Mich. Admin. Code R. 339.5214 - Extension of internal inspection certificate to 24 or 36 months

Rule 214.

(1) An internal boiler inspection may be increased from an annual inspection to a 24-month inspection frequency by approval of the board of boiler rules. An employee delegated by the utility or industrial facility shall apply for the extension and submit a copy of the documents that control its program for approval by the board of boiler rules. The information must be addressed by plant orders, procedures, or policies. The following information may be contained in 1 document or several documents if 1 document contains references to all other documents addressing the required information:

(a) Operator training.

(b) Boiler maintenance.

(c) Water chemistry.

(d) Operating parameters.

(e) Chemical cleaning schedule.

(f) Protective devices.

(g) Boiler external inspection.

(h) Testing of pressure relief devices pursuant to the NBIC. Repairs must be conducted by the valve manufacturer or a "VR" stamp holder.

(2) The plant owner shall establish a review committee. The inspector must be a member of the committee. The purpose of the committee is to determine the acceptability of a boiler to operate safely for a 24-month period. The committee shall have access to and review all information pertaining to the past operation, maintenance, and repair of the boiler. The review committee meeting must be conducted within 30 days after the internal inspection. The committee may decrease the period of time the boiler may operate, but shall not extend the period beyond 24 months. The signed summary report of the review committee meetings must be submitted to the departments boiler division. The grace period provided under R 408.4057 does not apply to this rule. The inspector shall indicate the next inspection due date on his or her inspection report to the departments boiler division.

(3) An internal boiler inspection may be increased from a 24-month inspection to a 36-month inspection frequency if the board of boiler rules approves the inspection frequency. An employee designated by the utility or industrial facility shall request a change in inspection frequency in writing and submit a copy of the document that controls its program with supporting documentation that demonstrates all of the following for approval by the board of boiler rules.

(a) The boiler complies with all of the requirements of subrule (1) of this rule and is currently inspected under 24-month inspection frequency approved by the board of boiler rules.

(b) The boiler is a power boiler.

(c) The following information must be included in the program document, plant orders, plant procedures, or plant policies:

(i) The boiler is fully attended during operations by qualified personnel designated by the owner to operate the boiler.

(ii) The owner has a designated organization that provides oversight to boiler maintenance, and monitors boiler conditions to prevent significant deterioration from scaling, corrosion, erosion, or overheating to boiler components. The program document must contain an organizational chart that delineates the reporting structure of this organization along with the organization responsible for boiler operation and maintenance within the owners organization.

(iii) The owner has installed instrumentation available and functioning for continuous monitoring of water chemistry parameters as identified by the boiler manufacturer and routine calibration is performed. This instrumentation must be maintained on a list for each boiler to which this paragraph applies to.

(iv) The owner has a program for routine monitoring of the water chemistry condition, which includes physical samples being analyzed by the owners staff. The owner shall maintain a list of the physical samples for each boiler to which this paragraph applies to.

(v) The owner has alarm response procedures that provide direction to operators for actions to correct variations to chemistry parameters that include removing the boiler from service.

(d) The establishment of a review committee whose purpose is to determine the acceptability of a boiler to operate safely for a 36-month period. The review committee must be made of, at a minimum, the following members:

(i) A representative from the owners boiler operating and maintenance organization.

(ii) A representative from the owners organization designated to provide oversight to boiler maintenance and monitoring of boiler condition.

(iii) The inspector.

(e) The summary report of the review committee meeting.

(4) The review committee described under subrule (3)(d) of this rule shall have access to and review all information pertaining to the past operation, maintenance, and repair of the boiler. The review committee meeting must be conducted within 30 days after the internal inspection. The review committee may shorten the period of time that the boiler may operate but must not extend the period beyond that permitted by the board of boiler rules.

(5) The grace period provided under section 943(c) of the act, MCL 339.5943, does not apply to this rule. The inspector shall indicate the next inspection due date on the inspection report submitted to the departments boiler division.

(6) Utilities or industrial facilities with a prescheduled boiler internal certificate inspection period shall communicate the date when the boiler is removed from service with the departments boiler division. The boiler internal inspection may occur at any time during the outage period. The next operating period is calculated based on the date of the certificate inspection conducted during this period.

(7) An external inspection of the boiler must be conducted while under pressure, within 12 months of the certificate inspection, and every 12 months thereafter until the next boiler internal inspection.

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Mich. Admin. Code R. 339.5214

2023 MR 8, Eff. 5/3/2023