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Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-28 - Carbon adsorber

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Carbon adsorber" means a device containing adsorbent
				  material (e. g. , activated carbon), an inlet and outlet for exhaust gases, and
				  a system to regenerate or replace the saturated adsorbent.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-29 - CO[2] equivalent emissions (CO[2]e)

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"CO2 equivalent emissions" means the
				  amount of GHGs emitted, and computed by multiplying the mass amount of each
				  emissions (TPY), for each of the six greenhouse gases in the pollutant GHGs, by
				  the gas's associated global warning potential published at Table A-1 (Global
				  Warming Potentials) to subpart A of 40 C. F. R. part 98 (Mandatory Greenhouse
				  Gas Reporting) as amended on July 1, 2012, and summing the resultant value for
				  each to compute a TPY CO2e.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-30 - Commence

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Commence," as applied to the construction of a major source
				  or major modification, means that the owner or operator has all necessary
				  preconstruction approvals or permits required by state or federal air quality
				  control laws and regulations and has either:
A.
				 Begun, or caused to begin, a continuous program of actual on-site
				construction of the source, to be completed within a reasonable time;
				or
B.  Entered into binding
				agreements or contractual obligations, which cannot be canceled or modified
				without substantial loss to the owner or operator, to undertake a program of
				actual construction of the source to be completed within a reasonable time.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-33 - Condenser

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Condenser" means a device that removes condensable vapors by
				  a reduction in the temperature of the captured gases. A surface condenser
				  affects condensation by indirect contact between the coolant and process gas
				  stream.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-34 - Construction

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Construction" means any physical change or change in the
				  method of operation including fabrication, erection, installation, demolition
				  or modification of an emissions unit.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-35 - Continuous emission monitoring System (CEMS)

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Continuous emission monitoring System (CEMS)" means the
				  total equipment required for the determination of a gas concentration,
				  pollutant emission rate or opacity reading and the associated data recording
				  equipment.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-36 - Continuous Emission Rate Monitoring System (CERMS)

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Continuous Emission Rate Monitoring System (CERMS)" means
				  the total equipment required for the determination of pollutant mass emission
				  rate (in terms of mass per unit of time), including the associated data
				  recording equipment. A CERMS is a subset of a CEMS.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-37 - Continuous parameter monitoring system (CPMS)

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"
Continuous parameter monitoring system
				  (CPMS)"
means all of the equipment necessary to monitor and record
				  process and control device operational parameters (e. g. , control device
				  secondary voltages and electric currents, gas flow rate,
				  O2 or CO2 concentrations), as
				  needed, to meet applicable data acquisition and availability
				  requirements
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-38 - Control system

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Control system" means a combination of one or more capture
				  system(s) and control device(s) working in concert to reduce discharges of
				  pollutants to the ambient air.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-39 - Curtailment

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Curtailment" means the partial or temporary removal of
				  equipment or partial or temporary cessation of use of a particular piece of
				  equipment resulting in a partial reduction of emissions.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-42 - Double block-and-bleed system

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Double block-and-bleed system" means two block valves
				  connected in series with a bleed valve or line that can vent the line between
				  the two block valves.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-43 - Emergency

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Emergency" means for the purpose of Chapter 115 and Chapter
				  140 only, any situation arising from sudden and reasonably unforeseeable events
				  beyond the control of the source, including acts of God, which situation
				  requires immediate corrective action to restore normal operation, and that
				  causes the source to exceed a technology based emission limitation under the
				  license, due to unavoidable increases in emissions attributable to the
				  emergency. An emergency shall not include noncompliance to the extent caused by
				  improperly designed equipment, lack of preventative maintenance, careless or
				  improper operation, or operator error.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-45 - Emissions allowable under the Part 70 license

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
Emissions allowable under the Part 70 license" means a
				  federally enforceable Part 70 license term or condition determined at issuance
				  to be required by an Applicable requirement that establishes an emissions limit
				  (including a work practice standard) or a federally enforceable emissions cap
				  that the Part 70 source has assumed to avoid an Applicable requirement to which
				  the Part 70 source would otherwise be subject.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-46 - Emission limitation or emission standard

