North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 15A - Environmental Quality › Chapter 02 - Environmental Management › Subchapter Q - AIR QUALITY PERMITS PROCEDURES › Section .0700 - TOXIC AIR POLLUTANT PROCEDURES › Section 02Q .0702 - EXEMPTIONS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) A permit to
				  emit toxic air pollutants shall not be required pursuant to this Section for:
(1) residential wood stoves, heaters, or
				  fireplaces;
(2) water heaters that
				  are used for domestic purposes only and are not used to heat process
				  water;
(3) maintenance, structural
				  changes, or repairs the do not change capacity of that process, fuel-burning,
				  refuse-burning, or control equipment and do not involve any change in quality
				  or nature or increase in quantity of emission of any regulated air pollutant or
				  toxic air pollutant;
(4)
				  housekeeping activities or building maintenance procedures, including painting
				  buildings, resurfacing floors, roof repair, washing, cleaning with portable
				  vacuum cleaners, sweeping, use and associated storage of janitorial products,
				  or non-asbestos-bearing insulation removal;
(5) use of office supplies, supplies to
				  maintain copying equipment, or blueprint machines;
(6) paving parking lots;
(7) replacement of existing equipment with
				  equipment of the same size, type, and function if the new equipment:
(A) does not result in an increase to the
				  actual or potential emissions of any regulated air pollutant or toxic air
				  pollutant;
(B) does not affect
				  compliance status; and
(C) fits the
				  description of the existing equipment in the permit, including the application,
				  such that the replacement equipment can be operated pursuant to that permit
				  without any changes to the permit;
(8) comfort air conditioning or comfort
				  ventilation systems that do not transport, remove, or exhaust regulated air
				  pollutants to the atmosphere;
(9)
				  equipment used for the preparation of food for direct on-site human
				  consumption;
(10)
				  non-self-propelled non-road engines regulated by rules adopted by the
				  Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to Title II of the federal Clean Air
				  Act, except generators;
(11) stacks
				  or vents to prevent escape of sewer gases from domestic waste through plumbing
				  traps;
(12) use of fire-fighting
				  equipment;
(13) the use for
				  agricultural operations by a farmer of fertilizers, pesticides, or other
				  agricultural chemicals containing one or more of the compounds listed in
				  15A NCAC
				  02D .1104 if such compounds are applied
				  according to agronomic practices for agricultural operations acceptable to the
				  North Carolina Department of Agriculture;
(14) asbestos demolition and renovation
				  projects that comply with
				  15A NCAC
				  02D .1110 and that are being done by persons
				  accredited by the Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to the
				  Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act;
(15) incinerators used only to dispose of
				  dead animals or poultry as identified in
				  15A NCAC
				  02D .1201(b)(4) or
				  incinerators used only to dispose of dead pets as identified in
				  15A NCAC
				  02D
				  .1208(a)(2)(A);
(16) refrigeration equipment that is
				  consistent with Section 601 through 618 of Title VI (Stratospheric Ozone
				  Protection) of the federal Clean Air Act, 40 CFR Part 82, and any other
				  regulations promulgated by EPA pursuant to Title VI for stratospheric ozone
				  protection, except those units used as or with air pollution control
				  equipment;
(17) laboratory
				  activities:
(A) bench-scale, on-site equipment
				  used exclusively for chemical or physical analysis for quality control
				  purposes, staff instruction, water or wastewater analyses, or non-production
				  environmental compliance assessments;
(B) bench scale experimentation, chemical or
				  physical analyses, or training or instruction from nonprofit, non-production
				  educational laboratories;
(C) bench
				  scale experimentation, chemical or physical analyses, or training or
				  instruction from hospital or health laboratories pursuant to the determination
				  or diagnoses of illnesses; and
(D)
				  research and development laboratory activities that are not required to be
				  permitted pursuant to
				  15A NCAC
				  02Q .0500, provided the activity produces no
				  commercial product or feedstock material;
(18) combustion sources as defined in
				  15A NCAC
				  02Q .0703, except new or modified combustion
				  sources permitted on or after July 10, 2010;
(19) storage tanks used only to store:
(A) inorganic liquids with a true vapor
