Md. Code Regs. 26.11.02.13 - Sources Subject to State Permits to Operate
A. Except for a source that is covered by a
Part 70 permit, a person may not operate or cause to be operated any of the
following sources without first obtaining, and having in current effect, a
State permit to operate as required by this regulation:
(1) General and by-product waste incinerators
of 2,000 pounds (907 kilograms) or more per hour rated capacity, crematoriums,
pathological incinerators, incinerators burning special medical waste as
defined in COMAR
26.13.11.02 a B, and sewage sludge
incinerators;
(2) Fuel-burning
equipment, hot oil heaters, and stationary combustion turbines with a maximum
rated heat input capacity of 50 million Btu (52.8 gigajoules) or more per
hour;
(3) Glass melting furnaces of
1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour throughput, or 1 ton (907 kilograms) or
more capacity;
(4) Metallurgical
furnaces involving molten metal holding 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more of metal
or having a throughput greater than 500 pounds (227 kilograms) per
hour;
(5) Metal reclamation
furnaces;
(6) By-product recovery
furnaces of 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more capacity or 1 ton (907 kilograms) or
more per hour throughput;
(7) Lime
kilns;
(8) Cement kilns;
(9) Other kilns of 1 ton (907 kilograms) or
more per hour throughput;
(10)
Rendering cookers and offal dryers;
(11) Wood digesters;
(12) Sulfuric acid plants;
(13) Installations associated with chemical
production facilities, including reactors, distillation columns, evaporators,
and strippers, that have:
(a) A pre-control
potential-to-emit for VOC of 20 pounds or more per day; and
(b) Are located at a premises that has a
total pre-control potential-to-emit for VOC of 100 pounds or more per day from
all chemical production processes subject to COMAR
26.11.19.30 a;
(14) Mineral products or metallic
ore through-circulation dryers of 5 tons (4540 kilograms) or more per hour
throughput or 5 tons (4540 kilograms) or more capacity;
(15) Spray dryers of 1 ton (907 kilograms) or
more capacity or 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour dry product
throughput;
(16) Crushers,
hammermills, shredders, grinders, classifying screens of 5 tons (4540
kilograms) or more per hour throughput;
(17) Dry type ball and roller mills of 2 tons
(1810 kilograms) or more per hour throughput;
(18) VOC storage tanks required by State or
federal regulations to have VOC recovery or control devices, except gasoline
storage tanks at gasoline dispensing facilities not located at a bulk gasoline
plant or a bulk gasoline terminal, as those terms are defined by COMAR
26.11.13.01 a B;
(19) Motor vehicle fuel storage tanks, except
for diesel fuel, with a capacity of 40,000 gallons (151 cubic meters) or
more;
(20) Gasoline tank truck
loading racks outloading 20,000 gallons (75.7 cubic meters) or more per
day;
(21) VOC recovery
installations, including distillation units and condensers, used to recover VOC
for reuse in processes at a premises that has a total pre-control
potential-to-emit for VOC of 100 pounds or more per day from all VOC recovery
installations;
(22) Inorganic
chemical or pigment production installations of 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more
per hour rated product throughput;
(23) Coating, decorating, and impregnating
lines with integral drying ovens at which solvent-based materials are applied
by automatic equipment to surfaces at a premises that has a total pre-control
potential-to-emit for VOC emissions of 100 or more pounds per day from all
coating, decorating, and impregnating lines;
(24) "Web printing" press lines with integral
drying ovens as defined in COMAR
26.11.19.01 a B;
(25) Grain elevators and terminals of 10,000
bushels or more per hour grain leg capacity;
(26) Frit smelters;
(27) Portland cement clinker
coolers;
(28) Benzene storage tanks
of 500 gallons (1.9 cubic meters) or more capacity;
(29) Benzene truck loading racks;
(30) Galvanizing operations using fluxes and
pre-fluxes;
(31) Coal tar or
petroleum pitch impregnating operations;
(32) Gypsum calcining kettles;
(33) Pulverized material separators with 1
ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour capacity;
(34) Honeycomb core manufacturing
installations;
(35) Yeast
production installations;
(36)
Plastic credit card manufacturing installations;
(37) Magnetic tape manufacturing
installations;
(38) Coal or ore
export loading or unloading installations;
(39) Petroleum-contaminated soil treatment
installations;
(40) Stainless steel
manufacturing installations including electric arc furnaces, argon-oxygen
decarbonization vessels, re-heat furnaces, pickling lines, or slab and billet
grinding;
(41) Catalyst
manufacturing installations including reactors, calciners, dryers, crushers, or
classifying systems;
(42) Primary
aluminum production installations including potlines, anode bake ovens,
reverbatory furnaces, or alumina handling systems;
(43) Installations associated with titanium
dioxide production facilities, including chlorination reactors, oxidation
reactors, and spray driers, of 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour physical
capacity or 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour throughput
