

(1) The concentration permitted under the nationa l secondary ambient air quality standard, or

(2) The concentration permitted under the national primary ambient air quality standard, whichever concentration is lowest for the pollutant for a period of exposure.

(e) Restrictions on area classifications.

(1) All of the following areas which were in existence on August 7, 1977, shall be Class I areas and may not be redesignated:

(i) International parks,(ii) National wilderness areas which exceed 5,000 acres in size,

(iii) National memorial parks which exceed 5,000 acres in size, and

(iv) National parks which exceed 6,000 acres in size.

(2) Areas which were redesignated as Class I under regul ations promulgated before August 7, 1977, shall remain Class I, but may be redesignated as provided in this section.

(3) Any other area, unless otherwise specified in the le gislation creating such an area, is initially designated Class II, but may be redesignated as provided in this section.

(4) The following areas may be redesignated only as Class I or II:

(i) An area which as of August 7, 1977, exceeded 10,000 acres in size and was a national monument, a national primitive area, a national preserve, a national r ecreational area, a national wild and scenic river, a national wildlife refuge, a nationa l lakeshore or seashore; and

(ii) A national park or national wilderness area established after August 7, 1977, which exceeds

10,000 acres in size.

(f) [Reserved]

(g) Redesignation.

(1) All areas (except as otherwise provided under para graph (e)) are designated Class II as of December 5, 1974. Redesignation (except as otherwise precluded by paragraph (e)) may be proposed by the respective States or Indian Governing Bodies, as provided below, subject to approval by the Administrator as a revision to the applicable State implementation plan.

(2) The State may submit to the Administrator a propo sal to redesignate areas of the State Class I or Class II provided that:

(i) At least one public hearing has been held in accordance with procedures established in 40 CFR

51.102;

(ii) Other States, Indian Governing Bodies, and Federal Land Managers whos e lands may be affected by the proposed redesignation were notified at least 30 days prior to the public hearing;

(iii) A discussion of the reasons for the proposed redesignation, including a satisfactory description and analysis of the health, environmental, economic, so cial and energy effects of the proposed redesignation, was prepared and made available for public inspection at least 30 days prior to the hearing and the notice announcing the hearing contained a ppropriate notification of the availability of such discussion;

(iv) Prior to the issuance of notice respecting th e redesignation of an area that includes any Federal lands, the State has provided written notice to the appr opriate Federal Land Manage r and afforded adequate opportunity (not in excess of 60 days) to confer with the State respecting the redesignation and to submit written comments and recommendations. In redesignating any area with respect to which any Federal Land Manager had submitted written comment s and recommendations, the State shall have published a list of any inconsistency between such redesignation and such comments and recommendations (together with thereasons for making such redesignation against the recommendation of the Federal Land Manager); and

(v) The State has proposed the redesignation after consultation with the elected leadership of local and other substate gene ral purpose governments in the area covered by the proposed redesignation.

(3) Any area other than an area to which paragra ph (e) refers may be redesignated as Class III if –

(i) The redesignation would meet the requirements of paragraph (g)(2);

(ii) The redesignation, except any established by an Indian Governing Body, has been specifically approved by the Governor of the State, after consultation with the appropriate committees of the legislature, if it is in session, or with the leadership of the legislat ure, if it is not in session (unless State law provides that the redesignation must be specifically approved by State legislation) and if general purpose units of local government representing a majority of the residents of the area to be redesignated enact legislation or pass resolutions concurring in the redesignation:

(iii) The redesignation would not cause, or contribute to, a concentration of any air pollutant which would exceed any maximum allowable increase permitted under the classification of any other area or any national ambient air quality standard; and

(iv) Any permit application for any major stationa ry source or major modification, subject to review under paragraph (l), which could receive a permit unde r this section only if the area in question were redesignated as Class III, and any material submitted as part of that application, were available insofar as was practicable for public inspection prior to any public hearing on redesignation of the area as Class III.

(4) Lands within the exterior boundaries of Indi an Reservations may be redesignated only by the appropriate Indian Governing Body. The appropriate Indian Governing Body may submit to the Department a proposal to redesignate areas Class I, Class II, or Class III: Provided, That:

(i) The Indian Governing Body has followed proce dures equivalent to those required of a State under paragraphs (g)(2), (g)(3)(iii), and (g)(3)(iv); and

(ii) Such redesignation is proposed after cons ultation with the State(s) in which the Indian

Reservation is located and which border the Indian Reservation.

(5) The Administrator shall disapprove, within 90 days of submission, a proposed redesignation of any area only if it is found, after notice and opportunity for public hearing, that such redesignation does not meet the procedural requirements of this paragraph or is inc onsistent with paragraph (e). If any such disapproval

occurs, the classification of the area shall be that whic h was in effect prior to the redesignation which was disapproved.

(6) If the Administrator disapproves any proposed red esignation, the State or Indian Governing Body, as appropriate, may resubmit the proposal after correcting the deficiencies noted by the Administrator.

(h) Stack heights.

(1) The degree of emission limitation re quired for control of any air polluta nt under this section shall not be affected in any manner by--

(i) So much of the stack height of any source as exceeds good engineering practice, or(ii) Any other dispersion technique.

(2) Paragraph (h)(1) shall not apply with respect to stack heights in existence before December 31, 1970, or to dispersion techniques implemented before then.

(i) Exemptions

(1) The requirements of paragraphs (j) through (r) shall not apply to a particular major stationary source or major modification, if:

(i) Construction commenced on the source or modi fication before August 7, 1977. The regulations at 40 CFR 52.21 as in effect before August 7, 1977, shall govern the review and permitting of any such source

or modification; or

(ii) The source or modification was subject to the review requirements of 40 CFR 52.21(d)(1) as in

effect before March 1, 1978, and the owner or operator:

(a) Obtained under 40 CFR 52.21 a final approval effective before March 1, 1978;

(b) Commenced constructi on before March 19, 1979; and

(c) Did not discontinue construction for a period of 18 months or more and completed

construction within a reasonable time; or

(iii) The source or modification was subject to 40 CFR 52.21 as in effect before March 1, 1978, and the review of an application for approval for the st ationary source or modification under 40 CFR 52.21 would have been completed by March 1, 1978, but for an extension of the public comment period pursuant to a request for such an extension. In such case, the application shall continue to be processed, and granted or denied, under 40 CFR 52.21 as in effect prior to March 1, 1978; or

(iv) The source or modification was not subject to 40 CFR 52.21 as in effect before March 1, 1978, and the owner or operator:

(a) Obtained all final Federal, state and local preconstruction approvals or permits necessary under the applicable State Implementation Plan before March 1, 1978;

(b) Commenced constructi on before March 19, 1979; and

(c) Did not discontinue construction for a period of 18 months or more and completed

construction within a reasonable time; or

(v) The source or modification was not subject to 40 CFR 52.21 as in effect on June 19, 1978 or under the partial stay of regulations published on February 5, 1980 (45 FR 7800), and the owner or operator:

(a) Obtained all final Federal, state and local preconstruction approvals or permits necessary under the applicable State Implementation Plan before August 7, 1980;

(b) Commenced construction within 18 m onths from August 7, 1980, or any earlier time required under the applicable State Implementation Plan; and(c) Did not discontinue construction for a period of 18 months or more and completed

construction within a reasonable time; or

(vi) The source or modification would be a nonprof it health or nonprofit educational institution, or a major modification would occur at such an institution, and the governor of the state in which the source or modification would be located requests that it be exempt from those requirements; or

(vii) The source or modification would be a major stationary source or major modification only if fugitive emissions, to the extent quantifiable, are c onsidered in calculating the potential to emit of the stationary source or modification and the source does not belong to any of the following categories:

(a) Coal cleaning plants (with thermal dryers);

(b) Kraft pulp mills;

(c) Portland cement plants;

(d) Primary zinc smelters;

(e) Iron and steel mills;

(f) Primary aluminum ore reduction plants;

(g) Primary copper smelters;

(h) Municipal incinerators capable of ch arging more than 250 tons of refuse per day;

(i) Hydrofluoric, sulfuric, or nitric acid plants;

(j) Petroleum refineries;

(k) Lime plants;

(l) Phosphate rock processing plants;

(m) Coke oven batteries;

(n) Sulfur recovery plants;

(o) Carbon black plants (furnace process);

(p) Primary lead smelters;

(q) Fuel conversion plants;

(r) Sintering plants;

(s) Secondary metal production plants;(t) Chemical process plants – The term ch emical processing plant shall not include ethanol production facilities that produce ethanol by natura l fermentation included in NAICS codes 325193 or

312140;

(u) Fossil-fuel boilers (or combination th ereof) totaling more than 250 million British thermal units per hour heat input;

(v) Petroleum storage and transfer units with a total storage capacity exceeding 300,000

barrels;

(w) Taconite ore processing plants;

(x) Glass fiber processing plants;

(y) Charcoal production plants;

(z) Fossil fuel-fired steam electric plants of more than 250 million British thermal units per hour heat input;

(aa) Any other stationary source category which, as of August 7, 1980, is being regulated

under section 111 or 112 of the Clean Air Act; or

(viii) The source is a portable stationary source which has previously received a permit under this

section, and

(a) The owner or operator proposes to relocate the source and emissions of the source at the new location would be temporary; and

(b) The emissions from the source would not exceed its allowable emissions; and

(c) The emissions from the source would impact no Class I area and no area where an applicable increment is known to be violated; and

(d) Reasonable notice is given to the Depa rtment prior to the relocation identifying the proposed new location and the probable duration of operati on at the new location. Such notice shall be given to the Department not less than 10 days in advance of the proposed relocation unless a different time duration is previously approved by the Department.

(ix) The source or modification was not subject to section 52.21 with respect to particulate matter, as in effect before July 31, 1987, and the owner or operator:

(a) Obtained all final Federal, State, and local preconstruction approvals or permits necessary under the applicable State implementation plan before July 31, 1987;

(b) Commenced construction within 18 months after July 31, 1987, or any earlier time required under the State implementation plan; and

(c) Did not discontinue construction for a period of 18 months or more and completed construction within a reasonable period of time.(x) The source or modification was subject to 40 CFR 52.21, with respect to particulate matter, as in effect before July 31, 1987 and the owner or operator submitted an application fo r a permit under this section before that date, and the Department subsequently de termines that the applicati on as submitted was complete with respect to the particulate matter requirements then in effect in this section. Instead, the requirements of paragraphs (j) through (r) that were in effect before Ju ly 31, 1987 shall apply to such source or modification.

(2) The requirements of paragraphs (j) through (r) sha ll not apply to a major stationary source or major modification with respect to a particular pollutant if the owner or operator demonstrates that, as to that pollutant, the source or modification is located in an area designated as nonattainment under section 107 of

the Clean Air Act.

(3) The requirements of paragraphs (k), (m) and (o) shall not apply to a major stationary source or major modification with respect to a particular pollutant, if th e allowable emissions of that pollutant from the source, or the net emissions increase of that pollutant from the modification:

(i) Would impact no Class I area and no area where an applicable increment is known to be violated,

and

(ii) Would be temporary.

(4) The requirements of paragraphs (k), (m) and (o) as they relate to any maximum allowable increase for a Class II area shall not apply to a major modification at a stationary source that was in existence on March 1,

1978, if the net increase in allowable emissions of each regulated NSR pollutant from the modification after the application of best available control t echnology would be less than 50 tons per year.

(5) The Department may exempt a stationary source or modification from the requirements of paragraph (m), with respect to monitoring for a particular pollutant if:

(i) The emissions increase of the pollutant from the new source or the net emissions increase of the pollutant from the modification would cause, in any ar ea, air quality impacts less than the following amounts:

Carbon monoxide--575 μg/m 3 , 8-hour average; Nitrogen dioxide--14 μg/m 3 , annual average; Particulate matter--10 μg/m 3 of PM 10 , 24-hour average; Sulfur dioxide--13 μg/m 3 , 24-hour average;

Ozone; 1

Lead--0.1 μg/m 3 , 3-month average; Fluorides--0.25 μg/m 3 , 24-hour average; Total reduced sulfur--10 μg/m 3 , 1-hour average; Hydrogen sulfide--0.2 μg/m 3 , 1-hour average; Reduced sulfur compounds--10 μg/m 3 , 1-hour average; or

1 No de minimis air quality level is provi ded for ozone. However, any net increase of 100 tons per year or more of volatile organic compounds subject to PSD would be required to perform an ambient impact analysis including the gathering of ambient air quality data.

(ii) The concentrations of the pollutant in the area that the source or modification would affect are less than the concentrations listed in paragraph (i)(8)(i), or the pollutant is not listed in paragraph (i)(8)(i).

(6) The requirements for best available control tec hnology in paragraph (j) and the requirements for airquality analyses in paragraph (m)(1), shall not apply to a particular stationary source or modification that was subject to 40 CFR 52.21 as in effect on June 19, 1978, if the owner or operator of the source or modification submitted an application for a permit under those regulations before August 7, 1980, and the Department subsequently determines that the application as subm itted before that date was complete. Instead, the requirements at 40 CFR 52.21(j) and (n) as in eff ect on June 19, 1978 apply to any such source or

modification.

(7)(i) The requirements for air quality monitoring in paragraphs (m)(1)(ii) through (iv) shall not apply to a particular source or modification that was subject to 40 CFR 52.21 as in effect on June 19, 1978, if the owner or operator of the source or modification submits an application for a permit under this section on or before June 8, 1981, and the Department sub sequently determines that the appli cation as submitted before that date was complete with respect to the requirements of this regulation other than those in paragraphs (m)(1)(ii) through (iv), and with respect to the requirements fo r such analyses at 40 CFR 52.21(m)(2) as in effect on June 19, 1978. Instead, the latter requirements sha ll apply to any such source or modification.

(ii) The requirements for air quality monitoring in paragraphs (m)(1)(ii) through (iv) shall not apply to a particular source or modification that was not s ubject to 40 CFR 52.21 as in effect on June 19, 1978, if the owner or operator of the source or modification s ubmits an application for a permit under this section on or before June 8, 1981, and the Depa rtment subsequently determines that the application as submitted before that date was complete, except with respect to the requirements in paragraphs (m)(1)(ii) through (iv).

(8)(i) At the discretion of the Department, the requirements for air quality monitoring of PM 10 in paragraphs (m)(1)(i)--(iv) may not apply to a particular source or modification when the owner or operator of the source or modification submits an application fo r a permit under this section on or before June 1, 1988 and the Department subsequently determines that the a pplication as submitted before that date was complete, except with respect to the requirements for monitoring pa rticulate matter in paragraphs (m)(1)(i) through (iv).

(ii) The requirements for air quality monitoring of PM 10 in paragraphs (m)(1), (ii) and (iv) and (m)(3) shall apply to a particular source or modification if the owner or operator of the source or modification submits an application for a permit under this section after June 1, 1988 and no later than December 1, 1988. The data shall have been gathered over at least the period from February 1, 1988 to the date the application becomes otherwise complete in accordance with the provisions set forth under paragraph (m)(1)(viii), except that if the Department determines that a complete a nd adequate analysis can be accomplished with monitoring data over a shorter period (not to be less than 4 months), the data that paragraph (m)(1)(iii) requires shall have been gathered over a shorter period.

(9) The requirements of paragraph (k)(2) shall not apply to a stationary source or modification with respect to any maximum allowable increase for nitrogen oxides if the owner or operator of the source or modification submitted an application for a permit under this sec tion before the provisions embodying the maximum allowable increase took effect as part of the applicable implementation plan and the Department subsequently determined that the application as subm itted before that date was complete.

(10) The requirements in paragraph (k)(2) shall not apply to a stationary source or modification with respect to any maximum allowable increase for PM 10 if

(i) the owner or operator of the source or m odification submitted an application for a permit under this section before the provisions embodying the maximum allowable increases for PM 10 took effect in an implementation plan to which this section applies, and

(ii) the Department subsequently determined th at the application as submitted before that date wasotherwise complete. Instead, the requirements in paragr aph (k)(2) shall apply with respect to the maximum allowable increases for TSP as in effect on the date the application was submitted.

(j) Control technology review.

(1) A major stationary source or major modification shall meet each applicable emissions limitation under the State Implementation Plan and each applicable em issions standard and sta ndard of performance under 40

CFR 60 and 61.

(2) A new major stationary source shall apply best available control technology for each regulated NSR pollutant that it would have the potential to emit in significant amounts.

(3) A major modification shall apply best available control technology for each regulated NSR pollutant for which it would result in a significant net emissions incr ease at the source. This requirement applies to each proposed emissions unit at which a net emissions in crease in the pollutant would occur as a result of a physical change or change in the method of operation in the unit.

(4) For phased construction projects, the determina tion of best available control technology shall be reviewed and modified as appropriate at the latest r easonable time which occurs no later than 18 months prior to commencement of construction of each independent phase of the project. At such time, the owner or operator of the applicable stationary source may be re quired to demonstrate the adequacy of any previous determination of best available control technology for the source.

(k) Source impact analysis.

The owner or operator of the proposed source or m odification shall demonstrate that allowable emission increases from the proposed source or modification, in conjunction with all other applicable emissions increases or reductions (including secondary emissions), would not cause or contribute to air pollution in

violation of:

(1) Any national ambient air quality standard in any air quality control region; or

(2) Any applicable maximum allowable increase over the baseline concentration in any area.

(l) Air Quality Models

(1) All estimates of ambient concentrations required under this paragraph shall be based on applicable air quality models, data bases, and other requirements specified in 40 CFR 51 appendix W (Guideline on Air Quality Models).

(2) Where an air quality model specified in 40 CF R 51 appendix W (Guideline on Air Quality Models) is inappropriate, the model may be modified or another m odel substituted. Such a modi fication or substitution of a model may be made on a case-by-case basis or, where appropriate, on a generic basis for a specific state program. Written approval of the Department must be obtained for any modification or substitution. In

addition, use of a modified or substituted model must be subject to notice and opportunity for public comment under procedures developed in accordance with paragraph (q).

(m) Air quality analysis--

(1) Preapplication analysis.(i) Any application for a permit under this section sh all contain an analysis of ambient air quality in the area that the major stationary source or major modification would affect for each of the following pollutants:

(a) For the source, each pollutant that it would have the potential to omit in a significant

amount;

(b) For the modification, each pollutant for which it would result in a significant net

emissions increase.

(ii) With respect to any such pollutant for whic h no National Ambient Air Quality Standard exists, the analysis shall contain such air quality monitoring data as the Department determines is necessary to assess ambient air quality for that pollutant in any area that the emissions of that pollutant would affect.

(iii) With respect to any such pollutant (oth er than nonmethane hydrocarbons) for which such a standard does exist, the analysis shall contain conti nuous air quality monitoring data gathered for purposes of determining whether emissions of that pollutant would cause or contribute to a violation of the standard or any maximum allowable increase.

(iv) In general, the continuous air quality monitori ng data that is required shall have been gathered over a period of at least one year and shall represent at least the year preceding receipt of the application, except that, if the Department determines that a comp lete and adequate analysis can be accomplished with monitoring data gathered over a period shorter than one y ear (but not to be less than four months), the data that is required shall have been gathered over at least that shorter period.

(v) For any application which becomes comple te, except as to the requirements of paragraphs (m)(1)(iii) and (iv), between June 8, 1981, and February 9, 1982, the data that paragraph (m)(1)(iii), requires shall have been gathered over at least the period from February 9, 1981, to the date the application becomes otherwise complete, except that:

(a) If the source or modification would have been major for that pollutant under 40 CFR 52.21 as in effect on June 19, 1978, any monitoring data shall have been gathered over at least the period required by those regulations.

(b) If the Department determines that a complete and adequate analysis can be accomplished with monitoring data over a shorter period (not to be less than four months), the data that paragraph (m)(1)(iii), requires shall have been gathered over at least that shorter period.

(c) If the monitoring data would relate exclus ively to ozone and would not have been required

under 40 CFR 52.21 as in effect on June 19, 1978, the Department may waive the otherwise applicable requirements of this paragraph (v) to the extent that the applicant shows that the monitoring data would be unrepresentative of air quality over a full year.

(vi) The owner or operator of a proposed sta tionary source or modification of volatile organic compounds who satisfies all conditions of 40 CFR 51 Appendix S, section IV ma y provide post-approval monitoring data for ozone in lieu of providing prec onstruction data as required under paragraph (m)(1).

(vii) For any application that becomes comple te, except as to the requirements of paragraphs (m)(1)(iii) and (iv) pertaining to PM 10 , after December 1, 1988 and no later than August 1, 1989 the data thatparagraph (m)(1)(iii) requires shall have been gather ed over at least the period from August 1, 1988 to the date the application becomes otherwise complete, except that if the Department determines that a complete and adequate analysis can be accomplished with monitori ng data over a shorter period (not to be less than 4 months), the data that paragraph (m)(1)(iii) requires sh all have been gathered over that shorter period.

(viii) With respect to any requirements for air quality monitoring of PM 10 under paragraphs (i)(11)(i) and (ii) the owner or operator of the source or modi fication shall use a monitoring method approved by the Department and shall estimate the ambient concentrations of PM 10 using the data collected by such approved monitoring method in accordance with estimating procedures approved by the Department.

(2) Post-construction monitoring. The owner or operato r of a major stationary source or major modification shall, after construction of the stationary source or modification, conduct such ambient monitoring as the Department determines is necessary to determine the effect emissions from the stationary source or modification may have, or are having, on air quality in any area.

