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 26.11.02.13 - Sources Subject to State Permits to Operate

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 14, July 12, 2024
A. Except for a source that is covered by a
				  Part 70 permit, a person may not operate or cause to be operated any of the
				  following sources without first obtaining, and having in current effect, a
				  State permit to operate as required by this regulation:
(1) General and by-product waste incinerators
				  of 2,000 pounds (907 kilograms) or more per hour rated capacity, crematoriums,
				  pathological incinerators, incinerators burning special medical waste as
				  defined in COMAR
				  26.13.11.02 a B, and sewage sludge
				  incinerators;
(2) Fuel-burning
				  equipment, hot oil heaters, and stationary combustion turbines with a maximum
				  rated heat input capacity of 50 million Btu (52.8 gigajoules) or more per
				  hour;
(3) Glass melting furnaces of
				  1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour throughput, or 1 ton (907 kilograms) or
				  more capacity;
(4) Metallurgical
				  furnaces involving molten metal holding 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more of metal
				  or having a throughput greater than 500 pounds (227 kilograms) per
				  hour;
(5) Metal reclamation
				  furnaces;
(6) By-product recovery
				  furnaces of 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more capacity or 1 ton (907 kilograms) or
				  more per hour throughput;
(7) Lime
				  kilns;
(8) Cement kilns;
(9) Other kilns of 1 ton (907 kilograms) or
				  more per hour throughput;
(10)
				  Rendering cookers and offal dryers;
(11) Wood digesters;
(12) Sulfuric acid plants;
(13) Installations associated with chemical
				  production facilities, including reactors, distillation columns, evaporators,
				  and strippers, that have:
(a) A pre-control
				  potential-to-emit for VOC of 20 pounds or more per day; and
(b) Are located at a premises that has a
				  total pre-control potential-to-emit for VOC of 100 pounds or more per day from
				  all chemical production processes subject to COMAR
				  26.11.19.30 a;
(14) Mineral products or metallic
				  ore through-circulation dryers of 5 tons (4540 kilograms) or more per hour
				  throughput or 5 tons (4540 kilograms) or more capacity;
(15) Spray dryers of 1 ton (907 kilograms) or
				  more capacity or 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour dry product
				  throughput;
(16) Crushers,
				  hammermills, shredders, grinders, classifying screens of 5 tons (4540
				  kilograms) or more per hour throughput;
(17) Dry type ball and roller mills of 2 tons
				  (1810 kilograms) or more per hour throughput;
(18) VOC storage tanks required by State or
				  federal regulations to have VOC recovery or control devices, except gasoline
				  storage tanks at gasoline dispensing facilities not located at a bulk gasoline
				  plant or a bulk gasoline terminal, as those terms are defined by COMAR
				  26.11.13.01 a B;
(19) Motor vehicle fuel storage tanks, except
				  for diesel fuel, with a capacity of 40,000 gallons (151 cubic meters) or
				  more;
(20) Gasoline tank truck
				  loading racks outloading 20,000 gallons (75.7 cubic meters) or more per
				  day;
(21) VOC recovery
				  installations, including distillation units and condensers, used to recover VOC
				  for reuse in processes at a premises that has a total pre-control
				  potential-to-emit for VOC of 100 pounds or more per day from all VOC recovery
				  installations;
(22) Inorganic
				  chemical or pigment production installations of 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more
				  per hour rated product throughput;
(23) Coating, decorating, and impregnating
				  lines with integral drying ovens at which solvent-based materials are applied
				  by automatic equipment to surfaces at a premises that has a total pre-control
				  potential-to-emit for VOC emissions of 100 or more pounds per day from all
				  coating, decorating, and impregnating lines;
(24) "Web printing" press lines with integral
				  drying ovens as defined in COMAR
				  26.11.19.01 a B;
(25) Grain elevators and terminals of 10,000
				  bushels or more per hour grain leg capacity;
(26) Frit smelters;
(27) Portland cement clinker
				  coolers;
(28) Benzene storage tanks
				  of 500 gallons (1.9 cubic meters) or more capacity;
(29) Benzene truck loading racks;
(30) Galvanizing operations using fluxes and
				  pre-fluxes;
(31) Coal tar or
				  petroleum pitch impregnating operations;
(32) Gypsum calcining kettles;
(33) Pulverized material separators with 1