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
The terms, "emission limitation" and "emission standard,"
				  mean a requirement which limits the quantity, rate, or concentration of
				  emissions of regulated pollutants on a continuous basis, including the use of
				  specific technology or fuels with specified pollution characteristics or any
				  requirement relating to the operation or maintenance of a source or emissions
				  unit to assure continuous emission reduction.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-47 - Emissions unit

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Emissions unit" means any equipment or pollutant-emitting
				  activity of a source which emits or would have the potential to emit a
				  regulated pollutant or hazardous air pollutant. This term is not meant to alter
				  or affect the term 'unit' for purposes of Title IV of the CAA.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-48 - EPA

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"EPA" means Environmental Protection Agency.
NOTE: The address for EPA Region I is:
US Environmental Protection Agency
5 Post Office Square
Suite 100
Boston, MA 02109-3912
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-50 - Exempt VOC compounds

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Exempt VOC compounds" means those compounds which are
				  excluded from the definition of VOC due to their negligible photochemical
				  reactivity.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-51 - Existing Part 70 hazardous air pollutant (HAP) source

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Existing Part 70 hazardous air pollutant (HAP) source" means
				  a Part 70 HAP source, for which construction or reconstruction is commenced
				  before the proposal of a HAP emission limitation by EPA, or if no proposal was
				  published by EPA for a Part 70 HAP source, then on or before the date 18 months
				  after the scheduled date for promulgation by EPA.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-52 - External floating roof

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"External floating roof" means a storage vessel cover in an
				  open-top tank consisting of a double deck or pontoon single deck which rests
				  upon and is supported by the petroleum liquid being contained and is equipped
				  with a closure seal or seals to close the space between the roof edge and the
				  tank shell.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-53 - Federal land manager

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Federal land manager" means the Secretary of the Federal
				  Department with authority over the Federal Class I area or, with respect to
				  Roosevelt-Campobello International Park, the Chairman of the
				  Roosevelt-Campobello International Park Commission.
NOTE: The appropriate contacts of the federal lands managers
				  are the following:
Roosevelt Campobello International Park
Chairman, Roosevelt Campobello
International Park Commission
P. O. Box 129
Lubec, Maine 04652
Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge
Local:
National:
Refuge Manager
Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge
P. O. Box 1077
Calais, Maine 04619
Chief, Air Quality Branch
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
P. O. Box 25287
Denver, Colorado 80225-0287
Acadia National Park
Local:
National:
Field Director NE Field Area
Superintendent
Acadia National Park
North Atlantic Region
National Park Service
15 State
Street Boston, MA 02109-3572
Chief, Air Quality Division
National Park Service
P. O. Box 25287
Denver, Colorado 80225-0287
Great Gulf and Presidential Range, New
				  Hampshire
Local:
National:
Director,
White Mountain National Forest
719 N. Main St.
Laconia, NH 03246
Director, U. S. Forest Service
Department of Agriculture
310 West Wisconsin Avenue
Room 580
Milwaukee, WI 53203
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-54 - Federally enforceable

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Federally enforceable" means all limitations and conditions
				  which are enforceable by the EPA and the citizens pursuant to the CAA, and the
				  State of Maine, including those license requirements or other requirements
				  developed pursuant to or within the following:
A.
				 40 C. F. R. Part 51, Subpart I, or Part 55 (relating to review of
				new sources and modifications)
B. 
				40 C. F. R. §§
									52. 10 and 52. 21 (relating to
				prevention of significant deterioration of air quality);
C.  40 C. F. R. Part 60 (relating to
				standards of performance for new stationary sources);
D.  40 C. F. R. Parts 61 and 63 (relating to
				national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants);
E.  40 C. F. R. Parts 68, 70, 71 or 72
				(relating to operating permit program);
F.
				 Any applicable State Implementation Plan.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-55 - Fuel-burning equipment

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Fuel-burning equipment" means any furnace, boiler,
				  apparatus, and all appurtenances thereto used in the process of burning fuel,
				  for the primary purpose of producing heat and power, including stationary
				  internal combustion engines. Due to the process nature of asphalt plants, these
				  are not regulated as "fuel burning equipment"; see General process or general
				  process equipment.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-56 - Fugitive emissions

