West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 45 - Air Quality › Title 45 - LEGISLATIVE RULE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AIR QUALITY › Series 45-29 - Reg Requiring The Submission Of Emission Statements For Volatile Organic Compound Emissions And Oxides › Section 45-29-2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
For the purpose of this rule, the following definitions shall
				  apply:
2.1. "Actual emissions" means
				the quantity of volatile organic compounds (VOC) or oxides of nitrogen
				(NOx) emitted from a source during a particular time
				period.
2.2. "AIRS" means the U.S.
				EPA's Aero­metric Information Retrieval System.
2.3. "AFS" means AIRS Facility
				Subsystem.
2.4. "Ambient air" means
				that portion of the atmosphere, external to buildings, to which the general
				public has access.
2.5. "Annual
				fuel or process throughput rate" means the actual or estimated annual fuel
				usage or process operating rate.
2.6. "Certifying individual" means the
				individual responsible for the completion and certification of the emission
				statement (e.g. officer of the company) and who will take legal responsibility
				for the emission statement's accuracy.
2.7. [RESERVED]
2.8. [RESERVED]
2.9. "Control efficiency" means the actual
				control efficiency achieved by the control device. The actual efficiency shall
				reflect control equipment downtime and maintenance degradation.
2.10. "Control equipment identification code"
				means the AIRS/AFS code which defines the equipment (such as an incinerator or
				carbon adsorber) used to reduce, by destruction or removal, the amount of air
				pollutant(s) in an air stream prior to discharge to the ambient air.
2.11. "Director" means the Director of the
				Division of Environmental Protection or his or her designated
				representative.
2.12. "Division of
				Environmental Protection" or "DEP" means that Division of the Division of
				Environmental Protection which is created by the provisions of the W. Va. Code
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'22-1-1, et seq.
2.13. "Emission estimation method code" means
				a one-position code which identifies the estimation technique used in the
				calculation of estimated emissions.
2.14. "Emissions Unit" means any part of a
				stationary source which emits or has the potential to emit any pollutant
				regulated pursuant to the provisions of this rule.
2.15. "Estimated emissions units" means a
				two-position code which identifies the units associated with an estimated
				emissions.
2.16. "Facility" means
				all of the pollutant-emitting activities that are located on one or more
				contiguous or adjacent properties, and are under the control of the same person
				(or person under common control).
2.17. "Measured emissions method code" means
				a one-position code which identifies the test method used to ascertain measured
				emissions.
2.18. "Measured
				emissions units" means a two-position code which identifies the units
				associated with a measured emissions value.
2.19. "Owner or operator" means any person
				who owns, leases, controls, operates, or supervises a facility, a source, or
				air pollution control or monitoring equipment.
2.20. "Oxides of nitrogen" (also denoted as
				NOx) means, in air pollution usage, a compound comprised
				of nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2),
				expressed as molecular weight of NO2.
2.21. "Ozone season" means that period of the
				year during which conditions for photochemical ozone formation are most
				favorable. Generally, sustained periods of direct sunlight (i.e., long days,
				small cloud cover) and warm temperatures. For West Virginia, the ozone season
				is June, July, and August.
2.22.
				"Percent seasonal throughput" means the weighted percent of yearly activity for
				the following periods:
2.22.a.
				December-February;
2.22.b.
				March-May;
2.22.c. June-August;
				and
2.22.d.
				September-November.