Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 567 - Environmental Protection Commission › Title II - Air Quality › Chapter 24 - Operating Permits › Rule 567-24.103 - 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 §
										70.5, 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 that 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
				198.3, 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 172D.1(6), or
				in a confinement building owned or operated by that person, and
(3) Located in this state.
c. Equipment or control equipment
				that eliminates all emissions to the atmosphere.
d. Equipment (other than anaerobic lagoons)
				or control equipment that 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
				that 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 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 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 operation 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
				567-22.1 (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.