Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 33 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Part III - Air › Chapter 21 - Control of Emission of Organic Compounds › Subchapter J - Limiting Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Emissions from Reactor Processes and Distillation Operations in the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing Industry (SOCMI) › Section III-2147 - Limiting VOC Emissions from SOCMI Reactor Processes and Distillation Operations

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A.
				  Applicability
1. The provisions of this
				  Subchapter apply to any vent stream discharging to the atmosphere and
				  originating from a process unit in which a reactor process or distillation
				  operation is located. This Subchapter shall apply to all vents located at
				  facilities that emit, or have the potential to emit, 25 tons per year (TPY) or
				  more of volatile organic compounds (VOC), plantwide, in the affected parishes
				  of Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, and West Baton Rouge, or
				  50 TPY or more of VOC in the parishes of Calcasieu and Pointe Coupee. Once an
				  operation is considered to be covered by this Subchapter, it shall be so
				  considered ad infinitum. A decision tree is provided (Figure 1) to facilitate
				  determination of applicability to this Subchapter on a per vent basis. The
				  total resource effectiveness (TRE) index value may be applied on an individual
				  process vent stream basis for a given process unit. Compliance with this rule
				  shall be attained within a period of two years after promulgation. A facility
				  that has become subject to this regulation as a result of a revision of the
				  regulation shall comply with the requirements of this Section as soon as
				  practicable, but in no event later than one year from the promulgation of the
				  regulation revision. Any emission source that is subject to this rule and to
				  the Waste Gas Disposal Rule (LAC 33:III.2115) shall comply with this rule only.
				  This rule shall apply only to Standard Industrial Major Code 28.
2. Exemptions from the provisions of this
				  Subchapter are as follows:
a. any reactor
				  process or distillation vent stream for which an existing combustion device is
				  employed to control volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions is not required
				  to meet the 98 percent destruction or 20 parts per million (ppm) by volume
				  emissions limit until the combustion device is replaced for other
				  reasons;
b. any reactor process or
				  distillation operation that is designed and operated in a batch mode is not
				  subject to the provisions of this Subchapter;
c. any reactor process or distillation
				  operation that is part of a polymer manufacturing operation is not subject to
				  the provisions of this Subchapter;
d. any reactor process or distillation
				  operation operating in a process unit with a total design capacity of less than
				  1 gigagrams per year for all chemicals produced within that unit is not subject
				  to the provisions of this Subchapter except for the reporting and recordkeeping
				  requirements listed in Paragraph F.4 of this Section;
e. any vent stream for a reactor process or
				  distillation operation with a flow rate of less than 0.011 standard cubic
				  meters per minute or a total VOC concentration of less than 500 ppm by volume
				  is not subject to the provisions of this Subchapter except for the performance
				  testing requirements listed in Subparagraph D.3.b and Paragraph D.9 of this
				  Section and the reporting and recordkeeping requirements listed in Paragraph
				  F.3 of this Section;
f. any reactor
				  process or distillation operation which does not use, contain or produce VOCs
				  is not subject to the provisions of this Subchapter; and
g. any reactor process or distillation
				  operation that is subject to the Hazardous Organic NESHAP (HON), the NSPS of
				  Subchapter NNN for distillation operations or the NSPS of Subchapter RRR for
				  reactor processes is not subject to the provisions of this
				  Subchapter.