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Fugitive emissions" means the release of pollutants to the
				  air which could not reasonably be made to pass through stacks, vents, ducts,
				  pipes, or any emission capture system. Fugitive emissions include, but are not
				  limited to, equipment leaks, evaporative losses from surface impoundments,
				  releases from building ventilation systems or buildings, housing material,
				  handling or processing equipment, and emissions during material transfer.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-57 - Gaseous excess emissions

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Gaseous excess emissions" means any period which the average
				  gaseous emissions, as measured by the continuous emission monitor, exceeds the
				  applicable emission standard.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-58 - Gasoline

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Gasoline" means any petroleum distillate or petroleum
				  distillate/alcohol blend having a true vapor pressure of 1. 5 pounds per square
				  inch (10. 5 kilopascals) or greater at 60 degrees Fahrenheit or a Reid Vapor
				  Pressure of 4 pounds per square inch (27 kilopascals) and which is used as a
				  fuel for internal combustion engines.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-59 - General process source or general process equipment

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"General process source" or "general process equipment" means
				  any emissions unit, except fuel-burning equipment, incinerators, and mobile
				  sources. Included in this category are rock crushers and asphalt plants.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-60 - Generally Available Control Technology (GACT) emission limitation

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Generally Available Control Technology (GACT) emission
				  limitation" means a HAP emission limitation for a source category of HAP area
				  sources that EPA promulgates pursuant to Section
				  112 of the CAA.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-62 - Greenhouse gases (GHGs)

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Greenhouse gases" means the aggregate group of the following
				  gases: Carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, hydrofluorocarbons,
				  perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride. Prior to July 21, 2014, the mass of
				  the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide shall not include carbon dioxide emissions
				  resulting from the combustion or decomposition of non-fossilized and
				  biodegradable organic material originating from plants, animals, or
				  micro-organisms (including products, by-products, residues and waste from
				  agriculture, forestry and related industries as well as the non-fossilized and
				  biodegradable organic fractions of industrial and municipal wastes, including
				  gases and liquids recovered from the decomposition of non-fosssilized and
				  biodegradable organic material.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-63 - HAP or Hazardous air pollutant

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"HAP or Hazardous air pollutant" means an air pollutant to
				  which no ambient air standard is applicable and which in the judgment of the
				  Board causes, or contributes to, air pollution which may reasonably be
				  anticipated to result in an increase in mortality or an increase in serious
				  irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness. This term shall include,
				  but is not limited to, those pollutants for which EPA has adopted NESHAPS at 40
				  C. F. R. Part 61 and Part 63. For the purpose of Chapters 115 and 140, HAP
				  means an air pollutant identified by the EPA in regulations pursuant to Section
				  112(b) of the
				  CAA.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-65 - HAP emission limitation

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"HAP emission limitation" is a requirement for a MACT or GACT
				  emission limitation under Section
				  112(d) of the CAA,
				  a work practice standard under Section
				  112(h) of the CAA,
				  a case-by-case MACT under 112(g) or 112(j), a residual risk standard under
				  Section
				  112(f) of the CAA,
				  early reduction plans under Section
				  112(i)(j), or any
				  other such requirement for HAP control required by EPA or the
				  Department.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-66 - HAP emission unit

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"HAP emission unit" means any building, structure, or
				  installation that emits HAPs greater than that defined as an insignificant
				  activity, unless the HAP emission unit is otherwise subject to an Applicable
				  requirement. A HAP emission unit can include a single emission point or
				  collection of points.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-67 - HAP major source

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"HAP major source" means any source which emits HAPs in
				  quantities that can be defined as a "Part 70 major source" by this Chapter.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-68 - Incinerator

