[Comment: For dates and
availability of non-regulatory government publications, publications of
recognized organizations and associations, federal rules, and federal statutory
provisions referenced in this rule, see the
last paragraph (BB) of this rule titled
"Incorporation by reference
referenced materials."]
As used in all air pollution rules, except as may be otherwise
specifically provided.
(A) "Act" means
Chapters 3704. and 3745. of the Revised Code.
(B) "Agency", "Ohio EPA", "OEPA" or
"board", means the Ohio environmental protection agency or its director as the
context or other law or rules may require.
(C)
(B)
"Air pollutant" or "air contaminant" means particulate matter, dust, fumes,
gas, mist, smoke, vapor or odorous substances, or any combination
thereof.
(D)
(C) "Air pollution" means the presence in the ambient
air of one or more air pollutants or any combination thereof in sufficient
quantity and of such characteristics and duration as is or threatens to be
injurious to human health or welfare, plant or animal life, or property, or
which interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property.
(E)
(D)
"Ambient air" means that portion of the atmosphere outside of buildings and
other enclosures, stacks, or ducts which surrounds human, plant, or animal
life, or property.
(F)
(E) "Ambient air quality standards" means ambient air
quality goals expressed numerically and intended to be attained and maintained
in a stated time through the application of appropriate preventive or control
measures.
(G)
(F) "ASME" means the "American Society of Mechanical
Engineers."
(H)
(G) "ASTM" means the "American Society for Testing and
Materials."
(I)
(H) "Area" means the state of Ohio.
(J)
(I)
"Clean Air Act" or "CAA" means the federal Clean Air Act
as amended November 15, 1990; 42 USC 7401 to
7671q.
(K)
(J) "Control equipment" means any device or
contrivance which prevents or reduces emissions.
(L)
(K) "Commenced" means
that an owner or operator has undertaken a continuous program of construction
or modification or has entered into a binding contractual obligation to
undertake and complete, within a reasonable time, a continuous program of
construction or modification.
(M)
(L) "Director" means
the director of the Ohio environmental protection agency.
(N) "Effective date of these rules"
means February 15, 1972, notwithstanding any amendment, rescission or
renumbering of any of these rules.
(O)
(M) "Emission" means
the act of releasing or discharging an air pollutant into the ambient air from
any source.
(P)
(N) "Existing source" means any source the
construction of which was commenced prior to February 15, 1972.
(Q)
(O)
"Facility" means any building, structure, installation, operation, or
combination thereof which contains one or more stationary
source(s)
source of air contaminants.
(R)
(P) "Modification"
means any physical change in, or change in the method of operation of, an
existing source or a new source that increases the amount of any air pollutant
emitted by such source or which results in the emission of any air pollutant
not previously emitted from the same location.
(S)
(Q) "New source" means
any source the construction or modification of which is commenced on or after
February 15, 1972.
(T)
(R) "Non-methane hydrocarbon" means any chemical
compound containing carbon but excluding: carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide,
carbides, metallic carbonates, ammonium carbonate, and methane.
(S)
"Ohio EPA" or
"OEPA," means the Ohio environmental protection agency or the director as the
context or other law or rules may require.
(U)
(T) "Owner or
operator" means any person who owns, leases, controls, operates or supervises a
facility, an emission source, or air pollution control equipment.
(V)
(U)
"Person" means the state or any agency thereof, any political subdivision, or
any agency thereof, public or private corporation, individual, partnership, or
other entity.
(W)
(V) "Region" means an air quality control region as
designated by the secretary of health, education and welfare, or by the
administrator, United States environmental protection agency, or by the
director.
(X)
(W) "Source" means any building, structure, facility,
operation, installation, other physical facility, or real or personal property
that emits or may emit any air pollutant.
(Y)
(X) "Source operation"
means the last operation preceding emission which operation:
(1) Results in the separation of the air
contaminant from the process materials or in the conversion of the process
materials into air contaminants, as in the case of combustion fuel;
and
(2) Is not an air pollution
abatement operation.
(Z)
(Y) "Stack" means any
chimney, flue, conduit, or duct arranged to conduct emissions to the ambient
air.
(AA)
(Z) "Standard conditions" means a dry gas temperature
of seventy degrees Fahrenheit ( 21.1 degrees centigrade) and a gas pressure of
14.7 pounds per square inch absolute (seven hundred sixty millimeters
mercury).
(BB)
(AA)
Incorporation by
reference
Referenced materials. This
chapter includes references to certain
subject
matter or materials. The text of the
incorporated
referenced materials is not included in
the
regulations
rules contained in this chapter.
The materials are hereby made a part of the
regulations in this chapter.
Information on
the availability of the referenced materials, as well as the date of and/or the
particular edition or version of the material is included in this rule.
For materials subject to change, only the specific version specified in
the regulation
this
rule are incorporated. Material is
incorporated
referenced as it exists on the effective date of this
rule. Except for subsequent annual publication of existing (unmodified) Code of
Federal Regulation compilations, any amendment or revision to a referenced
document is not
incorporated
included unless and until this rule as been
amended to specify the new dates.
(1)
Availability. The
referenced materials
incorporated by reference are available as
follows:
(a) American society of mechanical
engineers (ASME). Information and copies of ASTM documents may be obtained by
writing to: "ASME International, P.O. Box 2300, Fairfield, NJ 07007-2300." ASME
documents are also available for purchase at
www.asme.org. ASME documents are also
available for inspection and
copying
use at most public libraries and "The State
Library of Ohio."
(b) American
society for testing materials (ASTM). Information and copies of ASTM documents
may be obtained by writing to: "ASTM International, 100 Bar Harbor Drive, P.O.
Box C700, West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania 19426- 2959." ASTM documents are also
available for purchase at
www.astm.org. ASTM documents are also
available for inspection and
copying
use at most public libraries and "The State
Library of Ohio."
(c) Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR). Information and copies may be obtained by writing
to: "Superintendent of Documents, Attn: New Orders, PO Box 371954, Pittsburgh,
PA 15250-7954." The full text of the CFR is also available in electronic format
at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html. The CFR compilations are also
available for inspection and
copying
use at most public libraries and "The State
Library of Ohio."
(d) United States
Code (USC). Information and copies may be obtained by writing to:
"Superintendent of Documents, Attn: New Orders, PO Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA
15250-7954." The full text of the United States Code is also available in
electronic format at
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/. The
U.S.C compilations are also available for inspection and
copying
use
at most public libraries and "The State Library of Ohio."
(2) Incorporated materials.
(a)40 CFR Part
302; "Designation, reportable
quantities, and notification;" as published in the July 1,
2006
2014
Code of Federal Regulations.
(b)40
CFR Part
355; "Emergency Planning and Notification;" as published in the July
1,
2006
2014
Code of Federal Regulations.
(c)
42 USC
7401 to
7671q;
"The Public Health and Welfare-Air Pollution Prevention and Control;" published
January 19, 2004 in Supplement III of the 2000 Edition of the United States
Code; as amended January 23, 2004,
Pub.
L. 108-199, sec, 425(a) and sec. 428(b), 118 Stat.
417-418.
(d) Section 112(b) of the
Clean Air Act; contained in
42 USC
7412; "Hazardous air pollutants- List of
pollutants;" published
January 19, 2004 in
Supplement III of
April 3, 2014 in Volume 27
of the
2000
2012 Edition of the United States Code.