(3) Operations of monitoring stations. The owner or operator of a major stationary source or major modification shall meet the requirements of Appendix B to 40 CFR 58 of during the operation of monitoring stations for purposes of satisfying paragraph (m).

(n) Source information.

The owner or operator of a proposed source or m odification shall submit all information necessary to perform any analysis or make any de termination required under this section.

(1) With respect to a source or modi fication to which paragraphs (j), (l), (n) and (p) apply, such information

shall include:

(i) A description of the nature, location, design capacity, and typical operating schedule of the source or modification, including specifications and drawings showing its design and plant layout;

(ii) A detailed schedule for constr uction of the source or modification;

(iii) A detailed description as to what system of continuous emission reduction is planned for the source or modification, emission estimates, and any other information necessary to determine that best available control technology would be applied.

(2) Upon request of the Department, the owner or operator shall also provide information on:

(i) The air quality impact of the source or modification, including meteorological and topographical data necessary to estimate such impact; and

(ii) The air quality impacts, and the nature and extent of any or all general commercial, residential, industrial, and other growth which has occurred since August 7, 1977, in the area the source or modification

would affect.

(o) Additional impact analyses.

(1) The owner or operator shall provide an analysis of the impairment to visibility, soils and vegetation that

would occur as a result of the source or modification and general commercial, residential, industrial and other growth associated with the source or modification. The ow ner or operator need not provide an analysis of theimpact on vegetation having no significant commercial or recreational value.

(2) The owner or operator shall provide an analysis of the air quality impact projected for the area as a result of general commercial, residential, industrial and other growth associated with the source or

modification.

(3) Visibility monitoring. The Department may require monitoring of visibility in any Federal class I area near the proposed new stationary source for major m odification for such purposes and by such means as the Administrator deems necessary and appropriate.

(p) Sources impacting Federal Class I areas--additional requirements--

(1) Notice to Federal land managers . The Department shall provide written notice of any permit application for a proposed major stationary source or major modifi cation, the emissions from which may affect a Class I area, to the Federal land manager and the Federal offici al charged with direct responsibility for management of any lands within any such area. Such notification sh all include a copy of all information relevant to the permit application and shall be given within 30 days of receipt and at leas t 60 days prior to any public hearing on the application for a permit to construct. Such no tification shall include an analysis of the proposed source's anticipated impacts on visibility in the Federa l Class I area. The Department shall also provide the Federal land manager and such Federal officials with a copy of the preliminary determination required under paragraph (q), and shall make available to them any ma terials used in making that determination, promptly after the Department makes such determination. Finally, the Department shall also notify all affected Federal land managers within 30 days of receipt of any adva nce notification of any such permit application.

(2) Federal Land Manager. The Federal Land Manager and the Federal official charged with direct responsibility for management of such lands have an affirmative responsibility to protect the air quality related values (including visibility) of such lands and to consider, in consultation with the Department, whether a proposed source or modification will have an adverse impact on such values.

(3) Visibility analysis. The Department shall consider any analysis performed by the Federal land manager, provided within 30 days of the notif ication required by paragraph (p)(1), that shows that a proposed new major stationary source or major modification may have an adverse impact on visibility in any Federal Class I area. Where the Department finds that such an anal ysis does not demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Department that an adverse impact on visibility will resu lt in the Federal Class I area, the Department must, in the notice of public hearing on the permit application, either explain its decision or give notice as to where the explanation can be obtained.

(4) Denial--impact on air quality related values. The Federal Land Manager of any such lands may demonstrate to the Department that the emissions from a proposed source or modification would have an adverse impact on the air quality-related values (including visibility) of those lands, notwithstanding that the change in air quality resulting from emissions from such source or modification would not cause or contribute

to concentrations which would exceed the maximum allo wable increases for a Class I area. If the Department concurs with such demonstration, then the permit shall not be issued.

(5) Class I variances. The owner or operator of a proposed source or modification may demonstrate to the Federal Land Manager that the emissions from such s ource or modification would have no adverse impact on the air quality related values of any such lands (includi ng visibility), notwithstanding that the change in air quality resulting from emissions from such source or modification would cause or contribute to

concentrations which would exceed the maximum allo wable increases for a Class I area. If the Federal Land Manager concurs with such demonstr ation and so certifies, the State may authorize the Administrator:Provided, That the applicable requirements of this regul ation are otherwise met, to issue the permit with such emission limitations as may be necessary to assure that emissions of sulfur dioxide and particulate matter

, PM 2.5 , PM 10 , and nitrogen oxides would not exceed the following maximum allowable increases over minor source baseline concentration for such pollutants:

Pollutant Maximum Allowable Increase (micrograms per cubic meter)

annual arithmetic mean 4 PM 2.5 :

24-hr maximum 9

PM 10, annual arithmetic mean 17 Particulat e matter PM 10 : PM 10, 24-hr maximum 30

annual arithmetic mean 20

24-hr maximum 91 Sulfur dioxide:

3-hr maximum 325 Nitrogen dioxide: annual arithmetic mean 25

(6) Sulfur dioxide variance by Governor with Fede ral Land Manager's concurrence. The owner or operator of a proposed source or modification which cannot be approved under paragraph (q)(4) may demonstrate to the Governor that the source cannot be constructed by reason of any maximum allowable increase for sulfur dioxide for a period of twenty-four hours or less applicable to any Class I area and, in the case of Federal mandatory Class I areas, that a variance under this clau se would not adversely affect the air quality related values of the area (including visibility). The Governor , after consideration of the Federal Land Manager's recommendation (if any) and concurrence, may, after notice and public hearing, grant a variance from such maximum allowable increase. If such variance is granted, the Department shall issue a permit to such source or modification pursuant to the requirements of paragra ph (q)(7): Provided, that the applicable requirements of this regulation are otherwise met.

(7) Variance by the Governor with the President 's concurrence. In any case where the Governor

recommends a variance in which the Federal Land Ma nager does not concur, the recommendations of the Governor and the Federal Land Manager shall be transm itted to the President. The President may approve the

Governor's recommendation if it is found that the vari ance is in the national interest. If the variance is approved, the Department shall issue a permit pursuant to the requirements of paragraph (q)(7): Provided, that the applicable requirements of this regulation are otherwise met.

(8) Emission limitations for Presidential or gubernator ial variance. In the case of a permit issued pursuant to paragraph (q)(5) or (6) the source or modification shall comply with such emission limitations as may be necessary to assure that emissions of sulfur dioxide from the source or modification would not (during any day on which the otherwise applicable maximum a llowable increases are exceeded ) cause or contribute to

concentrations which would exceed the followi ng maximum allowable increases over the baseline

concentration and to assure that such emissions would not cause or contribute to concentrations which exceed the otherwise applicable maximum allowable increases for periods of exposure of 24 hours or less for more than 18 days, not necessarily consecutive, during any annual period:

MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE INCREASE (Micrograms per cubic meter)

Terrain Areas Period of exposure Low High

24-hr maximum 36 62

3-hr maximum 130 221(q) Public participation.

(1) Within 30 days after receipt of an application to construct, or any addition to such application, the Department shall advise the applicant of any deficiency in the application or in the information submitted and transmit a copy of such application to EPA. In the even t of such a deficiency, the date of receipt of the application shall be, for the purpose of this regulation, the date on which the Department received all required

information.

(2) In accordance with Regulation 61-30, Environmental Protection Fees , the Department shall make a final determination on the application. This involv es performing the following actions in a timely manner:

(i) Make a preliminary determination whethe r construction should be approved, approved with conditions, or disapproved.

(ii) Make available in at least one locati on in each region in which the proposed source or

modification would be constructed a c opy of all materials the applicant submitted, a copy of the preliminary determination and a copy or summary of other materi als, if any, considered in making the preliminary

determination.

(iii) Notify the public, by adver tisement in a newspaper of general circulation in each region in which the proposed source or modification would be constructed, of the application, the preliminary determination, the degree of increment consumption that is expected from the source or modification, and the opportunity for comment at a public hearing as well as written public comment.

(iv) Send a copy of the notice of public comment to the applicant, the Administrator of EPA, and to officials and agencies having cognizance over the loca tion where the proposed construction would occur as follows: The chief executives of the city and county wh ere the source or modification would be located, any comprehensive regional land use planning agency and any State, Federal Land Manage r, or Indian Governing Body whose lands may be affected by emissions from the source or modification.

(v) Provide opportunity for a public hearing for in terested persons to app ear and submit written or oral comments on the air quality impact of the source or modification, alternatives to the source or modification, the control technology require d, and other appropria te considerations.

(vi) Consider all written comme nts submitted within a time specified in the notice of public comment and all comments received at any public hearing(s) in making a final decision on the approvability of the application. No later than 10 days after the close of the public comment period, the applicant may submit a written response to any comments submitted by the public . The Department shall consider the applicant’s response in making a final decision. The Department shall make all comments available for public inspection in the same locations where the Department made av ailable preconstruction information relating to the proposed source or modification.

(vii) Make a final determina tion whether construction should be approved, approved with conditions, or disapproved pursuant to this section.

(viii) Notify the applicant in writing of the final determination and make such notification available for public inspection at the same location where the De partment made available preconstruction information and public comments relating to the source or modification.(ix) Notify EPA of every action relate d to the consideration of the permit.

(3) The requirements of Section (q), Public Participati on, of this standard shall not apply to any major plant or major modification which Section (i), Exemptions, would exempt from the requirements of Sections (k), (m), and (o), but only to the extent that, with respect to each of the criteria for construction approval under the South Carolina State Implementation Plan and for exemption under Section (i), requirements providing the public with at least as much participation in each material determination as those of Section (q) have been met in the granting of such construction approval.

(r) Source obligation. In addition to all other applicable requireme nts specified in this regulation, the owner or operator shall comply with the requi rements of paragraphs (r)(1) through (r)(8).

(1) Any owner or operator who cons tructs or operates a source or modification not in accordance with the application submitted pursuant to this section or with the terms of any approval to construct, or any owner or operator of a source or modification subject to this section who commences construction after the effective date of these regulations without applying for and receiving approval hereunder, shall be subject to appropriate enforcement action.

(2) Approval to construct shall become invalid if construction is not commenced within 18 months after receipt of such approval, if construction is discontinue d for a period of 18 months or more, or if construction is not completed within a reasonable time. Th e Department may extend the 18-month period upon a satisfactory showing that an extension is justified. This provision does not apply to the time period between construction of the approved phases of a phased construction project; each phase must commence construction within 18 months of the pr ojected and approved commencement date.

(3) Approval to construct shall not relieve any owner or operator of the responsibility to comply fully with applicable provisions of the State implementation plan and any other requirements under local, State, or

Federal law.

(4) At such time that a particular source or modi fication becomes a major stationary source or major modification solely by virtue of a relaxation in any enforceable limitation which was established after August 7, 1980, on the capacity of the source or modification otherwise to emit a pollutant, such as a restriction on hours of operation, then the requirements or paragr aphs (j) through (r) shall apply to the source or modification as though construction had not yet commenced on the source or modification.

(5) Reserved

(6) Monitoring, recordkeeping and reporting. The provisions of this paragraph (r)(6) apply to projects at an existing emissions unit at a major stationary sour ce (other than projects at a source with a PAL) in circumstances where there is a reasonable possibility that a project that is not a part of a major modification may result in a significant emissions increase and the owne r or operator elects to use the method specified in paragraphs (b)(41)(ii)(a) through (c) fo r calculating projected actual emissions.

(i) If the project requires construction perm itting under Regulation 61-62.1, Section II “Permit Requirements”, the owner or operator shall provide a copy of the information set out in paragraph (r)(6)(ii) as part of the permit application to the Department. If construction permitting under Regulation 61-62.1, Section II “Permit Requirements” is not required, the owner or operator shall maintain the information set out in paragraph (r)(6)(ii).

(ii) Before beginning actual construction of th e project, the owner or operator shall document andmaintain a record of the following information:

(a) A description of the project;

(b) Identification of the emissions unit(s) w hose emissions of a regulated NSR pollutant could be affected by the project; and

(c) A description of the applicability test used to determine that the project is not a major modification for any regulated NSR pollutant, includi ng the baseline actual emissions, the projected actual emissions, the amount of emissions excluded under paragr aph (b)(41)(ii)(c) and an explanation for why such amount was excluded, and any netting calculations, if applicable.

(iii) The owner or operator shall monitor the emissions of any regulated NSR pollutant that could increase as a result of the project a nd that is emitted by any emissions unit identified in paragraph (r)(6)(ii)(b); and calculate and maintain a r ecord of the annual emissions, in tons per year on a calendar year basis, for a period of 5 years following resumption of regular operations after the change, or for a period of 10 years following resumption of regular operations after the change if the project increases the design capacity of or potential to emit that regul ated NSR pollutant at such emissions unit.

(iv) If the unit is an existing electric utility steam generating unit, the owner or operator shall submit a report to the Department within 60 days after the end of each year during which records must be generated under paragraph (r)(6)(iii) setting out the unit's annual emissions during the calendar year that preceded submission of the report.

(v) If the unit is an existing unit other than an electric utility steam generating unit, the owner or operator shall submit a report to the Department if th e annual emissions, in tons per year, from the project identified in paragraph (r)(6)(ii), exceed the baselin e actual emissions (as documented and maintained pursuant to paragraph (r)(6)(ii)(c)), by a significant amount (as defined in paragraph (b)(49)) for that regulated NSR pollutant, and if such emissions diffe r from the preconstruction pr ojection as documented and maintained pursuant to paragraph (r)(6)(ii)(c). Such re port shall be submitted to the Department within 60 days after the end of such year. The report shall contain the following:

(a) The name, address and telephone num ber of the major stationary source;

(b) The annual emissions as calculated pursuant to paragraph (r)(6)(iii); and

(c) Any other information needed to make a compliance determination ( e.g. , an explanation as to why the emissions differ from the preconstruction projection).

(7) If a project at a source with a PAL requires construction permitting under Re gulation 61-62.1, Section II, “Permit Requirements”, the owner or operator shall provide notification of source status as part of the permit application to the Department.

(8) The owner or operator of the source shall ma ke the information required to be documented and maintained pursuant to paragraph (r)(6) available for re view upon a request for inspection by the Department or the general public pursuant to the requirements contained in 40 CFR 70.4(b)(3)(viii).

(s) through (u)(3) - Reserved.

(u)(4) In the case of a source or modification which pr oposes to construct in a class III area, emissions fromwhich would cause or contribute to air quality exceedi ng the maximum allowable increase applicable if the area were designated a class II area, and where no standa rd under section 111 of the act has been promulgated for such source category, the Administrator must a pprove the determination of best available control technology as set forth in the permit.

(v) Innovative control technology.

(1) An owner or operator of a proposed major sta tionary source or major modification may request the Department in writing no later than the close of the comment period under 40 CFR 124.10 to approve a system of innovative control technology.

(2) The Department shall, with the consent of the gove rnor(s) of the affected state(s), determine that the source or modification may employ a system of innovative control technology, if:--

(i) The proposed control system would not cause or contribute to an unreasonable risk to public health, welfare, or safety in its operation or function;

(ii) The owner or operator agrees to achieve a le vel of continuous emissions reduction equivalent to that which would have been required under paragraph (j)(2), by a date specified by the Department. Such date shall not be later than 4 years from the time of startup or 7 years from permit issuance;

(iii) The source or modification would meet the re quirements of paragraphs (j) and (k), based on the emissions rate that the stationary source employing the system of innovative control technology would be required to meet on the date specified by the Department;

(iv) The source or modification would not be fore the date specified by the Department:

(a) Cause or contribute to a violation of an applicable national ambient air quality standard; or

(b) Impact any area where an applicable increment is known to be violated; and

(v) All other applicable requirements including those for public participation have been met.

(vi) The provisions of paragraph (p) (relating to Cl ass I areas) have been satisfied with respect to all periods during the life of the source or modification.

(3) The Department shall withdraw any approval to employ a system of innovative control technology

made under this section, if:

(i) The proposed system fails by the specified date to achieve the required continuous emissions

reduction rate; or

(ii) The proposed system fails before the specified date so as to contribute to an unreasonable risk to public health, welfare, or safety; or

(iii) The Department decides at any time that th e proposed system is unlikely to achieve the required level of control or to protect the public health, welfare, or safety.

(4) If a source or modification fails to meet the re quired level of continuous emission reduction within the specified time period or the approval is withdrawn in accordance with paragraph (v)(3), the Department mayallow the source or modification up to an additional 3 year s to meet the requirement for the application of best available control technology through use of a demonstrated system of control.

(w) Permit rescission

.

(1) Any permit issued under this section or a prior vers ion of this regulation shall remain in effect, unless and until it expires or is rescinded.

(2) Any owner or operator of a stationary source or modification who holds a permit for the source or

modification which was issued under 40 CFR 52.21 as in e ffect on July 30, 1987, or any earlier version of this regulation, may request that the Administrator rescind the permit or a particular portion of the permit.

(3) The Department shall grant an a pplication for rescission if the appli cation shows that this section would not apply to the source or modification.

(4) If the Department rescinds a permit under this para graph, the public shall be given adequate notice of the rescission. Publication of an announcement of rescission in a newspaper of general circulation in the affected region within 60 days of the rescission shall be considered adequate notice.

(x) [Reserved]

(y) [Reserved]

(z) [Reserved]

(aa) Actuals PALs. The provisions in paragraphs (aa )(1) through (15) govern actuals PALs.

(1) Applicability.

(i) The Department may approve the use of an actuals PAL for any existing major stationary source if the PAL meets the requirements in paragraphs (aa)(1 ) through (15). The term "PAL" shall mean "actuals PAL" throughout paragraph (aa).

(ii) Any physical change in or change in the method of operation of a major stationary source that maintains its total source-wide emissions below the PAL level, meets the requirements in paragraphs (aa)(1) through (15), and complies with the PAL permit:

(a) Is not a major modification for the PAL pollutant;

(b) Does not have to be approved through Regulation 61-62.5, Standard 7, Prevention of Significant Deterioration . However, will be reviewed through R. 61-62.1, Section II A. Permit Requirements ; and

(c) Is not subject to the provisions in pa ragraph (r)(4) (restrictions on relaxing enforceable emission limitations that the major stationary source u sed to avoid applicability of the major NSR program).

(iii) Except as provided under paragraph (aa)(1)(ii)(c ), a major stationary source shall continue to comply with all applicable Federal or State re quirements, emission limitations, and work practice requirements that were established prior to the effective date of the PAL.(2) Definitions. The definitions in paragraphs (aa)(2)(i) thr ough (xi) shall apply to actual PALs consistent with paragraphs (aa)(1) through (15). When a term is not defined in these paragraphs, it shall have the meaning given in paragraph (b) or in the Clean Air Act.

(i) Actuals PAL for a major stationary source means a PAL based on the baseline actual emissions (as defined in paragraph (b)(4)) of all emissions units (a s defined in paragraph (b)(20)) at the source, that emit or have the potential to emit the PAL pollutant.

(ii) “Allowable emissions” means "allowable emissions" as defined in paragraph (b)(3), except as this definition is modified according to paragraphs (aa)(2)(ii)(a) and (b).

(a) The allowable emissions for any emi ssions unit shall be calculated considering any emission limitations that are enforceable as a practi cal matter on the emissions unit's potential to emit.

(b) An emissions unit's potential to emit shall be determined using the definition in paragraph (b)(37), except that the words "or enforceable as a practical matter" should be added after "federally

enforceable."

(iii) “Small emissions unit” means an emissions unit that emits or has the potential to emit the PAL pollutant in an amount less than the significant level for that PAL pollutant, as defined in paragraph (b)(49) or

in the Clean Air Act, whichever is lower.

(iv) “Major emissions unit” means:

(a) Any emissions unit that emits or has the potential to emit 100 tons per year or more of the PAL pollutant in an attainment area; or

(b) Any emissions unit that emits or has th e potential to emit the PAL pollutant in an amount that is equal to or greater than the major source thr eshold for the PAL pollutant as defined by the Clean Air Act for nonattainment areas. For example, in accordance with the definition of major stationary source in section 182(c) of the Clean Air Act, an emissions unit would be a major emissions unit for VOC if the emissions unit is located in a serious ozone nonattainment area and it emits or has the potential to emit 50 or more tons of VOC per year.

(v) “Plantwide applicability limitation (PAL)” means an emission limitation expressed in tons per year, for a pollutant at a major stationary source, th at is enforceable as a practical matter and established source-wide in accordance with paragraphs (aa)(1) through (15).

(vi) “PAL effective date” generally means the date of issuance of the PAL permit. However, the

PAL effective date for an increased PAL is the date any emissions unit that is part of the PAL major modification becomes operational and begins to emit the PAL pollutant.

(vii) “PAL effective period” means the period beginning with the PAL effective date and ending 10 years later.

(viii) “PAL major modification” means, notwithstanding paragra phs (b)(30) and (b)(34) (the definitions for major modification and net emissions increase), any physical change in or change in the method of operation of the PAL source that causes it to em it the PAL pollutant at a level equal to or greater

than the PAL.(ix) “PAL permit” means the major NSR permit, the minor NSR permit, or the State operating permit under Regulation 61-62.1, Section II G, or the title V permit issued by the Department that establishes a PAL for a major stationary source.