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Incinerator" means any device, apparatus or equipment used
				  for destroying, reducing or salvaging by fire or heat any material or
				  substance. Incinerators include smelters, bake-off ovens and other similar
				  units, but do not include recovery boilers, smelt tanks, lime kilns, boilers or
				  stationary internal combustion units and shall be classified as follows:
A.  Class IA - direct fed incinerators with a
				burning rate of up to 75 pounds per hour of type 1, 2 or 3 waste, or any
				combination of the three waste types;
B.
				 Class IB - direct fed incinerators with a burning rate of 75
				pounds per hour or over, suitable for type 1, 2 or 3 waste, or any combination
				of the three waste types;
C.  Class
				IIA - Flue-fed, single chamber incinerators with more than two (2) square feet
				burning area, for type 1 or 2 waste, or a combination of the two waste types.
				This type of incinerator is served by one vertical flue functioning both as a
				chute for charging waste and to carry the products of combustion to atmosphere.
				This type of incinerator has been installed in apartment houses or multiple
				dwellings;
D.  Class IIB -
				Chute-fed multiple chamber incinerators, for apartment buildings with more than
				two (2) square feet burning area, suitable for type 1 or 2 waste, or a
				combination of the two waste types. (Not recommended for industrial
				installation). This type of incinerator is served by a vertical chute for
				charging wastes and has a separate flue for carrying the products of combustion
				to the atmosphere;
E.  Class III -
				Municipal incinerators suitable for type 0, type 1, type 2 or type 3 wastes, or
				any combination of the four wastes, and are rated in tons per
				24-hours;
F.  Class IVA - Crematory
				and pathological incinerators, suitable for type 4 waste, and
G.  Class IVB - Pathological - infections
				waste incinerators, suitable for type 7 waste; and
H.  Class V. - Incinerators designed for
				specific by-products wastes, type 5 or type 6, or a combination of the two
				waste types.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-69 - Indian governing body

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Indian governing body" means the governing body of any
				  tribe, land, or group of Indians subject to the jurisdiction of the United
				  States and recognized by the United States as possessing power of
				  self-government.
NOTE: The appropriate contacts of the Indian governing bodies
				  are the following:
Indian Township
Tribal Office
P. O. Box 301
Princeton, ME 04668
Pleasant Point Reservation
P. O. Box 343
Perry, ME 04667-0434
Penobscot Indian Nation
Community Building
Indian Island
Houlton Band of Maliseets Indians
568 Foxcroft Road
P. O. Box 748
Houlton, ME 04730
Old Town, ME 04468 Aroostook Band Of Micmac
							 Indians
Chief Willian Phillips
521D Main Street
Presque Isle, ME 04769
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-70 - Indian reservation

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Indian reservation" means any federally recognized
				  reservation established by Treaty, Agreement, Executive Order, or Act of
				  Congress, or lands held in trust by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for federally
				  recognized tribes.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-71 - Innovative control technology

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Innovative control technology" means any system of air
				  pollution control that has not been adequately demonstrated in practice, but
				  would have a substantial likelihood of achieving greater continuous emissions
				  reduction than any control system in current practice or of achieving at least
				  comparable reductions at lower cost in terms of energy, economics, or nonair
				  quality environmental impacts.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-72 - Insignificant Activities

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Insignificant Activities" means activities at a facility
				  that the Department specified in Appendix B of Chapter 140 for the purpose of
				  Chapter 140 and the activities at a facility that the Department specified in
				  Appendix B of Chapter 115 for the purpose of Chapter 115. A source must include
				  emissions from insignificant activities in determining if the source is a Part
				  70 major source.
NOTE: As specified in Appendix B of Chapter 140, certain
				  insignificant activities are categorically exempt from the Part 70 license
				  application and certain insignificant activities shall be included on the Part
				  70 application but may not be listed in the Part 70 license.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-73 - Integral vista

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Integral vista" means a view perceived from within the Class
				  I area of a specific landmark or panorama located outside the boundary of the
				  Class I area which has been designated by the appropriate federal authority (40
				  C. F. R. 81. 437) or by the Board pursuant to Chapter 114.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-74 - Intermittent Control System (ICS)

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Intermittent Control System" means a dispersion technique
				  which varies the rate at which pollutants are emitted into the atmosphere
				  according to meteorological conditions and/or ambient concentrations of the
				  pollutant, in order to prevent ground-level concentrations in excess of
				  applicable ambient air quality standards. Such a dispersion technique is an ICS
				  whether used alone, used with other dispersion techniques, or used as a
				  supplement to continuous emission control (i. e. , used as a supplemental
				  control system).
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-75 - Internal floating roof