				  ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour capacity;
(34) Honeycomb core manufacturing
				  installations;
(35) Yeast
				  production installations;
(36)
				  Plastic credit card manufacturing installations;
(37) Magnetic tape manufacturing
				  installations;
(38) Coal or ore
				  export loading or unloading installations;
(39) Petroleum-contaminated soil treatment
				  installations;
(40) Stainless steel
				  manufacturing installations including electric arc furnaces, argon-oxygen
				  decarbonization vessels, re-heat furnaces, pickling lines, or slab and billet
				  grinding;
(41) Catalyst
				  manufacturing installations including reactors, calciners, dryers, crushers, or
				  classifying systems;
(42) Primary
				  aluminum production installations including potlines, anode bake ovens,
				  reverbatory furnaces, or alumina handling systems;
(43) Installations associated with titanium
				  dioxide production facilities, including chlorination reactors, oxidation
				  reactors, and spray driers, of 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour physical
				  capacity or 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour throughput
				  capacity;
(44) Automobile or truck
				  production and assembly premises;
(45) Stationary internal combustion engines
				  located at natural gas pumping stations or electric generating
				  stations;
(46) Waste oil disposal,
				  treatment, or recovery installations located at commercial premises that
				  collect or consolidate materials containing waste oil from more than one
				  premises unless:
(a) The total pre-control
				  potential-to-emit for VOC from all such installations is less than 20 pounds
				  per day;
(b) The total pre-control
				  potential-to-emit for Class I toxic air pollutants from all such installations
				  is 1 pound or less per day, and for Class II toxic air pollutants is less than
				  1 ton per year;
(c) Incoming waste
				  materials, and any recovered oils, are not heated to a temperature greater than
				  212 oF during any phase of transfer, processing or storage; and
(d) Such installations do not require control
				  equipment to comply with any Maryland air pollution control regulation,
				  including regulations that prohibit odor and nuisance beyond facility
				  boundaries;
(47)
				  Synthetic fuel, rocket fuel, or explosives production premises of 500 pounds
				  (227 kilograms) or more per hour product throughput;
(48) Synthesized pharmaceutical manufacturing
				  installations that:
(a) Have a pre-control
				  potential-to-emit for VOC of 15 or more pounds per day; or
(b) Are located at a premises that has a
				  total pre-control potential-to-emit for VOC of 33 pounds or more per day from
				  all synthesized pharmaceutical manufacturing processes;
(49) Shoe or footwear manufacturing
				  installations;
(50) Asphalt blowing
				  and asphalt building products saturation or roll coating
				  installations;
(51) Slab, billet,
				  or ingot re-heat furnaces with a maximum rated heat input capacity of 50
				  million Btu (52.8 gigajoules) or more per hour;
(52) Polyester resin products manufacturing
				  installations, including installations manufacturing reinforced plastic
				  products such as fiberglass, at a premises with a total polyester resin
				  consumption of more than 50 tons per year;
(53) All alkyd resin reactors and alkyd resin
				  thin-down tanks;
(54) Solvent-based
				  paint manufacturing installations with a potential product throughput of 250 or
				  more gallons per hour;
(55)
				  Fluoropolymer material (FPM) process installations that treat FPM so that its
				  shape or form is permanently changed, and have total actual uncontrolled VOC
				  emissions of 20 pounds or more on any operating day;
(56) Hot-mix asphalt concrete production
				  installations;
(57) Installations
				  used to treat wood with creosote or chrome copper arsenate (CCA) by
				  impregnation in a pressurized vessel;
(58) Iron and steel production installations
				  as defined in COMAR
				  26.11.10.01 a B;
(59) Solvent-based adhesive manufacturing
				  installations located at a premises with a total pre-control potential-to-emit
				  for VOC of 50 pounds or more per day from all such installations;
(60) A source for which the owner or operator
				  requests a State permit to operate in order to make the permit federally
				  enforceable under Regulation .03 of this chapter; or
(61) Any other source that the Department
				  determines has the potential to have a significant impact on air
				  quality.