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Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-109 - Overall VOC emission reduction efficiency

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Overall VOC emission reduction efficiency" means the weight
				  per unit time of VOC removed or destroyed by a control device divided by the
				  weight per unit time of VOC generated by a source, expressed as a percentage.
				  The overall emission reduction efficiency can also be calculated as the product
				  of the capture efficiency and the control device destruction or removal
				  efficiency.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-110 - Owner or operator

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Owner or operator" means any person who owns, leases,
				  operates, controls or supervises a regulated pollutant source.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-111 - Ozone Transport Region

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Ozone Transport Region" (OTR) means that part of the State
				  of Maine included in a region of states comprised of Connecticut, Delaware,
				  Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
				  Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the Consolidated Metropolitan
				  Statistical Area that includes the District of Columbia, established by Section
				  184 of the CAA for the control of interstate ozone air pollution. For the State
				  of Maine, the Ozone Transport Region includes all of Maine except for those
				  portions of the State specifically removed from the OTR pursuant to CAA §
									176 A.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-112 - PAL (Plantwide applicability limitation)

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"PAL (Plantwide applicability limitation)" means an emission
				  limitation expressed in tons per year, for a pollutant at a major stationary
				  source, that is enforceable as a practical matter and established source-wide
				  based on baseline actual emissions.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-113 - PAL effective date

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"PAL effective date" means the date of issuance of the PAL
				  license. However, the PAL effective date for an increased PAL is the date any
				  emissions unit that is part of the PAL major modification becomes operational
				  and begins to emit the PAL pollutant.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-115 - PAL license

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"PAL license" means the major New Source Review (NSR)
				  license, the minor NSR license, or the State operating license under a program
				  that is approved into the State Implementation Plan, or the Part 70 license
				  issued by the Department that establishes a PAL for a major stationary source.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-116 - PAL major modification

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"PAL major modification" means, notwithstanding the
				  definitions for major modification and net emissions increase, any physical
				  change in or change in the method of operation of the PAL source that causes it
				  to emit the PAL pollutant at a level equal to or greater than the PAL.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-117 - PAL pollutant

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"PAL pollutant" means the pollutant for which a PAL is
				  established at a major stationary source.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-119 - Part 70 Administrative Revision

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Part 70 Administrative Revision" means a revision to a Part
				  70 license for the following:
A. 
				Typographical error corrections;
B.
				 Change in the name, address, or phone number of any person or
				facility identified in the Part 70 license, or a similar administrative change
				at the Part 70 source;
C.  Change
				to more frequent monitoring, reporting, recordkeeping or testing requirements;
				and
D.  A change to incorporate the
				terms and conditions of a major NSR air license issued pursuant to 06-096 CMR
				Chapter 115 into a Part 70 license.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-120 - Part 70 draft license

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Part 70 draft license" means the version of a Part 70
				  license for which the Department offers public participation and affected state
				  review pursuant to Chapter 140.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-121 - Part 70 draft proposed license

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Part 70 draft proposed license" means the version of the
				  Part 70 draft license that the Department proposes to issue and forward to EPA
				  for review pursuant to Chapter 140.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-122 - Part 70 General license

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Part 70 General license" means a Part 70 license that meets
				  the requirements of Chapter 140.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-123 - Part 70 HAP source

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Part 70 HAP source" means a HAP source that is defined as a
				  HAP major source or HAP area source subject to Chapter 140.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-124 - Part 70 license

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Part 70 license" means any air emission license or group of
				  licenses covering a Part 70 source that is issued, transferred, renewed,
				  reopened, or amended pursuant to Chapter 140.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-126 - Part 70 Minor License Modification

