### STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AL MANAGEMENT OFFICE OFAIR RESOURCES 

### AIR POLLUTION CONTROL REGULATION NO. 32 CONTROL OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS

FROM MARINE VESSEL LOADING OPERATIONS

Effective 31 March 1994 LastAmended 19 July 

### 2007

AUTHORITY: These regulations are authorized pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws§ 42- 17.l-2(s) and 23-23, as amended, and have been promulgated pursuant to the procedures set 

### forth in the RI. Administrative Procedures Act, RI. Gen. Laws Chapter 42-35.

### RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AL MANAGEMENT OFFICE OF AIR RESOURCES AIR POLLUTION CONTROL REGULATION NO. 32 CONTROL OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS FROM MARINE VESSEL LOADING OPERATIONS TABLE OF CONTENTS

32.l Definitions

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32.2 Applicability

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32.3 Emission Limitations

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32.4 Recordkeeping and Recording

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32.5 Compliance Demonstration!festing

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32.6 Compliance Schedules

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32.7 General Provisions

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### RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OFFICE OF AIRRESOURCES AIRPOLLUTION CONTROL REGULATION NO. 32 CONTROL OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS FROM MARINE VESSEL LOADING OPERATIONS 

### 32.1 Deimitions Unless otherwise expressly defined in this section, the terms used in 

### this regulation shall be defined by reference to the Rhode Island Air Pollution Control General Definitions Regulation. As used in this regulation, the following terms shall, where the context permits, be construed as follows: 32.1.1 

### "Combustion device" means emission control equipment used for combustion or destruction oforganic vapors and includes, but is not limited to, thermal incinerators, catalytic incinerators, flares, boilers, and process heaters. 32.1.2 

### "Emission Control Equipment" means any equipment, machinery, apparatus, or device used to recover orreduce emissions ofvolatile organic compounds. 32.1.3 

### "Gasoline" means any petroleum distillate having a Reid vapor pressure ofmore than 4 psia as determined by ASTM Method D323. This term includes but is not limited to mixtures ofalcohols and gasoline. 32.1.4 

### "Leakfree" means the dripping ofa liquid containing volatile organic compounds at a rate offour drops per minute or less; or an emission ofgaseous volatile organic compounds which causes an appropriate analyzer sampling one centimeter or less from a source to register less than I0,000 ppm as methane. 32.1.5 

### "Loading Event" means an incident or occurrence beginning with the connecting ofmarine terminal storage tanks to a marine tank vessel by means of pipes orhoses followed by the transferring oforganic liquid cargo and ending with the disconnecting ofthe pipes orhoses; or any means ofadmitting any other liquid into a marine vessel's cargo tanks. Loading events shall include only such incidents which occur when a marine tank vessel is moored to a dock or other permanent stationary structure. 32.1.6 

### "Marine Tank Vessel" means any marine vessel which is specially constructed or converted to carry liquid bulk cargo in tanks. 32.1.7 

### "Marine Terminal" means any facility, equipment, or structure constructed to load orunload organic liquid bulk cargo into or out ofmarine tank vessels. Page I of832.1.8 

### "Marine Vessel" means any tugboat, tanker , freighter, passenger ship, barge or other boat, ship or wa ter craft except those used primarily for recreation. 32.1.9 

### "Organic Liquid" means, for the purposes ofthis regulation, gasoline, gasoline blending stocks, aviation gas and aviation fuel which contains gasoline, such as JP-4 type. 32.1.10 

### "Recovery device" means emission control equipment used to remove organic vapors and recover liquids or chemicals and includes, but is not limited to, absorbers, carbon adsorbers, and condensers. 32.1.11 

### "Segregated ballasting operations" means the loading ofballast water into tanks on a marine vessel ifthose tanks are used only for ballasting and neverhold organic liquid. 32.1.12 

### "Vaportight marine vessel" means a marine vessel which has been demonstrated within the previous 12 months to have no leaks. A marine vessel loaded at negative pressure is assumed to be vapor tight for the purposes ofthis regulation. Discharges from pressure/vacuum reliefvalves on cargo tank vent lines are not considered leaks for the purposes ofthis definition. 

### 32.2 Applicability 32.2.1 Theprovisions ofthis regulation apply to any loading event in which organic liquid is loaded into marine 

### tank vessels and to loading events in which any liquid is loaded into a marine vessel's cargo tanks ifthe most recent cargo held in those tanks was an organic liquid. This regulation does not apply to segregated ballasting operations. 32.2.2 Wherewr the term Volatile Organic Compoood or VOC is used 

### in Seetioas 32.2 through 32.6, this term should be read as Volatile Organic Compound and Halogenated Orgaffic Compound or VOC and HOC.



