Michigan Administrative Code › Department - Environmental Quality › Air Quality Division › Part 6 - EMISSION LIMITATIONS AND PROHIBITIONS-EXISTING SOURCES OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND EMISSIONS › Section R. 336.1601 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 24-12, July 15, 2024
Rule 601. As used in this part:
(a) "2015 ozone nonattainment area" means
				Berrien, Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St. Clair, Washtenaw, Wayne, the
				western portion of Allegan, and the western portion of Muskegon
				Counties.
(b) "Eastern portion of
				Muskegon County" means the areas located in Muskegon County described as
				Casnovia Township, Cedar Creek Township, Egelston Township, Holton Township,
				Moorland Township, Ravenna Township, and Sullivan Township.
(c) "Existing source" means any process or
				process equipment that is subject to the rules listed in table 60 and has
				either has been placed into operation before the corresponding date listed in
				table 60, or for which an application for a permit to install, pursuant to the
				provisions of part 2 of these rules, was made to the department before the
				corresponding date listed in table 60. The term does not include a process or
				process equipment operated for research, development, or pilot studies, if the
				operation is not for the purpose of producing saleable products or goods.
TABLE 60
Rules
Date
R 336.1604 to
							 R 336.1605
July 1, 1979
R 336.1606 to
							 R 336.1609
March 1, 2023
R
							 336.1610
July 1, 1979
R
							 336.1610a
March 1, 2023
R 336.1611 to
							 R 336.1617
July 1, 1979
R
							 336.1618
March 1, 2023
R
							 336.1620
July 1, 1980
R
							 336.1620a
March 1, 2023
R
							 336.1621
July 1, 1980
R
							 336.1621a
March 1, 2023
R 336.1622 to
							 R 336.1624
July 1, 1980
R
							 336.1624a
March 1, 2023
R
							 336.1625
July 1, 1980
R
							 336.1628
January 5, 1981
R
							 336.1629
January 20, 1984
R 336.1630 and
							 R 336.1631
July 1, 1987
R 336.1632 to
							 R 336.1644
March 1, 2023
Any process or process equipment not subject to the
							 provisions of any rule in this part.
July 1, 1979
(d)
				"Heavier vehicles" means a self-propelled vehicle designed for transporting
				persons or property on a street or highway that has a gross vehicle weight
				rating over 8,500 pounds.
(e)
				"Local distribution company custody transfer station" means a metering station
				where a local distribution company receives a natural gas supply from an
				upstream supplier, which may be an interstate transmission pipeline or a local
				natural gas producer, for delivery to customers through the local distribution
				company's intrastate transmission or distribution lines.
(f) "Natural gas distribution" means the
				distribution pipelines and metering and regulating equipment at
				metering-regulating stations that are operated by a local distribution company
				within a single state that is regulated as a separate operating company by a
				public utility commission or that is operated as an independent municipally
				owned distribution system.
(g)
				"Natural gas processing" means the process of separating and recovering certain
				hydrocarbons and fluids from the raw gas to produce pipeline quality natural
				gas and natural gas products.
(h)
				"Natural gas processing plant" means any processing site engaged in the
				extraction of natural gas liquids from field gas, fractionation of mixed
				natural gas liquids to natural gas products or both. Natural gas processing
				plant does not include a Joule-Thompson valve, a dew point depression valve, or
				an isolated or standalone Joule-Thompson skid.
(i) "Natural gas transmission and storage"
				means the transport or storage of natural gas prior to delivery to a local
				distribution company custody transfer station or to a final end user if there
				is no local distribution company custody transfer station. For the purposes of
				this part, natural gas enters the natural gas transmission and storage segment
				after the natural gas processing plant, when present.
(j) "Oil and natural gas industry" means the
				operations involved in the extraction and production of crude oil and natural
				gas, as well as the processing, transmission, storage, and distribution of
				natural gas. For the purposes of the rules in this part, oil and natural gas
				industry operations will be referred to in the following 4 segments:
(i) Oil and natural gas production.
(ii) Natural gas processing.
(iii) Natural gas transmission and
				storage.
(iv) Natural gas
				distribution.