Md. Code Regs. 26.11.02.13

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 12, June 14, 2024

Section 26.11.02.13 - Sources Subject to State Permits to Operate

A. Except for a source that is covered by a Part 70 permit, a person may not operate or cause to be operated any of the following sources without first obtaining, and having in current effect, a State permit to operate as required by this regulation:

(1) General and by-product waste incinerators of 2,000 pounds (907 kilograms) or more per hour rated capacity, crematoriums, pathological incinerators, incinerators burning special medical waste as defined in COMAR 26.13.11.02 a B, and sewage sludge incinerators;

(2) Fuel-burning equipment, hot oil heaters, and stationary combustion turbines with a maximum rated heat input capacity of 50 million Btu (52.8 gigajoules) or more per hour;

(3) Glass melting furnaces of 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour throughput, or 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more capacity;

(4) Metallurgical furnaces involving molten metal holding 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more of metal or having a throughput greater than 500 pounds (227 kilograms) per hour;

(5) Metal reclamation furnaces;

(6) By-product recovery furnaces of 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more capacity or 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour throughput;

(7) Lime kilns;

(8) Cement kilns;

(9) Other kilns of 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour throughput;

(10) Rendering cookers and offal dryers;

(11) Wood digesters;

(12) Sulfuric acid plants;

(13) Installations associated with chemical production facilities, including reactors, distillation columns, evaporators, and strippers, that have:

(a) A pre-control potential-to-emit for VOC of 20 pounds or more per day; and

(b) Are located at a premises that has a total pre-control potential-to-emit for VOC of 100 pounds or more per day from all chemical production processes subject to COMAR 26.11.19.30 a;

(14) Mineral products or metallic ore through-circulation dryers of 5 tons (4540 kilograms) or more per hour throughput or 5 tons (4540 kilograms) or more capacity;

(15) Spray dryers of 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more capacity or 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour dry product throughput;

(16) Crushers, hammermills, shredders, grinders, classifying screens of 5 tons (4540 kilograms) or more per hour throughput;

(17) Dry type ball and roller mills of 2 tons (1810 kilograms) or more per hour throughput;

(18) VOC storage tanks required by State or federal regulations to have VOC recovery or control devices, except gasoline storage tanks at gasoline dispensing facilities not located at a bulk gasoline plant or a bulk gasoline terminal, as those terms are defined by COMAR 26.11.13.01 a B;

(19) Motor vehicle fuel storage tanks, except for diesel fuel, with a capacity of 40,000 gallons (151 cubic meters) or more;

(20) Gasoline tank truck loading racks outloading 20,000 gallons (75.7 cubic meters) or more per day;

(21) VOC recovery installations, including distillation units and condensers, used to recover VOC for reuse in processes at a premises that has a total pre-control potential-to-emit for VOC of 100 pounds or more per day from all VOC recovery installations;

(22) Inorganic chemical or pigment production installations of 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour rated product throughput;

(23) Coating, decorating, and impregnating lines with integral drying ovens at which solvent-based materials are applied by automatic equipment to surfaces at a premises that has a total pre-control potential-to-emit for VOC emissions of 100 or more pounds per day from all coating, decorating, and impregnating lines;

(24) "Web printing" press lines with integral drying ovens as defined in COMAR 26.11.19.01 a B;

(25) Grain elevators and terminals of 10,000 bushels or more per hour grain leg capacity;

(26) Frit smelters;

(27) Portland cement clinker coolers;

(28) Benzene storage tanks of 500 gallons (1.9 cubic meters) or more capacity;

(29) Benzene truck loading racks;

(30) Galvanizing operations using fluxes and pre-fluxes;

(31) Coal tar or petroleum pitch impregnating operations;

(32) Gypsum calcining kettles;

(33) Pulverized material separators with 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour capacity;

(34) Honeycomb core manufacturing installations;

(35) Yeast production installations;

(36) Plastic credit card manufacturing installations;

(37) Magnetic tape manufacturing installations;

(38) Coal or ore export loading or unloading installations;

(39) Petroleum-contaminated soil treatment installations;

(40) Stainless steel manufacturing installations including electric arc furnaces, argon-oxygen decarbonization vessels, re-heat furnaces, pickling lines, or slab and billet grinding;

(41) Catalyst manufacturing installations including reactors, calciners, dryers, crushers, or classifying systems;

(42) Primary aluminum production installations including potlines, anode bake ovens, reverbatory furnaces, or alumina handling systems;