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Internal floating roof" means a cover or roof in a
				  fixed-roof tank which rests upon or is floated upon the petroleum liquid being
				  contained, and is equipped with a closure seal or seals to close the space
				  between the roof edge and tank shell.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-76 - Intrafacility Emission Trading

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Intrafacility Emission Trading" means the transfer of
				  regulated pollutant emissions within a facility that are provided for in the
				  Part 70 license and do not require a license revision.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-77 - Leak

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Leak" means any discharge of liquid or solid, or emission of
				  regulated pollutants, from any confining structure including, but not limited
				  to, stacks, pipes, vents, or ducts, except where allowable emissions pass
				  through the intended outlet for the emissions.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-78 - Lowest Achievable Emission Rate (LAER)

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Lowest Achievable Emission Rate" means the more stringent
				  rate of emissions based on the following:
A.
				 The most stringent emission limitation which is contained in the
				implementation plan of any State for that class or category of source, unless
				the owner or operator of the proposed source demonstrates that those
				limitations are not achievable; or
B.
				 The most stringent emission limitation which is achieved in
				practice by that class or category of source, whichever is more stringent. In
				no event may LAER result in emission of any pollutant in excess of those
				standards and limitations promulgated pursuant to Section
				111 or
				112 of the United States Clean Air
				Act as amended, or any emission standard established by the
				Department.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-79 - MACT emission limitation for existing Part 70 HAP sources

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"MACT emission limitation for existing Part 70 HAP sources"
				  means the emission limitation pursuant to Section
				  112 of the CAA reflecting the
				  maximum degree of reduction in emissions of hazardous air pollutants (including
				  a prohibition on such emissions, where achievable) that the EPA or the
				  Department, taking into consideration the cost of achieving such emission
				  reduction, and any nonair quality health and environmental impacts and energy
				  requirements, determines is achievable by sources in the category or
				  subcategory to which the standard applies. This limitation shall not be less
				  stringent than the MACT floor.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-80 - MACT emission limitation for new Part 70 HAP sources

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"MACT emission limitation for new HAP sources" means the
				  emission limitation pursuant to Section
				  112 of the CAA which is not less
				  stringent than the emission limitation achieved in practice by the best
				  controlled similar source, and which reflects the maximum degree of reduction
				  in emissions of hazardous air pollutants (including a prohibition on such
				  emissions, where achievable) that the EPA, or the Department, taking into
				  consideration the cost of achieving such emission reduction, and any nonair
				  quality health and environmental impacts and energy requirements, determines is
				  achievable by sources in the category or subcategory to which the standard
				  applies. If the EPA has either proposed a relevant emission standard pursuant
				  to section
				  112(d) or section
				  112(h) of the CAA
				  or adopted a presumptive MACT determination for the source category which
				  includes the constructed or reconstructed major source, then the MACT
				  requirements applied to the constructed or reconstructed major source shall
				  consider those MACT emission limitations and requirements of the proposed
				  standard or presumptive MACT determination.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-81 - MACT floor

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"MACT floor" means the same as that defined in 40 C. F. R.
				  Part 63.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-82 - Major modification

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Major modification" means:
A.
				 Any modification that would result in a significant emissions
				increase of any regulated pollutant excluding GHGs at an existing stationary
				source that emits or has potential to emit significant emissions prior to the
				modification; and
B.  Any
				modification that would result in
(1) an
				increase in the source's potential to emit by significant emissions of any
				regulated pollutant excluding GHGs from new sources or emission units;
				or
(2) an increase in actual
				emissions by significant emissions of any regulated pollutant excluding GHGs
				from the particular physical change or change in the method of operation at an
				existing stationary source that emits or has potential to emit less than
				significant emissions prior to the modification.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-83 - Major PAL emissions unit

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Major PAL emissions unit" means any emissions unit that
				  emits or has the potential to emit significant emissions or more of the PAL
				  pollutant.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-84 - Marginal ozone nonattainment area

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Marginal ozone nonattainment area" means the area so
				  classified by the EPA, as not meeting or exceeding the National Ambient Air
				  Quality Standard for ozone published at 40 C. F. R. Part 81.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-85 - Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) emission limitation

