Michigan Administrative Code › Department - Environmental Quality › Air Quality Division › Part 18 - PREVENTION OF SIGNIFICANT DETERIORATION OF AIR QUALITY › Section R. 336.2816 - Sources impacting federal class I areas; additional requirements

Current through Vol. 24-12, July 15, 2024
Rule 1816.
(1) The
				department shall transmit to the United States environmental protection agency
				a copy of each permit application relating to a major stationary source or
				major modification and provide notice to the United States environmental
				protection agency of every action related to the consideration of the
				permit.
(2) If an applicant submits
				a permit application to the department for a proposed major stationary source
				or major modification that affects a federal class I area, the applicant must
				submit to the department and the federal land manager charged with direct
				responsibility for management of class I lands a demonstration of the impact
				the emissions from the proposed source or modification would have on the air
				quality related values of class I lands, including visibility. The department
				shall be available to consult with and provide additional information to the
				federal land manager during the federal land managers review of the
				demonstration submitted by the applicant, if necessary, to complete the review
				of the demonstration.
(3) If the
				federal land managers review of the applicants demonstration results in a
				finding that the emissions from the proposed major source or major modification
				would have an adverse impact on the air quality related values of class I
				areas, including visibility, notwithstanding that the change in air quality
				resulting from emissions from a major source or major modification would not
				cause or contribute to concentrations that would exceed the maximum allowable
				increases for a class I area, and if the department concurs with such finding,
				then the department shall not approve the permit application.
(4) If the department determines that the
				emissions from a proposed major source or major modification would cause or
				contribute to concentrations which would exceed the maximum allowable increases
				for a class I area, the department shall not approve a permit application
				unless the applicable requirements of Michigans state implementation plan are
				otherwise met and 1 of the following occurs:
(a) The applicant submits a written
				certification that the applicant has demonstrated to the federal land manager
				that the emissions from the proposed major source or major modification would
				have no adverse impact on the air quality related values of class I lands,
				including visibility, notwithstanding that the change in air quality resulting
				from emissions from a major source or major modification would cause or
				contribute to concentrations that would exceed the maximum allowable increases
				for a class I area. The department may then, provided that applicable
				requirements are otherwise met, issue the permit with emission limitations to
				assure that emissions of sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, and oxides of
				nitrogen would not exceed the following maximum allowable increases over minor
				source baseline concentration for the pollutants:
Table 183
Maximum allowable increases over minor source baseline
				  concentrations
Pollutant
Maximum Allowable Increase (micrograms per cubic
								meter)
Particulate matter:
PM-10, annual arithmetic mean
17
PM-10, 24-hour maximum
30
PM 2.5, annual arithmetic mean
4
PM 2.5, 24-hour maximum
9
Sulfur dioxide:
Annual arithmetic mean
20
24-hour maximum
91
3-hour maximum
325
Nitrogen dioxide:
Annual arithmetic mean
25
(b)
				If the department cannot approve the permit application under R 336.2816(4)(a)
				due to sulfur dioxide emissions resulting in increases greater than those
				specified in table 183 for periods of 24 hours or less, the applicant may
				obtain approval by providing a written certification that the applicant has
				demonstrated to the federal land manager that the emissions from the proposed
				major source or major modification would have no adverse impact on the air
				quality related values of class I lands, including visibility, and that both
				the governor and the federal land manager have granted a sulfur dioxide
				variance for the federal class I area on which variance the public has received
				notice and opportunity for public hearing.
(c) If the department cannot approve the
				permit application under R 336.2816(4)(a) due to sulfur dioxide emissions
				resulting in increases greater than those specified in table 183 for periods of
				24 hours or less, and the department cannot approve the permit application
				under R 336.2816(4)(b) because the federal land manager does not concur with
				the governors issuance of a sulfur dioxide variance that is otherwise
				consistent with R 336.2816(4)(b), the applicant may obtain approval by
				providing a written certification that the applicant has demonstrated to the
				president that a sulfur dioxide variance is in the national interest and the
				president concurs with the issuance of the sulfur dioxide variance by the
				governor. The applicant shall transfer the recommendations of the governor and
				the federal land manager to the president in any case where the governor
				recommends a variance in which the federal land manager does not
				concur.