Code of Maryland Regulations › Title 26 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT › Part 2 - SUBTITLES 08-12 › Subtitle 11 - AIR QUALITY › Chapter 26.11.02 - Permits, Approvals, and Registration › Section 26.11.02.10 - Sources Exempt from Permits to Construct and Approvals

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 14, July 12, 2024
A person may construct or modify or cause to be constructed
					 or modified any of the following sources without first obtaining, and having in
					 current effect, a permit to construct:
A. Electric generating stations that receive
				  a certificate of public convenience and necessity (CPCN) under Public Utilities
				  Article, §§7-207 and 7-208, Annotated Code of Maryland;
B. Motor vehicles, steamships, tugs, and
				  railroad locomotives;
C.
				  Fuel-burning equipment and space heaters using gaseous fuels or No. 1 or No. 2
				  fuel oil with a heat input less than 1,000,000 Btu (1.06 gigajoules) per
				  hour;
D. Repealed.
E. Emergency stationary internal combustion
				  engines or emergency stationary reciprocating internal combustion engines
				  (RICE) with an output less than 500 brake horsepower (373 kilowatts);
E-1. Stationary internal combustion engines
				  or stationary reciprocating internal combustion engines (RICE) that serve as a
				  primary source of power for agricultural equipment or industrial equipment,
				  with an output less than 500 brake horsepower (373 kilowatts);
F. Bench scale laboratory equipment used
				  exclusively for chemical or physical analysis or experimentation;
G. Portable brazing, soldering, or welding
				  equipment;
H. Comfort air
				  conditioning or comfort ventilating systems which are not designed to remove
				  emissions generated by or released from specific units of equipment;
I. Water cooling towers and water cooling
				  ponds unless used for evaporative cooling of water from barometric jets or
				  barometric condensers, or used in conjunction with an installation requiring a
				  permit to operate;
J. Equipment
				  used exclusively for steam cleaning;
K. Grain, metal, plastic, or mineral
				  extrusion presses;
L. Porcelain
				  enameling drying ovens;
M. Unheated
				  VOC dispensing containers or unheated VOC rinsing containers of 60 gallons (227
				  liters) capacity or less;
N.
				  Equipment used for hydraulic or hydrostatic testing;
O. The following equipment or an exhaust
				  system or collector servicing exclusively this equipment:
(1) Blast cleaning equipment using a
				  suspension of abrasive in water;
(2) Commercial bakery ovens with a rated heat
				  input capacity of less than 2,000,000 Btu per hour;
(3) Kilns used for firing ceramic ware,
				  heated exclusively by natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, electricity, or any
				  combination of these;
(4)
				  Confection cookers where the products are edible and intended for human
				  consumption;
(5) Drop hammers or
				  hydraulic presses for forging or metal working;
(6) Die casting machines;
(7) Photographic process equipment used to
				  reproduce an image upon sensitized material through the use of radiant
				  energy;
(8) Equipment for drilling,
				  carving, cutting, routing, turning, sawing, planing, spindle sanding, or disc
				  sanding of wood or wood products;
(9) Equipment for surface preparation of
				  metals by use of aqueous solutions, except for acid solutions;
(10) Equipment for washing or drying products
				  fabricated from metal or glass, provided that no VOC is used in the process and
				  that no oil or solid fuel is burned;
(11) Laundry dryers, extractors, or tumblers
				  for fabrics cleaned with only water solution or bleach or detergents;
(12) Containers, reservoirs, or tanks used
				  exclusively for electrolytic plating work, or electrolytic polishing, or
				  electrolytic stripping of brass, bronze, cadmium, copper, iron, lead, nickel,
				  tin, zinc, and precious metals;
(13) Breweries with an annual beer production
				  less than 60,000 barrels; and
(14)
				  Municipal solid waste landfills that have a design capacity of less than
				  500,000 tons of municipal solid waste and that are not major sources;