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) emission
				  limitation" means the MACT emission limitation required for new and existing
				  Part 70 HAP sources. This emission limitation is either promulgated by EPA
				  pursuant to Section
				  112 of the CAA, or is determined by
				  the Department on a case-by-case basis pursuant to Section
				  112(g) or (j) of
				  the CAA.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-86 - Maximum true vapor pressure

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Maximum true vapor pressure" means the equilibrium partial
				  pressure exerted by a stored liquid at the temperature equal to:
(1) for liquids stored above or below the
				ambient temperature, the highest calendar-month average of the liquid storage
				temperature, or
(2) for liquids
				stored at the ambient temperature, the local maximum monthly average
				temperature as reported by the National Weather Service. This pressure shall be
				determined:
A.  In accordance with methods
				described in American Petroleum Institute Bulletin 2517, Evaporation Loss from
				External Floating Roof Tanks;
B. 
				By using standard reference texts;
C.
				 By American Standard Testing Method (ASTM) D2879-83; or
D.  By any other method approved by the
				Department or the EPA.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-87 - Minor Modification

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Minor Modification" means a modification pursuant to 06-096
				  CMR 115 that involves a licensed emission increase of 4 tpy or more for any one
				  regulated pollutant except GHGs, or 8 tpy or more for total regulated
				  pollutants except for GHGs. A modification that is determined not to be a minor
				  revision and:
A.  would result in less
				than a significant emissions increase of all regulated pollutants excluding
				GHGs at an existing stationary source that emits or has potential to emit
				significant emissions prior to the modification;
B.  would increase the source's potential to
				emit by less than significant emissions of all regulated pollutants excluding
				GHGs at an existing stationary source that emits or has potential to emit less
				than significant emissions prior to the modification; or
C.  for a source conducting the
				actual-to-projected-actual applicability test for projects involving existing
				emission units, if the difference between the projected actual emissions and
				the baseline actual emissions for each pollutant from all existing emission
				units modified or affected by the project combined with the potential emissions
				from the new unit(s) is less than the significant emissions increase for that
				pollutant.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-88 - Minor Revision

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Minor Revision" means a Chapter 115 license revision
				  for:
A.  the correction of
				typographical errors;
B.  the
				identification of an administrative change;
C.
				 a change in monitoring and reporting requirements;
D.  a licensed emissions increase under four
				(4) tpy for any one regulated pollutant except GHGs and under eight (8) tpy of
				total regulated pollutants, except for GHGs, and is determined not to be a
				Major or Minor Modification and is subject to licensing as defined in Chapter
				115; or
E.  any other changes
				approved by the Department that meet the criteria of a minor revision.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-89 - Minor source

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Minor source" means any source which emits or has the
				  potential to emit regulated pollutants excluding GHGs at rates less than
				  significant emissions and is not defined as a Part 70 source.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-90 - Moderate ozone nonattainment area

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Moderate ozone nonattainment area" means the area so
				  classified by the EPA as not meeting or exceeding the National Ambient Air
				  Quality Standard for ozone published at 40 C. F. R. Part 81.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-91 - Modification or modified source

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Modification or modified source" means any physical change
				  in or change in the method of operation of a source that would result in the
				  emission increase of any regulated pollutant excluding GHGs, except
				  that:
A.  Routine maintenance, repair,
				and replacement shall not be considered a physical change;
B.  The following shall not be considered a
				change in the method of operation:
(1) An
				increase in the production rate at an existing source, unless such change is
				prohibited under any federally enforceable permit condition which was
				established after January 6, 1975, pursuant to 40 C. F. R. 52. 21 or under
				regulations approved pursuant to 40 C. F. R. Part 51, Subpart I or 40 C. F. R.
				51. 166, and if such increase does not exceed the operating design capacity of
				the source;
(2) An increase in the
				hours of operation, unless such change is prohibited under any federally
				enforceable permit condition which was established after January 6, 1975,
				pursuant to 40 C. F. R. 52. 21 or under regulations approved pursuant to 40 C.
				F. R. Part 51, Subpart I or 40 C. F. R. 51. 166; or
(3) Use of an alternative fuel or raw
				material if prior to January 6, 1975, the source is designed to accommodate and
				is licensed to use such alternative fuel; and
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-94 - Net emissions increase