(x) “PAL pollutant” means the pollutant for which a PAL is established at a major stationary source.

(xi) “Significant emissions unit” means an emissions unit that em its or has the potential to emit a PAL pollutant in an amount that is equal to or great er than the significant level (as defined in paragraph (b)(49) or in the Clean Air Act, whichever is lower) for that PAL pollutant, but less than the amount that would qualify the unit as a major emissions unit as defined in paragraph (aa)(2)(iv).

(3) Permit application requirements. As part of a permit application requesting a PAL, the owner or operator of a major stationary source shall submit the following information to the Department for approval:

(i) A list of all emissions units at the source d esignated as small, significant or major based on their potential to emit. In addition, the owner or operator of the source shall indicate which, if any, Federal or State applicable requirements, emission limitations, or work practices apply to each unit.

(ii) Calculations of the baseline actual emi ssions (with supporting documentation). Baseline actual emissions are to include emissions associated not only with operation of the unit, but also emissions associated with startup, shutdown, and malfunctions.

(iii) The calculation procedures that the major sta tionary source owner or operator proposes to use to convert the monitoring system data to monthly emi ssions and annual emissions based on a 12-month rolling total for each month as required by paragraph (aa)(13)(i).

(4) General requirements for establishing PALs.

(i) The Department is allowed to establish a PAL at a major stationary source, provided that at a minimum, the requirements in paragraphs (aa)(4)(i)(a) through (g) are met.

(a) The PAL shall impose an annual emission lim itation in tons per year, that is enforceable as a practical matter, for the entire major stationary source. For each month during the PAL effective period after the first 12 months of establishing a PAL, the majo r stationary source owner or operator shall show that the sum of the monthly emissions from each emissions unit under the PAL for the previous 12 consecutive months is less than the PAL (a 12-month average, ro lled monthly). For each month during the first 11 months from the PAL effective date, the major stationary source owner or operator shall show that the sum of the preceding monthly emissions from the PAL effective date for each emissions unit under the PAL is less than

the PAL. (f) Each PAL shall have a PAL effective period of 10 years.

(b) The PAL shall be established in a PA L permit that meets the public participation requirements in paragraph (aa)(5).

(c) The PAL permit shall contain all the requirements of paragraph (aa)(7).

(d) The PAL shall include fugitive emissions, to the extent quantifiable, from all emissions units that emit or have the potential to emit the PAL pollutant at the major stationary source.

(e) Each PAL shall regulate emissions of only one pollutant.(g) The owner or operator of the major sta tionary source with a PAL shall comply with the monitoring, recordkeeping, and repor ting requirements provided in paragraphs (aa)(12) through (14) for each emissions unit under the PAL through the PAL effective period.

(ii) At no time (during or after the PAL effective period) are emissions reductions of a PAL pollutant that occur during the PAL effective period cred itable as decreases for purposes of offsets under 40 CFR 51.165(a)(3)(ii) unless the level of the PAL is reduced by the amount of such emissions reductions and such

reductions would be creditable in the absence of the PAL.

(5) Public participation requirements for PALs. PALs for existing major stationary sources shall be established, renewed, or increased through a procedur e that is consistent with section (q) “Public Participation” of this regulation. The Department must address all material comments before taking final action on the permit.

(6) Setting the 10-year actuals PAL level.

(i) Except as provided in paragraph (aa)(6)(ii), th e actuals PAL level for a major stationary source

shall be established as the sum of the baseline actual em issions (as defined in paragraph (b)(4)) of the PAL pollutant for each emissions unit at the source; plus an amount equal to the applicable significant level for the PAL pollutant under paragra ph (b)(49) or under the Clean Air Act, whichever is lower. When establishing the actuals PAL level, for a PAL pollutant, only one consecu tive 24-month period must be used to determine the baseline actual emissions for all existing emissions un its. However, a different consecutive 24-month period may be used for each different PAL pollutant. Emissions associated with units that were permanently shut down after this 24-month period must be subtracted from the PAL level. The Department shall specify a reduced PAL level(s) (in tons/yr) in the PAL permit to become effective on the future compliance date(s) of any applicable Federal or State regulat ory requirement(s) that the Department is aware of prior to the issuance of the PAL permit. For instance, if the source owner or operator will be required to reduce emissions from industrial boilers in half from baseline emissions of 60 ppm NO

x to a new rule limit of 30 ppm, then the permit shall contain a future effective PAL level that is equal to the current PAL level reduced by half of the original baseline emissions of such unit(s).

(ii) Emissions from units (which do not include modification to existing units) on which operation began less than 24-months prior to the date of the PAL permit application must be added to the PAL level in an amount equal to the potential to emit of the units.

(7) Contents of the PAL permit. The PAL permit must contain, at a minimum, the information in paragraphs (aa)(7)(i) through (x).

(i) The PAL pollutant and the applicable source-wide emission limitation in tons per year.

(ii) The PAL permit effective date and the e xpiration date of the PAL (PAL effective period).

(iii) Specification in the PAL permit that if a major stationary source owner or operator applies to renew a PAL in accordance with paragraph (aa)(10) before the end of the PAL effective period, then the PAL shall not expire at the end of the PAL effective period. It shall remain in effect until a revised PAL permit is issued by the Department.(iv) A requirement that emission calculations for compliance purposes must include emissions from startups, shutdowns, and malfunctions.

(v) A requirement that, once the PAL expires, the major stationary source is subject to the requirements of paragraph (aa)(9).

(vi) The calculation procedures that the major stationary source owner or operator shall use to convert the monitoring system data to monthly emissions and annual emissions based on a 12-month rolling total as required by paragraph (aa)(13)(i).

(vii) A requirement that the major stationary s ource owner or operator monitor all emissions units in accordance with the provisions under paragraph (aa)(12).

(viii) A requirement to retain the records required under paragraph (aa)(13) on site. Such records may

be retained in an electronic format.

(ix) A requirement to submit the reports require d under paragraph (aa)(14) by the required deadlines.

(x) Any other requirements that the Department deems necessary to implement and enforce the PAL.

(8) PAL effective period and reopening of the PAL permit. The requirements in paragraphs (aa)(8)(i) and (ii) apply to actuals PALs.

(i) PAL effective period. The Department shall specify a PAL effective period of 10 years.

(ii) Reopening of the PAL permit.

(a) During the PAL effective period, the Department must reopen the PAL permit to:

(1) Correct typographical/calculation errors made in setting the PAL or reflect a more

accurate determination of emissions used to establish the PAL;

(2) Reduce the PAL if the owner or operator of the major stationary source creates creditable emissions reductions for use as offsets under 40 CFR 51.165(a)(3)(ii); and

(3) Revise the PAL to reflect an increase in the PAL as provided under paragraph

(aa)(11).

(b) The Department shall have discreti on to reopen the PAL permit for the following:

(1) Reduce the PAL to reflect newly a pplicable Federal requirements (for example, NSPS) with compliance dates after the PAL effective date;

(2) Reduce the PAL consistent with an y other requirement, that is enforceable as a practical matter, and that the State may impose on the major stationary source under the State Implementation

Plan; and

(3) Reduce the PAL if the Department determines that a reduction is necessary to avoid causing or contributing to a NAAQS or PSD increment violation, or to an adverse impact on an air quality related value that has been identified for a Federal Class I area by a Federal Land Manager and forwhich information is available to the general public.

(c) Except for the permit reopening in para graph (aa)(8)(ii)(a)(1) for the correction of typographical/calculation errors that do not increase the PAL level, all other reopenings shall be carried out in accordance with the public participation requirements of paragraph (aa)(5).

(9) Expiration of a PAL. Any PAL that is not renewed in accord ance with the procedures in paragraph (aa)(10) shall expire at the end of the PAL effectiv e period, and the requirements in paragraphs (aa)(9)(i) through (v) shall apply.

(i) Each emissions unit (or each group of emissi ons units) that existed under the PAL shall comply

with an allowable emission limitation under a revised permit established according to the procedures in paragraphs (aa)(9)(i)(a) and (b).

(a) Within the time frame specified for PAL renewals in paragraph (aa)(10)(ii), the major stationary source shall submit a proposed allowable emission limitation for each emissions unit (or each group

of emissions units, if such a distribu tion is more appropriate as decided by the Department) by distributing the PAL allowable emissions for the major stationary source among each of the emissions units that existed under the PAL. If the PAL had not yet been adjusted for an applicable requirement that became effective during the PAL effective period, as required under paragraph (aa)(10)(v), such distribution shall be made as if the PAL had been adjusted.

(b) The Department shall decide whether and how the PAL allowable emissions will be distributed and issue a revised permit incorporating a llowable limits for each emissions unit, or each group of emissions units, as the Department determines is appropriate.

(ii) Each emissions unit(s) shall comply with the allowable emission limitation on a 12-month rolling basis. The Department may approve the use of monito ring systems (source testing, emission factors, etc.)

other than CEMS, CERMS, PEMS, or CPMS to de monstrate compliance with the allowable emission

limitation.

(iii) Until the Department issues the revised perm it incorporating allowable limits for each emissions unit, or each group of emissions units, as required under pa ragraph (aa)(9)(i)(b), the source shall continue to comply with a source-wide, multi-unit emissions cap equi valent to the level of the PAL emission limitation.

(iv) Any physical change or change in the met hod of operation at the major stationary source will be subject to major NSR requirements if such change m eets the definition of major modification in paragraph (b)(30).

(v) The major stationary source owner or operator shall continue to comply with any State or Federal applicable requirements (BACT, RACT, NSPS, etc.) that may have applied either during the PAL effective period or prior to the PAL effective period except fo r those emission limitations that had been established pursuant to paragraph (r)(4), but were eliminated by the PAL in accordance with the provisions in paragraph (aa)(1)(ii)(c).

(10) Renewal of a PAL.

(i) The Department shall follow the procedures specified in paragraph (aa)(5) in approving any request to renew a PAL for a major stationary source, and shall provide both the proposed PAL level and a written rationale for the proposed PAL level to the public for review and comment. During such publicreview, any person may propose a PAL level for the source for consideration by the Department.

(ii) Application deadline. A major stationary source owner or operator shall submit a timely application to the Department to request renewal of a PAL. A timely application is one that is submitted at least 6 months prior to, but not earlier than 18 months from, the date of permit expiration. This deadline for application submittal is to ensure that the permit will not expire before the permit is renewed. If the owner or operator of a major stationary source submits a comple te application to renew the PAL within this time period, then the PAL shall continue to be effective until the revised permit with the renewed PAL is issued.

(iii) Application requirements. The application to renew a PAL permit shall contain the information required in paragraphs (aa)(10)(iii)(a) through (d).

(a) The information required in paragraphs (aa)(3)(i) through (iii).

(b) A proposed PAL level.

(c) The sum of the potential to emit of all emissions units under the PAL (with supporting documentation).

(d) Any other information the owner or ope rator wishes the Department to consider in determining the appropriate level for renewing the PAL.

(iv) PAL adjustment. In determining whether and how to adjust the PAL, the Department shall consider the options outlined in paragraphs (aa)( 10)(iv)(a) and (b). However, in no case may any such adjustment fail to comply with paragraph (aa)(10)(iv)(c).

(a) If the emissions level calculated in accordan ce with paragraph (aa)(6) is equal to or greater than 80 percent of the PAL level, the Department ma y renew the PAL at the same level without considering the factors set forth in paragraph (aa)(10)(iv)(b); or

(b) The Department may set the PAL at a level that it determines to be more representative of

the source's baseline actual emissions, or that it determ ines to be more appropriate considering air quality needs, advances in control technology, anticipated economic growth in the area, desire to reward or encourage the source's voluntary emissions reductions, or other factor s as specifically identified by the Department in its

written rationale.

(c) Notwithstanding paragra phs (aa)(10)(iv)(a) and (b):

(1) If the potential to emit of the major stationary source is less than the PAL, the Department shall adjust the PAL to a level no great er than the potential to emit of the source; and

(2) The Department shall not approve a renewed PAL level higher than the current PAL, unless the major stationary source has complied with the provisions of paragraph (aa)(11) (increasing a

PAL).

(v) If the compliance date for a State or Federal requirement that applies to the PAL source occurs during the PAL effective period, and if the Department has not already adjusted for such requirement, the PAL shall be adjusted at the time of PAL permit renewal or title V permit renewal, whichever occurs first.

(11) Increasing a PAL during the PAL effective period.(i) The Department may increase a PAL emission limitation only if the major stationary source complies with the provisions in paragraphs (aa)(11)(i)(a) through (d).

(a) The owner or operator of the major stationary source shall submit a complete application to request an increase in the PAL limit for a PAL majo r modification. Such application shall identify the emissions unit(s) contributing to the increase in emi ssions so as to cause the major stationary source's emissions to equal or exceed its PAL.

(b) As part of this application, the major stationary source owner or operator shall

demonstrate that the sum of the baseline actual emissions of the small emissions units, plus the sum of the baseline actual emissions of the significant and major emissions units assuming application of BACT equivalent controls, plus the sum of the allowable emi ssions of the new or modified emissions unit(s) exceeds the PAL. The level of control that would result from BACT equivalent controls on each significant or major emissions unit shall be determined by conducting a ne w BACT analysis at the time the application is submitted, unless the emissions unit is currently required to comply with a BACT or LAER requirement that was established within the preceding 10 years. In such a case, the assumed control level for that emissions unit shall be equal to the level of BACT or LAER w ith which that emissions unit must currently comply.

(c) The owner or operator obtains a major NS R permit for all emissions unit(s) identified in paragraph (aa)(11)(i)(a), regardless of the magnitude of the emissions increase resulting from them (that is, no significant levels apply). These emissions unit(s) sha ll comply with any emissions requirements resulting from the major NSR process (for example, BACT), even though they have also become subject to the PAL or continue to be subject to the PAL.

(d) The PAL permit shall require that the increased PAL level shall be effective on the day any emissions unit that is part of the PAL major m odification becomes operational and begins to emit the PAL pollutant.

(ii) The Department shall calculate the new PAL as the sum of the allowable emissions for each modified or new emissions unit, plus the sum of th e baseline actual emissions of the significant and major emissions units (assuming application of BACT equi valent controls as determined in accordance with paragraph (aa)(11)(i)(b)), plus the sum of the base line actual emissions of the small emissions units.

(iii) The PAL permit shall be revised to reflect the increased PAL level pursuant to the public notice requirements of paragraph (aa)(5).

(12) Monitoring requirements for PALs. (i) General requirements. (a) Each PAL permit must contain enforceable requirements for the monitoring system th at accurately determines plantwide emissions of the PAL pollutant in terms of mass per unit of time. Any m onitoring system authorized for use in the PAL permit must be based on sound science and meet generally acceptable scientific procedures for data quality and manipulation. Additionally, the information generated by such system must meet minimum legal requirements for admissibility in a judicial pro ceeding to enforce the PAL permit.

(b) The PAL monitoring system must employ one or more of the four general monitoring approaches meeting the minimum requirements set forth in paragraphs (aa)(12)(ii)(a ) through (d) and must be approved by the Department.

(c) Notwithstanding paragraph (aa)(12)(i)(b), the owner or operator may also employ an alternative monitoring approach that meets paragr aph (aa)(12)(i)(a) if approved by the Department.(d) Failure to use a monitoring system that meets the requirements of this regulation renders

the PAL invalid.

(ii) Minimum performance requirements for approved monitoring approaches. The following are acceptable general monitoring approaches when conducte d in accordance with the minimum requirements in paragraphs (aa)(12)(iii) through (ix):

(a) Mass balance calculations for activities using coatings or solvents;

(b) CEMS;

(c) CPMS or PEMS; and

(d) Emission factors.

(iii) Mass balance calculations. An owner or operator using mass balance calculations to monitor PAL pollutant emissions from activities using coating or solvents shall meet the following requirements:

(a) Provide a demonstrated means of valid ating the published content of the PAL pollutant that is contained in or created by all materials used in or at the emissions unit;

(b) Assume that the emissions unit emits all of the PAL pollutant that is contained in or created by any raw material or fuel used in or at th e emissions unit, if it cannot otherwise be accounted for in the process; and

(c) Where the vendor of a material or fuel, which is used in or at the emissions unit, publishes a range of pollutant content from such material, the owne r or operator must use the highest value of the range to calculate the PAL pollutant emissions unless the Departme nt determines there is site-specific data or a sitespecific monitoring program to support another content within the range.

(iv) CEMS. An owner or operator using CEMS to monitor PAL pollutant emissions shall meet the following requirements:

(a) CEMS must comply with applicable Performance Specifications found in 40 CFR 60, appendix B; and

(b) CEMS must sample, analyze and reco rd data at least every 15 minutes while the emissions unit is operating.

(v) CPMS or PEMS. An owner or operator using CPMS or PEMS to monitor PAL pollutant emissions shall meet the following requirements:

(a) The CPMS or the PEMS must be based on current site-specific data demonstrating a correlation between the monitored parameter(s) and the PAL pollutant emissions acr oss the range of operation

of the emissions unit; and

(b) Each CPMS or PEMS must sample, analyze, and record data at least every 15 minutes, or at another less frequent interval approved by the Department, while the emissions unit is operating.(vi) Emission factors. An owner or operator using emission factors to monitor PAL pollutant emissions shall meet the following requirements:

(a) All emission factors shall be adjusted, if appropriate, to account for the degree of uncertainty or limitations in the factors' development;

(b) The emissions unit shall operate within the designated range of use for the emission factor, if applicable; and

(c) If technically practicable, the owner or operator of a significant emissions unit that relies on an emission factor to calculate PAL pollutant emissi ons shall conduct validation te sting to determine a sitespecific emission factor within 6 months of PAL pe rmit issuance, unless the Department determines that testing is not required.

(vii) A source owner or operator must record and report maximum potential emissions without considering enforceable emission limitations or operati onal restrictions for an emissions unit during any period of time that there is no monitoring data, unless another method for determining emissions during such periods is specified in the PAL permit.

(viii) Notwithstanding the requirements in paragra phs (aa)(12)(iii) through (vii), where an owner or operator of an emissions unit cannot demonstrate a correlation between the monitored parameter(s) and the PAL pollutant emissions rate at all operating points of th e emissions unit, the Department shall, at the time of permit issuance:

(a) Establish default value(s) for determin ing compliance with the PAL based on the highest potential emissions reasonably estimated at such operating point(s); or

(b) Determine that operation of the emissions unit during operating conditions when there is no correlation between monitored parame ter(s) and the PAL pollutant emissi ons is a violation of the PAL.

(ix) Re-validation. All data used to establis h the PAL pollutant must be re-validated through performance testing or other scientifically valid means approved by the Department. Such testing must occur at least once every 5 years after issuance of the PAL.

(13) Recordkeeping requirements

. (i) The PAL permit shall require an owner or operator to retain a copy of all records necessary to determine compliance with any requirement of paragraph (aa) and of the PAL, including a determination of each emissions unit's 12-m onth rolling total emissions, for 5 years from the date

of such record.

(ii) The PAL permit shall require an owner or ope rator to retain a copy of the following records for the duration of the PAL effective period plus 5 years:

(a) A copy of the PAL permit application and any applications for revisions to the PAL; and

(b) Each annual certification of complian ce pursuant to title V and the data relied on in certifying the compliance.

(14) Reporting and notification requirements

. The owner or operator shall submit semi-annual monitoring reports and prompt devia tion reports to the Department in accordance with the applicable title V operating permit program. The reports shall meet the re quirements in paragraphs (aa)(14)(i) through (iii).(i) Semi-annual report. The semi-annual report shall be submitte d to the Department within 30 days of the end of each reporting period. This report shall contain the information required in paragraphs (aa)(14)(i)(a) through (g).

(a) The identification of owne r and operator and the permit number.

(b) Total annual emissions (tons/year) based on a 12-month rolling total for each month in the reporting period recorded pursuant to paragraph (aa)(13)(i).

(c) All data relied upon, including, but not limited to, any Quality Assurance or Quality Control data, in calculating the monthly and annual PAL pollutant emissions.

(d) A list of any emissions units modified or added to the major stationary source during the preceding 6-month period.

(e) The number, duration, and cause of any deviations or monitoring malfunctions (other than the time associated with zero and span calibra tion checks), and any corrective action taken.

(f) A notification of a shutdown of any monitoring system, whether the shutdown was permanent or temporary, the reason for the shutdown, th e anticipated date that the monitoring system will be fully operational or replaced with another monitoring system, and whether the emissions unit monitored by the monitoring system continued to operate, and the cal culation of the emissions of the pollutant or the number determined by method included in the permit, as provided by (aa)(12)(vii).

(g) A signed statement by the responsible official (as defined by the applicable title V operating permit program) certifying the truth, accuracy, and completeness of the information provided in the

report.

(ii) Deviation report. The major stationary source owner or operator shall promptly submit reports of any deviations or exceedance of the PAL requirements, including periods where no monitoring is available. A report submitted pursuant to 40 CFR 70.6(a)(3)(iii)(B) shall satisfy this reporting requirement. The deviation reports shall be submitted within the time limits prescr ibed by the applicable program implementing 40 CFR 70.6(a)(3)(iii)(B). The reports shall contain the following information:

(a) The identification of owne r and operator and the permit number;

(b) The PAL requirement that experi enced the deviation or that was exceeded;

(c) Emissions resulting from the deviation or the exceedance; and

(d) A signed statement by the responsible official (as defined by the applicable title V operating permit program) certifying the truth, accuracy, and completeness of the information provided in the

report.

