Arizona Administrative Code › Title 18 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 2 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL - QUALITY AIR POLLUTION CONTROL › Article 6 - EMISSIONS FROM EXISTING AND NEW POINT SOURCES › Section R18-2-610.01 - Agricultural Pm General Permit for Crop Operations; Maricopa County Pm Nonattainment Area

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
A.A commercial farmer within the Maricopa County PM
				Nonattainment Area shall implement at least two best management practices from
				each category to reduce PM emissions.
B.A commercial farmer shall implement from the
				following best management practices, as described in subsection (A), to reduce
				PM emissions during tillage, harvest or ground operation activities:
1. Chemical irrigation,
2. Combining tractor operations,
3. Equipment modification,
4. Green Chop,
5. Integrated Pest Management,
6. Limited harvest activity,
7. Limited tillage activity,
8. Multi-year crop,
9. Cessation of Night Tilling,
10. Planting based on soil
				moisture,
11. Precision
				Farming,
12. Reduced harvest
				activity,
13. Reduced tillage
				system,
14. Tillage based on soil
				moisture,
15. Timing of a tillage
				operation,
16. Transgenic
				Crops,
17. Transplanting,
18. Shuttle System/Larger Carrier,
				or
19. Conservation
				Tillage.
C.A commercial
				farmer shall implement from the following best management practices, as
				described in subsection (A), to reduce PM emissions from noncropland and
				commercial farm roads:
1. Access
				restriction,
2. Aggregate
				cover,
3. Wind barrier,
4. Critical area planting,
5. Organic material cover,
6. Reduce vehicle speed,
7. Synthetic particulate
				suppressant,
8. Track-out control
				system, or
9. Watering.
D.A commercial farmer shall implement from the
				following best management practices, as described in subsection (A), to reduce
				PM emissions from cropland:
1. Wind
				barrier,
2. Cover crop,
3. Cross-wind ridges,
,
4. Chips/mulches,
5. Multi-year crop,
6. Permanent
				cover,
7. Stabilization of soil prior to plant emergence,
8. Residue
				management,
9. Sequential cropping, or
10. Surface
				roughening.
E.A commercial
				farmer shall implement from the following best management practices, as
				described in subsection (A), to reduce PM emissions when conducting Significant
				Agricultural Earth Moving Activities as defined in
				R18-2-610:
1. Apply water prior to conducting
				Significant Agricultural Earth Moving Activities and/or time Significant
				Agricultural Earth Moving Activities to coincide with precipitation. Soil must
				have a minimum soil moisture content of 50% of field capacity. Compliance shall
				be determined by NRCS Estimating Soil Moisture by Feel and Appearance Method,
				amended through April 1998 (and no future editions);
2. Apply water during Significant
				Agricultural Earth Moving Activities. Soil must have a minimum soil moisture
				content of 30% of field capacity. Compliance shall be determined by NRCS
				Estimating Soil Moisture by Feel and Appearance Method, amended through April
				1998 (and no future editions);
3.
				Limit activities on a day identified by the Maricopa or Pinal County Dust
				Control Forecast to be high risk for dust generation; or
4. Conduct Significant Agricultural Earth
				Moving Activities in a manner to reduce a minimum of one ground operation
				across a commercial farm by using equipment that is the most efficient means of
				moving the soil.
F. From and after December 31, 2015, a
				commercial farmer who engages in a regulated agricultural activity shall
				complete and maintain a Best Management Practices Program General Permit Record
				Form demonstrating compliance with this Section. Thereafter, a new Best
				Management Practices Program General Permit Record Form shall be completed
				every year by March 31. The Form shall be provided to the Director within two
				business days of notice to the commercial farmer. The Best Management Practice
				Program General Permit Record Form shall include the following information:
1. The name of the commercial farmer,
				signature, and date signed;
2. The
				mailing address or physical address of the commercial farm; and
3. The best management practices selected for
				tillage, harvest, and ground operation activities, cropland, noncropland and
				commercial farm roads, and significant earth moving activities (if applicable).