New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 20 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 11 - ALBUQUERQUE - BERNALILLO COUNTY AIR QUALITY CONTROL BOARD › Part 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 20.11.1.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
The definitions of 20.11.1 NMAC apply unless there is a
				  conflict between definitions in other parts, in which case the definition found
				  in the applicable part shall govern. The definitions include the measurements,
				  abbreviations, and acronyms in Subsection GGGG, of 20.11.1.7 NMAC.
A. "Abnormal operating conditions" means the
				startup or shutdown of air pollution control device(s) or process
				equipment.
B. "Administrator" means
				the administrator of the United States environmental protection agency or his
				or her designee.
C. "Affected
				source" or "facility" means any stationary source, or any other source of air
				pollutants, that must comply with an applicable requirement.
D. "Air agency", "department" or "EHD" means
				the environmental health department (EHD) of the city of Albuquerque. The EHD,
				or its successor agency or authority, as represented by the department director
				or his/her designee, is the lead air quality planning agency for the
				Albuquerque - Bernalillo county nonattainment/maintenance area. The EHD serves
				as staff to the Albuquerque - Bernalillo county air quality control board,
				(A-BC AQCB), and is responsible for the administration and enforcement of the
				A-BC AQCB regulations.
E. "Air
				contaminant" or "air pollutant" means an air pollution agent or combination of
				such agents, including any physical, chemical, biological, radioactive
				(including source material, special nuclear material, and byproduct material)
				substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air.
				Such term includes any precursors to the formation of any air pollutant; to the
				extent the EPA has identified such precursor or precursors for the purpose for
				which the term "air pollutant" is used. This excludes water vapor, nitrogen
				(N2), oxygen (O2), and
				ethane.
F. "Air pollution" means
				the emission, except as such emission occurs in nature, into the outdoor
				atmosphere of one or more air contaminants in such quantities and duration as
				may with reasonable probability injure human health, animal or plant life, or
				as may unreasonably interfere with the public welfare, visibility or the
				reasonable use of property.
G. "Air
				quality control act" means the State of New Mexico Air Quality Control Act,
				Chapter 74, Article 2, NMSA 1978 as amended.
H. "Air quality control board", "board" or
				"A-BC AQCB" means the Albuquerque - Bernalillo county air quality control
				board, which is empowered by federal act, the Air Quality Control Act, and
				ordinances, to prevent or abate air pollution within the boundaries of
				Bernalillo county, except for Indian lands over which the board lacks
				jurisdiction.
I. "Allowable
				emissions" means:
(1) Any department or
				federally enforceable permit term or condition which limits the quantity, rate,
				or concentration of emissions of air pollutants on a continuous basis,
				including any requirements which limits the level of opacity, prescribe
				equipment, set fuel specifications, or prescribe operation or maintenance
				procedures for a source to assure continuous reduction that are requested by
				the applicant and approved by the department or, determined at the time of
				issuance or renewal of a permit to be an applicable requirement.
(2) Any federally enforceable emissions cap
				that the permittee has assumed to avoid an applicable requirement to which the
				source would otherwise be subject.