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Net emissions increase" means
A.
				 The amount by which the sum of the following exceeds zero:
(1) Any increase in actual emissions from a
				particular physical change or change in the method of operation at a stationary
				source;
(2) Any other increase and
				decrease in actual emissions at the source that are contemporaneous with the
				particular change and are otherwise creditable;
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-95 - New Part 70 HAP source

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"New Part 70 HAP source" means a Part 70 source of HAP that
				  is not an existing Part 70 HAP source.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-96 - New Source Review

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"New Source Review" means the process a source undergoes to
				  obtain a license for a new source or modification excluding minor revisions
				  through the State Implementation Plan per 40 C. F. R. Part 52.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-98 - Nonattainment area

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Nonattainment area" means an area designated by the
				  Department pursuant to Chapter 114 of the Department's regulations (relating to
				  classification of air quality control regions), or those areas designated by
				  the EPA pursuant to Section
				  107 of the CAA, in which one or more
				  ambient air quality standards are not being met.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-99 - Nonattainment pollutant

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Nonattainment pollutant" means a regulated pollutant which
				  is the basis for a nonattainment area. For ozone nonattainment areas and the
				  Ozone Transport Region, emissions of VOC and NOx shall
				  be considered to be the nonattainment pollutant except
				  NOx will not be considered a nonattainment pollutant for
				  the purposes of 06-096 C. M. R. ch. 113 and 06-096 C. M. R. ch. 115 in any area
				  that has received a NOx waiver under section 182(f) of
				  the
Clean Air Act
, as defined in this Chapter.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-100 - Nonclassified ozone nonattainment area

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Nonclassified ozone nonattainment area" means the area so
				  classified by the EPA that has incomplete or no data published at 40 C. F. R.
				  Part 81.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-101 - Normal operation

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Normal operation" for existing sources or emission units,
				  means the level of operation that actually occurred or can be reasonably
				  anticipated to occur in meeting the source's needs or demand under typical
				  operating conditions over a reasonable period of time. Emissions units that are
				  under construction or are going through initial start-up procedures (refractory
				  curing, tube boilout, etc.) have not begun normal operations. Factors that
				  change the source's operation (i. e. , market changes) will change the normal
				  operation.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-102 - North American Industry Classification (NAICS)

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"North American Industry Classification (NAICS)", which
				  replaces the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) and is available from the
				  U. S. Census Bureau, means a system for classifying businesses by type of
				  economic activity. Establishments that use the same or similar processes to
				  produce goods or services are grouped together.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-104 - NO[x] Waiver

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
For the purposes of 06-096 C. M. R. ch. 113 and 06-096 C. M.
				  R. ch. 115, "NOx waiver" means for areas within the OTR
				  which have received a NOxwaiver from the EPA under
				  Section 182(f) of the Clean Air Act (CAA), NOx shall not be a nonattainment
				  pollutant for the specific ozone standard in relation to which the waiver was
				  granted. NOx shall still be a nonattainment pollutant
				  for any ozone standard for which a NOx waiver has not
				  been granted by EPA and for which all designations have been made by EPA under
				  section
				  107 of the CAA.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-105 - Opacity

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Opacity" means the degree of light obscuring capability of
				  emissions of visible air contaminants expressed as a percentage. For example,
				  complete obscuration shall be expressed as 100% opacity.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-106 - Open burning

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Open burning" means the burning of any type of combustible
				  material in the open ambient air without being completely enclosed and where
				  the products of combustion are emitted directly into the ambient air without
				  passing through a stack, chimney or duct or other device or structure or as
				  permitted by a permit from a town forest fire warden or forest ranger issued
				  under 12 M. R. S. §9324(5).
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-107 - Open-ended valve or line

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Open-ended valve or line" means any valve, except safety
				  relief valves, having one side of the valve seat in contact with process fluid
				  and one side open to the atmosphere, either directly or through open piping.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-108 - Organic compound

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Organic compound" means a chemical compound of carbon
				  excluding carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, carbonic acid, methallic carbides or
				  carbonates, and ammonium carbonate.