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
(Reference 40 C. F. R. 70. 7(e)(2) "minor permit
				  modification procedures"). "Part 70 Minor License Modification" means a
				  modification to a Part 70 license which may be used only for those license
				  changes that:
A.  Do not violate any
				Applicable requirement;
B.  Do not
				involve a Part 70 Significant License Modification to existing monitoring,
				testing, reporting, or recordkeeping requirements in the license;
C.  Do not require or change a case-by-case
				determination of an emission limitation or other standard, or a source-specific
				determination for temporary sources of ambient impacts or a visibility or
				increment analysis;
D.  Do not seek
				to establish or change a Part 70 license term or condition for which there is
				no corresponding underlying Applicable requirement, and that the source has
				assumed to avoid an Applicable requirement to which the source would otherwise
				be subject. Such terms and conditions include:
(1) A federally enforceable emissions cap
				assumed to avoid classification as a Title I modification or a modification or
				reconstruction under any provision of Section
				111 or
				112 of the CAA; and
(2) An alternative emissions limit approved
				pursuant to regulations promulgated under section
				112(i)(5) of the
				CAA;
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-127 - Part 70 Section 502(b)(10) Changes

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Part 70 Section 502(b)(10) Changes" are changes that
				  contravene an express permit term. Such changes do not include changes that
				  would violate applicable requirements or contravene federally enforceable
				  permit terms and conditions that are monitoring (including test methods),
				  recordkeeping, reporting, or compliance certification requirements.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-128 - Part 70 Significant License Modification

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
Reference 40 C. F. R. 70. 7(e)(4) "significant modification
				  procedures")"Part 70 Significant License Modification" means a license change
				  that does not qualify as a Minor or Major Modification of a Part 70 source, HAP
				  emission limitations, a Part 70 Minor License Modification, or a Part 70
				  Administrative Revision. A Part 70 Significant License Modification shall be
				  used for license changes that are determined by the Department to be
				  substantial changes in existing testing or monitoring license terms or
				  conditions and the relaxation of reporting or recordkeeping license terms or
				  conditions.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-129 - Part 70 source

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Part 70 source" means any source subject to the permitting
				  requirements of 40 C. F. R. Part 70 as provided in Section
				  70. 3.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-130 - Particulate matter

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Particulate matter" means any airborne finely divided solid
				  or liquid material with an aerodynamic diameter smaller than 100 micrometers as
				  measured by applicable reference methods or an equivalent or alternative method
				  specified in 40 C. F. R. Part 51.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-131 - Peaking Unit

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Peaking Unit" means a unit that has an average capacity
				  factor of no more than 10. 0 percent during the previous three calendar years
				  and a capacity factor of no more than 20. 0 percent in each of those calendar
				  years.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-132 - Person

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation,
				  whether private, public or quasi-municipal, municipality, state governmental
				  agency or other legal entity.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-133 - Petroleum liquids

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Petroleum liquids" means crude oil, condensate, and any
				  finished or intermediate products manufactured or extracted in a petroleum
				  refinery.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-134 - PM[2.5]

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"PM2.5" means particulate matter in
				  the ambient air with an aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to a nominal
				  2.5 micrometers as measured by the reference method based on 40 C. F. R. Part
				  50, Appendix L and designated in accordance with 40 C. F. R. Part 53.
				  PM2.5 emissions shall include gaseous emissions from a
				  source or activity which condense to form particulate matter at ambient
				  temperatures. Such condensable particulate matter shall be accounted for in
				  applicability determinations and in establishing emissions limitations for
				  PM2.5 in PSD permits. Compliance with emissions
				  limitations for PM2.5 issued prior to this date shall
				  not be based on condensable particulate matter unless required by the terms and
				  conditions of the permit or the applicable implementation plan. Applicability
				  determinations made prior to this date without accounting for condensable
				  particulate matter shall not be considered in violation of this section unless
				  the applicable implementation plan required condensable particulate matter to
				  be included.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-135 - PM[10]

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
" PM10" means particulate matter with
				  an aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to a nominal ten (10) micrometers as
				  measured by a reference method based on 40 C. F. R. Part 50, Appendix J and
				  designated in accordance with 40 C. F. R. Part 53. PM10
				  emissions shall include gaseous emissions from a source or activity which
				  condense to form particulate matter at ambient temperatures. Such condensable
				  particulate matter shall be accounted for in applicability determinations and
				  in establishing emissions limitations for PM10 in PSD
				  permits. Compliance with emissions limitations for PM10
				  issued prior to this date shall not be based on condensable particulate matter
				  unless required by the terms and conditions of the permit or the applicable
				  implementation plan. Applicability determinations made prior to this date
				  without accounting for condensable particulate matter shall not be considered
				  in violation of this section unless the applicable implementation plan required
				  condensable particulate matter to be included.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-136 - Pollutant or air pollutant