(iii) Re-validation results. The owner or operator shall submit to the Department the results of any

re-validation test or method within 3 months after completion of such test or method.

(15) Transition requirements.(i) The Department may not issue a PAL that does not comply with the requirements in paragraphs (aa)(1) through (15) after the date these provisions become effective.

(ii) The Department may supersede any PAL that was established prior to the date these provisions become effective with a PAL that complies with th e requirements of paragraphs (aa)(1) through (15).

(bb) If any provision of this regulation, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of this regulation, or the a pplication of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby.

R. 61-62.5, Standard No. 7 History - South Carolina State Register : Vol. 9, Issue No. 5, (Doc. No. 457), May 24, 1985; Vol. 9, Issue No. 5, (Doc. No. 577), May 24, 1985; Vol. 13, Issue No. 2, (Doc. No. 868), February 24, 1989; Vol. 12, Issue No. 4, (Doc. No. 970), April 22, 1988; Vol. 13, Issue No. 3, (Doc. No. 1053), March 24, 1989; Vol. 14, Issue No. 9, (Doc. No. 1310), August 24, 1990; Vol. 16, Issue No. 6, (Doc. No. 1507), June 26, 1992; Vol. 18, Issue No. 11, (Doc. No. 1799), November 25, 1994; Vol. 20, Issue No. 4, (Doc. No. 1926), April 26, 1996; Vol. 25, Issue No. 10, (Doc. No. 2648), October 26, 2001; Vol. 29, Issue No. 6. (Doc. No. 2943), June 24, 2005; Vol. 33, Issue No. 4, (Doc. No. 4056), April 24, 2009; Vol. 36, Issue No. 4, (Doc. No. 4280), April 27, 2012.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS

REGULATION 61-62.5

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL STANDARDS

STANDARD NO. 2

AMBIENT AIR QUALITY STANDARDS

The following table, unless otherwise noted, constitutes the primary and secondary ambient air quality standards for the State of South Carolina. The computations for determining if the applicable standard is met, along with the analytical methods to be used, will be those applicable Fede ral Reference Methods and Interpretations published in the Appendices to 40 CFR 50, or those methods designate d as Federal Equivalent Methods (FEM) in accordance with 40 CFR 53. In the cas e of Gaseous Fluorides, either the double paper tape sampler method (ASTM D-3266-91 or later), the sodium bicarbonate-coated glass tube and particulate filter method (ASTM D-3268-91 or later), or an approved method may be used.

Pollutant Reference Measuring

Interval Standard Level

mg/m 3 μ g/m 3 ppm ppb

3 hour (secondary) - 1300 0.5

-

24 hour (primary) - 365 0.14

- Sulfur Dioxide 40 CFR 50.4

40 CFR 50.5

Annual (primary) - 80 0.030

-

PM 10 40 CFR 50.6 24 hour

- 150

- -

24 hour

- 35

- - PM 2.5 40 CFR 50.13

Annual

- 15

- -

1 hour (no secondary) 40

- 35

- Carbon Monoxide 40 CFR 50.8

8 hour (no secondary) 10

- 9

-

40 CFR 50.10 8 hour (1997)

- - 0.08

- Ozone

40 CFR 50.15 8 hour (2008)

- - 0.075

-

12 hour

- 3.7

- - 24 hour

- 2.9

- - 1 week

- 1.6

- - Gaseous Fluorides

(as HF) State Regulation

(1978)

1 month

- 0.8

- -Pollutant Reference Measuring

Interval Standard Level

mg/m 3 μ g/m 3 ppm ppb

Nitrogen Dioxide 40 CFR 50.11 Annual

- 100 0.053 53

Lead 40 CFR 50.16 Rolling 3- month Average - 0.15

- -

R. 61-62.5, Standard No. 2 History - South Carolina State Register : Vol. 9, Issue No. 5, (Doc. No. 457), May 24, 1985; Vol. 12, Issue No. 4, (Doc. No. 970), April 22, 1988; Vol. 13, Issue No. 2, (Doc. No. 868), February 24, 1989; Vol. 28, Issue No. 9, (Doc. No. 2912), September 24, 2004; Vol. 32, Issue No. 10, (Doc. No. 3224), October 24, 2008; Vol. 33, Issue No. 10, (Doc. No. 4082), October 23, 2009; Vol. 36, Issue No. 4, (Doc. No. 4280), April 27, 2012.

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AIR POLLUTION CONTROL REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS

REGULATION 61-62.5

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL STANDARDS

STANDARD NO. 7

PREVENTION OF SIGNIFICANT DETERIORATION

(a)(1) Reserved.

(2) Applicability procedures.

(i) The requirements of this regulation apply to th e construction of any new major stationary source (as defined in paragraph (b)(32)) or any project at an existing major stationary source in an area designated as

attainment or unclassifiable under 40 CFR 81.341.

(ii) The requirements of paragraphs (j) through (r) apply to the construction of any new major stationary source or the major modification of any existing majo r stationary source, except as this section otherwise provides.

(iii) No new major stationary source or major modi fication to which the requirements of paragraphs (j) through (r)(5) apply shall begin actual construction without a permit that states that the major stationary source or major modification will meet those requirement s. The Department has authority to issue any such permit.

(iv) The requirements of the program will be a pplied in accordance with the principles set out in paragraphs (a)(2)(iv)(a) through (f).

(a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (a)(2 )(v) and (vi), and consistent with the definition of major modification contained in paragraph (b)(30), a project is a major modification for a regulated New Source Review (NSR) pollutant if it causes two types of emissions increases – a significant emissions increase (as defined in paragraph (b)(50)), and a significant ne t emissions increase (as defined in paragraphs (b)(34) and (b)(49)). The project is not a major modificati on if it does not cause a significant emissions increase. If the project causes a significant emissions increase, then the project is a major modification only if it also results in a significant net emissions increase.

(b) The procedure for calculating (before beginning actual construction) whether a significant emissions increase ( i.e. , the first step of the process) will occur depends upon the type of emissions units being modified, according to paragraphs (a)(2)(iv)(c ) through (f). The procedure for calculating (before beginning actual construction) whether a significant net emissions increase will occur at the major stationary

source ( i.e. , the second step of the process) is contained in the definition in paragraph (b)(34). Regardless of any such preconstruction projections, a major modification results if the project causes a significant emissions increase and a significant net emissions increase.

(c) Actual-to-projected-actual applicability test for projects that only involve existing emissionsunits. A significant emissions increase of a regulated NSR po llutant is projected to occur if the sum of the difference between the projected actual emissions (as defined in paragraph (b)(41)) and the baseline actual emissions (as defined in paragraphs (b)(4)(i) and (ii)), for each existing emissions unit, equals or exceeds the significant amount for that pollutant (as defined in paragraph (b)(49)).

(d) Actual-to-potential test for projects that only involve construction of a new emissions unit(s). A significant emissions increase of a regulated NSR pollutant is projected to occur if the sum of the difference between the potential to emit (as defined in para graph (b)(37)) from each new emissions unit following completion of the project and the baseline actual emissions (as defined in paragraph (b) (4)(iii)) of these units before the project equals or exceeds the significant amount for that pollutant (as defined in paragraph (b)(49)).

(e) [Reserved]

(f) Hybrid test for projects that involve multiple types of emissions units. A significant emissions increase of a regulated NSR pollutant is projected to occur if the sum of th e emissions increases for each emissions unit, using the method specified in paragraphs (a)(2)(iv)(c) and (d) as applicable with respect to each emissions unit, equals or exceeds, the significant amount for that pollutant (as defined in paragraph (b)(49)).

(v) For any major stationary source for a Plantw ide Applicability Limitation (PAL) for a regulated NSR pollutant, the major stationary source shall comp ly with the requirements under paragraph (aa).

(b) Definitions.

For the purposes of this regulation:

(1)(i) “Actual emissions” means the actual rate of emissions of a regulated NSR pollutant from an emissions unit, as determined in accordance with pa ragraphs (b)(1)(ii) through (iv), except that this definitions shall not apply for calculating whether a significant emissions increase has occurred, or for establishing a PAL under paragraph (aa). Instead, para graphs (b)(41) and (b)(4) shall apply for those

purposes.

(ii) In general, actual emissions as of a particular date shall equal the average rate, in tons per year, at which the unit actually emitted the pollutant duri ng a consecutive 24-month period which precedes the particular date and which is representative of normal s ource operation. The Department shall allow the use of a different time period upon a determination that it is more representative of normal source operation. Actual emissions shall be calculated using the unit's actual ope rating hours, production rates, and types of materials processed, stored, or combusted during the selected time period.

(iii) The Department may presume that source-specific allowable emissions for the unit are equivalent to

the actual emissions of the unit.

(iv) For any emissions unit that has not begun norma l operations on the particular date, actual emissions shall equal the potential to emit of the unit on that date.

(2) “Adverse impact on visibility” means visibility impairment 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 ta king into account the geographic extent, intensity, duration, frequency and time of visibility impairment, and how these factors correlate with (1) times of visitor use of the Federal Class I area, and (2) the frequency a nd timing of natural conditions that reduce visibility.(3)“ Allowable emissions” means the emissions rate of a stationary source calculated using the maximum rated capacity of the source (unless the source is subject to federally enforceable limits which restrict the operating rate, or hours of opera tion, or both) and the most stringent of the following:

(i) The applicable standards as set forth in 40 CFR 60 and 61;

(ii) The applicable State Implementation Plan emissions limitation, including those with a future compliance date; or

(iii) The emissions rate specified as a federally enforceable permit condition, including those with a future compliance date.

(4) “Baseline actual emissions” means the rate of emissions, in tons per year, of a regulated NSR pollutant, as determined in accordance w ith paragraphs (b)(4)(i) through (iv).

(i) For any existing electric utility steam generati ng unit, baseline actual emissions means the average rate, in tons per year, at which the unit actually emitted the pollutant during any consecutive 24-month period selected by the owner or operator within the 5-year period immediately preceding when the owner or operator begins actual construction of the project. The Departme nt shall allow the use of a different time period upon a determination that it is more repr esentative of normal source operation.

(a) The average rate shall include fugitive em issions to the extent quantifiable, and emissions associated with startups and shutdowns.

(b) The average rate shall be adjusted dow nward to exclude any non-compliant emissions that occurred while the source was operating above any emissi on limitation that was legally enforceable during the consecutive 24-month period.

(c) For a regulated NSR pollutant, when a project involves multiple emissions units, only one consecutive 24-month period must be used to determine the baseline actual emissions for the emissions units being changed. A different consecutive 24-month peri od can be used for each regulated NSR pollutant.

(d) The average rate shall not be based on any consecutive 24-month period for which there is inadequate information for determini ng annual emissions, in tons per year, and for adjusting this amount if required by paragraph (b)(4)(i)(b).

(ii) For an existing emissions unit (other than an electric utility steam generating unit), baseline actual emissions means the average rate, in tons per year, at which the emissions unit actually emitted the pollutant during any consecutive 24-month period selected by th e owner or operator within the 10-year period immediately preceding either the date the owner or opera tor begins actual construction of the project, or the date a complete permit application is received by the Department for a permit required under this section or under a plan approved by the Administrator, whicheve r is earlier, except that the 10-year period shall not include any period earlier than November 15, 1990. The Department reserves the right to determine if the 24- month period selected is appropriate.

(a) The average rate shall include fugitive em issions to the extent quantifiable, and emissions associated with startups and shutdowns.

(b) The average rate shall be adjusted dow nward to exclude any non-compliant emissions thatoccurred while the source was operating above an emissi on limitation that was legally enforceable during the consecutive 24-month period.

(c) The average rate shall be adjusted downwar d to exclude any emissions that would have exceeded an emission limitation with which the major stationa ry source must currently comply, had such major stationary source been required to comply with su ch limitations during the consecutive 24-month period. However, if an emission limitation is part of a maxi mum achievable control technology standard that the Administrator proposed or promulgated under 40 CFR 63, the baseline actual emissions need only be adjusted

if the State has taken credit for such emissions reductions in an attainment demonstration or maintenance plan consistent with the requirement s of 40 CFR 51.165(a)(3)(ii)(G).

(d) For a regulated NSR pollutant, when a project involves multiple emissions units, only one consecutive 24-month period must be used to determin e the baseline actual emissions for all the emissions units being changed. A different consecutive 24-month period can be used for each regulated NSR pollutant.

(e) The average rate shall not be based on any consecutive 24-month period for which there is inadequate information for determini ng annual emissions, in tons per year, and for adjusting this amount if required by paragraphs (b)(4)(ii)(b) and (c).

(iii) For a new emissions unit, the baseline actua l emissions for purposes of determining the emissions

increase that will result from the initial construction and operation of such unit shall equal zero; and thereafter, for all other purposes, shall equal the unit's potential to emit.

(iv) For a PAL for a stationary source, the base line actual emissions shall be calculated for existing electric utility steam generating units in accordance with the procedures contained in paragraph (b)(4)(i), for other existing emissions units in accordance with the pr ocedures contained in paragraph (b)(4)(ii), and for a new emissions unit in accordance with the pr ocedures contained in paragraph (b)(4)(iii).

(5)(i) “Baseline area” means any intrastate area (and every part thereof) designated as attainment or unclassifiable under section 107(d)(1)(A)(ii) or (iii) of th e Clean Air Act in which the major source or major modification establishing the minor source baseline date w ould construct or would have an air quality impact for the pollutant for which the base line date is established, as follows: Equal to or greater than 1 μg/m 3

(annual average) for SO 2 , NO 2 , or PM 10 ; or equal or greater than 0.3 μg/m 3 (annual average) for PM 2.5

.

(ii) Area redesignations under section 107(d)(1)(A)(ii) or (iii) of the Clean Air Act cannot intersect or be smaller than the area of impact of any major stationary source or major modification which:

(a) Establishes a minor source baseline date; or

(b) Is subject to 40 CFR 51.166 and would be c onstructed in the same state as the state proposing the redesignation.

(iii) Any baseline area established originally for the TSP increments shall remain in effect and shall apply for purposes of determining the amount of available PM 10 increments, except th at such baseline area shall not remain in effect if the Department r escinds the corresponding minor source baseline date in accordance with paragraph (b)(31)(iv).

(6)(i) “Baseline concentration” means that ambient concentration level that exists in the baseline area at the time of the applicable minor source baseline date . A baseline concentration is determined for each pollutant for which a minor source baselin e date is established and shall include:(a) The actual emissions, as defined in paragra ph (b)(1), representative of sources in existence on the applicable minor source baseline date, excep t as provided in paragraph (b) (6)(ii); and

(b) The allowable emissions of major stationary sources that commenced construction before the major source baseline date, but were not in operation by the applicable minor source baseline date.

(ii) The following will not be included in the b aseline concentration and will affect the applicable maximum allowable increase(s):

(a) Actual emissions, as defined in paragra ph (b)(1), from any major stationary source on which construction commenced after the major source baseline date; and

(b) Actual emissions increases and decreases, as defi ned in paragraph (b)(1), at any stationary source occurring after the minor source baseline date.

(7)“ Begin actual construction” means, in general, initiation of phy sical on-site construction activities on an emissions unit which are of a permanent nature. Su ch activities include, but are not limited to, installation of building supports and foundations , laying underground pipework and c onstruction of permanent storage structures. With respect to a change in method of opera tions, this term refers to those on-site activities other than preparatory activities which mark the initiation of the change.

(8) “Best available control technology” means an emissions limitation (including a visible emission standard) based on the maximum degree of reduction for each regulated NSR pollutant which would beemitted from any proposed major stationary source or major modification which the Department, on a caseby-case basis, taking into account energy, environmental, and economic impacts and other costs, determines is achievable for such source or modification through app lication of production processes or available methods, systems, and techniques, including fuel cleaning or treatment or innovative fuel combustion techniques for control of such pollutant. In no event shall application of best available control technology result in emissions of any pollutant which would exceed the emissions a llowed by any applicable standard under 40 CFR 60 and 61. If the Department determines that technological or economic limitations on the application of measurement methodology to a particular emissions unit would make the imposition of an emissions standard infeasible, a design, equipment, work practice, ope rational standard, or combination thereof, may be prescribed instead to satisfy the requirement for the a pplication of best available control technology. Such standard shall, to the degree possible, set forth the em issions reduction achievable by implementation of such design, equipment, work practice or operation, and shall provide for compliance by means which achieve equivalent results.

(9) “Building, structure, facility, or installation” means all of the pollutant-emitting activities which belong to the same industrial grouping, are located on one or more contiguous or adjacent properties, and are under the control of the same person (or persons under common control) except the activities of any vessel. Pollutant-emitting activities shall be considered as part of the same industrial grouping if they belong to the same "Major Group" (i.e., which have the same first two digit code) as described in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, as amended by the 1977 S upplement (U.S. Government Printing Office stock numbers 4101-0066 and 003-005-00176-0, respectively).

(10) “Clean coal technology” means any technology, including technologies applied at the precombustion, combustion, or post combustion stage, at a new or ex isting facility which will achieve significant reductions in air emissions of sulfur dioxide or oxides of nitrogen associated with the utilization of coal in the generation of electricity, or process steam which was not in widespread use as of November 15, 1990.(11) “Clean coal technology demonstration project” means a project using funds appropriated under the heading “Department of Energy-Clean Coal Technology,” up to a total amount of $2,500,000,000 for commercial demonstration of clean coal technology, or similar projects funded through appropriations for the Environmental Protection Agency. The Federal contri bution for a qualifying project shall be at least 20 percent of the total cost of the demonstration project.

(12) [Reserved]

(13) “Commence” as applied to construction of a major stationary source or major modification means that the owner or operator has all necessary preconstruc tion approvals or permits and either has:

(i) Begun, or caused to begin, a continuous program of actual on-site construction of the source, to be completed within a reasonable time; or

(ii) Entered into binding agreements or contract ual obligations, which cannot be cancelled or modified without substantial loss to the owner or operator, to undertake a program of actual construction of the source to be completed within a reasonable time.

(14) “Complete” means in reference to an application for a perm it, that the application contains all of the information necessary for processing the application.

(15) “Construction” means any physical change or change in the method of operation (including

fabrication, erection, installation, demolition, or modi fication of an emissions unit) that would result in a change in actual emissions.

(16) “Continuous emissions monitoring system (CEMS)” means all of the equipment that may be required to meet the data acquisition and availability re quirements of this regulation, to sample, condition (if applicable), analyze, and provide a record of emissions on a continuous basis.

(17) “Continuous emissions rate mo nitoring system (CERMS)” means the total equipment required for the determination and recording of the pollutant mass emissions rate (in terms of mass per unit of time).

(18) “Continuous parameter monitoring system (CPMS)” means all of the equipment necessary to meet the data acquisition and availability requirements of th is regulation, to monitor process and control device operational parameters (for example, control device secondary voltages and electric currents) and other information (for example, gas flow rate, O 2 or CO 2 concentrations), and to record average operational parameter value(s) on a continuous basis.

(19) “Electric utility steam generating unit” means any steam electric genera ting unit that is constructed for the purpose of supplying more than one-third of its potential electric output capacity and more than 25 MW electrical output to any utility power distributi on system for sale. Any steam supplied to a steam distribution system for the purpose of providing steam to a steam-electric generator that would produce electrical energy for sale is also considered in determ ining the electrical energy output capacity of the affected facility.

(20) “Emissions unit” means any part of a stationary source that emits or would have the potential to emit any regulated NSR pollutant and includes an electric utility steam generating unit as defined in paragraph (b)(19). For purposes of this regulation, there are two types of emissions units as described in paragraphs (b)(20)(i) and (ii).(i) A new emissions unit is any emissions unit that is (or will be) newly constr ucted and that has existed for less than 2 years from the date such emissions unit first operated.

(ii) An existing emissions unit is any emissions unit that does not meet the requirements in paragraph (b)(20)(i). A replacement unit, as defined in para graph (b)(45), is an existing emissions unit.

(21) “Federal Land Manager” means, with respect to any lands in the United States, the Secretary of the department with authority over such lands.

(22) “Federally enforceable” means all limitations and conditions which are enforceable by the Administrator, including those requirements develope d pursuant to 40 CFR 60 and 61, requirements within any applicable State implementation plan, any permit requirements established pursuant to 40 CFR 52.21 or under regulations approved pursuant to 40 CFR 51, subpart I, including operating permits issued under an EPA-approved program that is incorporated into the State implementation plan and expressly requires adherence to any permit issued under such program.

(23) “Fugitive emissions” means those emissions which could not reasonably pass through a stack, chimney, vent, or other functionally equivalent opening.

(24) “High terrain” means any area having an elevation 900 feet or more above the base of the stack of a

source.

(25) “Indian Governing Body” means the governing body of any tribe, band, or group of Indians subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and rec ognized by the United States as possessing power of self

government.

(26) “Indian Reservation” means any federally recognized reservation established by Treaty, Agreement, Executive Order, or Act of Congress.

(27) “Innovative control technology” means any system of air pollution control that has not been adequately demonstrated in practice, but would have a substantial likelihood of achieving greater continuous emissions reduction than any control system in current practice or of achieving at least comparable reductions at lower cost in terms of energy, economics, or nonair quality environmental impacts.

(28) “Low terrain” means any area other than high terrain.

