Washington Administrative Code › Title 173 - Ecology, Department of (See also Titles 197, 317, 372, and 508) › Chapter 173-401 - Operating permit regulation › Part V - PERMIT APPLICATIONS › Section 173-401-500 - Permit applications

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) Source
				identification. Within ninety days after the date that a permitting authority
				submits for EPA approval a permit program or partial permit program, the
				permitting authority shall notify each potential chapter 401 source within its
				jurisdiction that the source may be required to obtain a permit. Failure of the
				permitting authority to notify a source shall not relieve that source from the
				obligation to file a timely and complete application.
(2) Application distribution. No later than
				thirty days after EPA grants final or interim, full or partial, approval to the
				state program, the responsible permitting authority shall send an application
				to each potential chapter 401 source within its jurisdiction, and a notice
				stating a deadline by which an application must be filed. Failure of the
				permitting authority to distribute permit or renewal applications to an
				individual source shall not relieve that source from the obligation to file a
				timely and complete application. Renewal applications shall be sent to the
				source as specified in WAC
				173-401-710.
(3) Duty to apply. For each chapter 401
				source, the owner or operator shall submit a timely and complete permit
				application in accordance with this section. Whenever practicable, the
				applicant shall utilize methods provided by the permitting authority for
				electronic transmission of the completed application.
(a) Existing chapter 401 sources. Chapter 401
				sources in existence on the date of EPA approval of the state permit program
				shall submit permit applications no later than one hundred eighty days after
				EPA approval of the state permitting program.
(b) Existing sources becoming chapter 401
				sources due to future regulations. An existing source may become subject to the
				operating permit program as a result of regulations promulgated after EPA
				approval of the state permit program. For those sources, a complete application
				must be submitted within twelve months from the time that the source becomes
				subject to the permit program.
(c)
				New or modified sources. New or modified chapter 401 sources which commence
				operation after EPA approval of the state operating program shall file a
				complete application to obtain the chapter 401 permit or permit revision within
				twelve months after commencing operation. Where an existing chapter 401 permit
				would prohibit such construction or change in operation, the source must obtain
				a permit revision before commencing operation. The applicant may elect to
				integrate procedures for new source review and operating permit issuance as
				described in subsection (10) of this section.
(d) Permit renewal. For purposes of permit
				renewal, a timely application is one that is submitted at the time specified in
				WAC 173-401-710.
(e) Applications for initial phase II acid
				rain permits shall be submitted to the permitting authority by January 1, 1996,
				for sulfur dioxide, and by January 1, 1998, for nitrogen oxides.