### 32.3 Emission Limitations 32.3.l A loading event shall not be conducted unless one ofthe following conditions is met: (a) Volatile organic compounds emissions do not exceed 5.7 grams per cubic meter (2 pounds per 1000 barrels) ofliquid loaded into the marine tank vessel, or (b) The emissions ofvolatile organic compounds are reduced by at least 95 percent by weight from uncontrolled conditions ifa recovery device is used and by at least 98 percent by weight from uncontrolled Page 2 of8conditions ifa combustion device is used. 32.3.2 All ofa marine terminal's hatches, pressure reliefvalves, connections, gauging ports and vents which are used in connection with a loading event shall be leak free. 32.3.3 A loading event shall not be conducted unless the receiving marine vessel is vapor tight. 

# To determine whether a marine vessel is vapor tight, the owner or operator ofthe marine terminal must follow the following procedures for each loading event, with the exception ofloading events performed at a negative pressure: (a) Obtain a copy ofthe record ofthe most recent pressure test or leak test on the receiving marine vessel. The record must contain all information specified in Subsection 32.4.2. (b) If, according to the records obtained pursuant to the requirements ofSubsection 32.3.3 (a), the marine vessel passed the most recent pressure or leak test and that test was performed within the previous 12 month period, the vessel shall be considered vapor tight. (c) If, according to the records obtained pursuant to the requirements ofSubsection 32.3.3 (a), the marine vessel failed its most recent leak or pressure test, no loading event shall be conducted unless the operator of the marine vessel provides written documentation that all leaks have been repaired subsequent to the failed test. Any loading event involving a marine vessel that has been repaired subsequent to failing its most recent leak orpressure test must be conducted in conjunction with the performance ofa leak test, as specified in Subsection 32.3.3 (d). (d) If, according to the records obtained pursuant to the requirements ofSubsection 32.3.3 (a), the marine vessel has not passed a leak or pressure test within the previous 12 month period, a leak test ofthe vessel shall beperformed during the loading event. No loading events shall be performed ifthe vessel failed its most recent leak test or pressure test and does not provide the owner or operator ofthe marine terminal with documentation that shows that all leaks subsequently have been repaired, as specified in Subsection 32.3.3 (c). (e) A person testing a marine vessel to determine whether that vessel is vapor tight shall provide the operator ofthe marine vessel and the owner or operator ofthe marine terminal with documentation ofthe test which includes all information specified in Subsection 32.4.2.

32.4 Recordkeeping and Recording Page 3 of832.4.1 The owner or operator ofa marine terminal loading facility shall record the following information about each loading event and maintain this information at the facility for a period offive years: (a) The location ofthe loading event, (b) The company responsible for conducting the loading event, (c) The date and time at which the marine vessel arrived and departed from the location ofthe loading event, (d) The name, registry ofvessels and name and address ofthe legal owner ofthe marine tank vessel participating in the loading event, (e) The prior cargo carried by the receiving marine tank vessel, (f) The type and amount ofliquid cargo loaded into the receiving marine tank vessel, (g) The condition ofthe receiving tanks prior to being loaded (i.e. cleaned, crude oil, washed, gas freed, etc
.), (h) The amount ofballast water added to a marine vessel's tanks, except for ballast water used in segregated ballasting operations, and (i) A description ofprocedures used to prevent venting. 32.4.2 The owner or operator ofa marine terminal shall maintain at the facility for a period offive years a record ofthe most recent leak test orpressure test conducted on a marine vessel prior to or in conjunction with each loading event. Such records shall be made available to the Department or to EPA onrequest and shall include the following information: (a) Test method; (b) Marine vessel owner and address; (c) Marine vessel identification number; (d) Date and location oftest; (e) Tester's name and signature; (f) Witnessing inspector's name, signature and affiliation; and Page4 of8(g) Test results. 32.4.3 The owner or operator ofa marine terminal at which loading events subject to this regulation are conducted shall collect and record the following information and maintain the information at the facility for a period of5 years. These records shall be made available to the Department and EPA upon request. (a) The date and results ofeach emission test performed at the facility as required in Subsection 32.5.l and ofeach leak free determination performed as required in Subsection 32.5 .2; (b) A daily log ofoperating time for any capture system, emission control equipment, and monitoring equipment; (c) A maintenance log for any capture system, emission control equipment, and monitoring equipment detailing all routine and nonroutine maintenance performed, including dates and duration ofany outages; (d) A maintenance log for all ofthe marine terminal's hatches, pressure reliefvalves, connections, gauging ports and vents which are used in connection with loading events, including dates when leaks were repaired; (e) The dates ofany loading events which bypassed the emission control equipment or which were performed when the marine terminal was not leak free; 

### (f) Forthermal incinerators: (1) All 3-hour periods ofoperation in which the average combustion temperature was more than 28 °C ( 50 ° 

