Texas Administrative Code › Title 30 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Part 1 - TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 101 - GENERAL AIR QUALITY RULES › Subchapter F - EMISSIONS EVENTS AND SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE, STARTUP, AND SHUTDOWN ACTIVITIES › Division 2 - MAINTENANCE, STARTUP, AND SHUTDOWN ACTIVITIES › Section 101.211 - Scheduled Maintenance, Startup, and Shutdown Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) The owner
					 or operator of a regulated entity conducting a scheduled maintenance, startup,
					 or shutdown activity shall notify the commission office for the region in which
					 the regulated entity is located and all appropriate local air pollution control
					 agencies with jurisdiction at least ten days prior to any scheduled
					 maintenance, startup, or shutdown activity that is expected to cause an
					 unauthorized emission that equals or exceeds the reportable quantity (RQ) as
					 defined in §
											101.1 of
					 this title (relating to Definitions), by emissions point in any 24-hour period
					 and/or an activity where the owner or operator expects only an excess opacity
					 event as defined in §
											101.1 of
					 this title. If notice cannot be given ten days prior to a scheduled
					 maintenance, startup, or shutdown activity, notification must be given as soon
					 as practicable prior to the scheduled activity. Maintenance, startup, or
					 shutdown activities where the actual emissions exceed the emissions in the
					 notification by more than an RQ or for which a notification was not submitted
					 prior to the activity are either upsets or unplanned maintenance, startup, or
					 shutdown activities, depending upon the reason for exceeding the estimate.
					 Excess opacity events where unauthorized emissions result are emissions events.
					 Owners and operators of a regulated entity with emissions events shall report
					 such events as emissions events in accordance with the requirements in §
											101.201
					 of this title (relating to Emissions Event Reporting and Recordkeeping
					 Requirements), or this section as applicable and §
											101.222
					 of this title (relating to Demonstrations).
(1) The notification for a scheduled
					 maintenance, startup, or shutdown activity, except for boilers and combustion
					 turbines referenced in the definition of RQ in §
												101.1 of
					 this title, must identify:
(A) the name of the
					 owner or operator;
(B) the
					 commission Regulated Entity Number of the regulated entity, if a Regulated
					 Entity Number and air account number exist(s), or if there is not a Regulated
					 Entity Number, the air number of the regulated entity. If a Regulated Entity
					 Number and air account number do not exist, then identify the location of the
					 release and a contact telephone number;
(C) the physical location of the points at
					 which emissions from the scheduled maintenance, startup, or shutdown activity
					 will occur;
(D) the type of
					 scheduled maintenance, startup, or shutdown activity and the reason for the
					 scheduled activity;
(E) the
					 expected date and time of the scheduled maintenance, startup, or shutdown
					 activity, and expected duration of any maintenance activity;
(F) the common name of the process units or
					 areas, the common name and the agency-established facility identification
					 number of the facilities that will be involved in the emissions activity, and
					 the common name and the agency-established emission point numbers where the
					 unauthorized emissions may be released to the atmosphere. Owners or operators
					 of those facilities and emission points that the agency has not established
					 facility identification numbers or emission point numbers for are not required
					 to provide the facility identification numbers and emission point numbers in
					 the report, but are required to provide the common names in the
					 report;
(G) the expected duration
					 of the emissions from the scheduled maintenance, startup, or shutdown
					 activity;
(H) the compound
					 descriptive type of the individually listed compounds or mixtures of air
					 contaminants, in the definition of RQ in §
													101.1 of
					 this title, for all emission points involved in the emissions activity, that
					 through common process knowledge or past engineering analysis or testing are
					 expected to equal or exceed the RQ. Compounds or mixtures of air contaminants,
					 that have an RQ greater than or equal to 100 pounds and the amount released is
					 less than ten pounds in a 24-hour period, are not required to be specifically
					 listed in the report, instead these compounds or mixtures of air contaminants
					 may be identified together as "other";
(I) the estimated total quantities for those
					 compounds or mixtures described in subparagraph (H) of this paragraph; the
					 preconstruction authorization number or rule citation of the standard permit,
					 permit by rule, or rule, if any, governing the facilities involved in the
					 activity; authorized emissions limits, if any, for the facilities involved in
					 the emissions activity, and, if applicable, the estimated opacity and the
					 authorized opacity limit. Good engineering practice and methods must be used to
					 provide reasonably accurate representations for emissions and opacity.
					 Estimated emissions from compounds or mixtures of air contaminants that are
					 identified as "other" under subparagraph (H) of this paragraph, are not
					 required for each individual compound or mixture of air contaminants, however,
					 a total estimate of emissions must be provided for the category identified as
					 "other";
(J) the basis used for
					 determining the quantity of air contaminants to be emitted; and
(K) the actions taken to minimize the
					 emissions from the scheduled maintenance, startup, or shutdown
					 activity.