Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62 - Departmental › Chapter 62-213 - OPERATION PERMITS FOR MAJOR SOURCES OF AIR POLLUTION › Section 62-213.415 - Trading of Emissions Within a Source

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1)
				The Department shall allow trading of emissions increases and decreases among
				emissions units in a Title V source permitted pursuant to this chapter. This
				trading of emissions shall be permitted solely for the purpose of complying
				with a federally enforceable emissions cap that is established in the permit
				independent of otherwise applicable requirements.
(2) No permit revision shall be required
				provided the permitted source complies with the notice and recordkeeping
				provisions of this section and provided the permitted source had submitted with
				its last Title V permit application:
(a) A
				listing of all emission units which will be subject to trading of
				emissions;
(b) A description of
				each mode of operation that will be used at any given time and all of the
				necessary permit application data required by Rule
				 62-213.420, and subsection
				 62-210.900(1),
				F.A.C., to evaluate the application in each mode of operation;
(c) A plan for quantifying emissions trading
				increases and decreases of each regulated air pollutant for each unit and for
				demonstrating the continuous compliance in each mode of operation. The
				following procedures apply to pollutants which are subject to the federally
				enforceable emissions cap described in subsection
				 62-213.415(1),
				F.A.C.:
1. For a source with sulfur dioxide
				generated by the fuel, the source shall quantify increases or decreases of
				sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides emissions by the use of continuous emissions
				monitors which have been installed, performance tested, calibrated, operated
				and maintained as specified in paragraph
				 62-213.205(1)(e),
				F.A.C. The source shall determine stack gas volumetric flow rates using
				flowmeters with recorders, if available at the source, or the average gas flow
				rates from the three most recent stack tests conducted in accordance with the
				requirements of Rule  62-297.310, F.A.C., at an
				operation rate of 90 to 100 percent of the maximum operating level approved for
				the unit in its mode of operation. If three such tests have not been conducted,
				the source shall determine flow rates from the two latest such tests, if
				available, or by a single such test;
2. For sulfur dioxide generated from non-fuel
				sources, the Department shall approve alternative methods of determining actual
				SO2 emissions on a case-by-case basis, if requested by
				the permittee, provided all of the sulfur used in the process is quantified and
				analyzed for sulfur content using methods approved in Chapter 62-297, F.A.C.,
				on an as delivered basis, records are maintained to document the quantity and
				sulfur content of the sulfur containing material, and the method assumes that
				all of the sulfur is converted to SO2 and released to
				the atmosphere;
3. For pollutants
				other than sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides the Department shall not approve
				the trading of emissions unless the source demonstrates the capability of
				quantifying emissions and verifying that emissions do not exceed permitted
				allowable emissions for each unit involved;
4. The Department shall accept inventory
				balance, as described in paragraph
				 62-213.205(1)(e),
				F.A.C., as a means of quantification of volatile organic compounds if no credit
				is taken for any incineration that takes place.
(d) Replicable procedures to demonstrate
				compliance with any trading provisions requested and with applicable
				requirements for each mode of operation. As a minimum, the source shall
				maintain source logs or records to verify the periods of operation within each
				mode of operation.