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 173-400-100 - Source classifications

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1)
Source classification list.
In counties without a local air
			 pollution control authority, or for sources under the jurisdiction of ecology,
			 the owner or operator of each source within the following source categories
			 must register the source with ecology:
(a)
			 Agricultural chemical facilities engaging in the manufacturing of liquid or dry
			 fertilizers or pesticides;
(b)
			 Agricultural drying and dehydrating operations;
(c) Any category of stationary source that
			 includes an emissions unit subject to a new source performance standard (NSPS)
			 under  40 C.F.R. Part 60  (in effect on the date in WAC
			 173-400-025), other than subpart AAA (Standards of Performance for New Residential Wood
			 Heaters);
(d) Any stationary source
			 that includes an emissions unit subject to a National Emission Standard for
			 Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) under   40 C.F.R. Part 61   (in effect on the
			 date in WAC
			 173-400-025), other than:
(i) Subpart M (National
			 Emission Standard for Asbestos); or
(ii) Sources or emission units emitting only
			 radionuclides, which are required to obtain a license under WAC
			 246-247-060,
			 and are subject to 40 C.F.R. Part 61, subparts H and/or I, and that are not
			 subject to any other part of 40 C.F.R. Parts 61, 62, or 63, or any other parts
			 of this section.
(e) Any
			 source, or emissions unit subject to a National Emission Standard for Hazardous
			 Air Pollutants for Source Categories under  40 C.F.R. Part 63  (in effect on the
			 date in WAC
			 173-400-025) that is not subject to chapter 173-401 WAC;
(f) Any source, stationary source or emission
			 unit with an emission rate of one or more pollutants equal to or greater than
			 an "emission threshold" defined in WAC
			 173-400-030;
(g) Asphalt and asphalt products production
			 facilities;
(h) Brick and clay
			 manufacturing plants, including tiles and ceramics;
(i) Casting facilities and foundries, ferrous
			 and nonferrous;
(j) Cattle feedlots
			 with operational facilities which have an inventory of one thousand or more
			 cattle in operation between June 1st and October 1st, where vegetation forage
			 growth is not sustained over the majority of the lot during the normal growing
			 season;
(k) Chemical manufacturing
			 plants;
(l) Composting operations,
			 including commercial, industrial and municipal, but exempting residential
			 composting activities;
(m) Concrete
			 product manufacturers and ready mix and premix concrete plants;
(n) Crematoria or animal carcass
			 incinerators;
(o) Dry cleaning
			 plants;
(p) Materials handling and
			 transfer facilities that generate fine particulate, which may include pneumatic
			 conveying, cyclones, baghouses, and industrial housekeeping vacuuming systems
			 that exhaust to the atmosphere;
(q)
			 Flexible vinyl and urethane coating and printing operations;
(r) Grain, seed, animal feed, legume, and
			 flour processing operations, and handling facilities;
(s) Hay cubers and pelletizers;
(t) Hazardous waste treatment and disposal
			 facilities;
(u) Ink
			 manufacturers;
(v) Insulation fiber
			 manufacturers;
(w) Landfills,
			 active and inactive, including covers, gas collections systems or
			 flares;
(x) Metal plating and
			 anodizing operations;
(y) Metallic
			 and nonmetallic mineral processing plants, including rock crushing
			 plants;
(z) Mills such as lumber,
			 plywood, shake, shingle, wood-chip, veneer operations, dry kilns, pulpwood
			 insulating board, or any combination thereof;
(aa) Mineralogical processing
			 plants;
(bb) Other metallurgical
			 processing plants;
(cc) Paper
			 manufacturers;
(dd) Petroleum
			 refineries;
(ee) Petroleum product
			 blending operations;
(ff) Plastics
			 and fiberglass product fabrication facilities;
(gg) Rendering plants;
(hh) Soil and groundwater remediation
			 projects;
(ii) Surface coating
			 manufacturers;
(jj) Surface coating
			 operations including: Automotive, metal, cans, pressure sensitive tape, labels,
			 coils, wood, plastic, rubber, glass, paper and other substrates;
(kk) Synthetic fiber production
			 facilities;
(ll) Synthetic organic
			 chemical manufacturing industries;
(mm) Tire recapping facilities;
(nn) Wastewater treatment plants;
(oo) Any source that has elected to opt-out
			 of the operating permit program by limiting its potential-to-emit (synthetic
			 minor) or is required to report periodically to demonstrate nonapplicability to
			 EPA requirements under Sections 111 or 112 of Federal Clean Air
			 Act.