(29) “Lowest achievable emission rate (LAER)” is as defined in paragra ph (c)(5) of Regulation 61-62.5

Standard 7.1, “ Nonattainment New Source Review. ”

(30)(i) “Major modification” means any physical change in or change in the method of operation of a major stationary source that would result in: a significan t emissions increase (as defined in paragraph (b)(50)) of a regulated NSR pollutant (as defi ned in paragraph (b)(44)); and a significant net emissions increase of that pollutant from the major stationary source.

(ii) Any significant emissions increase (as defined in paragraph (b)(50)) from any emissions units or net emissions increase (as defined in paragraph (b)(34)) at a major stationary source that is significant for volatile organic compounds or oxides of nitrogen sh all be considered significant for ozone.

(iii) A physical change or change in the method of operation shall not include:(a) Routine maintenance, repair and replacement;

(b) Use of an alternative fuel or raw material by reason of an order under sections 2(a) and (b) of the Energy Supply and Environmental Coor dination Act of 1974 (or any supersedi ng legislation) or by reason of a natural gas curtailment plan pur suant to the Federal Power Act;

(c) Use of an alternative fuel by reason of an order or rule under section 125 of the Clean Air Act;

(d) Use of an alternative fuel at a steam genera ting unit to the extent that the fuel is generated from municipal solid waste;

(e) Use of an alternative fuel or raw material by a stationary source which:

(1) The source was capable of accommodating befo re January 6, 1975, unless such change would be prohibited under any federally enforceable permit c ondition which was established after January 6, 1975 pursuant to 40 CFR 52.21 or under regul ations approved pursuant to 40 CF R subpart I or 40 CFR 51.166; or

(2) The source is approved to use under any permit issued under 40 CFR 52.21 or under regulations approved pursuant to 40 CFR 51.166;

(f) An increase in the hours of operation or in the production rate, unless such change would be prohibited under any federally enforceable permit c ondition which was established after January 6, 1975, pursuant to 40 CFR 52.21 or under regulations approved pursuant to 40 CFR subpart I or 40 CFR 51.166.

(g) Any change in ownership at a stationary source.

(h) [Reserved]

(i) The installation, operation, cessation, or removal of a temporary clean coal technology demonstration project, provided that the project complies with:

(1) The State implementation plan for th e State in which the project is located, and

(2) Other requirements necessary to attain and maintain the national ambient air quality standards during the project and after it is terminated.

(j) The installation or operation of a permanen t clean coal technology demonstration project that constitutes repowering, provided that the project does not result in an increase in the potential to emit of any regulated pollutant emitted by the unit. This exemp tion shall apply on a pollutant-by-pollutant basis.

(k) The reactivation of a very clean coal-fired electric utility steam generating unit.

(iv) This definition shall not apply with respect to a particular regulated NSR pollutant when the major stationary source is complying with the requirement s under paragraph (aa) for a PAL for that pollutant. Instead, the definition at paragraph (aa)(2)(viii) shall apply.

(31)(i) “Major source baseline date” means:

(a) In the case of PM 10 and sulfur dioxide, January 6, 1975;(b) In the case of nitrogen dioxide, February 8, 1988; and

(c) In the case of PM 2.5 , October 20, 2010.

(ii) “Minor source baseline date” means the earliest date after the trigger date on which a major stationary source or a major modification subject to 40 CFR 52.21 or to regulations approved pursuant to 40 CFR 51.166 submits a complete application under th e relevant regulations. The trigger date is:

(a) In the case of PM 10 and sulfur dioxide, August 7, 1977;

(b) In the case of nitrogen dioxide, February 8, 1988; and

(c) In the case of PM 2.5 , October 20, 2011.

(iii) The baseline date is established for each polluta nt for which increments or other equivalent measures

have been established if:

(a) The area in which the proposed source or modi fication would construct is designated as attainment or unclassifiable under section 107(d)(1)(A)(ii) or (iii) of the Federal Clean Air Act for the pollutant on the date of its complete application under 40 CFR 52. 21 or under regulations approved pursuant to 40 CFR

51.166; and

(b) In the case of a major stationary source, the pollutant would be emitted in significant amounts, or, in the case of a major modification, there would be a significant net emissions increase of the pollutant.

(iv) Any minor source baseline date established origin ally for the TSP increments shall remain in effect and shall apply for purposes of determining the amount of available PM 10 increments, except that the Department shall rescind a minor source baseline date where it can be shown, to the satisfaction of the Department, that the emissions increase from the major stationary source, or net emissions increase from the major modification, responsible for triggering that date did not result in a significant amount of PM 10 emissions.

(32)(i) “Major stationary source” means:

(a) Any of the following stationary sources of ai r pollutants which emits, or has the potential to emit, 100 tons per year or more of any regulated NSR pollutant: Fossil fuel-fired steam electric plants of more than 250 million British thermal units per hour heat input, coal cleaning plants (with thermal dryers), kraft pulp mills, portland cement plants, primary zinc smelters, iron and steel mill plants, primary aluminum ore reduction plants, primary copper smelters, municipal inci nerators capable of charging more than 250 tons of refuse per day, hydrofluoric, sulfuric, and nitric acid plants, petroleum refineries, lime plants, phosphate rock processing plants, coke oven batteries, sulfur recovery plants, carbon black plants (furnace process), primary lead smelters, fuel conversion plants, sintering pl ants, secondary metal production plants, chemical process plants (which does not include ethanol production f acilities that produce ethanol by natural fermentation included in NAICS codes 325193 or 312140), fossil fuel boilers (or combinations thereof) totaling more than 250 million British thermal units per hour heat input, petroleum storage and transfer units with a total storage capacity exceeding 300,000 barrels , taconite ore processing plants, glass fiber processing plants, and charcoal production plants;

(b) Notwithstanding the stationary source size speci fied in paragraph (b)(32)(i), any stationary sourcewhich emits, or has the potential to emit, 250 tons per year or more of a regulated NSR pollutant; or

(c) Any physical change that would occur at a stationary source not otherwise qualifying under paragraph (b)(32), as a major stationary source, if the changes would constitute a major stationary source by

itself.

(ii) A major stationary source that is major for volatile organic compounds or oxides of nitrogen shall be considered major for ozone.

(iii) The fugitive emissions of a stationary source shall not be included in determining for any of the purposes of this regulation whether it is a major stationary source, unless the source belongs to one of the following categories of stationary sources:

(a) Coal cleaning plants (with thermal dryers);

(b) Kraft pulp mills;

(c) Portland cement plants;

(d) Primary zinc smelters;

(e) Iron and steel mills;

(f) Primary aluminum ore reduction plants;

(g) Primary copper smelters;

(h) Municipal incinerators capable of ch arging more than 250 tons of refuse per day;

(i) Hydrofluoric, sulfuric, or nitric acid plants;

(j) Petroleum refineries;

(k) Lime plants;

(l) Phosphate rock processing plants;

(m) Coke oven batteries;

(n) Sulfur recovery plants;

(o) Carbon black plants (furnace process);

(p) Primary lead smelters;

(q) Fuel conversion plants;

(r) Sintering plants;

(s) Secondary metal production plants;(t) Chemical process plants – The term chemical processing plant shall not include ethanol production facilities that produce ethanol by natural ferm entation included in NAICS codes 325193 or 312140;

(u) Fossil-fuel boilers (or combination thereof) totaling more than 250 million British thermal units per hour heat input;

(v) Petroleum storage and transfer units w ith a total storage capacity exceeding 300,000 barrels;

(w) Taconite ore processing plants;

(x) Glass fiber processing plants;

(y) Charcoal production plants;

(z) Fossil fuel-fired steam electric plants of more that 250 million British thermal units per hour heat input, and

(aa) Any other stationary source category wh ich, as of August 7, 1980, is being regulated under

section 111 or 112 of the Federal Clean Air Act.

(33) “Necessary preconstruction approvals or permits” means those permits or approvals required under federal air quality control laws and regulations and those air quality cont rol laws and regulations which are part of the applicable State Implementation Plan.

(34)(i) “Net emissions increase” means, with respect to any regulated NSR pollutant emitted by a major stationary source, the amount by which the sum of the following exceeds zero:

(a) The increase in emissions from a particular physical change or change in method of operation at a stationary source as calculated pursu ant to paragraph (a)(2)(iv); and

(b) Any other increases and decreases in actual emi ssions at the major stationary source that are contemporaneous with the particular change and ar e otherwise creditable. Baseline actual emissions for calculating increases and decreases under this paragraph (b )(34)(i)(b) shall be determined as provided in paragraph (b)(4), except that paragraphs (b)(4)(i)(c) and (b)(4)(ii)(d) shall not apply.

(ii) An increase or decrease in actual emissions is contemporaneous with the increase from the particular change only if it occurs between:

(a) The date five years before constr uction on the particular change commences; and

(b) The date that the increase from the particular change occurs.

(iii) An increase or decrease in actual emissions is creditable only if:

(a) The Department has not relied on it in issu ing a permit for the source under this section, which permit is in effect when the increase in actual em issions from the particular change occurs; and

(b) [Reserved](c) It occurs within five years before the da te that the increase from the particular change occurs.

(iv) An increase or decrease in actual emissions of sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, or nitrogen oxide, that occurs before the applicable mi nor source baseline date is creditable onl y if it is required to be considered in calculating the amount of maximum allowable increases remaining available

(v) An increase in actual emissions is creditable only to the extent that the new level of actual emissions

exceeds the old level.

(vi) A decrease in actual emissions is creditable only to the extent that:

(a) The old level of actual emissions or the ol d level of allowable emissions, whichever is lower,

exceeds the new level of actual emissions;

(b) It is federally enforceable at and after th e time that actual construction on the particular change begins; and

(c) It has approximately the same qualitative significance for public health and welfare as that attributed to the increase from the particular change.

(vii) [Reserved]

(viii) An increase that results from a physical cha nge at a source occurs when the emissions unit on which construction occurred becomes operational and begins to emit a particular pollutant. Any replacement unit that requires shakedown becomes operational only after a reasonable shakedown period, not to exceed 180 days.

(ix) Paragraph (b)(1)(ii) shall not apply for determining creditable increases and decreases.

(35) [Reserved]

(36) [Reserved]

(37) “Potential to emit” means the maximum capacity of a stationary source to emit a pollutant under its physical and operational design. Any physical or operati onal limitation on the capacity of the source to emit a 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.

(38) “Predictive emissions monitoring system (PEMS)” means all of the equipment necessary to monitor process and control device operational parameters (fo r example, control device secondary voltages and electric currents) and other information (for example, gas flow rate, O 2 or CO 2 concentrations), and calculate and record the mass emissions rate (for example, lb/hr) on a continuous basis.

(39) “Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) program” means the EPA-implemented major source preconstruction permit programs or a major s ource preconstruction permit program that has been approved by the Administrator and incorporated into the State Implementation Plan pursuant to 40 CFR 51.166 to implement the requirements of that section. Any permit issued under such a program is a major NSR permit.(40) “Project” means a physical change in, or change in the method of operation of, an existing major stationary source.

(41)(i) “Projected actual emissions” means the maximum annual rate, in tons per year, at which an existing emissions unit is projected to emit a regulated NSR pollutant in any one of the 5 years (12-month period) following the date the unit resumes regular operation after the project, or in any one of the 10 years following that date, if the project involves increasing th e emissions unit's design capacity or its potential to emit that regulated NSR pollutant and full utilization of the unit would result in a significant emissions increase or a significant net emissions increase at the major stationary source.

(ii) In determining the projected actual emissi ons under paragraph (b)(41)(i ) (before beginning actual construction), the owner or operator of the major stationary source:

(a) Shall consider all relevant information, in cluding but not limited to, historical operational data, the company's own representations, the company's exp ected business activity and the company's highest projections of business activity, the company's filings with the State or Federal regulatory authorities, and compliance plans under the approved State Implementation Plan; and

(b) Shall include fugitive emissions to the extent quantifiable and emissions associated with startups

and shutdowns; and

(c) Shall exclude, in calculating any increase in emissions that results from the particular project, that portion of the unit's emissions following the project th at an existing unit could have accommodated during the consecutive 24-month period used to establish the base line actual emissions under paragraph (b)(4) and that are also unrelated to the particular project, includi ng any increased utilization due to product demand growth;

or

(d) In lieu of using the method set out in paragraph (b)(41)(ii)(a) through (c), may elect to use the emissions unit's potential to emit, in tons per year, as defined under paragraph (b)(37).

(42) “Reactivation of a very clean coal-fired electric utility steam generating unit” means any physical change or change in the method of operation associat ed with the commencement of commercial operations by a coal-fired utility unit after a period of discontinued operation where the unit:

(i) Has not been in operation for the two-year period prior to the enactment of the Clean Air Act

Amendments of 1990, and the emissions from such unit c ontinue to be carried in the permitting authority's emissions inventory at the time of enactment;

(ii) Was equipped prior to shut-down with a con tinuous system of emissions control that achieves a removal efficiency for sulfur dioxide of no less than 85 percent and a removal efficiency for particulates of no less than 98 percent;

(iii) Is equipped with low-NOx burners prior to the time of commencement of operations following

reactivation; and

(iv) Is otherwise in compliance with the requirements of the Clean Air Act.

(43) “Reasonably available control technology (RACT)” is as defined in 40 CFR 51.100(o).(44) “Regulated NSR pollutant,” for purposes of this regulation, means the following:

(i) Any pollutant for which a national ambient air quality standard has been promulgated and any constituents or precursors for such pollu tants identified by the Administrator ( e.g. , volatile organic compounds are precursors for ozone);

(ii) Any pollutant that is subject to any sta ndard promulgated under section 111 of the Clean Air Act;

(iii) Any Class I or II substance subject to a standa rd promulgated under or established by title VI of the

Clean Air Act; or

(iv) Any pollutant that otherwise is subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act; except that any or all hazardous air pollutants either listed in section 112 of the Clean Air Act or added to the list pursuant to section 112(b)(2) of the Clean Air Act, which have not been delisted pursuant to section 112(b)(3) of the Clean Air Act, are not regulated NSR pollutants unless the listed hazardous air pollutant is also regulated as a constituent or precursor of a general pollutant listed under section 108 of the Clean Air Act.

(45) “Replacement unit” means an emissions unit for which all the criteria listed in paragraphs (b)(45)(i) through (iv) are met. No credible emission reductions shall be generated from shutting down the existing emissions unit that is replaced.

(i)The emissions unit is a reconstructed unit within the meaning of 40 CFR 60.15(b)(1), or the emissions unit completely takes the place of an existing emissions unit.

(ii) The emissions unit is identical to or functionally equivalent to the replaced emissions unit.

(iii) The replacement does not alter the basic design parameters of the process unit.

(iv) The replaced emissions unit is permanently removed from the major stationary source, otherwise permanently disabled, or permanently barred from opera tion by a permit that is enforceable as a practical matter. If the replaced emissions unit is brought back in to operation, it shall constitute a new emissions unit.

(46)(i) “Repowering” means replacement of an existing coal-fire d boiler with one of the following clean coal technologies: atmospheric or pressurized fluidized bed combustion, integrated gasification combined cycle, magnetohydrodynamics, direct and indirect coal-fired turbines, integrated gasi fication fuel cells, or as determined by the Administrator, in consultation with th e Secretary of Energy, a derivative of one or more of these technologies, and any other technology capable of controlling multiple combustion emissions simultaneously with improved boiler or generation efficiency and with significantly greater waste reduction relative to the performance of technology in wid espread commercial use as of November 15, 1990.

(ii) Repowering shall also include any oil and/or gas-fired unit which has been awarded clean coal technology demonstration funding as of January 1, 1991, by the Department of Energy.

(iii) The Department shall give expedited consid eration to permit applications for any source that satisfies the requirements of this subsection and is granted an extension under section 409 of the Clean Air

Act.

(47) Reserved

(48) “Secondary emissions” means emissions which would occur as a result of the construction oroperation of a major stationary source or major modi fication, but do not come from the major stationary source or major modification itself. For the purposes of this section, secondary emissions must be specific, well defined, quantifiable, and impact the same genera l areas the stationary source modification which causes secondary emissions. Secondary emissions include emi ssions from any offsite support facility which would not be constructed or increase its emissions except as a result of the construction or operation of the major stationary source or major modification. Secondary emissions do not include any emissions which come directly from a mobile source, such as emissions from the tailpipe of a motor vehicle, from a train, from a vessel; or from the following:

(i) Emissions from ships or trains coming to or from the new or modified stationary source; and

(ii) Emissions from any offsite support facility which would not otherwise be constructed or increase its emissions as a result of the construction or operation of the major stationary source or major modification.

(49)(i) “Significant” means, in reference to a net emissions incr ease or the potential of a source to emit any of the following pollutants, a rate of emissions that would equal or exceed any of the following rates:

Pollutant and Emissions Rate

Carbon monoxide: 100 tons per year (tpy)

Nitrogen oxides: 40 tpy

Sulfur dioxide: 40 tpy

Particulate matter: 25 tpy of particulate matter emissions; 15 tpy of PM 10 emissions

Ozone: 40 tpy of volatile organic compounds or oxides of nitrogen

Lead: 0.6 tpy

Fluorides: 3 tpy

Sulfuric acid mist: 7 tpy

Hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S): 10 tpy

Total reduced sulfur (including H 2 S): 10 tpy

Reduced sulfur compounds (including H 2 S): 10 tpy

Municipal waste combustor organics (measured as total tetra- through octa-chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans): 3.2 x 10 -6 megagrams per year (3.5 x 10 -6 tons per year).

Municipal waste combustor metals (measured as partic ulate matter): 14 megagrams per year (15 tons per year)

Municipal waste combustor acid gases (measured as sulfur dioxide and hydrogen chloride): 36 megagramsper year (40 tons per year)

Municipal solid waste landfills emissions (measu red as nonmethane organic compounds): 45 megagrams per year (50 tons per year)

(ii) “Significant” means, in reference to a net emissions in crease or the potential of a source to emit a regulated NSR pollutant that paragraph (b)(49)(i), does not list, any emissions rate.

(iii) Notwithstanding paragraph (b)(49)(i), signifi cant means any emissions rate or any net emissions increase associated with a major stationary source or major modification, which would construct within 10 kilometers of a Class I area, and have an impact on such area equal to or greater than 1 μg/m 3 , (24-hour average).

(50) “ Significant emissions increase” means, for a regulated NSR pollutant, an increase in emissions that is significant (as defined in paragraph (b)(49)) for that pollutant.

(51) “Stationary source” means any building, structure, facility, or installation which emits or may emit a regulated NSR pollutant.

(52) “Temporary clean coal technology demonstration project” means a clean coal technology demonstration project that is operated for a period of 5 years or less, and which complies with the State implementation plans for the State in which the project is located and other requirements necessary to attain and maintain the national ambient air quality standa rds during the project and after it is terminated.

(53) “Volatile organic compounds (VOC)” is as defined in Regulation 61-62.1, Section I, Definitions

.

(c) Ambient air increments.

In areas designated as Class I, II or III, increases in po llutant concentration over the baseline concentration shall be limited to the following:

CLASS I

Pollutant Maximum Allowable Increase (micrograms per cubic meter)

annual arithmetic mean 1 PM 2.5 : 24-hr maximum 2

annual arithmetic mean 4 PM 10 : 24-hr maximum 8

annual arithmetic mean 2

24-hr maximum 5 Sulfur dioxide:

3-hr maximum 25 Nitrogen dioxide: annual arithmetic mean 2.5

CLASS II

Pollutant Maximum Allowable Increase (micrograms per cubic meter)

annual arithmetic mean 4 PM 2.5 : 24-hr maximum 9CLASS II

Pollutant Maximum Allowable Increase (micrograms per cubic meter)

annual arithmetic mean 4 PM 2.5 : 24-hr maximum 9

annual arithmetic mean 17 PM 10 : 24-hr maximum 30

annual arithmetic mean 20

24-hr maximum 91 Sulfur dioxide:

3-hr maximum 512 Nitrogen dioxide: annual arithmetic mean 25

CLASS III

Pollutant Maximum Allowable Increase (micrograms per cubic meter)

annual arithmetic mean 8 PM 2.5 :

24-hr maximum 18

annual arithmetic mean 34 PM 10 : 24-hr maximum 60

annual arithmetic mean 40

24-hr maximum 182 Sulfur dioxide:

3-hr maximum 700 Nitrogen dioxide: annual arithmetic mean 50

For any period other than an annual period, the a pplicable maximum allowable increase may be exceeded during one such period per year at any one location.

(d) Ambient air ceilings.

No concentration of a pollutant shall exceed:

(1) The concentration permitted under the nationa l secondary ambient air quality standard, or

(2) The concentration permitted under the national primary ambient air quality standard, whichever concentration is lowest for the pollutant for a period of exposure.

(e) Restrictions on area classifications.

(1) All of the following areas which were in existence on August 7, 1977, shall be Class I areas and may not be redesignated:

(i) International parks,

(ii) National wilderness areas which exceed 5,000 acres in size,

(iii) National memorial parks which exceed 5,000 acres in size, and

(iv) National parks which exceed 6,000 acres in size.(2) Areas which were redesignated as Class I under regul ations promulgated before August 7, 1977, shall remain Class I, but may be redesignated as provided in this section.

(3) Any other area, unless otherwise specified in the le gislation creating such an area, is initially designated Class II, but may be redesignated as provided in this section.

