30 Tex. Admin. Code § 111.111 - Requirements for Specified Sources
(a)
Visible emissions. No person may cause, suffer, allow, or permit visible
emissions from any source, except as follows.
(1) Stationary vents. Visible emissions from
any vent shall not exceed the following opacities and must meet the following
requirements.
(A) Opacity shall not exceed
30% averaged over a six-minute period.
(B) Opacity shall not exceed 20% averaged
over a six-minute period for any source on which construction was begun after
January 31, 1972.
(C) Opacity shall
not exceed 15% averaged over a six-minute period for any source having a total
flow rate greater than or equal to 100,000 actual cubic feet per minute, unless
an optical instrument capable of measuring the opacity of emissions is
installed in the vent in accordance with subparagraph (D) of this paragraph.
Facilities utilizing such instruments shall meet opacity limits outlined in
subparagraph (A) or (B) of this paragraph as applicable. Records of all such
measurements shall be retained as provided for in §
101.8 of this title (relating to
Sampling).
(D) Any opacity
monitoring system installed as provided for in subparagraph (C) of this
paragraph must satisfy the new source performance standards requirement for
opacity continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS) as contained in 40 Code
of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 60, Appendix B, Performance Specification 1.
In order to demonstrate compliance with Performance Specification 1, the system
shall undergo performance specification testing as outlined in
40 CFR
60.13. The facility will maintain records of
all such testing for a period of not less than two years which shall be
available for inspection by federal, state, and local air pollution control
agencies. Compliance with this provision shall be accomplished within one year
of the effective date of this rule, except as specified in paragraph (2) of
this subsection.
(E) Visible
emissions during the cleaning of a firebox or the building of a new fire, soot
blowing, equipment changes, ash removal, and rapping of precipitators may
exceed the limits set forth in this section for a period aggregating not more
than six minutes in any 60 consecutive minutes, nor more than six hours in any
10-day period. This exemption shall not apply to the emissions mass rate
standard, as outlined in §
111.151(a) of
this title (relating to Allowable Emissions Limits).
(F) Compliance with subparagraphs (A)-(C) of
this paragraph shall be determined by applying the following test methods, as
appropriate. The highest reading obtained shall determine compliance with the
appropriate visible emission limit:
(i) CEMS
as described in subparagraph (D) of this paragraph;
(ii) Test Method 9 ( 40 CFR 60, Appendix
A);
(iii) Alternate Method 1 to
Method 9, Light Detection and Ranging (40 CFR 60, Appendix A); or
(iv) equivalent test method approved by the
executive director of the Texas Air Control Board (TACB) and United States
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
(G) Current certification of opacity readers
for determining opacities under 40 CFR 60, Appendix A, Method 9, shall be
accomplished by the successful completion of a TACB visible emissions
evaluator's course by opacity readers no more than 180 days before the opacity
reading.
(2) Sources
requiring continuous emissions monitoring. Beginning March 1, 1994, all
stationary vents located at the sources specified in this paragraph shall be
equipped with a calibrated and properly operating CEMS for opacity. The system
shall be calibrated, installed, operated, and maintained as specified in 40 CFR
51, Appendix P, hereby incorporated by reference:
(A) steam generators fired by solid fossil
fuel with an annual average capacity factor of greater than 30%, as reported to
the Federal Power Commission for calendar year 1974, and with a heat input of
greater than 250 million British thermal unit per hour;
(B) steam generators that burn oil or a
mixture of oil and gas and are not able to comply with the applicable
particulate matter and opacity regulations without the use of particulate
matter collection equipment, and have been found to be in violation of any
visible emission standard contained in a state implementation plan;
(C) catalyst regenerators for fluid bed
catalytic cracking units of greater than 20,000 barrels per day of total feed
capacity.
(3) Exemptions
from continuous emissions monitoring requirements. Opacity monitors shall not
be installed or used to determine opacity from any gas stream or portion of a
gas stream containing condensed water vapor which could interfere with proper
instrument operation, as determined by the executive director. Opacity
monitoring techniques as listed in paragraph (1)(F) of this subsection may be
substituted with the approval of the executive director and EPA, the highest
reading of which will be used to determine compliance with the appropriate
opacity standard. If opacity is determined through 40 CFR 60, Appendix A,
Method 9, readings shall be made daily, unless weather or other conditions
prevent visual observation.
(4) Gas
flares.
