Md. Code Regs. 26.11.02.10 - Sources Exempt from Permits to Construct and Approvals
A person may construct or modify or cause to be constructed or modified any of the following sources without first obtaining, and having in current effect, a permit to construct:
A. Electric generating stations that receive
a certificate of public convenience and necessity (CPCN) under Public Utilities
Article, §§7-207 and 7-208, Annotated Code of Maryland;
B. Motor vehicles, steamships, tugs, and
railroad locomotives;
C.
Fuel-burning equipment and space heaters using gaseous fuels or No. 1 or No. 2
fuel oil with a heat input less than 1,000,000 Btu (1.06 gigajoules) per
hour;
D. Repealed.
E. Emergency stationary internal combustion
engines or emergency stationary reciprocating internal combustion engines
(RICE) with an output less than 500 brake horsepower (373 kilowatts);
E-1. Stationary internal combustion engines
or stationary reciprocating internal combustion engines (RICE) that serve as a
primary source of power for agricultural equipment or industrial equipment,
with an output less than 500 brake horsepower (373 kilowatts);
F. Bench scale laboratory equipment used
exclusively for chemical or physical analysis or experimentation;
G. Portable brazing, soldering, or welding
equipment;
H. Comfort air
conditioning or comfort ventilating systems which are not designed to remove
emissions generated by or released from specific units of equipment;
I. Water cooling towers and water cooling
ponds unless used for evaporative cooling of water from barometric jets or
barometric condensers, or used in conjunction with an installation requiring a
permit to operate;
J. Equipment
used exclusively for steam cleaning;
K. Grain, metal, plastic, or mineral
extrusion presses;
L. Porcelain
enameling drying ovens;
M. Unheated
VOC dispensing containers or unheated VOC rinsing containers of 60 gallons (227
liters) capacity or less;
N.
Equipment used for hydraulic or hydrostatic testing;
O. The following equipment or an exhaust
system or collector servicing exclusively this equipment:
(1) Blast cleaning equipment using a
suspension of abrasive in water;
(2) Commercial bakery ovens with a rated heat
input capacity of less than 2,000,000 Btu per hour;
(3) Kilns used for firing ceramic ware,
heated exclusively by natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, electricity, or any
combination of these;
(4)
Confection cookers where the products are edible and intended for human
consumption;
(5) Drop hammers or
hydraulic presses for forging or metal working;
(6) Die casting machines;
(7) Photographic process equipment used to
reproduce an image upon sensitized material through the use of radiant
energy;
(8) Equipment for drilling,
carving, cutting, routing, turning, sawing, planing, spindle sanding, or disc
sanding of wood or wood products;
(9) Equipment for surface preparation of
metals by use of aqueous solutions, except for acid solutions;
(10) Equipment for washing or drying products
fabricated from metal or glass, provided that no VOC is used in the process and
that no oil or solid fuel is burned;
(11) Laundry dryers, extractors, or tumblers
for fabrics cleaned with only water solution or bleach or detergents;
(12) Containers, reservoirs, or tanks used
exclusively for electrolytic plating work, or electrolytic polishing, or
electrolytic stripping of brass, bronze, cadmium, copper, iron, lead, nickel,
tin, zinc, and precious metals;
(13) Breweries with an annual beer production
less than 60,000 barrels; and
(14)
Municipal solid waste landfills that have a design capacity of less than
500,000 tons of municipal solid waste and that are not major sources;
P. Natural draft hoods or natural
draft ventilators;
Q. Containers,
reservoirs, or tanks used exclusively for:
(1)
Dipping operations for coating objects with oils, waxes, or greases, where no
VOC is used;
(2) Dipping operations
for applying coatings of natural or synthetic resins which contain no
VOC;
(3) Storage of butane, propane
or liquefied petroleum, or natural gas;
(4) Storage of lubricating oils;
(5) Unheated storage of VOC with an initial
boiling point of 300°F (149°C) or greater;
(6) Storage of Numbers 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 fuel
oil and aviation jet engine fuel;
(7) Storage of motor vehicle gasoline, having
an individual tank capacity of 2,000 gallons or less;
(8) The storage of VOC normally used as
solvents, diluents, thinners, inks, colorants, paints, lacquers, enamels,
varnishes, liquid resins, or other surface coatings and having a capacity of
2,000 gallons (7.6 cubic meters) or less;
R. Gaseous fuel-fired or electrically heated
furnaces for heat-treating glass or metals, the use of which does not involve
molten materials;
S. Crucible
furnaces, pot furnaces, or induction furnaces, with a capacity of 1,000 pounds
(454 kilograms) or less each, in which no sweating or distilling is conducted,
or any fluxing conducted, using chloride, fluoride, or ammonium compounds and
from which only the following metals are poured or in which only the following
metals are held in a molten state:
(1)
Aluminum or any alloy containing over 50 percent aluminum, if no gaseous
chloride compounds, chlorine, aluminum chloride, or aluminum fluoride is
used;
(2) Magnesium or any alloy
containing over 50 percent magnesium;
(3) Lead or any alloy containing over 50
percent lead;
(4) Tin or any alloy
containing over 50 percent tin;
(5)
Zinc or any alloy containing over 50 percent zinc;
(6) Copper; or
(7) Precious metals;
T. Vacuum cleaning systems used exclusively
for industrial, commercial, or residential house-keeping purposes;
U. Charbroilers and pit barbecues as defined
in COMAR 26.11.18.01 a with a total cooking
area of 5 square feet (0.46 square meter) or less;
V. Hazardous waste incinerators, as defined
in COMAR 26.13.01.03 a B(33), and for which
a hazardous waste facility permit has been applied or issued by the Department
under COMAR 26.13.07;
W. Sheet-fed
letter or lithographic printing presses with a cylinder width of less than 18
inches; and
X. Other installations
if:
(1) The proposed installation is not
subject to any source-specific State or federal limitation or emissions
standard, including any mass emissions rate limitation, pollutant concentration
limitation, material formulation standard, equipment performance standard, or
work practice standard;
(2) The
emissions contain not more than 1 pound per day of a Class I toxic air
pollutant, as defined in COMAR
26.11.15.01 a B(4); and
(3) The pre-control potential-to-emit from
the proposed installation, combined with any potential increase in emissions
from other installations that could be caused by the proposed installation, is
less than 1 ton per calendar year for:
(a)
Volatile organic compounds;
(b)
Each pollutant for which there is a federal ambient air quality standard;
and
(c) Each Class II toxic air
pollutant, as defined in COMAR
26.11.15.01 a B(5).
Notes
Regulations .10 adopted effective May 8, 1995 (22:9 Md. R. 648)
Regulation .10A amended effective November 16, 2009 (36:23 Md. R. 1818)
Regulation .10 amended effective June 16, 1997 (24:12 Md. R. 866); March 22, 1999 (26:6 Md. R. 488)
Regulation .10D repealed effective November 24, 2003 (30:23 Md. R. 1653)
Regulation .10E amended effective September 22, 1997 (24:19 Md. R. 1343); November 24, 2003 (30:23 Md. R. 1653); May 18, 2009 (36:10 Md. R. 718); June 13, 2011 (38:12 Md. R. 708)
Regulation .10X amended effective August 22, 2011 (38:17 Md. R. 1014); amended effective 45:3 Md. R. 158, eff.
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