Pennsylvania Code › Title 25 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part I - Department of Environmental Protection › Subpart C - Protection of Natural Resources › Article III - Air Resources › Chapter 145 - INTERSTATE POLLUTION TRANSPORT REDUCTION › Subchapter A - NO[x] BUDGET TRADING PROGRAM › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 145.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
							 subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
							 otherwise:
Account certificate of
							 representation
-The completed and signed submission certifying the
							 designation of a NOx authorized account representative
							 for a NOx budget source or a group of identified
							 NOx budget sources who is authorized to represent the
							 owners and operators of the sources and of the NOx
							 budget units at the sources with regard to matters under the
							 NOx Budget Trading Program.
Account number
-The identification
							 number given by the Administrator to each NOx Allowance
							 Tracking System account.
Acid rain emissions limitation
-A
							 limitation on emissions of sulfur dioxide or NOx under
							 the Acid Rain Program under Title IV of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C.A. §§
														7651-7651o).
Act
-The Air Pollution Control Act
							 (35
							 P. S. §§
														4001-4015).
Administrator
-The Administrator of
							 the EPA or the Administrator's authorized representative.
Allocate
or
allocation
-The determination by the Department of the number
							 of NOx allowances to be initially credited to a
							 NOx budget unit or an allocation set-aside.
Boiler
-An enclosed fossil or other
							 fuel-fired combustion device used to produce heat and to transfer heat to
							 recirculating water, steam or other medium.
CAA
-The Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C.A. §§
														7401-7642).
CEMS-continuous emission monitoring
							 system
-The equipment required under this subchapter and Chapter 139
							 (relating to sampling and testing) to sample, analyze, measure and provide, by
							 readings taken at least once every 15 minutes of the measured parameters, a
							 permanent record of NOx emissions, expressed in pounds
							 per hour for NOx. The following systems are component
							 parts included, consistent with this subchapter and 40 CFR Part 75 (relating to
							 continuous emission monitoring), in a continuous emission monitoring system:
(i) Flow monitor.
(ii) NOx pollutant
						  concentration monitors.
(iii)
						  Diluent gas monitor (O2 or
						  CO2).
(iv) A
						  continuous moisture monitor.
(v) A
						  DAHS.
Combined cycle system
-A system
							 comprised of one or more combustion turbines, heat recovery steam generators
							 and steam turbines configured to improve overall efficiency of electricity
							 generation or steam production.
Combustion turbine
-An enclosed
							 fossil or other fuel-fired device that is comprised of a compressor, a
							 combustor and a turbine, and in which the flue gas resulting from the
							 combustion of fuel in the combustor passes through the turbine, rotating the
							 turbine.
Commence commercial operation
-With
							 regard to a unit that serves a generator, to have begun to produce steam, gas
							 or other heated medium used to generate electricity for sale or use, including
							 test generation.
(i) Except as
						  provided in §
													145.4(b), §
													145.5 or §§
													145.80-145.88 (relating to applicability;
						  and opt-in process), for a unit that is a NOx budget
						  unit under §
													145.4 on the date the unit
						  commences commercial operation, the date shall remain the unit's date of
						  commencement of commercial operation even if the unit is subsequently modified,
						  reconstructed or repowered.
(ii)
						  Except as provided in §
													145.4(b), §
													145.5 or §§
													145.80-145.88, for a unit that is not a
						  NOx budget unit under §
													145.4 on the date the unit
						  commences commercial operation, the date the unit becomes a
						  NOx budget unit under §
													145.4 is the unit's date of
						  commencement of commercial operation.
Commence operation
-To have begun any
							 mechanical, chemical or electronic process, including, with regard to a unit,
							 start-up of a unit's combustion chamber.
(i) Except as provided in § 145.4(b),
						  §
													145.5 or §§
													145.80-145.88, for a unit that is a
						  NOx budget unit under §
													145.4 on the date of commencement
						  of operation, the date shall remain the unit's date of commencement of
						  operation even if the unit is subsequently modified, reconstructed or
						  repowered.
(ii) Except as provided
						  in §
													145.4(b), §
													145.5 or §§
													145.80 -145.88, for a unit that is
						  not a NOx budget unit under §
													145.4 on the date of commencement
						  of operation, the date the unit becomes a NOx budget
						  unit under §
													145.4 shall be the unit's date of
						  commencement of operation.
Common stack
-A single flue through
							 which emissions from two or more units are exhausted.
Compliance account
-A
							 NOx Allowance Tracking System account for a
							 NOx budget unit under this subchapter, in which the
							 NOx allowance allocations for the unit are initially
							 recorded and in which are held NOx allowances available
							 for use by the unit for a control period for the purpose of meeting the unit's
							 NOx budget emissions limitation.
Compliance certification
-A
							 submission to the Department and the Administrator that is required under this
							 subchapter to report a NOx budget source's or a
							 NOx budget unit's compliance or noncompliance with this
							 subchapter and that is signed by the NOx authorized
							 account representative in accordance with this subchapter.
Control period
-The period beginning
							 May 1 of a year and ending on September 30 of the same year, inclusive.
DAHS-automated data acquisition and handling
							 system
-The component of the CEMS, or other emissions monitoring system
							 approved for use under this subchapter and Chapter 139, designed to interpret
							 and convert individual output signals from pollutant concentration monitors,
							 flow monitors, diluent gas monitors and other component parts of the monitoring
							 system to produce a continuous record of the measured parameters in the
							 measurement units required by this subchapter.
Electricity for sale under firm contract to
							 the electric grid
-Electricity for sale where the capacity involved is
							 intended to be available at all times during the period covered by a guaranteed
							 commitment to deliver, even under adverse conditions.
Emissions
-Air contaminants exhausted
							 from a unit or source into the atmosphere as determined in accordance with this
							 subchapter.
Energy Information
							 Administration
-The Energy Information Administration of the United
							 States Department of Energy.
Excess emissions
-Any tonnage of
							 NOx emitted by a NOx budget unit
							 during a control period that exceeds the NOx budget
							 emissions limitation for the unit.
Fossil fuel
-Natural gas, petroleum,
							 coal, or any form of solid, liquid or gaseous fuel derived from this
							 material.
Fossil fuel-fired
-With regard to a
							 unit, one of the following:
(i) For
						  units that commenced operation before January 1, 1996, the combination of
						  fossil fuel, alone or in combination with any other fuel, where fossil fuel
						  actually combusted comprises more than 50% of the annual heat input on a Btu
						  basis during 1995, or, if a unit had no heat input in 1995, during the last
						  year of operation of the unit prior to 1995.
(ii) For units that commenced operation on or
						  after January 1, 1996, and before January 1, 1997, the combination of fossil
						  fuel, alone or in combination with any other fuel, where fossil fuel actually
						  combusted comprises more than 50% of the annual heat input on a Btu basis
						  during 1996.
(iii) For units that
						  commence operation on or after January 1, 1997, one of the following:
(A) The combination of fossil fuel, alone or
						  in combination with any other fuel, where fossil fuel actually combusted
						  comprises more than 50% of the annual heat input on a Btu basis during any
						  year.
(B) The combination of fossil
						  fuel, alone or in combination with any other fuel, where fossil fuel is
						  projected to comprise more than 50% of the annual heat input on a Btu basis
						  during any year, provided that the unit shall be "fossil fuel-fired'' as of the
						  date, during that year, on which the unit begins combusting fossil
						  fuel.