Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3745 - Ohio Environmental Protection Agency › Chapter 3745-103 - Acid Rain Operating Permits for Electrical Generating Units › Section 3745-103-07 - Acid rain permit applications

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
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(A) Requirement to apply.
(1) Duty to apply. The designated
			 representative shall submit a complete acid rain permit application for each
			 source with an affected unit at least six months prior to the expiration of an
			 existing acid rain permit governing the unit during phase II or an opt-in
			 permit governing an opt-in source or such longer time as approved by the
			 director under Chapter 3745-77 of the Administrative Code that ensures that the
			 term of the existing permit will not expire before the effective date of the
			 permit for which the application is submitted.
(2) Deadlines. For
			 the following sources, the designated representative shall submit to the
			 director a complete acid rain permit application governing such unit in
			 accordance with the following schedule:
(a) For any source with an existing unit
			 described under paragraph (A)(2) of rule
			 3745-103-02 of the
			 Administrative Code, the 
										submission deadline is on or
			 before January 1, 1996.
(b) For any
			 source with a new unit described under paragraph (A)(3)(a) of rule
			 3745-103-02 of the
			 Administrative Code, the 
										submission deadline is at least
			 twenty-four months before the later of January 1, 2000 or the date on which the
			 unit commences operation.
(c) For
			 any source with a unit described under paragraph (A)(3)(b) of rule
			 3745-103-02 of the
			 Administrative Code, the 
										submission deadline is at least
			 twenty-four months before the later of January 1, 2000 or the date on which the
			 unit begins to serve a generator with a nameplate capacity greater than
			 twenty-five MWe.
(d) For any source
			 with a unit described under paragraph (A)(3)(c) of rule
			 3745-103-02 of the
			 Administrative Code, the
			 
										submission deadline is at least twenty-four
			 months before the later of January 1, 2000 or the date on which the auxiliary
			 firing commences operation.
(e) For
			 any source with a unit described under paragraph (A)(3)(d) of rule
			 3745-103-02 of the
			 Administrative Code, the 
										submission deadline is before
			 the later of January 1, 1998 or March first of the year following the three
			 calendar year period in which the unit sold to a utility power distribution
			 system an annual average of more than one-third of its potential electrical
			 output capacity and more than two hundred nineteen thousand MWe-hrs actual
			 electric output on a gross basis.
(f) For any source with a unit described
			 under paragraph (A)(3)(e) of rule
			 3745-103-02 of the
			 Administrative Code, the 
										submission deadline is before
			 the later of January 1, 1998 or March first of the year following the calendar
			 year in which the facility fails to meet the definition of a "qualifying
			 facility."
(g) For any source with
			 a unit described under paragraph (A)(3)(f) of rule
			 3745-103-02 of the
			 Administrative Code, the 
										submission deadline is before
			 the later of January 1, 1998 or March first of the year following the calendar
			 year in which the facility fails to meet the definition of an "independent
			 power production facility."
(h) For
			 any source with a unit described under paragraph (A)(3)(g) of rule
			 3745-103-02 of the
			 Administrative Code, the 
										submission deadline is before
			 the later of January 1, 1998 or March first of the year following the three
			 calendar year period in which the incinerator consumed twenty per cent or more
			 fossil fuel (on a Btu basis).