Ohio Admin. Code 3745-76-07 - Standards for air emissions from municipal waste landfills
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(A) Each owner or operator of an MSW landfill
having a design capacity less than 2.5 million megagrams by mass or 2.5 million
cubic meters by volume shall submit an initial design capacity report to the
director as provided in paragraph (A) of rule
3745-76-12
of the Administrative Code. The landfill may calculate design capacity in
either megagrams or cubic meters for comparison with the exemption values. Any
density conversions shall be documented and submitted with the report.
Submittal of the initial design capacity report shall fulfill the requirements
of this chapter except as provided for in paragraphs (A)(1) and (A)(2) of this
rule.
(1) The owner or operator shall submit
to the director an amended design capacity report, as provided for in paragraph
(A)(3) of rule
3745-76-12
of the Administrative Code.
(2)
When an increase in the maximum design capacity of a landfill exempted from the
provisions of paragraph (B) of rule 3745-76-07 of the Administrative Code to
rule
3745-76-14
of the Administrative Code on the basis of the design capacity exemption in
paragraph (A) of this rule results in a revised maximum design capacity equal
to or greater than 2.5 million megagrams and 2.5 million cubic meters, the
owner or operator shall comply with the provision of paragraph (B) of this
rule.
(B) Each owner or
operator of an MSW landfill having a design capacity equal to or greater than
2.5 million megagrams and 2.5 million cubic meters, shall either comply with
paragraph (B)(2) of this rule or calculate an NMOC emission rate for the
landfill using the procedures specified in rule
3745-76-09
of the Administrative Code. The NMOC emission rate shall be recalculated
annually, except as provided in paragraph (B)(1)(b) of rule
3745-76-12
of the Administrative Code. The owner or operator of an MSW landfill subject to
this chapter with a design capacity greater than or equal to 2.5 million
megagrams and 2.5 million cubic meters is required to obtain a Title V permit.
(1) If the calculated NMOC emission rate is
less than fifty megagrams per year, the owner or operator shall:
(a) Submit an annual emission report to the
director, except as provided for in paragraph (B)(1)(b) of rule
3745-76-12
of the Administrative Code; and
(b)
Recalculate the NMOC emission rate annually using the procedures specified in
paragraph (A)(1) of rule
3745-76-09
of the Administrative Code until such time as the calculated NMOC emission rate
is equal to or greater than fifty megagrams per year, or the landfill is
closed.
(i) If the NMOC emission rate, upon
recalculation required in paragraph (B)(1)(b) of this rule, is equal to or
greater than fifty megagrams per year, the owner or operator shall install a
collection and control system in compliance with paragraph (B)(2) of this rule.
(ii) If the landfill is
permanently closed, a closure notification shall be submitted to the director
as provided for in paragraph (D) of rule
3745-76-12
of the Administrative Code.
(2) If the calculated NMOC emission rate is
equal to or greater than fifty megagrams per year, the owner or operator shall:
(a) Submit a collection and control system
design plan prepared by a professional engineer to the director within one
year:
(i) The collection and control system
as described in the plan shall meet the design requirements of paragraph
(B)(2)(b) of this rule.
(ii) The
collection and control system design plan shall include any alternatives to the
operational standards, test methods, procedures, compliance measures,
monitoring, recordkeeping or reporting provisions of rule
3745-76-08
of the Administrative Code to
3745-76-13
of the Administrative Code proposed by the owner or operator.
(iii) The collection and control system
design plan shall either conform with specifications for active collection
systems in rule
3745-76-14
of the Administrative Code or include a demonstration to the director's
satisfaction of the sufficiency of the alternative provisions to rule
3745-76-14
of the Administrative Code.
(iv)
The director shall review the information submitted under paragraphs
(B)(2)(a)(i), (B)(2)(a)(ii) and (B)(2)(a)(iii) of this rule and either approve
it, disapprove it, or request that additional information be submitted. Because
of the many site-specific factors involved with landfill gas system design,
alternative systems may be necessary. A wide variety of system designs are
possible, such as vertical wells, combination horizontal and vertical
collection systems, or horizontal trenches only, leachate collection
components, and passive systems.
(b) Install a collection and control system
that captures the gas generated within the landfill as required under paragraph
(B)(2)(b)(i) or (B)(2)(b)(ii) and paragraph (B)(2)(c) of this rule within
thirty months after the first annual report in which the emission rate equals
or exceeds fifty megagrams per year, unless tier two or tier three sampling
demonstrates that the emission rate is less than fifty megagrams per year as
specified in paragraph (C)(1) or (C)(2) of rule
3745-76-12
of the Administrative Code.
(i) An active
collection system shall:
(a) Be designed to
handle the maximum expected gas flow rate from the entire area of the landfill
that warrants control over the intended use period of the gas control or
treatment system equipment;
(b)
Collect gas from each area in the landfill where:
(i) Municipal solid waste has been placed for
five years or more; or
(ii)
Acceptance of municipal solid waste has ceased for at least two years;
(c) Collect gas at a
sufficient extraction rate;
(d) Be
designed to minimize off-site migration of subsurface gas.