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Pollutant or air pollutant" means the same as regulated
				  pollutant 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 096-100-137 - Potential to emit

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Potential to emit" means the maximum capacity of a
				  stationary source to emit any regulated pollutant under its physical and
				  operational design. Any physical or operational limitation on the capacity of
				  the source to emit a regulated pollutant, including air pollution control
				  equipment, and restrictions on the hours of operation or on the type or amount
				  of material combusted, stored, or processed, shall be treated as part of its
				  design only if the limitation or the effect it would have on emissions is
				  federally enforceable as a practical matter. Secondary emissions do not count
				  in the determining the potential to emit of a source.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-138 - Predictive Emission Monitoring Systems (PEMS)

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Predictive Emission Monitoring Systems (PEMS)" means a
				  system that uses process and other parameters as inputs to a computer program
				  or other data reduction system to produce values in terms of the applicable
				  emission limitation or standard.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-139 - Pressure release

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Pressure release" means the emission of materials resulting
				  from system pressure being greater than set pressure of the pressure relief
				  device.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-140 - Process weight rate

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Process weight rate" means the average total weight of all
				  materials, not including any gaseous, liquid or solid fuels, moisture or
				  combustion air, introduced into any manufacturing, industrial or combustion
				  process that may result in the emission of any regulated pollutant to the
				  ambient air, computed on an hourly basis, and shall be expressed in terms of
				  weight per unit of time.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-142 - Projected actual emissions

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Projected actual emissions" means the maximum annual rate,
				  in tons per year, at which an existing emissions unit is projected to emit a
				  regulated pollutant in any one of the 5 years (12-month periods) following the
				  date the unit resumes regular operation after the project, or in any one
				  12-month period in the 10 years following that date, if the project involves
				  increasing the emissions unit's design capacity or its potential to emit that
				  regulated pollutant.
In determining the projected actual emissions (before
				  beginning actual construction), the owner or operator of the major stationary
				  source:
A.  Shall consider all
				relevant information, including but not limited to, historical operational
				data, the company's own representations, the company's expected business
				activity and the company's highest projections of business activity, the
				company's filings with the State or Federal regulatory authorities, and
				compliance plans under the approved State Implementation Plan; and
B.  Shall include fugitive emissions to the
				extent quantifiable, and emissions associated with startups, shutdowns, and
				malfunctions; and
C.  Shall
				exclude, in calculating any increase in emissions that results from the
				particular project, that portion of the unit's emissions following the project
				that an existing unit could have accommodated during the consecutive 24-month
				period used to establish the baseline actual emissions and that are also
				unrelated to the particular project, including any increased utilization due to
				product demand growth; or
D.  In
				lieu of using the method set out in subsections A,B, and C of this section, may
				elect to use the emissions unit's potential to emit, in tons per year.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-143 - Reasonable further progress

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Reasonable further progress" means such annual incremental
				  reductions in emissions of the relevant regulated pollutant as are required by
				  Part D of the CAA or may reasonably be required by the EPA for the purpose of
				  ensuring attainment of the relevant national ambient air quality standards in
				  the area by the relevant statutory deadlines.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-145 - Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT)

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Reasonably Available Control Technology" means that method
				  of treatment that is reasonably available as a retrofit to existing processes
				  or equipment involved and shall be determined by the Department for the class
				  or category of such source considering the existing state of technology,
				  current federal guidelines for determining of the degree of emission reduction
				  achievable and the type and unique character of affected sources.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-146 - Reconstruction or reconstructed

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
The provisions of 40 C. F. R. Part 60. 15(f)(1) through (3)
				  shall determine if reconstruction has taken place. "Reconstruction" shall be
				  presumed to have taken place where the fixed capital cost of the new component
				  exceeds 50% of the fixed capital cost of a comparable entirely new emissions
				  unit.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-147 - Recovery boiler