(4) The following areas may be redesignated only as Class I or II:

(i) An area which as of August 7, 1977, exceeded 10,000 acres in size and was a national monument, a national primitive area, a national preserve, a national r ecreational area, a national wild and scenic river, a national wildlife refuge, a nationa l lakeshore or seashore; and

(ii) A national park or national wilderness ar ea established after August 7, 1977, which exceeds 10,000

acres in size.

(f) [Reserved]

(g) Redesignation.

(1) All areas (except as otherwise provided under para graph (e)) are designated Class II as of December 5, 1974. Redesignation (except as otherwise precluded by paragraph (e)) may be proposed by the respective States or Indian Governing Bodies, as provided below, subject to approval by the Administrator as a revision to the applicable State implementation plan.

(2) The State may submit to the Administrator a propo sal to redesignate areas of the State Class I or Class II provided that:

(i) At least one public hearing has been held in accordance with procedures established in 40 CFR

51.102;

(ii) Other States, Indian Governing Bodies, and Federal Land Managers whose lands may be affected by the proposed redesignation were notified at least 30 days prior to the public hearing;

(iii) A discussion of the reasons for the proposed redesignation, including a satisfactory description and analysis of the health, environmental, economic, social and energy effects of the proposed redesignation, was prepared and made available for public inspection at least 30 days prior to the hearing and the notice announcing the hearing contained a ppropriate notification of the availability of such discussion;

(iv) Prior to the issuance of notice respecting the redesignation of an area that includes any Federal lands, the State has provided written notice to the appropria te Federal Land Manager and afforded adequate opportunity (not in excess of 60 days) to confer with the State respecting the redesignation and to submit written comments and recommendations. In redesignating any area with respect to which any Federal Land Manager had submitted written comment s and recommendations, the State shall have published a list of any inconsistency between such redesignation and such comments and recommendations (together with the reasons for making such redesignation against the recommendation of the Federal Land Manager); and

(v) The State has proposed the redesignation after c onsultation with the elected leadership of local and other substate general purpose governments in the area covered by the proposed redesignation.

(3) Any area other than an area to which paragra ph (e) refers may be redesignated as Class III if –(i) The redesignation would meet the requirements of paragraph (g)(2);

(ii) The redesignation, except any established by an Indian Governing Body, has been specifically approved by the Governor of the State, after consultation with the appropriate committees of the legislature, if it is in session, or with the leadership of the legislat ure, if it is not in session (unless State law provides that the redesignation must be specifically approved by State legislation) and if general purpose units of local government representing a majority of the residents of the area to be redesignated enact legislation or pass resolutions concurring in the redesignation:

(iii) The redesignation would not cause, or contribute to, a concentration of any air pollutant which would exceed any maximum allowable increase permitted under the classification of any other area or any national ambient air quality standard; and

(iv) Any permit application for any major stationa ry source or major modification, subject to review under paragraph (l), which could receive a permit unde r this section only if the area in question were redesignated as Class III, and any material submitted as part of that application, were available insofar as was practicable for public inspection prior to any public hearing on redesignation of the area as Class III.

(4) Lands within the exterior boundaries of Indi an Reservations may be redesignated only by the appropriate Indian Governing Body. The appropriate Indian Governing Body may submit to the Department a proposal to redesignate areas Class I, Class II, or Class III: Provided, That:

(i) The Indian Governing Body has followed pro cedures equivalent to those required of a State under paragraphs (g)(2), (g)(3)(iii), and (g)(3)(iv); and

(ii) Such redesignation is proposed after consultation with the State(s) in which the Indian Reservation is

located and which border the Indian Reservation.

(5) The Administrator shall disapprove, within 90 days of submission, a proposed redesignation of any area only if it is found, after notice and opportunity for public hearing, that such redesignation does not meet the procedural requirements of this paragraph or is inc onsistent with paragraph (e). If any such disapproval

occurs, the classification of the area shall be that whic h was in effect prior to the redesignation which was disapproved.

(6) If the Administrator disapproves any proposed red esignation, the State or Indian Governing Body, as appropriate, may resubmit the proposal after correcting the deficiencies noted by the Administrator.

(h) Stack heights.

(1) The degree of emission limitation re quired for control of any air polluta nt under this section shall not be affected in any manner by--

(i) So much of the stack height of any source as exceeds good engineering practice, or

(ii) Any other dispersion technique.

(2) Paragraph (h)(1) shall not apply with respect to stack heights in existence before December 31, 1970, or to dispersion techniques implemented before then.(i) Exemptions

(1) The requirements of paragraphs (j) through (r) shall not apply to a particular major stationary source or major modification, if:

(i) Construction commenced on the source or modifi cation before August 7, 1977. The regulations at 40 CFR 52.21 as in effect before August 7, 1977, shall gove rn the review and permitting of any such source or

modification; or

(ii) The source or modification was subject to the review requirements of 40 CFR 52.21(d)(1) as in effect

before March 1, 1978, and the owner or operator:

(a) Obtained under 40 CFR 52.21 a final approval effective before March 1, 1978;

(b) Commenced constructi on before March 19, 1979; and

(c) Did not discontinue construction for a peri od of 18 months or more and completed construction

within a reasonable time; or

(iii) The source or modification was subject to 40 CFR 52.21 as in effect before March 1, 1978, and the review of an application for approval for the sta tionary source or modification under 40 CFR 52.21 would have been completed by March 1, 1978, but for an extension of the public comment period pursuant to a request for such an extension. In such case, the application shall continue to be processed, and granted or denied, under 40 CFR 52.21 as in effect prior to March 1, 1978; or

(iv) The source or modification was not subject to 40 CFR 52.21 as in effect before March 1, 1978, and the owner or operator:

(a) Obtained all final Federal, state and local preconstruction appr ovals or permits necessary under the applicable State Implementation Plan before March 1, 1978;

(b) Commenced constructi on before March 19, 1979; and

(c) Did not discontinue construction for a peri od of 18 months or more and completed construction

within a reasonable time; or

(v) The source or modification was not subject to 40 CFR 52.21 as in effect on June 19, 1978 or under the partial stay of regulations published on Februa ry 5, 1980 (45 FR 7800), and the owner or operator:

(a) Obtained all final Federal, state and local preconstruction appr ovals or permits necessary under the applicable State Implementation Plan before August 7, 1980;

(b) Commenced construction within 18 months from August 7, 1980, or any earlier time required under the applicable State Implementation Plan; and

(c) Did not discontinue construction for a peri od of 18 months or more and completed construction

within a reasonable time; or

(vi) The source or modification would be a nonprof it health or nonprofit educational institution, or a major modification would occur at such an institution, and the governor of the state in which the source ormodification would be located requests that it be exempt from those requirements; or

(vii) The source or modification would be a major stationary source or major modification only if fugitive emissions, to the extent quantifiable, are c onsidered in calculating the potential to emit of the stationary source or modification and the source does not belong to any of the following categories:

(a) Coal cleaning plants (with thermal dryers);

(b) Kraft pulp mills;

(c) Portland cement plants;

(d) Primary zinc smelters;

(e) Iron and steel mills;

(f) Primary aluminum ore reduction plants;

(g) Primary copper smelters;

(h) Municipal incinerators capable of ch arging more than 250 tons of refuse per day;

(i) Hydrofluoric, sulfuric, or nitric acid plants;

(j) Petroleum refineries;

(k) Lime plants;

(l) Phosphate rock processing plants;

(m) Coke oven batteries;

(n) Sulfur recovery plants;

(o) Carbon black plants (furnace process);

(p) Primary lead smelters;

(q) Fuel conversion plants;

(r) Sintering plants;

(s) Secondary metal production plants;

(t) Chemical process plants – The term chemical processing plant shall not include ethanol production facilities that produce ethanol by natural ferm entation included in NAICS codes 325193 or 312140;

(u) Fossil-fuel boilers (or combination thereof) totaling more than 250 million British thermal units per hour heat input;(v) Petroleum storage and transfer units w ith a total storage capacity exceeding 300,000 barrels;

(w) Taconite ore processing plants;

(x) Glass fiber processing plants;

(y) Charcoal production plants;

(z) Fossil fuel-fired steam electric plants of more than 250 million British thermal units per hour heat input;

(aa) Any other stationary source category wh ich, as of August 7, 1980, is being regulated under

section 111 or 112 of the Clean Air Act; or

(viii) The source is a portable stationary source which has previously received a permit under this

section, and

(a) The owner or operator proposes to relocate the source and emissions of the source at the new location would be temporary; and

(b) The emissions from the source would not exceed its allowable emissions; and

(c) The emissions from the source would imp act no Class I area and no area where an applicable

increment is known to be violated; and

(d) Reasonable notice is given to the Department prior to the relocation identifying the proposed new location and the probable duration of operation at the new location. Such notice shall be given to the Department not less than 10 days in advance of th e proposed relocation unless a different time duration is previously approved by the Department.

(ix) The source or modification was not subject to section 52.21 with respect to particulate matter, as in effect before July 31, 1987, and the owner or operator:

(a) Obtained all final Federal, State, and local preconstruction approvals or permits necessary under the applicable State implementation plan before July 31, 1987;

(b) Commenced construction within 18 months af ter July 31, 1987, or any earlier time required under the State implementation plan; and

(c) Did not discontinue construction for a peri od of 18 months or more and completed construction within a reasonable period of time.

(x) The source or modification was subject to 40 CFR 52.21, with respect to particulate matter, as in effect before July 31, 1987 and the owner or operator submitted an application fo r a permit under this section before that date, and the Department subsequently de termines that the applicati on as submitted was complete with respect to the particulate matter requirements then in effect in this section. Instead, the requirements of paragraphs (j) through (r) that were in effect before Ju ly 31, 1987 shall apply to such source or modification.

(2) The requirements of paragraphs (j) through (r) sha ll not apply to a major stationary source or major modification with respect to a particular pollutant if the owner or operator demonstrates that, as to thatpollutant, the source or modification is located in an area designated as nonattainment under section 107 of

the Clean Air Act.

(3) The requirements of paragraphs (k), (m) and (o) shall not apply to a major stationary source or major modification with respect to a particular pollutant, if th e allowable emissions of that pollutant from the source, or the net emissions increase of that pollutant from the modification:

(i) Would impact no Class I area and no area where an applicable increment is known to be violated, and

(ii) Would be temporary.

(4) The requirements of paragraphs (k), (m) and (o) as they relate to any maximum allowable increase for a Class II area shall not apply to a major modification at a stationary source that was in existence on March 1,

1978, if the net increase in allowable emissions of each regulated NSR pollutant from the modification after the application of best available control t echnology would be less than 50 tons per year.

(5) The Department may exempt a stationary sour ce or modification from the requirements of paragraph (m), with respect to monitoring for a particular pollutant if:

(i) The emissions increase of the pollutant from the new source or the net emissions increase of the pollutant from the modification would cause, in any ar ea, air quality impacts less than the following amounts:

Carbon monoxide--575 μg/m 3 , 8-hour average; Nitrogen dioxide--14 μg/m 3 , annual average; Particulate matter--10 μg/m 3 of PM 10 , 24-hour average; Sulfur dioxide--13 μg/m 3 , 24-hour average;

Ozone; 1

Lead--0.1 μg/m 3 , 3-month average; Fluorides--0.25 μg/m 3 , 24-hour average; Total reduced sulfur--10 μg/m 3 , 1-hour average; Hydrogen sulfide--0.2 μg/m 3 , 1-hour average; Reduced sulfur compounds--10 μg/m 3 , 1-hour average; or

1 No de minimis air quality level is provided for ozone. However, any net increase of 100 tons per year or more of volatile organic compounds subject to PSD would be required to perform an ambient impact analysis including the gathering of ambient air quality data.

(ii) The concentrations of the pollutant in the ar ea that the source or modification would affect are less than the concentrations listed in paragraph (i)(8)(i), or the pollutant is not listed in paragraph (i)(8)(i).

(6) The requirements for best available control tec hnology in paragraph (j) and the requirements for air quality analyses in paragraph (m)(1), shall not apply to a particular stationary source or modification that was subject to 40 CFR 52.21 as in effect on June 19, 1978, if the owner or operator of the source or modification submitted an application for a permit under those regulations before August 7, 1980, and the Department subsequently determines that the application as subm itted before that date was complete. Instead, the requirements at 40 CFR 52.21(j) and (n) as in eff ect on June 19, 1978 apply to any such source or

modification.

(7)(i) The requirements for air quality monitoring in paragraphs (m)(1)(ii) through (iv) shall not apply to a particular source or modification that was subject to 40 CFR 52.21 as in effect on June 19, 1978, if the owneror operator of the source or modification submits an application for a permit under this section on or before June 8, 1981, and the Department sub sequently determines that the appli cation as submitted before that date was complete with respect to the requirements of this regulation other than those in paragraphs (m)(1)(ii) through (iv), and with respect to the requirements fo r such analyses at 40 CFR 52.21(m)(2) as in effect on June 19, 1978. Instead, the latter requirements sha ll apply to any such source or modification.

(ii) The requirements for air quality monitoring in paragraphs (m)(1)(ii) through (iv) shall not apply to a particular source or modification that was not subject to 40 CFR 52.21 as in effect on June 19, 1978, if the owner or operator of the source or modification submits an application for a permit under this section on or before June 8, 1981, and the Department subsequently determines that the a pplication as submitted before that date was complete, except with respect to the re quirements in paragraphs (m)(1)(ii) through (iv).

(8)(i) At the discretion of the Department, the requirements for air quality monitoring of PM 10 in paragraphs (m)(1)(i)--(iv) may not apply to a particular source or modification when the owner or operator of the source or modification submits an application fo r a permit under this section on or before June 1, 1988 and the Department subsequently determines that the a pplication as submitted before that date was complete, except with respect to the requirements for monitoring pa rticulate matter in paragraphs (m)(1)(i) through (iv).

(ii) The requirements for air quality monitoring of PM 10 in paragraphs (m)(1), (ii) and (iv) and (m)(3) shall apply to a particular source or modification if the owner or operator of the source or modification submits an application for a permit under this section after June 1, 1988 and no later than December 1, 1988. The data shall have been gathered over at least the period from February 1, 1988 to the date the application becomes otherwise complete in accordance with the provisions set forth under paragraph (m)(1)(viii), except that if the Department determines that a complete a nd adequate analysis can be accomplished with monitoring data over a shorter period (not to be less than 4 months), the data that paragraph (m)(1)(iii) requires shall have been gathered over a shorter period.

(9) The requirements of paragraph (k)(2) shall not apply to a stationary source or modification with respect to any maximum allowable increase for nitrogen oxides if the owner or operator of the source or modification submitted an application for a permit under this sec tion before the provisions embodying the maximum allowable increase took effect as part of the applicable implementation plan and the Department subsequently determined that the application as subm itted before that date was complete.

(10) The requirements in paragraph (k)(2) shall not apply to a stationary source or modification with respect to any maximum allowable increase for PM 10 if

(i) the owner or operator of the source or modifi cation submitted an application for a permit under this section before the provisions embodying the maximum allowable increases for PM 10 took effect in an implementation plan to which this section applies, and

(ii) the Department subsequently determined th at the application as submitted before that date was otherwise complete. Instead, the requirements in paragr aph (k)(2) shall apply with respect to the maximum allowable increases for TSP as in effect on the date the application was submitted.

(j) Control technology review.

(1) A major stationary source or major modification shall meet each applicable emissions limitation under the State Implementation Plan and each applicable em issions standard and sta ndard of performance under 40

CFR 60 and 61.(2) A new major stationary source shall apply best available control technology for each regulated NSR pollutant that it would have the potential to emit in significant amounts.

(3) A major modification shall apply best available control technology for each regulated NSR pollutant for which it would result in a significant net emissions incr ease at the source. This requirement applies to each proposed emissions unit at which a net emissions in crease in the pollutant would occur as a result of a physical change or change in the method of operation in the unit.

(4) For phased construction projects, the determina tion of best available control technology shall be reviewed and modified as appropriate at the latest r easonable time which occurs no later than 18 months prior to commencement of construction of each independent phase of the project. At such time, the owner or operator of the applicable stationary source may be re quired to demonstrate the adequacy of any previous determination of best available control technology for the source.

(k) Source impact analysis.

The owner or operator of the proposed source or m odification shall demonstrate that allowable emission increases from the proposed source or modification, in conjunction with all other applicable emissions increases or reductions (including secondary emissions), would not cause or contribute to air pollution in

violation of:

(1) Any national ambient air quality standard in any air quality control region; or

(2) Any applicable maximum allowable increase over the baseline concentration in any area.

(l) Air Quality Models

(1) All estimates of ambient concentrations required under this paragraph shall be based on applicable air quality models, data bases, and other requirements specified in 40 CFR 51 appendix W (Guideline on Air Quality Models).

(2) Where an air quality model specified in 40 CF R 51 appendix W (Guideline on Air Quality Models) is inappropriate, the model may be modified or another m odel substituted. Such a modi fication or substitution of a model may be made on a case-by-case basis or, where appropriate, on a generic basis for a specific state program. Written approval of the Department must be obtained for any modification or substitution. In

addition, use of a modified or substituted model must be subject to notice and opportunity for public comment under procedures developed in accordance with paragraph (q).

(m) Air quality analysis--

(1) Preapplication analysis.

(i) Any application for a permit under this section shall contain an analysis of ambient air quality in the area that the major stationary source or major modifica tion would affect for each of the following pollutants:

(a) For the source, each pollutant that it woul d have the potential to omit in a significant amount;

(b) For the modification, each pollutant for which it would result in a significant net emissions

increase.(ii) With respect to any such pollutant for whic h no National Ambient Air Quality Standard exists, the analysis shall contain such air quality monitoring data as the Department determines is necessary to assess ambient air quality for that pollutant in any area that the emissions of that pollutant would affect.

(iii) With respect to any such pollutant (other than nonmethane hydrocarbons) for which such a standard does exist, the analysis shall contain continuous air quality monitoring data gathered for purposes of determining whether emissions of that pollutant would cause or contribute to a violation of the standard or any maximum allowable increase.

(iv) In general, the continuous air quality monitoring data that is required shall have been gathered over a period of at least one year and shall represent at least the year preceding r eceipt of the application, except that, if the Department determines that a complete and ade quate analysis can be accomp lished with monitoring data gathered over a period shorter than one year (but not to be less than four months), the data that is required shall have been gathered over at least that shorter period.

(v) For any application which becomes complete, ex cept as to the requirements of paragraphs (m)(1)(iii) and (iv), between June 8, 1981, and Fe bruary 9, 1982, the data that para graph (m)(1)(iii), requires shall have been gathered over at least the period from February 9, 1981, to the date the application becomes otherwise complete, except that:

(a) If the source or modification would have been major for that pollutant under 40 CFR 52.21 as in effect on June 19, 1978, any monitoring data shall have been gathered over at least the period required by those regulations.

(b) If the Department determines that a comple te and adequate analysis can be accomplished with monitoring data over a shorter period (not to be less th an four months), the data that paragraph (m)(1)(iii), requires shall have been gathered over at least that shorter period.

(c) If the monitoring data would relate exclusiv ely to ozone and would not have been required under 40 CFR 52.21 as in effect on June 19, 1978, the Departme nt may waive the otherwise applicable requirements of this paragraph (v) to the extent that the applicant shows that the monitoring data would be unrepresentative of air quality over a full year.

(vi) The owner or operator of a proposed sta tionary source or modification of volatile organic compounds who satisfies all conditions of 40 CFR 51 Appendix S, section IV ma y provide post-approval monitoring data for ozone in lieu of providing prec onstruction data as required under paragraph (m)(1).

(vii) For any application that becomes complete, except as to the requirements of paragraphs (m)(1)(iii) and (iv) pertaining to PM 10 , after December 1, 1988 and no later than August 1, 1989 the data that paragraph (m)(1)(iii) requires shall have been gathered over at least the period from August 1, 1988 to the date the application becomes otherwise complete, except that if the Department determines that a complete and adequate analysis can be accomplished with monitoring data over a shorter period (not to be less than 4 months), the data that paragraph (m)(1)(iii) requires sh all have been gathered over that shorter period.

(viii) With respect to any requirements for air quality monitoring of PM 10 under paragraphs (i)(11)(i) and (ii) the owner or operator of the source or modifi cation shall use a monitoring method approved by the Department and shall estimate the ambient concentrations of PM 10 using the data collected by such approved monitoring method in accordance with estimating procedures approved by the Department.

(2) Post-construction monitoring. The owner or operato r of a major stationary source or major modificationshall, after construction of the stationary source or modification, conduct such ambient monitoring as the Department determines is necessary to determine the effect emissions from the stationary source or modification may have, or are having, on air quality in any area.

(3) Operations of monitoring stations. The owner or operator of a major stationary source or major modification shall meet the requirements of Appendix B to 40 CFR 58 of during the operation of monitoring stations for purposes of satisfying paragraph (m).

(n) Source information.

The owner or operator of a proposed source or m odification shall submit all information necessary to perform any analysis or make any de termination required under this section.

(1) With respect to a source or modi fication to which paragraphs (j), (l), (n) and (p) apply, such information

shall include:

(i) A description of the nature, location, design cap acity, and typical operating schedule of the source or modification, including specifications and draw ings showing its design and plant layout;

(ii) A detailed schedule for constr uction of the source or modification;

(iii) A detailed description as to what system of continuous emission reduction is planned for the source or modification, emission estimates, and any other in formation necessary to determine that best available control technology would be applied.

