North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 15A - Environmental Quality › Chapter 02 - Environmental Management › Subchapter D - AIR POLLUTION CONTROL REQUIREMENTS › Section .0200 - AIR POLLUTION SOURCES › Section 02D .0201 - CLASSIFICATION OF AIR POLLUTION SOURCES

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a)
				  Purpose. This Rule establishes a system for classifying air pollution sources.
				  The Commission shall use the system for classifying air pollution sources set
				  forth in this Rule to classify air pollution sources governed by this
				  Subchapter.
(b) Scope. This Rule
				  shall apply to all air pollution sources, both combustion and non-combustion.
				  The following system for classifying air pollution sources shall be used:
(1) "Class I-C" includes all sources of air
				  pollution using fuel-burning equipment for the production of heat to generate
				  electricity for public use.
(2)
				  "Class II-C" includes all sources of air pollution using fuel-burning equipment
				  for the production of steam, and for other process uses at commercial and
				  industrial establishments.
(3)
				  "Class III-C" includes all sources of air pollution using fuel-burning
				  equipment for comfort heating at institutional, commercial, or industrial
				  establishments, or at apartment houses having a central heating system serving
				  more than four apartments.
(4)
				  "Class IV-C" includes all sources of air pollution that burn trash, rubbish,
				  refuse, or similar materials in incinerators, teepee burners, or similar
				  devices.
(5) "Class V-C" includes
				  all sources of air pollution using fuel-burning equipment for comfort heating
				  that are not included in Class III-C.
(6) "Class VI-C" includes all sources of air
				  pollution using internal combustion engines.
(7) "Class I-I" includes all sources of air
				  pollution resulting from industrial plants engaged in the manufacture of
				  chemicals or allied products whose processes depend on the chemical reaction of
				  two or more elements or compounds, and includes plants producing acids,
				  fertilizer materials, dyestuff, synthetic fibers, and industrial
				  gases.
(8) "Class II-I" includes
				  all sources of air pollution resulting from industrial plants engaged in the
				  production of pulp and paper.
(9)
				  "Class III-I" includes all sources of air pollution resulting from the mining
				  and processing of minerals, stone, clay, and cement products, and includes
				  phosphate ore, mica and feldspar operations, stone quarries and crushers,
				  cement plants, concrete mixing plants, and masonry block plants.
(10) "Class IV-I" includes all sources of air
				  pollution resulting from industrial operations using petroleum products, and
				  includes asphalt mix plants, roofing felt plants, and petroleum products
				  storage areas.
(11) "Class V-I"
				  includes all sources of air pollution resulting from furniture, lumber, or wood
				  product plants.
(12) "Class VI-I"
				  includes all sources of air pollution resulting from textile manufacturing,
				  textile dyeing, or finishing plants.
(13) "Class VII-I" includes all sources of
				  air pollution resulting from the shelling, drying, storage, ginning, and
				  processing of tobacco, corn, soybeans, peanuts, cotton, fruits, vegetables, or
				  other agricultural products.
(14)
				  "Class VIII-I" includes all sources of air pollution resulting from industries
				  engaged in the processing of metals, and includes smelting, casting foundries,
				  metal working, and other similar operations.
(15) "Class IX-I" includes all sources of air
				  pollution resulting from slaughtering and processing of meat, poultry, fish,
				  and similar products and from rendering or the recovering of by-products of
				  these operations.
(16) "Class X-I"
				  includes all sources of air pollution resulting from industries which do not
				  fall within the classifications described in Subparagraphs (b)(7) through
				  (b)(15) of this Rule.