				  pressure less than 1.5 pounds per square inch absolute;
(B) fuel oils, kerosene, diesel, crude oil,
				  used motor oil, lubricants, cooling oils, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas,
				  or petroleum products with a true vapor pressure less than 1.5 pounds per
				  square inch absolute;
(20) dispensing equipment used solely to
				  dispense diesel fuel, kerosene, lubricants, or cooling oils;
(21) portable solvent distillation systems
				  that are used for on-site solvent recycling if:
(A) the portable solvent distillation system
				  is not owned by the facility;
(B)
				  the portable solvent distillation system is not operated for more than seven
				  consecutive days; and
(C) the
				  material recycled is recycled at the site of origin;
(22) processes:
(A) electric motor burn-out ovens with
				  secondary combustion chambers or afterburners;
(B) electric motor bake-on ovens;
(C) burn-off ovens for paint-line hangers
				  with afterburners;
(D) hosiery
				  knitting machines and associated lint screens, hosiery dryers and associated
				  lint screens, and hosiery dyeing processes in which bleach or solvent dyes are
				  not used;
(E) blade wood planers
				  planing only green wood; and
(F)
				  saw mills that saw no more than 2,000,000 board feet per year, provided only
				  green wood is sawed;
(23) wood furniture manufacturing operations
				  as defined in 40 CFR
				  63.801(a) that comply with
				  the emission limitations and other requirements of 40 CFR Part 63 Subpart JJ,
				  provided that the terms of this exclusion shall not affect the authority of the
				  Director pursuant to
				  15A NCAC
				  02Q .0712;
(24) wastewater treatment systems at pulp and
				  paper mills for hydrogen sulfide and methyl mercaptan only;
(25) natural gas and propane fired external
				  combustion sources with an aggregate allowable heat input value less than 450
				  million Btu per hour that are the only source of benzene at a
				  facility;
(26) internal combustion
				  sources that are either of the following:
(A)
				  emergency engines with an aggregate total horsepower less than 4843 horsepower
				  that are the only source of formaldehyde at a facility; or
(B) stationary combustion turbines with an
				  aggregate allowable heat input value less than 56 million Btu per hour that are
				  the only source of formaldehyde at a facility;
(27) an air emission source that is any of
				  the following:
(A) subject to an applicable
				  requirement pursuant to 40 CFR Part 61, as amended;
(B) an affected source pursuant to 40 CFR
				  Part 63, as amended; or
(C) subject
				  to a case-by-case MACT permit requirement issued by the Division pursuant to
				  Paragraph (j) of 42 U.S.C.
				  Section 7412, as amended;
(28) gasoline-dispensing
				  facilities or gasoline service station operations that comply with
				  15A NCAC
				  02D .0928 and
				  02D .0932 and that receive
				  gasoline from bulk gasoline plants or bulk gasoline terminals that comply with
				  15A NCAC
				  02D .0524,
				  02D .0925,
				  02D .0926,
				  02D .0927,
				  02D .0932, and .0933 via tank
				  trucks that comply with
				  15A NCAC
				  02D .0932;
(29) the use of ethylene oxide as a sterilant
				  in the production and subsequent storage of medical devices or the packaging
				  and subsequent storage of medical devices for sale if the emissions from all
				  new and existing sources at a facility described in
				  15A NCAC
				  02D .0538(d) are controlled
				  to the degree described in
				  15A NCAC
				  02D .0538(d) and the
				  facility complies with
				  15A NCAC
				  02D .0538(e) and
				  (f);
(30) bulk gasoline plants, including the
				  storage and handling of fuel oils, kerosenes, and jet fuels but excluding the
				  storage and handling of other organic liquids, that comply with
				  15A NCAC
				  02D .0524,
				  02D .0925,
				  02D .0926,
				  02D .0932, and .0933 unless the
				  Director finds that a permit to emit toxic air pollutants is required under
				  Paragraph (b) of this Rule or
				  15A NCAC
				  02Q .0712 for a particular bulk gasoline
				  plant; or
(31) bulk gasoline
				  terminals, including the storage and handling of fuel oils, kerosenes, and jet
				  fuels but excluding the storage and handling of other organic liquids, that
				  comply with
				  15A NCAC
				  02D .0524,
				  02D .0925,
				  02D .0927,
				  02D .0932, and .0933 if the bulk
				  gasoline terminal existed before November 1, 1992, unless:
(A) a permit to emit toxic air pollutants is
				  required under Paragraph (b) of this Rule or
				  15A NCAC
				  02Q .0712 for a particular bulk gasoline
				  terminal; or
(B) the owner or
				  operator of the bulk gasoline terminal meets the requirements of
				  15A NCAC
				  02D .0927(i).