Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 33 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Part I - Office of the Secretary › Subpart 1 - Departmental Administrative Procedures › Chapter 15 - Permit Application and Working Draft Permit Review › Section I-1503 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. For all purposes
				  of this regulation, the terms defined in this Chapter shall have the following
				  meanings, unless the context of use clearly indicates otherwise.
Administratively Complete
- in reference
					 to an application for a permit, that the application contains all of the
					 information necessary for the administrative processing of the application.
					 Designating an application administratively complete for purposes of permit
					 processing does not preclude the administrative authority from requesting or
					 accepting any additional information. Required application information
					 submitted under separate cover or separately from the application shall cause
					 the administrative completeness determination to be delayed until such
					 information is received, processed, and verified along with the other
					 application information.
Database-
the Tools for Environmental
					 Management and Protection Organizations (TEMPO) information management system
					 or any similar information management system used by the department to generate
					 permits.
Department
- Louisiana Department of
					 Environmental Quality.
Extraordinary Public Response
- that
					 situation that exists where the quality and/or quantity of comments that are
					 relevant and material to the permit are such as to necessitate additional time
					 for department review.
Final Decision
- action taken by the
					 administrative authority to issue, deny, modify, revoke and reissue, or
					 terminate a permit.
New Facility
- a pollution source
					 (including all emission points and units of the source located within a
					 contiguous area and under common control) or any public or private property
					 where an activity required to be permitted by the department has not yet
					 commenced.
Permit Differences Report-
a document
					 generated by TEMPO summarizing the differences between the existing permit for
					 a facility or process unit, and a draft permit renewal or substantial permit
					 modification for the same facility or process unit.
Processing Day
- except as otherwise
					 provided herein, a day during which an application is available to the
					 department for review and decision in the permit decision development process.
					 Non-processing days include, but are not limited to, any day the
					 department:
a. awaits from the applicant requested information that
					 revises or supplements administrative or technical information or deficiencies
					 in the application; or
b. reviews the following information from the applicant,
					 not to exceed 60 days per submittal:
i. department-requested information; or
ii. application revisions or additional information
					 unsolicited by the department.
a. for a hazardous waste permit, any Class 3 modification
					 listed in LAC 33:V.322 or otherwise described in LAC 33:V.321.C.4;
b. for a solid waste permit, any modification listed in LAC
					 33:VII.517.A.2.a, or otherwise determined by the administrative authority to
					 warrant public notice;
c. for a Louisiana Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
					 (LPDES) permit, any modification not processed as a minor modification under
					 LAC 33:IX.2905; and
d. for an air quality permit, any modification that results
					 in a significant increase in the amount of any regulated pollutant or results
					 in the significant emission of any air pollutant not previously emitted.
Suspended Application
- a permit
					 application that is not eligible to be processed for a permit decision because
					 administrative or technical information requested by the department has not
					 been submitted by the applicant within the time period specified by the
					 department. An application deemed suspended, if not denied, may be reinstated
					 if the requested information is submitted to, and found to be adequate by, the
					 department within six months from date of application suspension. In addition,
					 the department may require the applicant to submit an updated
					 application.
Technical Review Period-
the time during
					 which a permit applicant may review and comment on a
working draft
					 permit
.
Working Draft Permit-
the initial draft
					 document prepared by one or more department employees based on the application
					 and supplemental information submitted by the permit applicant. The document is
					 not yet approved for public notice (where required) or for a final permit
					 decision. The document includes supporting material such as statements of basis
					 or fact sheets when required by regulation.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:2022(B) and
					 (D).