New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION › Chapter III - AIR RESOURCES › Subchapter A - PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF AIR CONTAMINATION AND AIR POLLUTION › Part 225 - Fuel Composition And Use › Subpart 225-1 - FUEL COMPOSITION AND USE-SULFUR LIMITATIONS › Section 225-1.2 - Sulfur-in-fuel limitations

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
No person will sell, offer for sale, purchase, or fire
						any fuel and/or waste oil that exceeds the sulfur-in-fuel limitations of this
						Section, except as provided in Sections
						225-1.3
						or
						225-1.4  of this
						Subpart. For the purposes of this Subpart, liquid bio-fuels, other than waste
						oils, are required to meet the sulfur-in-fuel standards of distillate
						oil.
(a) Owners and/or operators of
					 any stationary combustion installation that fires coal and has a total heat
					 input greater than 250 million Btu per hour, where an application for a permit
					 was received by the department after March 15, 1973, and the stationary
					 combustion installation is not located in New York City or Nassau, Rockland or
					 Westchester Counties, are limited to the firing of coal with 0.60 pound of
					 sulfur per million Btu gross heat content or less. If two or more emission
					 sources are connected to a common air cleaning device and/or emission point,
					 the total heat input for such emission point is the sum of the total heat input
					 of all emission sources that are operated simultaneously and connected to the
					 common air cleaning device and/or emission point; or
(b) Owners and/or operators of any stationary
					 combustion installation that fires solid fuels are limited to the firing of
					 solid fuel with a sulfur content listed in the table below. On and after July
					 1, 2023, all emission sources, including process and incineration sources that
					 fire solid fuels, are limited to the firing of solid fuel with a sulfur content
					 listed in the table below:
Area
Solid fuel (pounds of sulfur per million Btu
									 gross heat content)
New York City, Nassau, Rockland and Westchester
									 Counties
0.2 MAX
Suffolk County: Towns of Babylon, Brookhaven,
									 Huntington, Islip, and Smith Town
0.6 MAX
Erie and Niagara Counties
1.7 MAX, 1.4 AVG*
Remainder of State
2.5 MAX, 1.9 AVG*, and 1.7 AVG
									 (ANNUAL)**
* Averages are computed for each emission source by
						dividing the total sulfur content by the total gross heat content of all solid
						fuel received during any consecutive three-month period.
** Annual averages are computed for each emission source
						by dividing the total sulfur content by the total gross heat content of all
						solid fuel received during any consecutive 12-month period.
(c) Owners and/or operators of any stationary
					 combustion installation that fires residual oil are limited to the firing of
					 residual oil with a sulfur content listed in the table below. On and after July
					 1, 2023, all emission sources, including process and incineration sources that
					 fire residual oil, are limited to the firing of residual oil with a sulfur
					 content listed in the table below:
Area
Residual Oil (percent sulfur by weight)
New York City
0.30
Nassau, Rockland and Westchester
									 Counties
0.37
Remainder of State
0.50
(d) Owners and/or operators of any stationary
					 combustion installation that fires distillate oil are limited to the firing of
					 distillate oil with 0.0015 percent sulfur by weight or less. On and after July
					 1, 2023, all emission sources, including process and incineration sources that
					 fire distillate oil, are limited to the firing of distillate oil with 0.0015
					 percent sulfur by weight or less.
(e) Owners and/or operators of any emission
					 source that fires waste oil are limited to the firing of waste oil with 0.75
					 percent sulfur by weight or less. On and after July 1, 2023, owners and/or
					 operators of any emission source that fires waste oil are limited to the firing
					 of waste oil with 0.25 percent sulfur by weight or less.