West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 45 - Air Quality › Title 45 - LEGISLATIVE RULE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AIR QUALITY › Series 45-13 - Permits for Construction, Modification, Relocation and Operation of Stationary Sources of Air Pollutants, Notification Requirements, Admin. Updates, Temporary Permits, General Permits, Permission to Commence Contruction and Procedures for Evaluation › Table 45-13B

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
DE MINIMIS SOURCES
1. Air compressors and pneumatically-operated
				equipment, including hand tools; instrument air systems (excluding fuel-fired
				compressors); emissions from pneumatic starters on reciprocating engines,
				turbines or other equipment; and periodic use of air for cleanup (excluding all
				sandblasting activities).
2. Air
				contaminant detectors or recorders, combustion controllers or
				shutoffs.
3. Any consumer product
				used in the same manner as in normal consumers' use, provided the use results
				in a duration and frequency of exposure which are not greater than those
				experienced by consumers and which may include, but not be limited to, personal
				use items; janitorial cleaning supplies; office supplies; and supplies to
				maintain copying equipment.
4.
				Bathroom/toilet vent emissions.
5.
				Tobacco smoking rooms and areas.
6.
				Batteries and battery charging stations, except at battery manufacturing
				plants.
7. Bench-scale laboratory
				equipment used for physical or chemical analysis, excluding lab fume hoods or
				vents.
8. Routine calibration and
				maintenance of laboratory equipment or other analytical instruments.
9. Boiler water treatment operations,
				excluding cooling towers.
10.
				Portable brazing, soldering, gas cutting or welding equipment used as an
				auxiliary to the principal equipment at the source.
11. CO2 lasers, used
				only in metals and other materials which do not emit any hazardous air
				pollutants in the process.
12.
				Combustion emissions from propulsion of mobile sources.
13. Wood heaters, cook stoves or fireplaces
				used for heating and/or cooking at residential or publicly-owned
				facilities.
14. Comfort air
				conditioning or ventilation systems not used to remove air contaminants
				generated by or released from specific units of equipment.
15. Demineralized water tanks and
				demineralizer vents.
16. Drop
				hammers or hydraulic presses for forging or metalworking.
17. Equipment used exclusively for pressing,
				drawing or stamping of metals, excluding emissions due to quenching activities
				or supporting equipment.
18.
				Emissions from die-casting machinery, excluding emissions from melt furnaces or
				other associated processes.
19.
				Foundry sand molding forming equipment, provided no heat is applied and no VOCs
				or hazardous air pollutants are emitted, but not including the metal pouring
				process.
20. Electric or
				steam-heated drying ovens, autoclaves or steam sterilizers, excluding the
				emissions from the articles or substances being processed in the ovens or
				autoclaves or the boilers delivering the steam.
21. Emergency electrical generators at
				residential locations.
22.
				Emergency road flares.
23.
				Environmental chambers not using hazardous air pollutant gases.
24. Emissions from food preparation at
				restaurants and cafeterias.
25.
				Equipment used exclusively to slaughter animals, excluding other equipment at
				slaughterhouses, such as rending cookers, boilers, heating plants,
				incinerators, and electrical power generating equipment.
26. Equipment used for quality
				control/assurance or inspection purposes, including sampling equipment used to
				withdraw materials for analysis.
27. Fire suppression systems.
28. Firefighting equipment and the equipment
				used to train firefighters and emergency response individuals, which is subject
				to 45CSR6 and complies with 45CSR34.
29. Single-use flares used solely to indicate
				danger to the public.
30. Hand-held
				applicator equipment for hot melt adhesives with no VOCs or hazardous air
				pollutants in the adhesive formulation.
31. Hand-held equipment for buffing,
				polishing, cutting, drilling, sawing, grinding, turning or machining wood,
				metal or plastic.
32. Humidity
				chambers.
33. Hydraulic and
				hydrostatic testing equipment.
34.
				Mobile internal combustion engines used for landscaping purposes.
35. Laser trimmers using dust collection to
				prevent fugitive emissions.
36.
				Laundry activities, excluding dry-cleaning and steam boilers.
37. Natural gas pressure regulator vents,
				excluding venting at oil and gas production facilities.
38. Oxygen scavenging (de-aeration) of
				water.
39. On-site plant
				maintenance and upkeep activities, including lawn care, weed control, pest
				control, general repairs, cleaning, painting, surface coating, welding,
				plumbing, grinding, cutting, woodworking, janitorial activities, re-tarring
				roofs, installing insulation, and paving parking lots, provided that these
				activities are not conducted as part of a manufacturing process and are not
				related to the source's primary business activity; provided further, that for
				cleaning, surface coating and painting activities, the source is not subject to
				VOC or HAP control requirements and the source minimizes the generation of
				fugitive emissions of any regulated air pollutants; and provided further, that
				the source complies with the asbestos requirements in 45CSR34.
40. Commercial and residential maintenance
				and upkeep activities occurring at a building, residence or other structure,
				including lawn care, weed control, pest control, general repairs, cleaning,
				painting, surface coating, welding, plumbing, grinding, cutting, woodworking,
				janitorial activities, re-tarring roofs, installing insulation, and paving
				parking lots, provided that these activities are not conducted as part of a
				manufacturing process; provided further, that for cleaning, surface coating and
				painting activities, the source is not subject to VOC or HAP control
				requirements and the source minimizes the generation of fugitive emissions of
				any regulated air pollutants; and provided further, that the source complies
				with the asbestos requirements in 45CSR34.
41. Portable electrical generators that can
				be moved by hand from one location to another. "Moved by hand" means that it
				can be moved without the assistance of any motorized or non-motorized vehicle,
				conveyance or device.
42. Process
				water filtration systems and demineralizers.
43. Salt baths using nonvolatile salts that
				do not result in emissions of any regulated air pollutants.
44. Shock chambers.
45. Solar simulators.
46. Steam cleaning operations, excluding
				hazardous air pollutant emissions.
47. Steam leaks.
48. Steam vents and safety relief valves,
				provided that such valves shall be included in any permit application that may
				otherwise be required under this rule.
49. Storage tanks, reservoirs and pumping and
				handling equipment of any size containing soaps, vegetable oil, animal grease
				or fat and aqueous salt solutions, provided appropriate lids and covers are
				utilized, excluding rendering plants.
50. Storage tanks, vessels and containers
				holding or storing liquid substances that will not emit any regulated air
				pollutant.
51. Vents from
				continuous emissions monitors and other analyzers.
52. Operation of groundwater remediation
				wells, including emissions from the pumps and collection activities. This does
				not include emissions from air-stripping treatment or storage.
53. Log wetting areas that are using only
				water.
54. Log flumes.
55. The storage, handling, and handling
				equipment for bark and wood dust not subject to 45CSR7.
56. Solid waste dumpsters.
57. Ozone generators used in water treatment
				facilities.
58. Storage vessels
				having less than 10,567 gallons capacity containing petroleum or organic
				liquids with a vapor pressure of 1.5 psia or less at storage temperature,
				provided that the emissions from all such organic liquid storage tanks, in the
				aggregate, are less than 2 tons per year for hazardous air pollutants or
				VOCs.
59. A source that is not
				major that emits only non-processed fugitive emissions (other than haul
				roads).