Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3745 - Ohio Environmental Protection Agency › Chapter 3745-15 - General Provisions on Air Pollution Control › Section 3745-15-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1,
			 2024
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As used in all air pollution rules, except as may be otherwise
				specifically provided.
(A) "Act" means
			 Chapters 3704. and 3745. of the Revised Code.
(B) "Air pollutant" or "air contaminant"
			 means particulate matter, dust, fumes, gas, mist, smoke, vapor or odorous
			 substances, or any combination thereof.
(C) "Air pollution" means the presence in the
			 ambient air of one or more air pollutants or any combination thereof in
			 sufficient quantity and of such characteristics and duration as is or threatens
			 to be injurious to human health or welfare, plant or animal life, or property,
			 or which interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life or
			 property.
(D) "Ambient air" means
			 that portion of the atmosphere outside of buildings and other enclosures,
			 stacks, or ducts which surrounds human, plant, or animal life, or
			 property.
(E) "Ambient air quality
			 standards" means ambient air quality goals expressed numerically and intended
			 to be attained and maintained in a stated time through the application of
			 appropriate preventive or control measures.
(F) "ASME" means the "American Society of
			 Mechanical Engineers."
(G) "ASTM"
			 means the "American Society for Testing and Materials."
(H) "Area" means the state of Ohio.
(I) "Clean Air Act" or "CAA" means the
			 federal Clean Air Act.
(J) "Control
			 equipment" means any device or contrivance which prevents or reduces
			 emissions.
(K) "Commenced" means
			 that an owner or operator has undertaken a continuous program of construction
			 or modification or has entered into a binding contractual obligation to
			 undertake and complete, within a reasonable time, a continuous program of
			 construction or modification.
(L)
			 "Director" means the director of the Ohio environmental protection
			 agency.
(M) "Emission" means the
			 act of releasing or discharging an air pollutant into the ambient air from any
			 source.
(N) "Existing source" means
			 any source the construction of which was commenced prior to February 15,
			 1972.
(O) "Facility" means any
			 building, structure, installation, operation, or combination thereof which
			 contains one or more stationary source of air contaminants.
(P)
								"Malfunction"
			 means any sudden, infrequent, and not reasonably preventable failure of air
			 pollution control and monitoring equipment, process equipment, electronic
			 software or hardware, or a process to operate in manner representative of
			 normal source operation which is likely to cause, or has likely caused,
			 emissions reasonably estimated to be in excess of the amount allowed by an
			 applicable emissions limitation, standard, or permit term in the absence of a
			 malfunction. Malfunctions include, but are not limited to, failures caused by
			 power outages, sabotage, or acts of God. Failures that are attributable to poor
			 maintenance or careless operation are not malfunctions. In accordance with
			 paragraph (A)(1) of rule
			 3745-15-06 of the Administrative
			 Code, maintenance of air pollution control equipment which is scheduled to
			 prevent a malfunction which would occur within two weeks if the maintenance
			 were not performed is considered to be a malfunction.
(Q)
			 "Modification" means any physical change in, or change in the method of
			 operation of, an existing source or a new source that increases the amount of
			 any air pollutant emitted by such source or which results in the emission of
			 any air pollutant not previously emitted from the same location.
(R)
								"NAAQS" means
			 national ambient air quality standard.
(S) "New source" means
			 any source the construction or modification of which is commenced on or after
			 February 15, 1972.
(T) "Non-methane
			 hydrocarbon" means any chemical compound containing carbon but excluding:
			 carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, carbides, metallic carbonates, ammonium
			 carbonate, and methane.
(U) "Ohio EPA" or
			 "OEPA," means the Ohio environmental protection agency or the director as the
			 context or other law or rules may require.
(V) "Owner or operator"
			 means any person who owns, leases, controls, operates or supervises a
			 facility or air
			 pollution control equipment.
(W) "Person" means the
			 state or any agency thereof, any political subdivision, or any agency thereof,
			 public or private corporation, individual, partnership, or other
			 entity.
(X)
								"PSD" means prevention of significant
			 deterioration.
(Y) "Region" means an
			 air quality control region as designated by the secretary of health, education
			 and welfare, or by the administrator, United States environmental protection
			 agency, or by the director.
(Z) "Source" means any
			 building, structure, facility, operation, installation, other physical
			 facility, or real or personal property that emits or may emit any air
			 pollutant.
(AA) "Source operation"
			 means the last operation preceding emission which operation
			 meets both of the following:
(1) Results in the separation of the air
			 contaminant from the process materials or in the conversion of the process
			 materials into air contaminants, as in the case of combustion fuel.
(2) Is not an air pollution abatement
			 operation.