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
Recovery boiler" means an enclosed combustion device where
				  concentrated black liquor is burned to recover sodium and sulfur and to produce
				  steam for energy recovery.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-148 - Reconstruction of a HAP major source

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Reconstruction of a HAP major source" means the replacement
				  of components at an existing process or production unit that in and of itself
				  emits or has the potential to emit 10 tons per year of any HAP or 25 tons per
				  year of any combination of HAP, whenever:
(1) the fixed capital cost of the new
				components exceeds 50 percent of the fixed capital cost that would be required
				to construct a comparable process or production unit; and
(2) It is technically and economically
				feasible for the reconstructed major source to meet the applicable maximum
				achievable control technology emission limitation for new sources established
				under 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 096-100-149 - Region

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Region" means an air quality control region or regions
				  established by the Board pursuant to Classification of Air Quality Control
				  Regions, 06-096 CMR 114.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-150 - Regulated pollutant

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Regulated pollutant" means the following:
A.  Any pollutant for which a national or
				Maine ambient air quality standard has been promulgated;
B.  Any pollutant that is subject to any
				standard promulgated under section
				111 of the CAA;
C.  Any Class I or II substance subject to a
				standard promulgated under or established by title VI of the CAA;
D.  Except as provided in paragraph H of this
				definition, any pollutant subject to a standard promulgated under section
				112 or other requirements
				established under section
				112 of the CAA, including sections
				112(g) (j), and (r)
				of the CAA, including the following:
(1) Any
				pollutant subject to requirements under section
				112(j) of the CAA.
				If the Administrator fails to promulgate a standard by the date established
				pursuant to section
				112(e) of the CAA,
				any pollutant for which a subject source would be major shall be considered to
				be regulated on the date 18 months after the applicable date established
				pursuant to section
				112(e) of the CAA;
				and
(2) Any pollutant for which the
				requirements of section
				112(g)(2) of the
				CAA have been met, but only with respect to the individual source subject to
				section
				112(g)(2)
				requirement.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-151 - Responsible official

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Responsible official" means one of the following:
A.  For a corporation: a president,
				secretary, treasurer, or vice-president of the corporation in charge of a
				principal business function, or any other person who performs similar policy or
				decision-making functions for the corporation, or a duly authorized
				representative of such person if the representative is responsible for the
				overall operation of one or more manufacturing, production, or operating
				facilities applying for or subject to a permit and either:
(1) The facilities employ more than 250
				persons or have gross annual sales or expenditures exceeding $25 million (in
				second quarter 1980 dollars); or
(2) The delegation of authority to such
				representatives is approved in advance by the permitting authority;
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-152 - Secondary emissions

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Secondary emissions" means emissions which occur as a
				  result of the construction or operation of a source or modification, but do not
				  come from the source or modification itself. Secondary emissions must be
				  specific, well defined, quantifiable, and impact the same general areas as the
				  source or modification which causes the secondary emissions. Secondary
				  emissions include, but are not limited to:
(1) emissions from any offsite support
				facility which would not be constructed or increase its emissions except as a
				result of the construction or operation of the source or
				modification;
(2) emissions from
				ships, trains, trucks or other mobile sources associated with the new source or
				modification.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-153 - Serious ozone nonattainment area

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Serious 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 096-100-154 - Shake down period

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Shake down period" means the time from the initial operation
				  of an emissions unit until the time the emission unit achieves operation at the
				  maximum production rate at which it will be operated, but not to exceed 180
				  days after initial startup.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-155 - SIC code

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"SIC code" means Standard Industrial Classification code
				  devised by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to classify establishments
				  according to the type of economic activity in which they are engaged.
NOTE: SIC codes may be found in the latest "Standard
				  Industrial Classification Manual," published by the U. S. Government Printing
				  Office and available at larger libraries throughout the State.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-156 - Significant emissions

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Significant emissions" means any rate of emissions that
				  would equal or exceed one hundred (100) tons per year of any regulated
				  pollutant excluding GHGs or fifty (50) tons per year of VOC in the ozone
				  transport region.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-157 - Significant emissions increase

