New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 27 - AIR POLLUTION CONTROL › Subchapter 17 - CONTROL AND PROHIBITION OF AIR POLLUTION BY TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS › Section 7:27-17.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Aerodynamic downwash" means the rapid descent of a plume to ground level with little dilution and dispersion due to alteration of background air flow characteristics caused by the presence of buildings or other obstacles in the vicinity of the emission point.
"Air contaminant" means any substance, other than water or distillates of air, present in the atmosphere as solid particles, liquid particles, vapors or gases.
"Asbestos" means actinolite, amosite, anthophyllite, chrysotile, crocidolite, tremolite.
"CFR" means the Code of Federal Regulations.
"Control apparatus" means any device which prevents or controls the emission of any air contaminant directly or indirectly into the outdoor atmosphere.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
"Distillates of air" means helium (He), nitrogen (N[2]), oxygen (O[2]), neon (Ne), argon (Ar), krypton (Kr), and xenon (Xe).
"Effective stack height" means the distance to the plume center line from the ground as determined by adding the plume rise to the physical height of the stack. It shall be calculated by one of the following equations:
1. If the lowest possible temperature of the gas leaving the stack is 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius) or less:
Effective stack height = H[s] +2.76(D)(B[LESS THAN]1/3[GREATER THAN])where:
H[s]=the physical stack height above grade in meters
D=the stack outlet in diameter in meters
B=(V[LESS THAN]2[GREATER THAN])/T
V=the stack gas exit velocity in meters per second
T=the stack gas temperature at the stack outlet in degrees Kelvin
2. If the lowest possible temperature of the gas leaving the stack is greater than 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius):
Effective stack height = H[s] + 8.28(F[LESS THAN]0.75[GREATER THAN])where:
Hs=the physical stack height above grade in meters
F=(V)(D2)(T-293)/T
V=the stack gas exit velocity in meters per second
D=the stack outlet diameter in meters
T=the stack gas temperature at the stack outlet in degrees Kelvin
"Equipment" means any device capable of causing the emission of an air contaminant either directly or indirectly to the outdoor atmosphere, and any stack or chimney, conduit, flue, duct, vent or similar device connected or attached to, or serving the equipment. This term includes, but is not limited to, a device in which the preponderance of the air contaminants emitted is caused by a manufacturing process.
"Fumigant" means a pesticide registered with the EPA under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) that is a vapor or gas, or forms a vapor or gas upon application, and whose pesticidal action is through the vapor or gaseous state.
"Gasoline" means any petroleum distillate or petroleum distillate/oxygenate blend having a Reid vapor pressure of four pounds per square inch (207 millimeters of mercury) absolute or greater, and commonly or commercially known or sold as gasoline.
"Hazardous air pollutant" or "HAP" means an air contaminant listed in or pursuant to
42 U.S.C. §
											7412
(b).
"Indirect emissions" means a discharge of any air contaminant into the outdoor atmosphere through any opening that is not a stack or chimney directly connected to the equipment.
"Liquid particles" means particles which have volume but are not of rigid shape.
"Manufacturing process" means any action, operation or treatment embracing chemical, industrial, manufacturing, or processing factors, methods or forms including, but not limited to, furnaces, kettles, ovens, converters, cupolas, kilns, crucibles, stills, dryers, roasters, crushers, grinders, mixers, reactors, regenerators, separators, filters, reboilers, columns, classifiers, screens, quenchers, cookers, digesters, towers, washers, scrubbers, mills, condensers or absorbers.
"New Jersey Hazardous Air Pollutant" or "NJHAP" means a substance listed at N.J.A.C. 7:27-17.3, Table 2.
"Open top tank" means any vessel in which a manufacturing process, or any part thereof, takes place during which there is an opening to the atmosphere greater than 25 percent of the surface area of any liquid substance contained therein.
"Person" means any individual or entity and shall include, without limitation, corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships, and joint stock companies, and shall also include, without limitation, all political subdivisions of this State or any agencies or instrumentalities thereof.
"Plume rise" means the vertical distance from the point at which an effluent stream is discharged into the outdoor atmosphere to the highest point attained by the center line of the effluent stream.
"Reid vapor pressure" or "RVP" means the absolute vapor pressure of a petroleum product in pounds per square inch (kilopascals) at 100 degrees Fahrenheit ([degrees]F) (37.8 degrees Celsius ([degrees]C)) as measured by "Method 1--Dry RVP Measured Method" or "Method 2--Herzog Semi-Automatic Method" promulgated at 40 CFR 80, Appendix E; or any other equivalent test method approved in advance in writing by the Department and the EPA.
"Solid particles" means particles of rigid shape and definite volume.
"Source operation" means any process or any identifiable part thereof that emits or can reasonably be anticipated to emit any air contaminant either directly or indirectly into the outdoor atmosphere.
"Stack or chimney" means a flue conduit or opening designed, constructed, or utilized for the purpose of emitting any air contaminant into the outdoor atmosphere.
"Standard conditions" means 70 degrees Fahrenheit ([degrees]F) (21.1 degrees Celsius ([degrees]C)) and one atmosphere pressure (14.7 pounds per square inch absolute or 760.0 millimeters of mercury).
"Storage tank" means any tank, reservoir, or vessel which is a container for liquids or gases, wherein:
1. No manufacturing process, or part thereof, other than filling or emptying takes place; and
2. The only treatment carried out is that necessary to prevent change from occurring in the physical condition or the chemical properties of the liquids or gases deposited into the container. Such treatment may include recirculating, agitating, maintaining the temperature of the stored liquids or gases, or replacing air in the vapor space above the stored liquids or gases with an inert gas in order to inhibit the occurrence of chemical reaction.
"Surface cleaner" means a device to remove unwanted foreign matter from the surfaces of materials by using VOC solvents in the liquid or vapor state.
"Surface coating formulation" means the material used to form a protective, functional, or decorative film including, but not limited to, any architectural coating, paint, varnish, ink or adhesive applied to or impregnated into a substrate.
"Surface coating operation" means the application of one or more surface coating formulations, using one or more coating applicators, together with any associated drying or curing areas. A single surface coating operation ends after drying or curing and before other surface coating formulations are applied. For any web coating line, this term means an entire coating application system, including any associated drying ovens or areas between the supply roll and take-up roll, that is used to apply surface coating formulations onto a continuous strip or web.
"Tank" means any container whose walls are constructed of material which is rigid and self-supporting.
"Toxic substance" or "TXS" means a substance listed in
N.J.A.C. 7:27-17.3
, Table 1.
"Transfer operation" means the moving of any substance from any storage tank, manufacturing process vessel, or delivery vessel into any receiving vessel.
"Vapor" means the gaseous form of substances which, under standard conditions, are in the solid or liquid state and which can be changed to these states by either increasing the pressure or decreasing the temperature.
"Vapor pressure" means the pressure of the vapor phase of a substance, or the sum of the partial pressures of the vapor phases of individual substances in a mixture of substances, when in equilibrium with the non-vapor phase of the substance or substances.
"Volatile organic compound" or "VOC" means a volatile organic compound as that term is defined by the EPA at 40 CFR 51.100(s), as supplemented or amended, which is incorporated by reference herein.