SECTION 252:4-7-34. Air quality applications - Tier III

(a)   New major stationary sources. A construction permit for any new major stationary source listed in this subsection requires a Tier III application. For purposes of this section, "Major stationary source" means:

(1)   Any of the following sources of air pollutants which emits, or has the potential to emit, 100 tons per year or more of any pollutant subject to regulation:

(A)   carbon black plants (furnace process),

(B)   charcoal production plants,

(C)   chemical process plants,

(D)   coal cleaning plants (with thermal dryers),

(E)   coke oven batteries,

(F)   fossil-fuel boilers (or combustion thereof),totaling more than 250 million BTU per hour heat input,

(G)   fossil fuel-fired steam electric plants of more than 250 million BTU per hour heat input,

(H)   fuel conversion plants,

(I)   glass fiber processing plants,

(J)   hydrofluoric, sulfuric or nitric acid plants,

(K)   iron and steel mill plants,

(L)   kraft pulp mills,

(M)   lime plants,

(N)   incinerators, except where used exclusively as air pollution control devices,

(O)   petroleum refineries,

(P)   petroleum storage and transfer units with a total storage capacity exceeding 300,000 barrels,

(Q)   phosphate rock processing plant,

(R)   portland cement plants,

(S)   primary aluminum ore reduction plants,

(T)   primary copper smelters,

(U)   primary lead smelters,

(V)   primary zinc smelters,

(W)   secondary metal production plants,

(X)   sintering plants,

(Y)   sulfur recovery plants, or

(Z)   taconite ore processing plants, and

(2)   Any other source not specified in paragraph (1) of this definition which emits, or has the potential to emit, 250 tons per year or more of any pollutant subject to regulation.

(b)   Existing incinerators. An application for any change in emissions or potential to emit, or any change in any permit condition, that would have caused an incinerator to be defined as a major stationary source when originally permitted shall require a Tier III application.

(c)   Potential to emit. For purposes of this section, "potential to emit" means emissions resulting from the application of all enforceable permit limitations as defined in OAC 252:100-1-3.

[Source: Added at 18 Ok Reg 1922, eff 6-11-01]