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Significant emissions increase" means a Major Modification
				  which results in:
A.  Any net
				emissions increase of a regulated pollutant excluding GHGs that would equal or
				exceed any of the rates listed:
Regulated Pollutant
Rates (TPY)
Particulate Matter (PM)
25
PM10
15
PM2.5
10*
Sulfur dioxide
40
Nitrogen oxides
40
Nitrogen oxides (as precursor to ozone)
40
Carbon monoxide
100
Ozone -measured as VOC or
							 NOx
40
Ozone (measured as VOC) in the OTR
40
Lead
0. 6
Fluorides
3
Sulfuric acid mist
7
Hydrogen sulfide (H2S)
10
Total reduced sulfur (including
							 H2S)
10
Reduced sulfur compounds (including
							 H2S)
10
MWC organics
(Municipal Waste Combustor emissions measured as
							 total tetra-through octachlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans)
3. 5 x 10-6
MWC metals
(measured as particulate matter)
15
MWC acid gases (measured as
							 SO2 and HCl)
40
Municipal solid waste landfill emissions (measured as
							 nonmethane organic compounds)
50
* 10 tpy of direct emissions; 40 tpy
				  SO2 emissions; 40 tpy NOx
				  emissions unless demonstrated not to be a PM2.5
				  precursor under C. F. R. Part 51. 166(b)(49).
B.  Notwithstanding subsection (A) above,
				significant means any emission rate of a new major source which would construct
				within ten (10) kilometers of a Class I area and have an impact on such area
				equal to or greater than one (1) microgram per cubic meter
				(µg/m3) (24-hour average) for any regulated
				pollutant excluding GHGs.
C. 
				Notwithstanding subsection (A) above, significant means any emission rate or
				any net emission rate increase associated with a major stationary source or
				major modification which would construct within 10 kilometers of a Class I area
				and have an impact on such area equal to or greater than 1
				µg/m3 (24-hour average) for any regulated
				pollutant excluding GHGs.
D.  In
				addition to subsection (A) above, significant means, in reference to a net
				emission increase or the potential of a source to emit a pollutant subject to
				regulation under the CAA that is not listed in subsection (A) above or
				regulated under Title III of the CAA, any emission rate for any regulated
				pollutant excluding GHGs.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-158 - Significant PAL emissions unit

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Significant PAL emissions unit" means an emissions unit that
				  emits or has the potential to emit a PAL pollutant at a level equal to or
				  greater than the emission rate for that pollutant listed in the table in
				  Section
				  161(A) of this
				  Chapter, but less than the amount that would qualify the unit as a major
				  emissions unit.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-159 - Significant impact

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Significant impact" means the contribution for any regulated
				  pollutants which is equal to or greater than, or may reasonably be expected to
				  be equal to or greater than, the levels shown below for the respective
				  averaging times:
Class II area significant impact levels
Pollutant
Annual
24-Hr
8-Hr
3-Hr
1-Hr
SO2
1. 0 µg/m3
5 µg/m3
25 µg/m3
PM10
1. 0 µg/m3
5 µg/m3
TSP
1. 0 µg/m3
5 µg/m3
NO2
1. 0 µg/m3
CO
500 µg/m3
2000 µg/m3
PM2.5
0. 3 µg/m3
1. 2 µg/m3
Class I area significant impact levels
Pollutant
Annual
24-Hr
8-Hr
3-Hr
1-Hr
PM2.5
0. 06 µg/m3
0. 07 µg/m3
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-160 - Significant impact area

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Significant impact area" is a circular area with a radius
				  extending from the source to the most distant point where approved dispersion
				  modeling predicts a significant impact will occur, or a modeling receptor
				  distance of fifty (50) kilometers (km), whichever is less. The significant
				  impact area used for the air quality analysis of a particular regulated
				  pollutant is the largest area of all averaging periods modeled as determined
				  for that regulated pollutant.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-161 - Six (6) minute block average for Continuous Opacity Monitors (COM)

