CO Code § 25-7-133.5 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 7 - Air Quality Control|Part 1 - Air Quality Control Program|§ 25-7-133.5. Approval or Rescission of Specific Revisions to State Implementation Plan (Sip) After 1996

  Consistent with the provisions of section 25-7-105.1, to the extent senate bill 96-129 and senate bill 96-236, enacted at the second regular session of the sixtieth general assembly, approved submitting portions of air quality control commission regulation 1, section VI, to the federal environmental protection agency for inclusion in the state implementation plan, such approval is hereby rescinded. The inclusion of said regulation 1 in the Denver metropolitan nonattainment area state implementation plan for particulate matter (PM-10) is not affected by this rescission.    Pursuant to section 25-7-133, the following revisions to the state implementation plan (SIP), which were adopted by the air quality control commission on the dates indicated and received by the legislative council for review, are approved for incorporation into the state implementation plan:   The 1993 periodic emissions inventory update to the Denver metropolitan, Colorado Springs, Longmont, and Fort Collins carbon monoxide nonattainment area elements of the SIP, adopted by the air quality control commission on December 21, 1995;    The emergency episode plan revisions as a part of the Denver PM-10 nonattainment area element of the SIP, adopted by the air quality control commission on January 18, 1996;    Amendments adopted by the air quality control commission on September 19, 1996, to the Greeley carbon monoxide nonattainment area element of the SIP;    Amendments adopted by the air quality control commission on October 17, 1996, to the Cañ;on City PM-10 nonattainment area element of the SIP;    Amendments adopted by the air quality control commission on October 17, 1996, to the Steamboat Springs PM-10 nonattainment area element of the SIP;    Amendments adopted by the air quality control commission on March 21, 1996, and June 20, 1996, to regulation number 3, concerning air pollution emission notice deferral, insignificant activities, and fugitive emissions;    Amendments adopted by the air quality control commission on June 20, 1996, to regulation number 3, concerning prevention of significant deterioration permits, total suspended particulates, and hydrogen sulfide;    Amendments adopted by the air quality control commission on October 14, 1996, to regulation number 10, concerning general conformity;    Amendments adopted by the air quality control commission on March 21, 1996, to regulation number 11, concerning the inspection and maintenance program;    Repealed.    Amendments adopted by the air quality control commission on October 24, 1996, to regulation number 5, concerning the generic banking emissions/trading rules and conforming revisions to regulation number 3, part 4, section V;    Amendments adopted by the air quality control commission on December 21, 1995, to regulations number 1 and 7, and the common provisions concerning negligibly reactive volatile organic compounds and delisting of acetone;    Amendments adopted by the air quality control commission on December 23, 1996, to regulation number 1, concerning opacity limitations and sulfur dioxide averaging provisions for coal-fired electric utility boilers during periods of startup, shutdown, and upset;    Repealed.    Amendments adopted by the air quality control commission on April 17, 1997, to the motor vehicle emissions inspection program in all carbon monoxide nonattainment areas in the state (Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver, and Greeley) under the carbon monoxide nonattainment area element of the SIP;    Amendments adopted by the air quality control commission on January 15, 1998, redesignating Colorado Springs as an attainment area for carbon monoxide and adopting a corresponding maintenance plan;    Amendments adopted by the air quality control commission on December 18, 1997, to the Longmont carbon monoxide maintenance plan;    Amendments adopted by the air quality control commission on April 17, 1997, concerning long-term strategy for the element of the SIP relating to visibility in class I areas;    Amendments adopted by the air quality control commission on November 21, 1996, to regulations number 3, 7, and 8 and common provisions, concerning negligibly reactive volatile organic compounds and regulated hazardous air pollutants;    Amendments adopted by the air quality control commission on September 17, 1998, to regulation number 1, section II. D., concerning military smokes and obscurants training exercises;    Amendments adopted by the air quality control commission on October 15, 1998, to regulation number 7, concerning emissions of volatile organic compounds;    Amendments adopted by the air quality control commission on October 15, 1998, to regulation number 10, concerning conformity of federally funded or approved transportation plans with air quality implementation plans;    Amendments adopted by the air quality control commission on November 19, 1998, to regulation number 11, part F (III), concerning the motor vehicle emissions inspection program for the Denver-Boulder area;    Amendments adopted by the air quality control commission on January 16, 1998, to regulation number 12, concerning reduction of diesel vehicle emissions;    Repealed.    