(2) Upon request of the Department, the owner or operator shall also provide information on:

(i) The air quality impact of the source or modifi cation, including meteorological and topographical data necessary to estimate such impact; and

(ii) The air quality impacts, and the nature and ex tent of any or all general commercial, residential, industrial, and other growth which has occurred since August 7, 1977, in the area the source or modification

would affect.

(o) Additional impact analyses.

(1) The owner or operator shall provide an analysis of the impairment to visibility, soils and vegetation that

would occur as a result of the source or modification and general commercial, residential, industrial and other growth associated with the source or modification. The ow ner or operator need not provide an analysis of the impact on vegetation having no significant commercial or recreational value.

(2) The owner or operator shall provide an analysis of the air quality impact projected for the area as a result of general commercial, residential, industrial and other growth associated with the source or

modification.

(3) Visibility monitoring. The Department may require monitoring of visibility in any Federal class I area near the proposed new stationary source for major m odification for such purposes and by such means as the Administrator deems necessary and appropriate.

(p) Sources impacting Federal Class I areas--additional requirements--(1) Notice to Federal land managers . The Department shall provide written notice of any permit application for a proposed major stationary source or major modifi cation, the emissions from which may affect a Class I area, to the Federal land manager and the Federal offici al charged with direct responsibility for management of any lands within any such area. Such notification sh all include a copy of all information relevant to the permit application and shall be given within 30 days of receipt and at leas t 60 days prior to any public hearing on the application for a permit to construct. Such no tification shall include an analysis of the proposed source's anticipated impacts on visibility in the Federa l Class I area. The Department shall also provide the Federal land manager and such Federal officials with a copy of the preliminary determination required under paragraph (q), and shall make available to them any ma terials used in making that determination, promptly after the Department makes such determination. Finally, the Department shall also notify all affected Federal land managers within 30 days of receipt of any adva nce notification of any such permit application.

(2) Federal Land Manager. The Federal Land Manager and the Federal official charged with direct responsibility for management of such lands have an affirmative responsibility to protect the air quality related values (including visibility) of such lands and to consider, in consultation with the Department, whether a proposed source or modification will have an adverse impact on such values.

(3) Visibility analysis. The Department shall consider any analysis performed by the Federal land manager, provided within 30 days of the notif ication required by paragraph (p)(1), that shows that a proposed new major stationary source or major modification may have an adverse impact on visibility in any Federal Class I area. Where the Department finds that such an anal ysis does not demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Department that an adverse impact on visibility will resu lt in the Federal Class I area, the Department must, in the notice of public hearing on the permit application, either explain its decision or give notice as to where the explanation can be obtained.

(4) Denial--impact on air quality related values. The Federal Land Manager of any such lands may demonstrate to the Department that the emissions from a proposed source or modification would have an adverse impact on the air quality-related values (including visibility) of those lands, notwithstanding that the change in air quality resulting from emissions from such source or modification would not cause or contribute

to concentrations which would exceed the maximum allo wable increases for a Class I area. If the Department concurs with such demonstration, then the permit shall not be issued.

(5) Class I variances. The owner or operator of a proposed source or modification may demonstrate to the Federal Land Manager that the emissions from such s ource or modification would have no adverse impact on the air quality related values of any such lands (includi ng visibility), notwithstanding that the change in air quality resulting from emissions from such source or modification would cause or contribute to

concentrations which would exceed the maximum allo wable increases for a Class I area. If the Federal Land Manager concurs with such demonstr ation and so certifies, the State may authorize the Administrator: Provided, That the applicable requirements of this regul ation are otherwise met, to issue the permit with such emission limitations as may be necessary to a ssure that emissions of sulfur dioxide, PM 2.5 , PM 10 , and nitrogen oxides would not exceed the following maximum allowable increases over minor source baseline concentration for such pollutants:

Pollutant Maximum Allowable Increase (micrograms per cubic meter)

annual arithmetic mean 4 PM 2.5 :

24-hr maximum 9

annual arithmetic mean 17 PM 10 : 24-hr maximum 30Pollutant Maximum Allowable Increase (micrograms per cubic meter)

annual arithmetic mean 20

24-hr maximum 91 Sulfur dioxide:

3-hr maximum 325 Nitrogen dioxide: annual arithmetic mean 25

(6) Sulfur dioxide variance by Governor with Fede ral Land Manager's concurrence. The owner or operator of a proposed source or modification which cannot be approved under paragraph (q)(4) may demonstrate to the Governor that the source cannot be constructed by reason of any maximum allowable increase for sulfur dioxide for a period of twenty-four hours or less applicable to any Class I area and, in the case of Federal mandatory Class I areas, that a variance under this clau se would not adversely affect the air quality related values of the area (including visibility). The Governor , after consideration of the Federal Land Manager's recommendation (if any) and concurrence, may, after notice and public hearing, grant a variance from such maximum allowable increase. If such variance is granted, the Department shall issue a permit to such source or modification pursuant to the requirements of paragra ph (q)(7): Provided, that the applicable requirements of this regulation are otherwise met.

(7) Variance by the Governor with the President 's concurrence. In any case where the Governor

recommends a variance in which the Federal Land Ma nager does not concur, the recommendations of the Governor and the Federal Land Manager shall be transm itted to the President. The President may approve the

Governor's recommendation if it is found that the vari ance is in the national interest. If the variance is approved, the Department shall issue a permit pursuant to the requirements of paragraph (q)(7): Provided, that the applicable requirements of this regulation are otherwise met.

(8) Emission limitations for Presidential or gubernator ial variance. In the case of a permit issued pursuant to paragraph (q)(5) or (6) the source or modification shall comply with such emission limitations as may be necessary to assure that emissions of sulfur dioxide from the source or modification would not (during any day on which the otherwise applicable maximum a llowable increases are exceeded ) cause or contribute to

concentrations which would exceed the followi ng maximum allowable increases over the baseline

concentration and to assure that such emissions would not cause or contribute to concentrations which exceed the otherwise applicable maximum allowable increases for periods of exposure of 24 hours or less for more than 18 days, not necessarily consecutive, during any annual period:

MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE INCREASE (Micrograms per cubic meter)

Terrain Areas Period of exposure Low High

24-hr maximum 36 62

3-hr maximum 130 221

(q) Public participation.

(1) Within 30 days after receipt of an application to construct, or any addition to such application, the Department shall advise the applicant of any deficiency in the application or in the information submitted and transmit a copy of such application to EPA. In the even t of such a deficiency, the date of receipt of the application shall be, for the purpose of this regulation, the date on which the Department received all required

information.(2) In accordance with Regulation 61-30, Environmental Protection Fees , the Department shall make a final determination on the application. This involv es performing the following actions in a timely manner:

(i) Make a preliminary determination whethe r construction should be approved, approved with conditions, or disapproved.

(ii) Make available in at least one location in each region in which the proposed source or modification would be constructed a copy of all materials the applicant submitted, a copy of the preliminary determination and a copy or summary of other materials, if any, considered in making the preliminary determination.

(iii) Notify the public, by advertisement in a newspa per of general circulation in each region in which the proposed source or modification would be constructed, of the application, the preliminary determination, the degree of increment consumption that is expected fro m the source or modification, and the opportunity for comment at a public hearing as well as written public comment.

(iv) Send a copy of the notice of public comment to the applicant, the Administrator of EPA, and to officials and agencies having cognizance over the loca tion where the proposed construction would occur as follows: The chief executives of the city and county wh ere the source or modification would be located, any comprehensive regional land use planning agency and any State, Federal Land Manage r, or Indian Governing Body whose lands may be affected by emissions from the source or modification.

(v) Provide opportunity for a public hearing for inte rested persons to appear and submit written or oral comments on the air quality impact of the source or modification, alternatives to the source or modification, the control technology required, and other appropriate considerations.

(vi) Consider all written comments submitted within a time specified in the no tice of public comment and all comments received at any public hearing(s) in making a final decision on the approvability of the application. No later than 10 days after the close of the public comment period, the applicant may submit a written response to any comments submitted by the public . The Department shall consider the applicant’s response in making a final decision. The Department shall make all comments available for public inspection in the same locations where the Department made av ailable preconstruction information relating to the proposed source or modification.

(vii) Make a final determination whether construc tion should be approved, approved with conditions, or disapproved pursuant to this section.

(viii) Notify the applicant in writing of the final de termination and make such notification available for public inspection at the same location where the Depart ment made available prec onstruction information and public comments relating to the source or modification.

(ix) Notify EPA of every action relate d to the consideration of the permit.

(3) The requirements of Section (q), Public Participati on, of this standard shall not apply to any major plant or major modification which Section (i), Exemptions, would exempt from the requirements of Sections (k), (m), and (o), but only to the extent that, with respect to each of the criteria for construction approval under the South Carolina State Implementation Plan and for exemption under Section (i), requirements providing the public with at least as much participation in each material determination as those of Section (q) have been met in the granting of such construction approval.

(r) Source obligation. In addition to all other applicable requireme nts specified in this regulation, the owneror operator shall comply with the requi rements of paragraphs (r)(1) through (r)(8).

(1) Any owner or operator who cons tructs or operates a source or modification not in accordance with the application submitted pursuant to this section or with the terms of any approval to construct, or any owner or operator of a source or modification subject to this section who commences construction after the effective date of these regulations without applying for and receiving approval hereunder, shall be subject to appropriate enforcement action.

(2) Approval to construct shall become invalid if construction is not commenced within 18 months after receipt of such approval, if construction is discontinue d for a period of 18 months or more, or if construction is not completed within a reasonable time. Th e Department may extend the 18-month period upon a satisfactory showing that an extension is justified. This provision does not apply to the time period between construction of the approved phases of a phased construction project; each phase must commence construction within 18 months of the pr ojected and approved commencement date.

(3) Approval to construct shall not relieve any owner or operator of the responsibility to comply fully with applicable provisions of the State implementation plan and any other requirements under local, State, or

Federal law.

(4) At such time that a particular source or modi fication becomes a major stationary source or major modification solely by virtue of a relaxation in any enforceable limitation which was established after August 7, 1980, on the capacity of the source or modification otherwise to emit a pollutant, such as a restriction on hours of operation, then the requirements or paragr aphs (j) through (r) shall apply to the source or modification as though construction had not yet commenced on the source or modification.

(5) Reserved

(6) Monitoring, recordkeeping and reporting. The provisions of this paragraph (r)(6) apply to projects at an existing emissions unit at a major stationary sour ce (other than projects at a source with a PAL) in circumstances where there is a reasonable possibility that a project that is not a part of a major modification may result in a significant emissions increase and the owne r or operator elects to use the method specified in paragraphs (b)(41)(ii)(a) through (c) fo r calculating projected actual emissions.

(i) If the project requires construction perm itting under Regulation 61-62.1, Section II “Permit Requirements”, the owner or operator shall provide a copy of the information set out in paragraph (r)(6)(ii) as part of the permit application to the Department. If construction permitting under Regulation 61-62.1, Section II “Permit Requirements” is not required, the owner or operator shall maintain the information set out in paragraph (r)(6)(ii).

(ii) Before beginning actual construction of th e project, the owner or operator shall document and maintain a record of the following information:

(a) A description of the project;

(b) Identification of the emissions unit(s) who se emissions of a regulated NSR pollutant could be affected by the project; and

(c) A description of the applicability test used to determine that the project is not a major modification for any regulated NSR pollutant, including the baseline actual emissions, the projected actual emissions, the amount of emissions excluded under paragraph (b)(41)( ii)(c) and an explanation for why such amount wasexcluded, and any netting calculations, if applicable.

(iii) The owner or operator shall monitor the em issions of any regulated NSR pollutant that could increase as a result of the project and th at is emitted by any emissions unit identified in paragraph (r)(6)(ii)(b);

and calculate and maintain a record of the annual emissi ons, in tons per year on a calendar year basis, for a period of 5 years following resumption of regular opera tions after the change, or for a period of 10 years following resumption of regular operations after the cha nge if the project increases the design capacity of or potential to emit that regulated NSR pollutant at such emissions unit.

(iv) If the unit is an existing electric utility steam generating unit, the owner or operator shall submit a report to the Department within 60 days after the end of each year during which records must be generated under paragraph (r)(6)(iii) setting out the unit's annual emissions during the calendar year that preceded submission of the report.

(v) If the unit is an existing unit other than an el ectric utility steam generating unit, the owner or operator shall submit a report to the Department if the annual emissions, in tons per year, from the project identified in paragraph (r)(6)(ii), exceed the baseline actual emissi ons (as documented and maintained pursuant to paragraph (r)(6)(ii)(c)), by a significant amount (as defi ned in paragraph (b)(49)) for that regulated NSR pollutant, and if such emissions differ from the pr econstruction projection as doc umented and maintained pursuant to paragraph (r)(6)(ii)(c). Such report shall be submitted to the Department within 60 days after the end of such year. The report shall contain the following:

(a) The name, address and telephone num ber of the major stationary source;

(b) The annual emissions as calculated pursuant to paragraph (r)(6)(iii); and

(c) Any other information needed to make a compliance determination ( e.g. , an explanation as to why the emissions differ from the preconstruction projection).

(7) If a project at a source with a PAL requires construction permitting under Re gulation 61-62.1, Section II, “Permit Requirements”, the owner or operator shall provide notification of source status as part of the permit application to the Department.

(8) The owner or operator of the source shall ma ke the information required to be documented and maintained pursuant to paragraph (r)(6) available for re view upon a request for inspection by the Department or the general public pursuant to the requirements contained in 40 CFR 70.4(b)(3)(viii).

(s) through (u)(3) - Reserved.

(u)(4) In the case of a source or modification which pr oposes to construct in a class III area, emissions from which would cause or contribute to air quality exceedi ng the maximum allowable increase applicable if the area were designated a class II area, and where no standa rd under section 111 of the act has been promulgated for such source category, the Administrator must a pprove the determination of best available control technology as set forth in the permit.

(v) Innovative control technology.

(1) An owner or operator of a proposed major sta tionary source or major modification may request the Department in writing no later than the close of the comment period under 40 CFR 124.10 to approve a system of innovative control technology.(2) The Department shall, with the consent of the gove rnor(s) of the affected state(s), determine that the source or modification may employ a system of innovative control technology, if:--

(i) The proposed control system would not cause or contribute to an unreasonable risk to public health, welfare, or safety in its operation or function;

(ii) The owner or operator agrees to achieve a leve l of continuous emissions reduction equivalent to that which would have been required under paragraph (j)(2), by a date specified by the Department. Such date shall not be later than 4 years from the time of startup or 7 years from permit issuance;

(iii) The source or modification would meet the re quirements of paragraphs (j) and (k), based on the emissions rate that the stationary source employing the system of innovative control technology would be required to meet on the date specified by the Department;

(iv) The source or modification would not be fore the date specified by the Department:

(a) Cause or contribute to a violation of an applicable national ambient air quality standard; or

(b) Impact any area where an applicable increment is known to be violated; and

(v) All other applicable requirements including those for public participation have been met.

(vi) The provisions of paragraph (p) (relating to Cl ass I areas) have been satisfied with respect to all periods during the life of the source or modification.

(3) The Department shall withdraw any approval to employ a system of innovative control technology

made under this section, if:

(i) The proposed system fails by the specified date to achieve the required continuous emissions

reduction rate; or

(ii) The proposed system fails before the specified date so as to contribute to an unreasonable risk to public health, welfare, or safety; or

(iii) The Department decides at any time that th e proposed system is unlikely to achieve the required level of control or to protect the public health, welfare, or safety.

(4) If a source or modification fails to meet the re quired level of continuous emission reduction within the specified time period or the approval is withdrawn in accordance with paragraph (v)(3), the Department may allow the source or modification up to an additional 3 year s to meet the requirement for the application of best available control technology through use of a demonstrated system of control.

(w) Permit rescission

.

(1) Any permit issued under this section or a prior vers ion of this regulation shall remain in effect, unless and until it expires or is rescinded.

(2) Any owner or operator of a stationary source or modification who holds a permit for the source or

modification which was issued under 40 CFR 52.21 as in e ffect on July 30, 1987, or any earlier version of thisregulation, may request that the Administrator rescind the permit or a particular portion of the permit.

(3) The Department shall grant an a pplication for rescission if the appli cation shows that this section would not apply to the source or modification.

(4) If the Department rescinds a permit under this para graph, the public shall be given adequate notice of the rescission. Publication of an announcement of rescission in a newspaper of general circulation in the affected region within 60 days of the rescission shall be considered adequate notice.

(x) [Reserved]

(y) [Reserved]

(z) [Reserved]

(aa) Actuals PALs. The provisions in paragraphs (aa )(1) through (15) govern actuals PALs.

(1) Applicability.

(i) The Department may approve the use of an actua ls PAL for any existing major stationary source if the PAL meets the requirements in paragraphs (aa)(1) thr ough (15). The term "PAL" shall mean "actuals PAL" throughout paragraph (aa).

(ii) Any physical change in or change in the method of operation of a major stationary source that maintains its total source-wide emissions below the PAL level, meets the requirements in paragraphs (aa)(1) through (15), and complies with the PAL permit:

(a) Is not a major modification for the PAL pollutant;

(b) Does not have to be approved through Regulation 61-62.5, Standard 7, Prevention of Significant

Deterioration . However, will be reviewed through R. 61-62.1, Section II A. Permit Requirements ; and

(c) Is not subject to the provisions in paragr aph (r)(4) (restrictions on relaxing enforceable emission limitations that the major stationary source used to avoid applicability of the major NSR program).

(iii) Except as provided under paragraph (aa)(1)(ii)(c), a major stationary source shall continue to comply with all applicable Federal or State requirements, emission limitations, and work practice requirements that were established prior to the effective date of the PAL.

(2) Definitions. The definitions in paragraphs (aa)(2)(i) thr ough (xi) shall apply to actual PALs consistent with paragraphs (aa)(1) through (15). When a term is not defined in these paragraphs, it shall have the meaning given in paragraph (b) or in the Clean Air Act.

(i) Actuals PAL for a major stationary source means a PAL based on the baseline actual emissions (as defined in paragraph (b)(4)) of all emissions units (as de fined in paragraph (b)(20)) at the source, that emit or have the potential to emit the PAL pollutant.

(ii) “Allowable emissions” means "allowable emissions" as defined in paragraph (b)(3), except as this definition is modified according to paragraphs (aa)(2)(ii)(a) and (b).(a) The allowable emissions for any emissions unit shall be calculated considering any emission limitations that are enforceable as a practical matter on the emissions unit's potential to emit.

(b) An emissions unit's potential to emit shall be determined using the defin ition in paragraph (b)(37), except that the words "or enforceable as a practical matter" should be added after "federally enforceable."

(iii) “Small emissions unit” means an emissions unit that emits or has the potential to emit the PAL pollutant in an amount less than the significant level for that PAL pollutant, as defined in paragraph (b)(49) or

in the Clean Air Act, whichever is lower.

(iv) “Major emissions unit” means:

(a) Any emissions unit that emits or has the pot ential to emit 100 tons per year or more of the PAL pollutant in an attainment area; or

(b) Any emissions unit that emits or has the poten tial to emit the PAL pollutant in an amount that is equal to or greater than the major source threshold fo r the PAL pollutant as defined by the Clean Air Act for nonattainment areas. For example, in accordance with th e definition of major stationary source in section 182(c) of the Clean Air Act, an emissions unit would be a major emissions unit for VOC if the emissions unit

is located in a serious ozone nonattainment area and it em its or has the potential to emit 50 or more tons of VOC per year.

(v) “Plantwide applicability limitation (PAL)” means an emission limitation expressed in tons per year, for a pollutant at a major stationary source, th at is enforceable as a practical matter and established source-wide in accordance with paragraphs (aa)(1) through (15).

(vi) “PAL effective date” generally means the date of issuance of the PAL permit. However, the PAL effective date for an increased PAL is the date any emi ssions unit that is part of the PAL major modification becomes operational and begins to emit the PAL pollutant.

(vii) “PAL effective period” means the period beginning with the PAL effective date and ending 10 years later.

(viii) “PAL major modification” means, notwithstanding paragra phs (b)(30) and (b)(34) (the definitions for major modification and net emissions increase), any physical change in or change in the method of operation of the PAL source that causes it to em it the PAL pollutant at a level equal to or greater

than the PAL.

(ix) “PAL permit” means the major NSR permit, the minor NSR permit, or the State operating permit under Regulation 61-62.1, Section II G, or the title V permit issued by the Department that establishes a PAL for a major stationary source.

(x) “PAL pollutant” means the pollutant for which a PAL is established at a major stationary source.

(xi) “Significant emissions unit” means an emissions unit that emits or has the potential to emit a PAL pollutant in an amount that is equal to or greater than the significant level (as defined in paragraph (b)(49) or in the Clean Air Act, whichever is lower) for that PA L pollutant, but less than the amount that would qualify the unit as a major emissions unit as defined in paragraph (aa)(2)(iv).

(3) Permit application requirements. As part of a permit application requesting a PAL, the owner oroperator of a major stationary source shall submit the following information to the Department for approval:

(i) A list of all emissions units at the source d esignated as small, significant or major based on their potential to emit. In addition, the owner or operator of the source shall indicate which, if any, Federal or State applicable requirements, emission limitations, or work practices apply to each unit.

