The following are insignificant activities for purposes of
the Title V application if not needed to determine the applicability of or to
impose any applicable requirement. Title V permit emissions fees are not
required from insignificant activities pursuant to 567-paragraph
30.4(2)"f."
(1)
Insignificant activities excluded from Title V operating permit
application. In accordance with
40 CFR
705.
(as amended through October 6, 2009), these activities need not be included in
the Title V permit application.
a. Mobile
internal combustion and jet engines, marine vessels, and locomotives.
b. Equipment, other than anaerobic lagoons,
used for cultivating land, harvesting crops, or raising livestock. This
exemption is not applicable if the equipment is used to remove substances from
grain which were applied to the grain by another person. This exemption also is
not applicable to equipment used by a person to manufacture commercial feed, as
defined in Iowa Code section
1983., when that feed
is normally not fed to livestock:
(1) Owned by
that person or another person, and
(2) Located in a feedlot, as defined in Iowa
Code section
172D1(6)., or in a
confinement building owned or operated by that person, and
(3) Located in this state.
c. Equipment or control equipment
which eliminates all emissions to the atmosphere.
d. Equipment (other than anaerobic lagoons)
or control equipment which emits odors unless such equipment or control
equipment also emits particulate matter or any other air pollutant or
contaminant.
e. Air conditioning or
ventilating equipment not designed to remove air contaminants generated by or
released from associated equipment.
f. Residential wood heaters, cookstoves, or
fireplaces.
g. The equipment in
laboratories used exclusively for nonproduction chemical and physical analyses.
Nonproduction analyses means analyses incidental to the production of a good or
service and includes analyses conducted for quality assurance or quality
control activities, or for the assessment of environmental impact.
h. Recreational fireplaces.
i. Barbecue pits and cookers except at a meat
packing plant or a prepared meat manufacturing facility.
j. Stacks or vents to prevent escape of sewer
gases through plumbing traps for systems handling domestic sewage only. Systems
which include any industrial waste are not exempt.
k. Retail gasoline and diesel fuel handling
facilities.
l. Photographic process
equipment by which an image is reproduced upon material sensitized to radiant
energy.
m. Equipment used for
hydraulic or hydrostatic testing.
n. General vehicle maintenance and servicing
activities at the source, other than gasoline fuel handling.
o. Cafeterias, kitchens, and other facilities
used for preparing food or beverages primarily for consumption at the
source.
p. Equipment using water,
water and soap or detergent, or a suspension of abrasives in water for purposes
of cleaning or finishing provided no organic solvent has been added to the
water, the boiling point of the additive is not less than 100°C
(212°F), and the water is not heated above 65.5°C
(150°F).
q. Administrative
activities including, but not limited to, paper shredding, copying,
photographic activities, and blueprinting machines. This does not include
incinerators.
r. Laundry dryers,
extractors, and tumblers processing clothing, bedding, and other fabric items
used at the source that have been cleaned with water solutions of bleach or
detergents provided that any organic solvent present in such items before
processing that is retained from cleanup operations shall be addressed as part
of the volatile organic compound emissions from use of cleaning
materials.
s. Housekeeping
activities for cleaning purposes, including collecting spilled and accumulated
materials at the source, but not including use of cleaning materials that
contain organic solvent.
t.
Refrigeration systems, including storage tanks used in refrigeration systems,
but excluding any combustion equipment associated with such systems.
u. Activities associated with the
construction, on-site repair, maintenance or dismantlement of buildings,
utility lines, pipelines, wells, excavations, earthworks and other structures
that do not constitute emission units.
v. Storage tanks of organic liquids with a
capacity of less than 500 gallons, provided the tank is not used for storage of
any material listed as a hazardous air pollutant pursuant to Section 112(b) of
the Clean Air Act.
w. Piping and
storage systems for natural gas, propane, and liquified petroleum gas,
excluding pipeline compressor stations and associated storage
facilities.
x. Water treatment or
storage systems, as follows:
(1) Systems for
potable water or boiler feedwater.
(2) Systems, including cooling towers, for
process water provided that such water has not been in direct or indirect
contact with process steams that contain volatile organic material or materials
listed as hazardous air pollutants pursuant to Section 112(b) of the Clean Air
Act.
y. Lawn care,
landscape maintenance, and groundskeeping activities.
z. Containers, reservoirs, or tanks used
exclusively in dipping operations to coat objects with oils, waxes, or greases,
provided no organic solvent has been mixed with such materials.
aa. Cold cleaning degreasers that are not
in-line cleaning machines, where the vapor pressure of the solvents used never
exceeds 2 kPa (15 mmHg or 0.3 psi) measured at 38°C (100°F) or 0.7 kPa
(5 mmHg or 0.1 psi) at 20°C (68°F). (Note: Cold cleaners subject to 40
CFR Part
63 Subpart T are not considered insignificant activities.)
bb. Manually operated equipment used for
buffing, polishing, carving, cutting, drilling, machining, routing, sanding,
sawing, scarfing, surface grinding or turning.
cc. Use of consumer products, including
hazardous substances as that term is defined in the Federal Hazardous
Substances Act (
15
U.S.C.
1261 et seq.), when the product is
used at a source in the same manner as normal consumer use.
dd. Activities directly used in the diagnosis
and treatment of disease, injury or other medical condition.
ee. Firefighting activities and training in
preparation for fighting fires conducted at the source. (Note: Written
notification pursuant to 567-paragraph 23.2(3)"g" is required
at least ten working days before such action commences.)
ff. Activities associated with the
construction, repair or maintenance of roads or other paved or open areas,
including operation of street sweepers, vacuum trucks, spray trucks and other
vehicles related to the control of fugitive emissions of such roads or other
areas.
gg. Storage and handling of
drums or other transportable containers when the containers are sealed during
storage and handling.
hh.
Individual points of emission or activities as follows:
(1) Individual flanges, valves, pump seals,
pressure relief valves and other individual components that have the potential
for leaks.
(2) Individual sampling
points, analyzers, and process instrumentation, whose opreation may result in
emissions.
(3) Individual features
of an emission unit such as each burner and sootblower in a boiler or each use
of cleaning materials on a coating or printing line.
ii. Construction activities at a source
solely associated with the modification or building of a facility, an emission
unit or other equipment at the source. (Note: Notwithstanding the status of
this activity as insignificant, a particular activity that entails modification
or construction of an emission unit or construction of air pollution control
equipment may require a construction permit pursuant to 22.1(455B) and may
subsequently require a revised Title V operating permit. A revised Title V
operating permit may also be necessary for operation of an emission unit after
completion of a particular activity if the existing Title V operating permit
does not accommodate the new state of the emission unit.)
jj. Activities at a source associated with
the maintenance, repair, or dismantlement of an emission unit or other
equipment installed at the source, including preparation for maintenance,
repair or dismantlement, and preparation for subsequent startup, including
preparation of a shutdown vessel for entry, replacement of insulation, welding
and cutting, and steam purging of a vessel prior to startup.