(43) Installations associated with titanium dioxide production facilities, including chlorination reactors, oxidation reactors, and spray driers, of 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour physical capacity or 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour throughput capacity;

(44) Automobile or truck production and assembly premises;

(45) Stationary internal combustion engines located at natural gas pumping stations or electric generating stations;

(46) Waste oil disposal, treatment, or recovery installations located at commercial premises that collect or consolidate materials containing waste oil from more than one premises unless:

(a) The total pre-control potential-to-emit for VOC from all such installations is less than 20 pounds per day;

(b) The total pre-control potential-to-emit for Class I toxic air pollutants from all such installations is 1 pound or less per day, and for Class II toxic air pollutants is less than 1 ton per year;

(c) Incoming waste materials, and any recovered oils, are not heated to a temperature greater than 212 oF during any phase of transfer, processing or storage; and

(d) Such installations do not require control equipment to comply with any Maryland air pollution control regulation, including regulations that prohibit odor and nuisance beyond facility boundaries;

(47) Synthetic fuel, rocket fuel, or explosives production premises of 500 pounds (227 kilograms) or more per hour product throughput;

(48) Synthesized pharmaceutical manufacturing installations that:

(a) Have a pre-control potential-to-emit for VOC of 15 or more pounds per day; or

(b) Are located at a premises that has a total pre-control potential-to-emit for VOC of 33 pounds or more per day from all synthesized pharmaceutical manufacturing processes;

(49) Shoe or footwear manufacturing installations;

(50) Asphalt blowing and asphalt building products saturation or roll coating installations;

(51) Slab, billet, or ingot re-heat furnaces with a maximum rated heat input capacity of 50 million Btu (52.8 gigajoules) or more per hour;

(52) Polyester resin products manufacturing installations, including installations manufacturing reinforced plastic products such as fiberglass, at a premises with a total polyester resin consumption of more than 50 tons per year;

(53) All alkyd resin reactors and alkyd resin thin-down tanks;

(54) Solvent-based paint manufacturing installations with a potential product throughput of 250 or more gallons per hour;

(55) Fluoropolymer material (FPM) process installations that treat FPM so that its shape or form is permanently changed, and have total actual uncontrolled VOC emissions of 20 pounds or more on any operating day;

(56) Hot-mix asphalt concrete production installations;

(57) Installations used to treat wood with creosote or chrome copper arsenate (CCA) by impregnation in a pressurized vessel;

(58) Iron and steel production installations as defined in COMAR 26.11.10.01 a B;

(59) Solvent-based adhesive manufacturing installations located at a premises with a total pre-control potential-to-emit for VOC of 50 pounds or more per day from all such installations;

(60) A source for which the owner or operator requests a State permit to operate in order to make the permit federally enforceable under Regulation .03 of this chapter; or

(61) Any other source that the Department determines has the potential to have a significant impact on air quality.

B. In determining whether a source has the potential to have a significant impact on air quality, for purposes of §A(61) of this regulation, the Department shall consider the following:

(1) The quality, quantity, or characteristics of the pollutants discharged, including their toxicity;

(2) The location of the source, including its affects on an area that has not met ambient air quality standards; and

(3) Whether permit conditions are necessary to ensure that the source complies continuously with the requirements of the State air pollution control law.

C. Section A of this regulation requires a State permit to operate for each emissions unit at a source covered by a Part 70 permit if the emissions unit is not provided for in the Part 70 permit and is a source listed in §A of this regulation. When the Part 70 permit is revised to include the emissions unit, the Part 70 permit constitutes the State permit to operate for that emissions unit.

D. The Department, on a case-by-case basis, may exempt a source from the requirement for a State permit to operate on the basis of capacity, nature of equipment or materials, amount of emissions, or other evidence that the source has a limited potential to cause air pollution.

E. The Department may issue a single State permit to operate for two or more sources located at a single facility or the Department may issue two or more State permits to operate for emission units within a source.

F. A State permit to operate issued by the Department under §A(60) of this regulation is not a required permit to operate under Environment Article, § 2-404(a)(1), Annotated Code of Maryland.

G. Unless it is not practical to do so, a permittee shall maintain all permits in the vicinity of the source for which the permit was issued and make the permit immediately available to officials of the Department upon request.

H. The Department may issue a general State permit to operate covering similar sources.

Md. Code Regs. 26.11.02.13

Regulations .13 adopted effective May 8, 1995 (22:9 Md. R. 648)
Regulation .13 amended effective August 22, 2011 (38:17 Md. R. 1014)
Regulation .13A amended effective aPRIL 30, 2012 (39:8 Md. R. 536)