Ill. Admin. Code tit. 35 § 243.105

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 37, September 13, 2024

Section 243.105 - Air Quality Monitoring Data Influenced by Exceptional Events

a) The federal regulations at 40 CFR 50.14 provide that a state, federal land manager, or federal agency can seek USEPA determination that exceedances or violations of an NAAQS are directly due to an exceptional event, so that the State can exclude affected ambient air quality monitoring data from a compliance determination. An exceptional event is a natural event or the result of human activity that is unlikely to recur and that is not reasonably controllable or preventable that meets specified criteria. The federal rule provides that a fireworks display, a prescribed fire, a wildfire, a high wind dust event, a stratospheric intrusion, or an aggregate of events on the same day can be an exceptional event.

b) The Agency must use the applicable procedures of 40 CFR 50.14 to obtain a USEPA determination of an exceptional event and exclusion of affected ambient air quality monitoring data if the Agency determines that the data are influenced by an exceptional event and should be excluded from a compliance determination.

c) Ambient air quality monitoring data excluded by a USEPA determination pursuant to 40 CFR 50.14 is excluded from use for compliance determination under this Part.

Ill. Admin. Code tit. 35, § 243.105

Added at 37 Ill. Reg. 12882, effective July 29, 2013

Amended at 40 Ill. Reg. 4906, effective 3/3/2016

Amended at 41 Ill. Reg. 13413, effective 10/23/2017

Amended at 45 Ill. Reg. 337, effective 12/17/2020

BOARD NOTE: Derived from 40 CFR 50.14.