Virginia Administrative Code › Title 9 - ENVIRONMENT › Agency 5 - STATE AIR POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD › Chapter 40 - EXISTING STATIONARY SOURCES › Part II - Emission Standards › Article 54 - Emission Standards for Large Municipal Waste Combustors (Rule 4-54) › Section 9VAC5-40-8130 - Operator training and certification

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
A. Each chief facility operator and shift
					 supervisor of an affected facility shall obtain and maintain a current
					 provisional operator training certification from the American Society of
					 Mechanical Engineers as provided in the "Standard for the Qualification and
					 Certification of Resource Recovery Facility Operators" (see
					 9VAC5-20-21 ) or a board-approved
					 certification program.
B. Each
					 chief facility operator and shift supervisor of an affected facility shall have
					 completed full certification or scheduled a full certification exam with either
					 the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as provided in the "Standard for
					 the Qualification and Certification of Resource Recovery Facility Operators"
					 (see 9VAC5-20-21 ) or a board-approved
					 certification program.
C. No owner
					 of an affected facility shall allow the facility to be operated at any time
					 unless a person is on duty who is responsible for the proper operation of the
					 facility and has a license from the Board for Waste Management Facility
					 Operators in the correct classification. No provision of this article shall
					 relieve any owner from the responsibility to comply in all respects with the
					 requirements of Chapter 22.1 (§ 54.1-2209 et seq.) of Title 54.1 of the
					 Code of Virginia, and with 18VAC155 Chapter 20.
D. No owner of an affected facility shall
					 allow the facility to be operated at any time unless one of the following
					 persons is on duty and at the affected facility: a fully certified chief
					 facility operator, a provisionally certified chief facility operator who is
					 scheduled to take the full certification exam according to the schedule
					 specified in
					 9VAC5-40-8110 B 1, a fully
					 certified shift supervisor, or a provisionally certified shift supervisor who
					 is scheduled to take the full certification exam according to the schedule
					 specified in
					 9VAC5-40-8110 B 1.
If one of the persons listed in this subsection must
						leave the affected facility during that person's operating shift, a
						provisionally certified control room operator who is onsite at the affected
						facility may fulfill the requirement in this subsection.
E. All chief facility operators, shift
					 supervisors, and control room operators at affected facilities must complete
					 the board-approved municipal waste combustor operator training
					 course.
F. The owner of an affected
					 facility shall develop and update on a yearly basis a site-specific operating
					 manual that shall, at a minimum, address the elements of municipal waste
					 combustor unit operation specified in this subsection.
1. A summary of the applicable standards
					 under this article;
2. A
					 description of basic combustion theory applicable to a municipal waste
					 combustor unit;
3. Procedures for
					 receiving, handling, and feeding municipal solid waste;
4. Municipal waste combustor unit startup,
					 shutdown, and malfunction procedures;
5. Procedures for maintaining proper
					 combustion air supply levels;
6.
					 Procedures for operating the municipal waste combustor unit within the
					 standards established under this article;
7. Procedures for responding to periodic
					 upset or off-specification conditions;
8. Procedures for minimizing particulate
					 matter carryover;
9. Procedures for
					 handling ash;
10. Procedures for
					 monitoring municipal waste combustor unit emissions; and
11. Reporting and recordkeeping
					 procedures.