Amendments adopted by the air quality control commission on January 16, 1998, to section 1.11.0 of the procedural rules of the air pollution control division;    Amendments adopted by the air quality control commission on September 17, 1998, concerning ambient air quality standards for suspended particulate matter; and    (I) The “Colorado Visibility and Regional Haze State Implementation Plan for the Twelve Mandatory Class I Federal Areas in Colorado”, adopted by the air quality control commission on January 7, 2011.       Revisions to the SIP that are adopted solely to conform the SIP to prior actions of the general assembly under section 25-7-133 and this section may be submitted to the federal environmental protection agency for final approval under section (2) without further approval by the general assembly under section 25-7-133 or this section.    If the division and the designated organization for air quality planning in the Colorado Springs area request removal of mandatory control measures that have been adequately demonstrated to be unnecessary to achieve and maintain compliance with the federal ambient air quality standards and request corresponding modifications to the mobile source emission budget, the commission shall adopt such revisions to the carbon monoxide maintenance plan for the Colorado Springs area approved pursuant to paragraph (p) of subsection (2) of this section. Notwithstanding section 25-7-133, such revisions shall be submitted to the federal environmental protection agency for incorporation into the state implementation plan as expeditiously as possible and shall not be subject to further review and approval pursuant to section 25-7-133.    Revisions to the visibility component of the SIP that implement and enforce a control strategy that meets the following requirements may be submitted to the United States environmental protection agency for incorporation into the SIP as expeditiously as possible without further review and approval pursuant to section 25-7-133:   On or before November 1, 2001, one or more sources have entered into a consent decree in which such sources make a judicially enforceable commitment to adopt such control strategy; and    The division determines that such control strategy provides for reasonable progress:   Toward the national visibility goal stated in federal rules set forth at 40 CFR 51, subpart P, and in rules of the division set forth at 5 CCR 1001-5, as said rules provided on January 1, 2001; and    In reducing any present or future impairment of an air-quality-related value.    The provisions of this paragraph (a) shall not apply if the presence of MTBE in a fuel product is caused solely by incidental commingling of MTBE with the fuel product during storage or transfer of the fuel product. In no event shall the provisions of this subsection (3) be construed to permit the knowing or willful addition of MTBE to any fuel product.          Notwithstanding the provisions of section 25-7-133, revisions to the Denver metropolitan area element of the PM-10 state implementation plan adopted by the commission on April 19, 2001, are approved for incorporation into the state implementation plan, shall be submitted to the federal environmental protection agency as expeditiously as possible, and shall not be subject to further review and approval pursuant to section 25-7-133.      History. Source: L. 97: Entire section added, p. 381, § 1, effective April 19; (2)(n) and (3) added, pp. 1528, 1530, §§ 1, 2, effective June 3. L. 98: (2)(o), (2)(p), (2)(q), (2)(r), (2)(s), and (4) added, pp. 1009, 1010, §§ 1, 2, effective May 27. L. 99: (2)(j) and (2)(y) repealed, (2)(r) amended, and (2)(t) through (2)(aa) added, pp. 1244, 1243, §§ 2, 3, 1, effective July 1. L. 2001: (5) added, p. 208, § 1, effective March 28; (6) added, p. 900, § 1, effective June 1. L. 2011: (2)(bb) added,(HB 11-1291), ch. 144, p. 501, § 2, effective May 4; (2)(n) repealed,(HB 11-1303), ch. 264, p. 1166, § 62, effective August 10.    Cross references:   For the legislative declaration in the 2011 act adding subsection (2)(bb), see section 1 of chapter 144, Session Laws of Colorado 2011.