Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 567 - Environmental Protection Commission › Title II - Air Quality › Chapter 22 - Controlling Air Pollution › Rule 567-22.103 - Insignificant Activities

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
The following are insignificant activities for purposes of
				  the Title V application if not needed to determine the applicability of or to
				  impose any applicable requirement. Title V permit emissions fees are not
				  required from insignificant activities pursuant to 567-paragraph
				  30.4(2)
"f."
(1)
Insignificant activities excluded from Title V operating permit
				application.
In accordance with
				40 CFR 705.
				(as amended through October 6, 2009), these activities need not be included in
				the Title V permit application.
a. Mobile
				internal combustion and jet engines, marine vessels, and locomotives.
b. Equipment, other than anaerobic lagoons,
				used for cultivating land, harvesting crops, or raising livestock. This
				exemption is not applicable if the equipment is used to remove substances from
				grain which were applied to the grain by another person. This exemption also is
				not applicable to equipment used by a person to manufacture commercial feed, as
				defined in Iowa Code section
				1983., when that feed
				is normally not fed to livestock:
(1) Owned by
				that person or another person, and
(2) Located in a feedlot, as defined in Iowa
				Code section
				172D1(6)., or in a
				confinement building owned or operated by that person, and
(3) Located in this state.
c. Equipment or control equipment
				which eliminates all emissions to the atmosphere.
d. Equipment (other than anaerobic lagoons)
				or control equipment which emits odors unless such equipment or control
				equipment also emits particulate matter or any other air pollutant or
				contaminant.
e. Air conditioning or
				ventilating equipment not designed to remove air contaminants generated by or
				released from associated equipment.
f. Residential wood heaters, cookstoves, or
				fireplaces.
g. The equipment in
				laboratories used exclusively for nonproduction chemical and physical analyses.
				Nonproduction analyses means analyses incidental to the production of a good or
				service and includes analyses conducted for quality assurance or quality
				control activities, or for the assessment of environmental impact.
h. Recreational fireplaces.
i. Barbecue pits and cookers except at a meat
				packing plant or a prepared meat manufacturing facility.
j. Stacks or vents to prevent escape of sewer
				gases through plumbing traps for systems handling domestic sewage only. Systems
				which include any industrial waste are not exempt.
k. Retail gasoline and diesel fuel handling
				facilities.
l. Photographic process
				equipment by which an image is reproduced upon material sensitized to radiant
				energy.
m. Equipment used for
				hydraulic or hydrostatic testing.
n. General vehicle maintenance and servicing
				activities at the source, other than gasoline fuel handling.
o. Cafeterias, kitchens, and other facilities
				used for preparing food or beverages primarily for consumption at the
				source.
p. Equipment using water,
				water and soap or detergent, or a suspension of abrasives in water for purposes
				of cleaning or finishing provided no organic solvent has been added to the
				water, the boiling point of the additive is not less than 100°C
				(212°F), and the water is not heated above 65.5°C
				(150°F).
q. Administrative
				activities including, but not limited to, paper shredding, copying,
				photographic activities, and blueprinting machines. This does not include
				incinerators.
r. Laundry dryers,
				extractors, and tumblers processing clothing, bedding, and other fabric items
				used at the source that have been cleaned with water solutions of bleach or
				detergents provided that any organic solvent present in such items before
				processing that is retained from cleanup operations shall be addressed as part
				of the volatile organic compound emissions from use of cleaning
				materials.
s. Housekeeping
				activities for cleaning purposes, including collecting spilled and accumulated
				materials at the source, but not including use of cleaning materials that
				contain organic solvent.
t.
				Refrigeration systems, including storage tanks used in refrigeration systems,
				but excluding any combustion equipment associated with such systems.
u. Activities associated with the
				construction, on-site repair, maintenance or dismantlement of buildings,
				utility lines, pipelines, wells, excavations, earthworks and other structures
				that do not constitute emission units.
v. Storage tanks of organic liquids with a
				capacity of less than 500 gallons, provided the tank is not used for storage of
				any material listed as a hazardous air pollutant pursuant to Section 112(b) of
				the Clean Air Act.
w. Piping and
				storage systems for natural gas, propane, and liquified petroleum gas,
				excluding pipeline compressor stations and associated storage
				facilities.
x. Water treatment or
				storage systems, as follows:
(1) Systems for
				potable water or boiler feedwater.
(2) Systems, including cooling towers, for
				process water provided that such water has not been in direct or indirect
				contact with process steams that contain volatile organic material or materials
				listed as hazardous air pollutants pursuant to Section 112(b) of the Clean Air
				Act.
y. Lawn care,
				landscape maintenance, and groundskeeping activities.
z. Containers, reservoirs, or tanks used
				exclusively in dipping operations to coat objects with oils, waxes, or greases,
				provided no organic solvent has been mixed with such materials.
aa. Cold cleaning degreasers that are not
				in-line cleaning machines, where the vapor pressure of the solvents used never
				exceeds 2 kPa (15 mmHg or 0.3 psi) measured at 38°C (100°F) or 0.7 kPa
				(5 mmHg or 0.1 psi) at 20°C (68°F). (Note: Cold cleaners subject to 40
				CFR Part 63 Subpart T are not considered insignificant activities.)
bb. Manually operated equipment used for
				buffing, polishing, carving, cutting, drilling, machining, routing, sanding,
				sawing, scarfing, surface grinding or turning.
cc. Use of consumer products, including
				hazardous substances as that term is defined in the Federal Hazardous
				Substances Act (
				15
				U.S.C. 1261 et seq.), when the product is
				used at a source in the same manner as normal consumer use.
dd. Activities directly used in the diagnosis
				and treatment of disease, injury or other medical condition.
ee. Firefighting activities and training in
				preparation for fighting fires conducted at the source. (Note: Written
				notification pursuant to 567-paragraph 23.2(3)
"g"
is required
				at least ten working days before such action commences.)
ff. Activities associated with the
				construction, repair or maintenance of roads or other paved or open areas,
				including operation of street sweepers, vacuum trucks, spray trucks and other
				vehicles related to the control of fugitive emissions of such roads or other
				areas.
gg. Storage and handling of
				drums or other transportable containers when the containers are sealed during
				storage and handling.
hh.
				Individual points of emission or activities as follows:
(1) Individual flanges, valves, pump seals,
				pressure relief valves and other individual components that have the potential
				for leaks.
(2) Individual sampling
				points, analyzers, and process instrumentation, whose opreation may result in
				emissions.
(3) Individual features
				of an emission unit such as each burner and sootblower in a boiler or each use
				of cleaning materials on a coating or printing line.
ii. Construction activities at a source
				solely associated with the modification or building of a facility, an emission
				unit or other equipment at the source. (Note: Notwithstanding the status of
				this activity as insignificant, a particular activity that entails modification
				or construction of an emission unit or construction of air pollution control
				equipment may require a construction permit pursuant to 22.1(455B) and may
				subsequently require a revised Title V operating permit. A revised Title V
				operating permit may also be necessary for operation of an emission unit after
				completion of a particular activity if the existing Title V operating permit
				does not accommodate the new state of the emission unit.)
jj. Activities at a source associated with
				the maintenance, repair, or dismantlement of an emission unit or other
				equipment installed at the source, including preparation for maintenance,
				repair or dismantlement, and preparation for subsequent startup, including
				preparation of a shutdown vessel for entry, replacement of insulation, welding
				and cutting, and steam purging of a vessel prior to startup.