## F) below the average combustion temperature during the most recent performance test that demonstrated that the facility was in compliance, and (2) The operating temperature. (g) For catalytic incinerators: (I) All periods where the temperature increase across the catalyst bed is less than 80% ofthe temperature increase recorded during the most recent performance test that demonstrated that the facility was in compliance, and (2) The inlet and outlet temperatures and temperature rise Pa

ge 5 of8across the catalyst bed. (h) For carbon adsorbers: (1) All 3

-hour periods ofoperation during which the average 

## voe concentration orreading oforganics in the exhaust gases is more than 20 percent greater than fue average exhaust gas concentration orreading measured by the organics monitoring device during the most recent determination ofthe recovery efficiency ofthe carbon adsorber that demonstrated that the facility was in compliance, and (2) The pressure drop across the adsorber and the hydrocarbon levels for breakthrough.



### 32.5 Compliance Demonstration/Testing 32.5.1 Compliance with the emission limitations ofSubsection 32.3.1 shall be demonstrated upon start up ofthe emission control equipment and thereafter upon request ofthe Director in accordance with 40 CFR 60, Appendix A, Method 25 as amended or another EPA approved method which has been accepted bythe Director. This test shall be conducted so that at least 50% ofthe total liquid loaded is included. 32.5.2 Leak free determinations at marine terminals shall be made upon start up ofthe emission control equipment and monthly thereafter. Gaseous leaks shall be measured in accordance with EPA Reference Method 21 or another method which has been accepted bythe Director and byEPA. 32.5.3 Any leak test orpressure test used to demonstrate that a marine vessel is vapor tight shall utilize a method which has been accepted by the Director and by EPA. 32.5.4 The owner or operator ofa marine terminal shall notify the Director ofthe date ofany test demonstrating the control efficiency ofemission control equipment at least 90 days in advance ofthat date. 

### Ifrequired by the Department, a sampling protocol shall be submitted at least 60 days in advance ofthe testing date. Testing results shall be submitted to the Office ofAir Resources within 30 days ofcompletion ofthe test.



### 32.6 Compliance Schedules 32.6.1 Any marine terminal at which a loading event subject to this regulation is conducted shall be in compliance with the provisions ofSections 32.3 and 32.4 on Page6 of8

### and after January I , 1996. 32.6.2 The owner or operator ofany marine terminal at which loading events subject to this regulation are conducted shall, by July 30, 1994, submit to the Director a compliance plan which describes the steps and schedule that will be taken to achieve compliance with this regulation. 32.6.3 Any compliance plan which includes equipment replacement or modification orinstallation ofemission control equipment shall provide for periodic increments ofprogress, including but not limited to: (a) Date by which engineering plans and permit applications will be submitted, . (b) Date by which equipment will be ordered, (c) Installation date aft er confirmation oforder by the manufacturer, and (d) Date by which the applicable regulatory emission limitations will be achieved after equipment is in satisfactory operation. 32.6.4 No compliance schedule submitted to satisfy the requirements ofthis section shall allow a facility to exceed any applicable emission limitations including but not limited to: (a) Best Available Control Technology determinations, or (b) Lowest Achievable Emissions Rate determinations, or (c) Federal New Source Performance Standards codified at 40 CFR Part 60, orNational Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants, codified at 40 CFR Part 61 orPart 63, or (d) Any other condition or standard that is specifically required by the Clean Air Act (as amended) for new or modified sources. 32.6.5 Compliance schedules submitted in accordance with the requiremen ts of this section are subject to review and approval bythe Director. 

### 32.7 General Provisions 32.7.l Purpose The purpose ofthis regulation is to limit volatile organic compound emissions from marine vessel loading operations. Pa

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### 32.7.2 Authority These regulations are authorized pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws 

### § 42-17.1-2(s) and 23

-23, as amended, and have been promulgated pursuant to the procedures set forth in the R.I. Admin istrative Procedures Act, R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 42-35

32.7.3 Application 

### The terms 

### and provisions ofthis regulation shall 

### aeliberally construed to 

### permit the Departmentto e:ffi:lctuate the pw-poses ofstate law, goals aed policies. · 32.7.4 Severability Ifany provision ofthis regulation or the application thereofto any person or circumstance, is held invalid by a court ofcompetentjurisdiction, the validity ofthe remainder ofthe regulation shall not be affected thereby. 32.7.5 Effective Date



### Notice Given on: Public Hearing held: Filing Date: Effective Date: The foregoing regulation, "Control ofVolatile Organic Compounds from Marine Vessel Loading Operations", as amended, is hereby adopted and filed with the Secretary ofState this 12th day ofFebruary, 2015 

### in accordance with the provisions ofChapters 23

-23, 42-35, 42-17.1, 42-17

.6, ofthe General Laws ofRhode Island of 1956, as amended.

Janet Coit, Director Department ofEnvironmental Management



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