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Six-minute (6) block average for Continuous Opacity Monitors
				  (COM)" means a set of 36 or more readings of opacity equally spaced over a
				  six-minute period. The six minute periods start at the top of each hour. There
				  are 10 distinct block averages in each hour. Each six-minute block average is
				  determined by dividing the sum of the readings by the number of readings taken
				  in that six-minute period.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-162 - Small PAL emissions unit

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Small PAL emissions unit" means an emissions unit that emits
				  or has the potential to emit PAL pollutants at levels less than the emission
				  rates for those pollutants listed in the table in Section
				  161(A) of this
				  Chapter.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-163 - Solvent

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Solvent" means a substance that is liquid at standard
				  conditions and is used to dissolve or dilute another substance; this term
				  includes, but is not limited to, organic materials used as dissolvers,
				  viscosity reducer, degreasing agents, or cleaning agents.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-164 - Source

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
. "Source" (Source or Stationary Source) means any building,
				  structure, facility, or installation which emits or may emit any regulated
				  pollutant where all of the pollutant emitting activities which belong to the
				  same industrial grouping are located on one or more contiguous or adjacent
				  properties, and are under the control of the same person (or persons under
				  common control) except the activities of any vessel. Pollutant-emitting
				  activities shall be considered as part of the same industrial grouping if they
				  belong to the same Major Group (i. e. , which have the same two-digit code) as
				  described in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, as amended by
				  the 1977 Supplement (U. S. Government Printing Office stock numbers 4 10 14066
				  and 00340540 176-0, respectively).
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-165 - Stack

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Stack" means any point in a source designed to emit solids,
				  liquids or gases into the air, including a pipe or duct, but not including
				  flares.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-166 - Standard atmospheric conditions

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Standard atmospheric conditions" means a temperature of 20
				  degrees Celsius (68 degrees Fahrenheit) and pressure of 760 millimeters of
				  Mercury (Hg) (29. 92 inches Hg).
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-167 - Tank truck

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Tank truck" means any truck or trailer used for the
				  transport of gasoline from a stationary gasoline storage tank at a bulk
				  gasoline terminal or bulk gasoline plant to another stationary storage tank at
				  another bulk gasoline plant, bulk gasoline terminal, or gasoline dispensing
				  facility.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-168 - Temporary source

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Temporary source" means a source which changes location to
				  another site at least once during any five (5) year license period. No Title IV
				  source shall be licensed as a temporary source.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-172 - True vapor pressure

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"True vapor pressure" means the equilibrium partial pressure
				  exerted by a petroleum liquid as determined in accordance with methods
				  described in American Petroleum Institute Bulletin 2517, Evaporation Loss from
				  Floating Roof Tanks, 1962.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-173 - Vapor control system

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Vapor control system" means any system that contains,
				  collects, absorbs or condenses the gasoline vapors displaced from gasoline tank
				  trucks as the trucks are being loaded with gasoline at the loading rack of a
				  bulk gasoline terminal.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-174 - Virgin oil

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Virgin oil" means any petroleum derived oil, including
				  petroleum fuels, unused motor oils, hydraulic fluids, lubrication oils and
				  other industrial oils, that are not characterized as waste oil.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-175 - Visibility impairment

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Visibility impairment" means any humanly perceptible change
				  in visibility in terms of visual range, contrast, or coloration from that which
				  would have existed under natural conditions. Natural conditions include
				  naturally occurring phenomena that reduce visibility in terms of visual range,
				  contrast or coloration.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-176 - Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC)

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"Volatile Organic Compounds" means any compound of carbon,
				  excluding carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, carbonic acid, metallic carbides or
				  carbonates, and ammonium carbonate, which participates in atmospheric
				  photochemical reactions.
This definition excludes organic compounds which EPA has
				  determined to have negligible photochemical reactivity as listed in 40 C. F. R.
				  Part 51. 100(s)(1) as amended up to July 1, 2015.
For purposes of determining compliance with emissions limits,
				  VOC shall be measured by the test methods specified under the Department's
				  regulations or 40 C. F. R. Part 60, Appendix A, as applicable. Where such a
				  method also measures compounds with negligible photochemical reactivity, these
				  negligibly-reactive compounds shall not be considered VOC if the amount of such
				  compounds can be and is accurately quantified. As a precondition to excluding
				  these compounds for purposes of determining compliance with an emission
				  standard, the Department may require an owner or operator to provide monitoring
				  or testing methods and results demonstrating, to the satisfaction of the
				  Department the amount of negligibly-reactive compounds in the source's
				  emissions.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 100 - DEFINITIONS REGULATION › Section 096-100-177 - VOC incinerator