(A) Visible emissions from a process
gas flare shall not be permitted for more than five minutes in any two-hour
period, except as provided in §101.11(a) of this title (relating to
Exemptions from Rules and Regulations). Process gas flares are those used in
routine or scheduled facility operations. Acid gas flares, as defined in §
101.1(a) of this
title (relating to Definitions), are subject only to the provisions of
paragraph (1) of this subsection. Beginning September 1, 1993, compliance with
this subparagraph for process gas flares shall be determined:
(i) any time there is an operational change
in the flare that requires a permit amendment under TACB Regulation VI.
Compliance shall be determined using Reference Method 22 ( 40 CFR 60, Appendix
A), Reference Method 9 (40 CFR 60, Appendix A), or an alternative test method
approved by the executive director and the United States Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA). The observation period for this compliance
demonstration shall be no less than two hours unless noncompliance is
determined in a shorter time period or operational changes are made to the
flare that stop any observed smoking; and
(ii) by a daily notation in the flare
operation log that the flare was observed including the time of day and whether
or not the flare was smoking. For flares operated less frequently than daily,
the observation will be made for each operation. The flare operator shall
record at least 98% of these required observations. If smoking is detected,
compliance with the emission limits of this paragraph shall be determined using
Reference Method 22, Reference Method 9, or an alternative test method approved
by the executive director and EPA. The observation period for this compliance
determination shall be no less than two hours unless noncompliance is
determined in a shorter time period or operational changes are made to the
flare that stop the smoking. A Method 22 or Method 9 observation will be waived
provided the operator reports the flare to be in an upset condition under the
requirements of § 101.6 of this title (relating to Notification
Requirements for Major Upset).
(B) Flares used only during emergency or
upset conditions are exempt from the compliance monitoring requirements of
subparagraph (A)(i) and (ii) of this paragraph.
(5) Motor vehicles. Motor vehicles shall not
have visible exhaust emissions for more than 10 consecutive seconds. Compliance
shall be determined as specified in 40 CFR 60, Appendix A, Method 22.
(6) Railroad locomotives or ships.
(A) Visible emissions shall not be permitted
from any railroad locomotive, ship, or any other vessel to exceed an opacity of
30% for any five-minute period, except during reasonable periods of engine
start-up.
(B) Compliance with
subparagraph (A) of this paragraph shall be determined by applying the
following test methods, as appropriate:
(i)
Test Method 9 (40 CFR 60, Appendix A); or
(ii) equivalent test method approved by the
executive director and EPA.
(7) Structures.
(A) Visible emissions shall not be permitted
to exceed an opacity of 30% for any six-minute period from any building,
enclosed facility, or other structure.
(B) Compliance with subparagraph (A) of this
paragraph shall be determined by applying the following test methods, as
appropriate:
(i) Test Method 9 (40 CFR 60,
Appendix A); or
(ii) equivalent
test method approved by the executive director and EPA.
(8) Other sources.
(A) Visible emissions shall not be permitted
to exceed an opacity of 30% for any six-minute period from all other sources
not specified in this section.
(B)
Compliance with subparagraph (A) of this paragraph shall be determined by
applying the following test methods, as appropriate:
(i) Test Method 9 (40 CFR 60, Appendix A);
or
(ii) equivalent test method
approved by the executive director and EPA.
(b) Compliance determination
exclusions. Contributions from uncombined water shall not be included in
determining compliance with this section. The burden of proof which establishes
the applicability of this subsection shall be upon the person seeking to come
within its provisions.
(c) Solid
fuel heating devices.
(1) Operating
restrictions. In the City of El Paso, including the Fort Bliss Military
Reservation, no person shall operate a solid fuel heating device during a
period when National Weather Service data indicates that an atmospheric
stagnation condition exists or is predicted to exist. For the purposes of this
section, a solid fuel heating device shall be defined as any fireplace, wood
heater, wood stove, wood-fired boiler, coal-fired furnace, or similar device
burning any solid fuel which is used for aesthetic, cooking (excluding
commercial cooking), or heating purposes, and located inside a
building.
(2) Exemptions. An
exemption from the requirements of this section may be granted by the executive
director of the Texas Air Control Board if one or more of the following
conditions are met:
(A) the solid fuel
heating device is in a period of burn down; that is, a period of time not to
exceed three hours for the cessation of combustion within the device;
(B) the solid fuel heating device is the sole
source of heat for the building in which it is situated; or
(C) the solid fuel heating device becomes the
sole source of heat within the building because of a temporary power
loss.
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