capacity;
(44) Automobile or truck
production and assembly premises;
(45) Stationary internal combustion engines
located at natural gas pumping stations or electric generating
stations;
(46) Waste oil disposal,
treatment, or recovery installations located at commercial premises that
collect or consolidate materials containing waste oil from more than one
premises unless:
(a) The total pre-control
potential-to-emit for VOC from all such installations is less than 20 pounds
per day;
(b) The total pre-control
potential-to-emit for Class I toxic air pollutants from all such installations
is 1 pound or less per day, and for Class II toxic air pollutants is less than
1 ton per year;
(c) Incoming waste
materials, and any recovered oils, are not heated to a temperature greater than
212 oF during any phase of transfer, processing or storage; and
(d) Such installations do not require control
equipment to comply with any Maryland air pollution control regulation,
including regulations that prohibit odor and nuisance beyond facility
boundaries;
(47)
Synthetic fuel, rocket fuel, or explosives production premises of 500 pounds
(227 kilograms) or more per hour product throughput;
(48) Synthesized pharmaceutical manufacturing
installations that:
(a) Have a pre-control
potential-to-emit for VOC of 15 or more pounds per day; or
(b) Are located at a premises that has a
total pre-control potential-to-emit for VOC of 33 pounds or more per day from
all synthesized pharmaceutical manufacturing processes;
(49) Shoe or footwear manufacturing
installations;
(50) Asphalt blowing
and asphalt building products saturation or roll coating
installations;
(51) Slab, billet,
or ingot re-heat furnaces with a maximum rated heat input capacity of 50
million Btu (52.8 gigajoules) or more per hour;
(52) Polyester resin products manufacturing
installations, including installations manufacturing reinforced plastic
products such as fiberglass, at a premises with a total polyester resin
consumption of more than 50 tons per year;
(53) All alkyd resin reactors and alkyd resin
thin-down tanks;
(54) Solvent-based
paint manufacturing installations with a potential product throughput of 250 or
more gallons per hour;
(55)
Fluoropolymer material (FPM) process installations that treat FPM so that its
shape or form is permanently changed, and have total actual uncontrolled VOC
emissions of 20 pounds or more on any operating day;
(56) Hot-mix asphalt concrete production
installations;
(57) Installations
used to treat wood with creosote or chrome copper arsenate (CCA) by
impregnation in a pressurized vessel;
(58) Iron and steel production installations
as defined in COMAR
26.11.10.01 a B;
(59) Solvent-based adhesive manufacturing
installations located at a premises with a total pre-control potential-to-emit
for VOC of 50 pounds or more per day from all such installations;
(60) A source for which the owner or operator
requests a State permit to operate in order to make the permit federally
enforceable under Regulation .03 of this chapter; or
(61) Any other source that the Department
determines has the potential to have a significant impact on air
quality.
B. In
determining whether a source has the potential to have a significant impact on
air quality, for purposes of §A(61) of this regulation, the Department shall
consider the following:
(1) The quality,
quantity, or characteristics of the pollutants discharged, including their
toxicity;
(2) The location of the
source, including its affects on an area that has not met ambient air quality
standards; and
(3) Whether permit
conditions are necessary to ensure that the source complies continuously with
the requirements of the State air pollution control law.
C. Section A of this regulation requires a
State permit to operate for each emissions unit at a source covered by a Part
70 permit if the emissions unit is not provided for in the Part 70 permit and
is a source listed in §A of this regulation. When the Part 70 permit is revised
to include the emissions unit, the Part 70 permit constitutes the State permit
to operate for that emissions unit.
D. The Department, on a case-by-case basis,
may exempt a source from the requirement for a State permit to operate on the
basis of capacity, nature of equipment or materials, amount of emissions, or
other evidence that the source has a limited potential to cause air
pollution.
E. The Department may
issue a single State permit to operate for two or more sources located at a
single facility or the Department may issue two or more State permits to
operate for emission units within a source.
F. A State permit to operate issued by the
Department under §A(60) of this regulation is not a required permit to operate
under Environment Article, §
2-404(a)(1),
Annotated Code of Maryland.
G.
Unless it is not practical to do so, a permittee shall maintain all permits in
the vicinity of the source for which the permit was issued and make the permit
immediately available to officials of the Department upon request.
H. The Department may issue a general State
permit to operate covering similar sources.
Notes
Regulation .13 amended effective August 22, 2011 (38:17 Md. R. 1014)
Regulation .13A amended effective aPRIL 30, 2012 (39:8 Md. R. 536)
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