La. Admin. Code tit. 33 § V-530

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024

Section V-530 - Specific Part II Information Requirements for Process Vents

Except as otherwise provided in LAC 33:V.1501, owners and operators of facilities that have process vents to which LAC 33:V. Chapter 17. Subchapter A applies must provide the following additional information.

A. Facilities that cannot install a closed-vent system and control device to comply with the provisions of LAC 33:V. Chapter 17. Subchapter A, on the effective date that the facility becomes subject to the provisions of LAC 33:V.Chapter 17.Subchapter A, and Chapter 43.Subchapter Q, must provide an implementation schedule as specified in LAC 33:V.1709.A.2.

B. Documentation of compliance with the process vent standards in LAC 33:V.1707 must be provided, including:

1. information and data identifying all affected process vents, annual throughput, and operating hours of each affected unit, estimated emission rates for each affected vent and for the overall facility (i.e., the total emissions for all affected vents at the facility), and the approximate location within the facility of each affected unit (e.g., identify the hazardous waste management units on a facility plot plan);

2. information and data supporting estimates of vent emissions and emission reduction achieved by add-on control devices based on engineering calculations or source tests. For the purpose of determining compliance, estimates of vent emissions and emission reductions must be made using operating parameter values (e.g., temperatures, flow rates, or concentrations) that represent the conditions that exist when the waste management unit is operating at the highest load or capacity level reasonably expected to occur;

3. information and data used to determine whether or not a process vent is subject to the requirements of LAC 33:V.1707.

C. Owners or operators who apply for permission to use a control device other than a thermal vapor incinerator, catalytic vapor incinerator, flare, boiler, process heater, condenser, or carbon adsorption system to comply with the requirements of LAC 33:V.1707, and choose to use test data to determine the organic removal efficiency or the total organic compound concentration achieved by the control device must provide a performance test plan as specified in LAC 33:V.1713.B.3.

D. Documentation of compliance with LAC 33:V.1709 must be provided, including:

1. a list of all information references and sources used in preparing the documentation;

2. records including the dates of each compliance test required by LAC 33:V.1709.K;

3. a design analysis, specifications, drawings, schematics, and piping and instrumentation diagrams based on the appropriate sections of "APTI Course 415: Control of Gaseous Emissions," as incorporated by reference at LAC 33:V.110, or other engineering texts acceptable to the administrative authority that present basic control device information. The design analysis shall address the vent stream characteristics and control device operation parameters as specified in LAC 33:V.1713.B.4.c;

4. a statement signed and dated by the owner or operator certifying that the operating parameters used in the design analysis reasonably represent the conditions that exist when the hazardous waste management unit is or would be operating at the highest load or capacity level reasonably expected to occur;

5. a statement signed and dated by the owner or operator certifying that the control device is designed to operate at an efficiency of 95 weight percent or greater unless the total organic emission limits of LAC 33:V.1707.A for affected process vents at the facility can be attained by a control device involving vapor recovery at an efficiency less than 95 weight percent.

La. Admin. Code tit. 33, § V-530

Promulgated by the Department of Environmental Quality, Office of Solid and Hazardous Waste, Hazardous Waste Division, LR 17:658 (July 1991), amended LR 18:1256 (November 1992), LR 22:817 (September 1996), amended by the Office of the Secretary, Legal Affairs Division, LR 34:621 (April 2008).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 30:2180 et seq.