Illinois Administrative Code › Title 35 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part 255 - GENERAL CONFORMITY: CRITERIA AND PROCEDURES › Section 255.170 - Activities Exempt from Conformity Analysis

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
The requirements of this Part shall not apply to:
a) Actions where the total of direct and
			 indirect emissions are below the emissions levels specified in subsections
			 (b)(1) and (b)(2) of Section
			 255.120.
b) The following actions which would result
			 in no emissions increase or an increase in emissions that is clearly de
			 minimis:
1) Judicial and legislative
			 proceedings.
2) Continuing and
			 recurring activities such as permit renewals where activities conducted will be
			 similar in scope and operation to activities currently being
			 conducted.
3) Rulemaking and policy
			 development and issuance.
4)
			 Routine maintenance and repair activities, including repair and maintenance of
			 administrative sites, roads, trails, and facilities.
5) Civil and criminal enforcement activities,
			 such as investigations, audits, inspections, examinations, prosecutions, and
			 the training of law enforcement personnel.
6) Administrative actions such as personnel
			 actions, organizational changes, debt management or collection, cash
			 management, internal agency audits, program budget proposals, and matters
			 relating to the administration and collection of taxes, duties and
			 fees.
7) The routine, recurring
			 transportation of material and personnel.
8) Routine movement of mobile assets, such as
			 ships and aircraft, in home port reassignments and stations (when no new
			 support facilities or personnel are required) to perform as operational groups
			 and/or for repair or overhaul.
9)
			 Maintenance dredging and debris disposal where no new depths are required,
			 applicable permits are secured, and disposal will be at an approved disposal
			 site.
10) Actions, such as the
			 following, with respect to existing structures, properties, facilities and
			 lands where future activities conducted will be similar in scope and operation
			 to activities currently being conducted at the existing structures, properties,
			 facilities, and lands; for example, relocation of personnel, disposition of
			 federally-owned existing structures, properties, facilities, and lands, rent
			 subsidies, operation and maintenance cost subsidies, the exercise of
			 receivership or conservatorship authority, assistance in purchasing structures,
			 and the production of coins and currency.
11) The granting of leases, licenses such as
			 for exports and trade, permits, and easements where activities conducted will
			 be similar in scope and operation to activities currently being
			 conducted.
12) Planning, studies,
			 and provision of technical assistance.
13) Routine operation of facilities, mobile
			 assets and equipment.
14) Transfers
			 of ownership, interests, and titles in land, facilities, and real and personal
			 properties, regardless of the form or method of the transfer.
15) The designation of empowerment zones,
			 enterprise communities, or viticultural areas.
16) Actions by any of the Federal banking
			 agencies or the Federal Reserve Banks, including actions regarding charters,
			 applications, notices, licenses, the supervision or examination of depository
			 institutions or depository institution holding companies, access to the
			 discount window, or the provision of financial services to banking
			 organizations or to any department, agency or instrumentality of the United
			 States.
17) Actions by the Board of
			 Governors of the Federal Reserve System or any Federal Reserve Bank to effect
			 monetary or exchange rate policy.
18) Actions that implement a foreign affairs
			 function of the United States.
19)
			 Actions (or portions thereof) associated with transfers of land, facilities,
			 title, and real properties through an enforceable contract or lease agreement
			 where the delivery of the deed is required to occur promptly after a specific,
			 reasonable condition is met, such as promptly after the land is certified as
			 meeting the requirements of the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
			 Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), and where the Federal agency does not
			 retain continuing authority to control emissions associated with the lands,
			 facilities, title, or real properties.
20) Transfers of real property, including
			 land, facilities, and related personal property from a Federal entity to
			 another Federal entity and assignments of real property, including land,
			 facilities, and related personal property from a Federal entity to another
			 Federal entity for subsequent deeding to eligible applicants.
21) Actions by the Department of the Treasury
			 to effect fiscal policy and to exercise the borrowing authority of the United
			 States.