Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES › Division 10 - Air Conservation Commission › Chapter 6 - Air Quality Standards, Definitions, Sampling and Reference Methods and Air Pollution Control Regulations for the Entire State of Missouri › Section 10 CSR 10-6.065 - Operating Permits

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule defines air con taminant sources
				  which are required to obtain operating permits and establishes procedures for
				  obtaining and complying with operating permits; it does not establish any air
				  quality standards or guidelines.
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: The secretary of state has
				  determined that the publication of the entire text of the material which is
				  incorporated by reference as a portion of this rule would be unduly cumbersome
				  or expensive. This material as incorporated by reference in this rule shall be
				  maintained by the agency at its headquarters and shall be made available to the
				  public for inspection and copying at no more than the actual cost of
				  reproduction. This note applies only to the reference material. The entire text
				  of the rule is printed here.
(1) Applicability.
(A) Part 70 and Intermediate Installations.
				This rule shall apply to existing, modified, reconstructed, and new
				installations, whether part 70 or intermediate throughout Missouri.
(B) Exempt Installations and Emission Units.
				The following installations and emission units are exempt from the requirements
				of this rule unless such units are part 70 or intermediate installations or are
				located at part 70 or intermediate installations. Emissions from exempt
				installations and emission units shall be considered when determining if the
				installation is a part 70 or intermediate installation:
1. Any installation that obtains a permit
				solely because it is subject to
				10 CSR
				10-6.070(7)(AAA) Standards of
				Performance for New Residential Wood Heaters;
2. Any installation that obtains a permit
				solely because it is subject to 10 CSR 10-6.[240]241 or
				10 CSR
				10-6.250;
3. Single or multiple family dwelling units
				for not more than three (3) families;
4. Comfort air conditioning or comfort
				ventilating systems not designed or used to remove air contaminants generated
				by, or released from, specific units of equipment;
5. Equipment used for any mode of
				transportation;
6. Livestock
				markets and livestock operations, including animal feeding operations and
				concentrated animal feeding operations as those terms are defined by
				40
				CFR 122.23 and all manure storage and
				application systems associated with livestock markets or livestock operations.
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				CFR 122.23 promulgated as of July 1, 2018 is
				hereby incorporated by reference as published by the Office of the Federal
				Register. Copies can be obtained from the U.S. Publishing Office Bookstore, 710
				N. Capitol Street N W, Washington DC 20401. This rule does not incorporate any
				subsequent amendments or additions;
7. Restaurants and other retail
				establishments for the purpose of preparing food for employee and guest
				consumption;
8. Fugitive dust
				controls unless a control efficiency can be assigned to the equipment or
				control equipment;
9. Equipment or
				control equipment which eliminates all emissions to the ambient air;
10. Equipment, including air pollution
				control equipment, but not including an anaerobic lagoon, that emits odors but
				no regulated air pollutants;
11.
				Residential wood heaters, cookstoves, or fireplaces;
12. Laboratory equipment used exclusively for
				chemical and physical analysis or experimentation is exempt, except equipment
				used for controlling radioactive air contaminants;
13. Recreational fireplaces;
14. Stacks or vents to prevent the escape of
				sewer gases through plumbing traps for systems handling domestic sewage only.
				Systems which include any industrial waste do not qualify for this
				exemption;
15. Combustion equipment
				that-
A. Emits only combustion
				products;
B. Produces less than one
				hundred fifty (150) pounds per day of any air contaminant; and
C. Has a maximum rated capacity of-
(I) Less than ten (10) million British
				thermal units (Btus) per hour heat input by using exclusively natural or
				liquefied petroleum gas, or any combination of these; or
(II) Less than one (1) million Btus per hour
				heat input;
16. Office and commercial buildings, where
				emissions result solely from space heaters using natural gas or liquefied
				petroleum gas with a maximum rated capacity of less than twenty (20) million
				Btus per hour heat input. Incinerators operated in conjunction with these
				sources are not exempt;
17. Any
				country grain elevator that never handles more than 1,238,657 bushels of grain
				during any twelve (12)-month period and is not located within an incorporated
				area with a population of fifty thousand (50,000) or more. A country grain
				elevator is defined as a grain elevator that receives more than fifty percent
				(50%) of its grain from producers in the immediate vicinity during the harvest
				season. This exemption does not include grain terminals which are defined as
				grain elevators that receive grain primarily from other grain elevators. To
				qualify for this exemption, the owner or operator of the facility shall retain
				monthly records of grain origin and bushels of grain received, processed and
				stored for a minimum of five (5) years to verify the exemption requirements.
				Monthly records must be tabulated within seven (7) days of the end of the
				month. Tabulated monthly records shall be made available immediately to
				Missouri Department of Natural Resources' representatives for an announced
				inspection or within three (3) hours for an unannounced visit;
18. Sand and gravel operations that have a
				maximum capacity to produce less than seventeen and one-half (17.5) tons of
				product per hour and use only natural gas as fuel when drying;
19. Noncommercial incineration of dead
				animals, the on-site incineration of resident animals for which no
				consideration is received or commercial profit is realized, as authorized in
				section 269.020.6, RSMo; and
20.
				Any asphaltic concrete plant, concrete batching plant, or rock crushing plant
				that can be classified as a portable equipment installation by meeting the
				portable equipment requirements of, or having a portable equipment permit
				according to 10 CSR 10-6.060.
(C) Prohibitions.
1. After the effective date of this rule, no
				person shall operate a part 70 installation or intermediate installation except
				in compliance with an operating permit issued by the permitting authority in
				accordance with this rule.
2.
				Except as specified in this rule or in the operating permit, it is not a
				violation of this rule for a permitted installation to be operated in ways that
				are not addressed in, constrained by, or prohibited by the operating
				permit.