Washington Administrative Code › Title 173 - Ecology, Department of (See also Titles 197, 317, 372, and 508) › Chapter 173-406 - Acid rain regulation › Part III - APPLICATIONS › Section 173-406-301 - Requirement to apply

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) Duty to apply.
				The designated representative of any source with an affected unit shall submit
				a complete acid rain permit application by the applicable deadline in
				subsections (2) and (3) of this section, and the owners and operators of such
				source and any affected unit at the source shall not operate the source or unit
				without a permit that states its Acid Rain Program requirements.
(2) Deadlines.
(a) For any source with an existing unit
				described under WAC
				173-406-103(1)(b),
				the designated representative shall submit a complete acid rain permit
				application governing such unit to the permitting authority on or before
				January 1, 1996.
(b) For any source
				with a new unit described under WAC
				173-406-103(1)(c)(i),
				the designated representative shall submit a complete acid rain permit
				application governing such unit to the permitting authority at least
				twenty-four months before the later of January 1, 2000, or the date on which
				the unit commences operation.
(c)
				For any source with a unit described under WAC
				173-406-103(1)(c)(ii),
				the designated representative shall submit a complete acid rain permit
				application governing such unit to the permitting authority at least
				twenty-four months before the later of January 1, 2000, or the date on which
				the unit begins to serve a generator with a nameplate capacity greater than
				twenty-five MWe.
(d) For any source
				with a unit described under WAC
				173-406-103(1)(c)(iii),
				the designated representative shall submit a complete acid rain permit
				application governing such unit to the permitting authority at least
				twenty-four months before the later of January 1, 2000, or the date on which
				the auxiliary firing commences operation.
(e) For any source with a unit described
				under WAC
				173-406-103(1)(c)(iv),
				the designated representative shall submit a complete acid rain permit
				application governing such unit to the permitting authority before the later of
				January 1, 1998, or March 1st of the year following the three calendar year
				period in which the unit sold to a utility power distribution system an annual
				average of more than one-third of its potential electrical output capacity and
				more than two hundred nineteen thousand MWe-hrs actual electric output (on a
				gross basis).
(f) For any source
				with a unit described under WAC
				173-406-103(1)(c)(v),
				the designated representative shall submit a complete acid rain permit
				application governing such unit to the permitting authority before the later of
				January 1, 1998, or March 1st of the year following the calendar year in which
				the facility fails to meet the definition of qualifying facility.
(g) For any source with a unit described
				under WAC
				173-406-103(1)(c)(vi),
				the designated representative shall submit a complete acid rain permit
				application governing such unit to the permitting authority before the later of
				January 1, 1998, or March 1st of the year following the calendar year in which
				the facility fails to meet the definition of an independent power production
				facility.
(h) For any source with a
				unit described under WAC
				173-406-103(1)(c)(vii),
				the designated representative shall submit a complete acid rain permit
				application governing such unit to the permitting authority before the later of
				January 1, 1998, or March 1st of the year following the three calendar year
				period in which the incinerator consumed twenty percent or more fossil fuel (on
				a Btu basis).