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
"VOC incinerator" means a combustion apparatus in which
				  solid, semisolid, liquid, or gaseous combustible wastes are ignited and burned
				  and from which the solid and gaseous residues contain little or no combustible
				  material.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 101 - VISIBLE EMISSIONS REGULATION › Section 096-101-1 - Scope/Applicability

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
A.
Geographic scope.
This
				regulation applies statewide.
B.
General requirement.
No person shall emit or cause to be emitted
				any visible air contaminants that exceed the visible emission standards of
				Sections
				2 or
				3 of this Chapter, unless the source
				is listed in Section 1(C) of this Chapter or, for periods of startup or
				shutdown, malfunction, or certain equipment maintenance for boilers or other
				emission units, when the work practices in Sections 4(A), (B), or (C) are
				followed as specified in Section
				3. Certain sources are required by air
				emission license conditions, Best Available Control Technology (BACT), National
				Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP), Best Practical
				Treatment (BPT), and/or New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) to achieve more
				stringent visible emissions standards than those listed in this Chapter.
C.
Exemptions from this
				Chapter.
The following are exempt from this Chapter:
(1) Incinerators regulated by 06-096 C.M.R.
				ch. 104;
(2) Permitted open burning
				regulated by 06-096 C.M.R. ch. 102;
(3) Emissions of condensed, uncombined water
				vapor;
(4) Municipal waste
				combustors regulated by 06-096 C.M.R. ch. 121;
(5) Diesel-powered motor vehicles regulated
				by 06-096 C.M.R. ch. 146;
(6)
				Outdoor wood boilers regulated by 06-096 C.M.R. ch. 150;
(7) Emission units subject to a visible
				emissions (i.e., opacity) standard under 40 C.F.R. Part 60 as amended up to
				July 1, 2018;
(8) Emission units
				subject to a visible emissions (i.e., opacity) standard under 40 C.F.R. Part 63
				as amended up to July 1, 2018;
(9)
				Emission units with a wet plume subject to operating limits to demonstrate
				compliance with a particulate matter emission limit under 40 C.F.R. Part 63 as
				amended up to July 1, 2018;
(10)
				Visible air contaminants emitted for the purpose of visible emissions observer
				training; and
(11) Visible air
				contaminants emitted for the purpose of Predictive Emission Monitoring Systems
				(PEMS) research that has been approved by the Commissioner and EPA.
Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 101 - VISIBLE EMISSIONS REGULATION › Section 096-101-2 - Interim Visible Emission Standards

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
The following standards shall apply until January 1,
				  2020:
A.
Fuel Burning
				Equipment
Equipment shall be subject to one of the standards in this
				  section based upon the primary fuel licensed for the unit:
(1) Boilers Firing #4, #5, #6 Fuel Oil.
(a) Visible emissions from any unit firing
				#4, #5, or #6 fuel oil whose rated input capacity is less than 1000 million
				BTU/hr shall not exceed an opacity of 30 percent on a six (6) minute block
				average basis, except for no more than two (2) six (6) minute block averages in
				a 3-hour period.
(b) Visible
				emissions from any unit firing #4, #5, or #6 fuel oil whose rated input
				capacity is 1000 million BTU/hr or greater shall not exceed an opacity of 20
				percent on a six (6) minute block average basis for 90 percent of all six (6)
				minute block averages on a quarterly basis. The remaining 10 percent of all six
				(6) minute block averages on a quarterly basis shall be no greater than 30
				percent opacity. Quarterly basis is the period of time from January 1 to March
				31, April 1 to June 30, etc. A unit subject to this section shall be required
				to operate and maintain a Continuous Opacity Monitoring System
				(COMS).