Washington Administrative Code › Title 173 - Ecology, Department of (See also Titles 197, 317, 372, and 508) › Chapter 173-400 - General regulations for air pollution sources › Section 173-400-105 - Records, monitoring, and reporting

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
The owner or operator of a source must upon notification by
				ecology, maintain records on the type and quantity of emissions from the source
				and other information deemed necessary to determine whether the source is in
				compliance with applicable emission limitations and control measures.
(1)
Emission inventory.
The
			 owner and operator of an air contaminant source must submit an inventory of
			 emissions from the source each year. The inventory must include stack and
			 fugitive emissions of particulate matter, PM-10, PM-2.5, sulfur dioxide, oxides
			 of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, total reduced sulfur compounds (TRS), fluorides,
			 lead, VOCs, ammonia, and other contaminants. Sources must provide registration
			 information in a manner prescribed by the permitting authority for the
			 submittal of these inventories . When the permitting authority requests
			 emission inventory information for a calendar year, the owner or operator must
			 submit the emissions inventory no later than April 15th after the end of the
			 calendar year for which the emissions inventory was requested. If April 15th
			 falls on a weekend, then the deadline to file shall be the next business day.
			 The owner and operator must maintain records of information necessary to
			 substantiate any reported emissions, consistent with the averaging times for
			 the applicable standards. The owner or operator may base emission estimates
			 used in the inventory on the most recent published EPA emission factors for a
			 source category, or other information available to the owner and operator,
			 whichever is the better estimate.
(2)
Monitoring.
Ecology must
			 conduct a continuous surveillance program to monitor the quality of the ambient
			 atmosphere as to concentrations and movements of air contaminants. As a part of
			 this program, the director of ecology or an authorized representative may
			 require any source under the jurisdiction of ecology to conduct stack and/or
			 ambient air monitoring and to report the results to ecology.
(3)
Investigation of conditions.
Upon presentation of appropriate credentials, for the purpose of investigating
			 conditions specific to the control, recovery, or release of air contaminants
			 into the atmosphere, personnel from ecology or an authority must have the power
			 to enter at reasonable times upon any private or public property, excepting
			 nonmultiple unit private dwellings housing one or two families.
(4)
Source testing.
To
			 demonstrate compliance, the permitting authority may conduct or require that
			 the owner or operator of a source conduct a test using approved test methods
			 from 40 C.F.R. Parts 51, 60, 61, 62, 63, 75 and 1065, as applicable (in effect
			 on the date in WAC
			 173-400-025) or procedures contained in "
Source Test Manual - Procedures for
			 Compliance Testing
," state of Washington, department of ecology, as of
			 September 20, 2004, on file at ecology. The permitting authority may require
			 the operator of a source to provide the necessary platform and sampling ports
			 for ecology personnel or others to perform a test of an emissions unit. The
			 source owner or operator must allow the permitting authority to obtain a sample
			 from any emissions unit. The permitting authority shall give the operator of
			 the source an opportunity to observe the sampling and to obtain a sample at the
			 same time.
(5)
Continuous
			 monitoring and recording.
Owners and operators of the following
			 categories of sources must install, calibrate, maintain and operate equipment
			 for continuously monitoring and recording those emissions specified.
(a) Fossil fuel-fired steam generators.
(i) Opacity, except where:
(A) Steam generator capacity is less than two
			 hundred fifty million BTU per hour heat input; or
(B) Only gaseous fuel is burned.