(ii) Calculations of the baseline actual emi ssions (with supporting documentation). Baseline actual emissions are to include emissions associated not only with operation of the unit, but also emissions associated with startup, shutdown, and malfunctions.

(iii) The calculation procedures that the major st ationary source owner or operator proposes to use to convert the monitoring system data to monthly emi ssions and annual emissions based on a 12-month rolling total for each month as required by paragraph (aa)(13)(i).

(4) General requirements for establishing PALs.

(i) The Department is allowed to establish a PAL at a major stationary source, provided that at a minimum, the requirements in paragraphs (aa)(4)(i)(a) through (g) are met.

(a) The PAL shall impose an annual emission limita tion in tons per year, that is enforceable as a practical matter, for the entire major stationary sour ce. For each month during the PAL effective period after the first 12 months of establishing a PAL, the major sta tionary source owner or operator shall show that the sum of the monthly emissions from each emissions unit under the PAL for the previous 12 consecutive months is less than the PAL (a 12-month average, ro lled monthly). For each month during the first 11 months from the PAL effective date, the major stationary source owner or operator shall show that the sum of the preceding monthly emissions from the PAL effective date for each emissions unit under the PAL is less than

the PAL.

(b) The PAL shall be established in a PAL permit that meets the public participation requirements in paragraph (aa)(5).

(c) The PAL permit shall contain all the requirements of paragraph (aa)(7).

(d) The PAL shall include fugitive emissions, to th e extent quantifiable, from all emissions units that emit or have the potential to emit the PAL pollutant at the major stationary source.

(e) Each PAL shall regulate emissions of only one pollutant.

(f) Each PAL shall have a PAL effective period of 10 years.

(g) The owner or operator of the major sta tionary source with a PAL shall comply with the monitoring, recordkeeping, and repor ting requirements provided in paragraphs (aa)(12) through (14) for each emissions unit under the PAL through the PAL effective period.

(ii) At no time (during or after the PAL effective period) are emissions reductions of a PAL pollutant that occur during the PAL effective period creditabl e as decreases for purposes of offsets under 40 CFR 51.165(a)(3)(ii) unless the level of the PAL is reduced by the amount of such emissions reductions and such

reductions would be creditable in the absence of the PAL.

(5) Public participation requirements for PALs. PALs for existing major stationary sources shall beestablished, renewed, or increased through a procedur e that is consistent with section (q) “Public Participation” of this regulation. The Department must address all material comments before taking final action on the permit.

(6) Setting the 10-year actuals PAL level.

(i) Except as provided in paragraph (aa)(6)(ii), the actuals PAL level for a major stationary source shall

be established as the sum of the baseline actual emi ssions (as defined in paragraph (b)(4)) of the PAL pollutant for each emissions unit at the source; plus an amount equal to the applicable significant level for the PAL pollutant under paragra ph (b)(49) or under the Clean Air Act, whichever is lower. When establishing the actuals PAL level, for a PAL pollutant, only one consecu tive 24-month period must be used to determine the baseline actual emissions for all existing emissions un its. However, a different consecutive 24-month period may be used for each different PAL pollutant. Emissions associated with units that were permanently shut down after this 24-month period must be subtracted from the PAL level. The Department shall specify a reduced PAL level(s) (in tons/yr) in the PAL permit to become effective on the future compliance date(s) of any applicable Federal or State regulat ory requirement(s) that the Department is aware of prior to the issuance of the PAL permit. For instance, if the source owner or operator will be required to reduce emissions from industrial boilers in half from baseline emissions of 60 ppm NO

x to a new rule limit of 30 ppm, then the permit shall contain a future effective PAL level that is equal to the current PAL level reduced by half of the original baseline emissions of such unit(s).

(ii) Emissions from units (which do not include modification to existing un its) on which operation began less than 24-months prior to the date of the PAL perm it application must be added to the PAL level in an amount equal to the potential to emit of the units.

(7) Contents of the PAL permit. The PAL permit must contain, at a minimum, the information in paragraphs (aa)(7)(i) through (x).

(i) The PAL pollutant and the applicable source-wide emission limitation in tons per year.

(ii) The PAL permit effective date and the e xpiration date of the PAL (PAL effective period).

(iii) Specification in the PAL permit that if a majo r stationary source owner or operator applies to renew a PAL in accordance with paragraph (aa)(10) before the end of the PAL effective period, then the PAL shall not expire at the end of the PAL effective period. It sh all remain in effect until a revised PAL permit is issued by the Department.

(iv) A requirement that emission calculations for compliance purposes must include emissions from startups, shutdowns, and malfunctions.

(v) A requirement that, once the PAL expires, the ma jor stationary source is subject to the requirements of paragraph (aa)(9).

(vi) The calculation procedures that the major sta tionary source owner or operator shall use to convert the monitoring system data to monthly emissions and annual emissions based on a 12-month rolling total as required by paragraph (aa)(13)(i).

(vii) A requirement that the major stationary s ource owner or operator monitor all emissions units in accordance with the provisions under paragraph (aa)(12).(viii) A requirement to retain the records required under paragraph (aa)(13) on site. Such records may be

retained in an electronic format.

(ix) A requirement to submit the reports require d under paragraph (aa)(14) by the required deadlines.

(x) Any other requirements that the Department deems necessary to implement and enforce the PAL.

(8) PAL effective period and reopening of the PAL permit. The requirements in paragraphs (aa)(8)(i) and (ii) apply to actuals PALs.

(i) PAL effective period. The Department shall specify a PAL effective period of 10 years.

(ii) Reopening of the PAL permit.

(a) During the PAL effective period, the Department must reopen the PAL permit to:

(1) Correct typographical/calculation errors ma de in setting the PAL or reflect a more accurate

determination of emissions used to establish the PAL;

(2) Reduce the PAL if the owner or operato r of the major stationary source creates creditable emissions reductions for use as offsets under 40 CFR 51.165(a)(3)(ii); and

(3) Revise the PAL to reflect an increase in the PAL as provided under paragraph (aa)(11).

(b) The Department shall have discreti on to reopen the PAL permit for the following:

(1) Reduce the PAL to reflect newly applicab le Federal requirements (for example, NSPS) with compliance dates after the PAL effective date;

(2) Reduce the PAL consistent with any other requirement, that is enforceable as a practical matter, and that the State may impose on the major stationary source under the State Implementation Plan; and

(3) Reduce the PAL if the Department determ ines that a reduction is necessary to avoid causing or contributing to a NAAQS or PSD increment violation, or to an adverse impact on an air quality related value that has been identified for a Federal Class I area by a Federal Land Manager and for which information is available to the general public.

(c) Except for the permit reopening in para graph (aa)(8)(ii)(a)(1) for the correction of typographical/calculation errors that do not increase the PAL level, all other reopenings shall be carried out in accordance with the public participation requirements of paragraph (aa)(5).

(9) Expiration of a PAL. Any PAL that is not renewed in accord ance with the procedures in paragraph (aa)(10) shall expire at the end of the PAL effectiv e period, and the requirements in paragraphs (aa)(9)(i) through (v) shall apply.

(i) Each emissions unit (or each group of emissions units) that existed under the PAL shall comply with an allowable emission limitation under a revised permit esta blished according to the procedures in paragraphs (aa)(9)(i)(a) and (b).(a) Within the time frame specified for PAL renewa ls in paragraph (aa)(10)(ii), the major stationary source shall submit a proposed allowable emission limitation for each emissions unit (or each group of emissions units, if such a distribution is more appropr iate as decided by the Department) by distributing the PAL allowable emissions for the major stationary source among each of the emissions units that existed under the PAL. If the PAL had not yet been adjusted for an applicable requirement that became effective during the PAL effective period, as required under paragraph (aa)(10)(v), such distribution shall be made as if the PAL had been adjusted.

(b) The Department shall decide whether and how the PAL allowable emissions will be distributed and issue a revised permit incorporating allowable limits fo r each emissions unit, or each group of emissions units, as the Department determines is appropriate.

(ii) Each emissions unit(s) shall comply with the allowable emission limitation on a 12-month rolling basis. The Department may approve the use of monito ring systems (source testing, emission factors, etc.)

other than CEMS, CERMS, PEMS, or CPMS to de monstrate compliance with the allowable emission

limitation.

(iii) Until the Department issues the revised perm it incorporating allowable limits for each emissions unit, or each group of emissions units, as required under pa ragraph (aa)(9)(i)(b), the source shall continue to comply with a source-wide, multi-unit emissions cap equi valent to the level of the PAL emission limitation.

(iv) Any physical change or change in the met hod of operation at the major stationary source will be subject to major NSR requirements if such change m eets the definition of major modification in paragraph (b)(30).

(v) The major stationary source owner or operator sh all continue to comply with any State or Federal applicable requirements (BACT, RACT, NSPS, etc.) that may have applied either during the PAL effective period or prior to the PAL effective period except fo r those emission limitations that had been established pursuant to paragraph (r)(4), but were eliminated by the PAL in accordance with the provisions in paragraph (aa)(1)(ii)(c).

(10) Renewal of a PAL.

(i) The Department shall follow the procedures speci fied in paragraph (aa)(5) in approving any request to renew a PAL for a major stationary source, and sh all provide both the proposed PAL level and a written rationale for the proposed PAL level to the public fo r review and comment. During such public review, any person may propose a PAL level for the source for consideration by the Department.

(ii) Application deadline. A major stationary source owner or operator shall submit a timely application to the Department to request renewal of a PAL. A timely application is one that is submitted at least 6 months prior to, but not earlier than 18 months from, the date of permit expiration. This deadline for application submittal is to ensure that the permit will not expire before the permit is renewed. If the owner or operator of a major stationary source submits a complete application to renew the PAL within this time period, then the PAL shall continue to be effective until the revised permit with the renewed PAL is issued.

(iii) Application requirements. The application to renew a PAL permit shall contain the information required in paragraphs (aa)(10)(iii)(a) through (d).

(a) The information required in paragraphs (aa)(3)(i) through (iii).(b) A proposed PAL level.

(c) The sum of the potential to emit of all emissions units under the PAL (with supporting documentation).

(d) Any other information the owner or operator wi shes the Department to consider in determining the appropriate level for renewing the PAL.

(iv) PAL adjustment. In determining whether and how to adjust the PAL, the Department shall consider the options outlined in paragraphs (aa)(10)(iv)(a) and (b). However, in no case may any such adjustment fail to comply with paragraph (aa)(10)(iv)(c).

(a) If the emissions level calculated in accordance w ith paragraph (aa)(6) is equal to or greater than 80 percent of the PAL level, the Department may rene w the PAL at the same level without considering the factors set forth in paragraph (aa)(10)(iv)(b); or

(b) The Department may set the PAL at a level that it determines to be more representative of the

source's baseline actual emissions, or that it determines to be more appropriate considering air quality needs, advances in control technology, anticipated economic growth in the area, desire to reward or encourage the source's voluntary emissions reductions, or other factors as specifically identified by the Department in its

written rationale.

(c) Notwithstanding paragra phs (aa)(10)(iv)(a) and (b):

(1) If the potential to emit of the major stationa ry source is less than the PAL, the Department shall adjust the PAL to a level no greater than the potential to emit of the source; and

(2) The Department shall not approve a renewe d PAL level higher than the current PAL, unless the major stationary source has complied with the provisions of paragraph (aa)(11) (increasing a PAL).

(v) If the compliance date for a State or Federal re quirement that applies to the PAL source occurs during the PAL effective period, and if the Department has not already adjusted for such requirement, the PAL shall be adjusted at the time of PAL permit renewal or title V permit renewal, whichever occurs first.

(11) Increasing a PAL during the PAL effective period.

(i) The Department may increase a PAL emission lim itation only if the major stationary source complies with the provisions in paragra phs (aa)(11)(i)(a) through (d).

(a) The owner or operator of the major stationary source shall submit a complete application to request an increase in the PAL limit for a PAL major modificati on. Such application shall identify the emissions unit(s) contributing to the increase in emissions so as to cause the major stationary source's emissions to equal

or exceed its PAL.

(b) As part of this application, the major stati onary source owner or operator shall demonstrate that the

sum of the baseline actual emissions of the small em issions units, plus the sum of the baseline actual emissions of the significant and major emissions units assuming application of BACT equivalent controls, plus the sum of the allowable emissions of the new or modified emissions unit(s) exceeds the PAL. The level of control that would result from BACT equivalent controls on each significant or major emissions unit shall be determined by conducting a new BACT analysis at the time the application is submitted, unless theemissions unit is currently required to comply with a BACT or LAER requirement that was established within the preceding 10 years. In such a case, the assumed control level for that emissions unit shall be equal to the level of BACT or LAER with which that emissions unit must currently comply.

(c) The owner or operator obtains a major NSR pe rmit for all emissions unit(s) identified in paragraph (aa)(11)(i)(a), regardless of the magnitude of th e emissions increase resulting from them (that is, no significant levels apply). These emissions unit(s) sha ll comply with any emissions requirements resulting from the major NSR process (for example, BACT), even though they have also become subject to the PAL or continue to be subject to the PAL.

(d) The PAL permit shall require that the in creased PAL level shall be effective on the day any emissions unit that is part of the PAL major modification becomes operational and begins to emit the PAL pollutant.

(ii) The Department shall calculate the new PAL as the sum of the allowable emissions for each modified or new emissions unit, plus the sum of the baseline actual emissions of the significant and major emissions units (assuming application of BACT equivalent c ontrols as determined in accordance with paragraph (aa)(11)(i)(b)), plus the sum of the baseline actual emissions of the small emissions units.

(iii) The PAL permit shall be revised to reflect the increased PAL level pursuant to the public notice requirements of paragraph (aa)(5).

(12) Monitoring requirements for PALs. (i) General requirements. (a) Each PAL permit must contain enforceable requirements for the monitoring system th at accurately determines plantwide emissions of the PAL pollutant in terms of mass per unit of time. Any m onitoring system authorized for use in the PAL permit must be based on sound science and meet generally acceptable scientific procedures for data quality and manipulation. Additionally, the information generated by such system must meet minimum legal requirements for admissibility in a judicial pro ceeding to enforce the PAL permit.

(b) The PAL monitoring system must employ one or more of the four general monitoring approaches meeting the minimum requirements set forth in paragra phs (aa)(12)(ii)(a) through (d) and must be approved by the Department.

(c) Notwithstanding paragraph (aa)(12)(i)(b), the owner or operator may also employ an alternative monitoring approach that meets paragraph ( aa)(12)(i)(a) if approved by the Department.

(d) Failure to use a monitoring system that meet s the requirements of this regulation renders the PAL

invalid.

(ii) Minimum performance requirements for approved monitoring approaches. The following are acceptable general monitoring approaches when conducte d in accordance with the minimum requirements in paragraphs (aa)(12)(iii) through (ix):

(a) Mass balance calculations for activities using coatings or solvents;

(b) CEMS;

(c) CPMS or PEMS; and

(d) Emission factors.(iii) Mass balance calculations. An owner or opera tor using mass balance calculations to monitor PAL pollutant emissions from activities using coating or solvents shall meet the following requirements:

(a) Provide a demonstrated means of validating the published content of the PAL pollutant that is contained in or created by all materials used in or at the emissions unit;

(b) Assume that the emissions unit emits all of the PAL pollutant that is contained in or created by any

raw material or fuel used in or at the emissions unit, if it cannot otherwise be accounted for in the process; and

(c) Where the vendor of a material or fuel, which is used in or at the emissions unit, publishes a range of pollutant content from such material, the owner or operator must use the highest value of the range to calculate the PAL pollutant emissions unless the Department determines there is site-specific data or a sitespecific monitoring program to support another content within the range.

(iv) CEMS. An owner or operator using CEMS to monitor PAL pollutant emissions shall meet the following requirements:

(a) CEMS must comply with applicable Perfo rmance Specifications found in 40 CFR 60, appendix B;

and

(b) CEMS must sample, analyze and record data at least every 15 minutes while the emissions unit is operating.

(v) CPMS or PEMS. An owner or operator using CPMS or PEMS to monitor PAL pollutant emissions shall meet the following requirements:

(a) The CPMS or the PEMS must be based on cu rrent site-specific data demonstrating a correlation between the monitored parameter(s) and the PAL polluta nt emissions across the range of operation of the

emissions unit; and

(b) Each CPMS or PEMS must sample, analyze, and record data at least every 15 minutes, or at another less frequent interval approved by the Department, while the emissions unit is operating.

(vi) Emission factors. An owner or operator using emission factors to monitor PAL pollutant emissions shall meet the following requirements:

(a) All emission factors shall be adjusted, if a ppropriate, to account for the degree of uncertainty or limitations in the factors' development;

(b) The emissions unit shall operate within the designated range of use for the emission factor, if applicable; and

(c) If technically practicable, the owner or opera tor of a significant emissions unit that relies on an emission factor to calculate PAL pollutant emissions shall conduct validation testing to determine a sitespecific emission factor within 6 months of PAL pe rmit issuance, unless the Department determines that testing is not required.

(vii) A source owner or operator must record and report maximum potential emissions without considering enforceable emission limitations or operati onal restrictions for an emissions unit during anyperiod of time that there is no monitoring data, unless another method for determining emissions during such periods is specified in the PAL permit.

(viii) Notwithstanding the requirements in paragra phs (aa)(12)(iii) through (vii), where an owner or operator of an emissions unit cannot demonstrate a correlation between the monitored parameter(s) and the PAL pollutant emissions rate at all operating points of th e emissions unit, the Department shall, at the time of permit issuance:

(a) Establish default value(s) for determining compliance with the PAL based on the highest potential emissions reasonably estimated at such operating point(s); or

(b) Determine that operation of the emissions unit during operating conditions when there is no correlation between monitored parame ter(s) and the PAL pollutant emissions is a violation of the PAL.

(ix) Re-validation. All data used to establish th e PAL pollutant must be re-validated through performance testing or other scientifically valid means approved by the Department. Such testing must occur at least once every 5 years after issuance of the PAL.

(13) Recordkeeping requirements

. (i) The PAL permit shall require an owner or operator to retain a copy of all records necessary to determine compliance with any requirement of paragraph (aa) and of the PAL, including a determination of each emissions unit's 12-m onth rolling total emissions, for 5 years from the date

of such record.

(ii) The PAL permit shall require an owner or opera tor to retain a copy of the following records for the duration of the PAL effective period plus 5 years:

(a) A copy of the PAL permit application and any applications for revisions to the PAL; and

(b) Each annual certification of compliance pursu ant to title V and the data relied on in certifying the compliance.

(14) Reporting and notification requirements

. The owner or operator shall submit semi-annual monitoring reports and prompt devia tion reports to the Department in accordance with the applicable title V operating permit program. The reports shall meet the re quirements in paragraphs (aa)(14)(i) through (iii).

(i) Semi-annual report. The semi-annual report shall be submitted to the Department within 30 days of the end of each reporting period. This report shall contain the information required in paragraphs (aa)(14)(i)(a) through (g).

(a) The identification of owne r and operator and the permit number.

(b) Total annual emissions (tons/year) based on a 12-month rolling total for each month in the reporting period recorded pursuant to paragraph (aa)(13)(i).

(c) All data relied upon, including, but not limited to, any Quality Assurance or Quality Control data, in calculating the monthly and annual PAL pollutant emissions.

(d) A list of any emissions units modified or added to the major stationary source during the preceding 6-month period.(e) The number, duration, and cau se of any deviations or monitoring malfunctions (other than the time associated with zero and span calibration checks), and any corrective action taken.

(f) A notification of a shutdown of any monitoring system, whether the shutdown was permanent or temporary, the reason for the shutdown, the anticipated date that the monitoring system will be fully operational or replaced with another monitoring system , and whether the emissions unit monitored by the monitoring system continued to operate, and the calcula tion of the emissions of the pollutant or the number determined by method included in the permit, as provided by (aa)(12)(vii).

(g) A signed statement by the responsible official (as defined by the applicable title V operating permit program) certifying the truth, accuracy, and completeness of the information provided in the report.

(ii) Deviation report. The major stationary source owner or ope rator shall promptly submit reports of any deviations or exceedance of the PAL requirements, including periods where no monitoring is available. A report submitted pursuant to 40 CFR 70.6(a)(3)(iii)(B) shall satisfy this reporting requirement. The deviation reports shall be submitted within the time limits prescr ibed by the applicable program implementing 40 CFR 70.6(a)(3)(iii)(B). The reports shall contain the following information:

(a) The identification of owne r and operator and the permit number;

(b) The PAL requirement that experi enced the deviation or that was exceeded;

(c) Emissions resulting from the deviation or the exceedance; and

(d) A signed statement by the responsible official (as defined by the applicable title V operating permit program) certifying the truth, accuracy, and completeness of the information provided in the report.

(iii) Re-validation results. The owner or operator shall submit to the Department the results of any revalidation test or method within 3 months after completion of such test or method.

(15) Transition requirements.

(i) The Department may not issue a PAL that does not comply with the requirements in paragraphs (aa)(1) through (15) after the date these provisions become effective.

(ii) The Department may supersede any PAL that was established prior to the date these provisions become effective with a PAL that complies with th e requirements of paragraphs (aa)(1) through (15).

(bb) If any provision of this regulation, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of this regulation, or the a pplication of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby.

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