(ii) A passive collection system shall:
(a) Comply with the provisions specified in
paragraphs (B)(2)(b)(i)(a), (B)(2)(b)(i)(b), and
(b)(2)(b)(i)(d) of this rule.
(b) Be installed with composite liners on the
bottom and all sides in all areas in which gas is to be collected. The
composite liners shall be designed and installed in accordance with
40 CFR 258.40 and
the requirements contained in rules
3745-27-06
and
3745-27-07
of the Administrative Code.
(c)
Route all the collected gas to a control system that complies with the
requirements in either paragraph (B)(2)(c)(i), (B)(2)(c)(ii) or (B)(2)(c)(iii)
of this rule.
(i) An open flare designed and
operated in accordance with rule
3745-76-15 of
the Administrative Code;
(ii) A
control system designed and operated to reduce NMOC by ninety eight
weight-percent, or, when an enclosed combustion device is used for control, to
either reduce NMOC by ninety eight weight percent or reduce the outlet NMOC
concentration to less than twenty parts per million by volume, dry basis as
hexane at three percent oxygen. The reduction efficiency or parts per million
by volume shall be established by an initial performance test to be completed
no later than one hundred eighty days after the initial startup of the approved
control system, using the test methods specified in paragraph (D) of rule
3745-76-09
of the Administrative Code.
(a) If a boiler
or process heater is used as the control device, the landfill gas stream shall
be introduced into the flame zone.
(b) The control device shall be operated
within the parameter ranges established during the initial or most recent
performance test. The operating parameters to be monitored are specified in
rule
3745-76-11
of the Administrative Code;
(iii) Route the collected gas to a treatment
system that processes the collected gas for subsequent sale or use. All
emissions from any atmospheric vent from the gas treatment system shall be
subject to the requirements of paragraph (B)(2)(c)(i) or (B)(2)(c)(ii) of this
rule.
(d) Operate the
collection and control device installed to comply with this chapter in
accordance with the provisions of rules
3745-76-08,
3745-76-10,
and
3745-76-11
of the Administrative Code.
(e) The
collection and control system may be capped or removed provided that all the
conditions of paragraphs (B)(2)(e)(i), (B)(2)(e)(ii), and (B)(2)(e)(iii) of
this rule are met:
(i) The landfill shall be
a closed landfill as defined in rule
3745-76-01 of the
Administrative Code. A closure report shall be submitted to the director as
provided in paragraph (D) of rule
3745-76-12
of the Administrative Code;
(ii)
The collection and control system shall have been in operation a minimum of
fifteen years from when the first well was installed and put into operation;
and
(iii) Following the procedures
specified in paragraph (B) of rule
3745-76-09
of the Administrative Code, the calculated NMOC gas produced by the landfill
shall be less than fifty megagrams per year on three successive test dates. The
test dates shall be no less than ninety days apart, and no more than one
hundred eighty days apart.
(C) For purposes of
obtaining an operating permit under Title V of the Clean Air Act, the owner or
operator of a MSW landfill subject to this chapter with a design capacity less
than 2.5 million megagrams or 2.5 million cubic meters is not subject to the
requirement to obtain an operating permit for the landfill under Title V,
unless the landfill is otherwise subject to Title V. For purposes of submitting
a timely application of an operating permit under Title V, the owner or
operator of a MSW landfill subject to this chapter with a design capacity
greater than or equal to 2.5 million megagrams and 2.5 million cubic meters,
and not otherwise subject to Title V, becomes subject to the requirements of
Title V regardless of when the design capacity report is actually submitted, no
later than:
(1) June 10, 1996 for MSW
landfills that commenced construction, modification, or reconstruction on or
after May 30, 1991 but before March 12, 1996;
(2) Ninety days after the date of commenced
construction, modification, or reconstruction for MSW landfills that commence
construction, modification, or reconstruction on or after March 12, 1996.
(D) When a MSW landfill
subject to this chapter is closed, the owner or operator is no longer subject
to the requirement to maintain an operating permit under Title V for the
landfill if the landfill is not otherwise subject to the requirements of Title
V and if either of the following conditions are met:
(1) The landfill was never subject to the
requirement for a control system under paragraph (B)(2) of this rule; or
(2) The owner or operator meets
the conditions for control system removal specified in paragraph (B)(2)(e) of
this rule.
Notes
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 3704.03(E)
Rule Amplifies: 3704.03(A), 3704.03(E)
Prior Effective Dates: 1/31/98, 11/16/99, 10/10/06
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 3704.03(E)
Rule Amplifies: 3704.03(A), 3704.03(E)
Prior Effective Dates: 1/31/98, 11/16/99, 10/10/06
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