Section Env-A 3215.01 - Audits(a) The department shall conduct an audit of the NOx Budget Program beginning within 10 years of the effective date of the 2015 readoption of these rules and every 10 years thereafter to ensure that the program is providing expected performance in regards to emissions monitoring and allowance use.(b) Such audits shall include, as appropriate: (1) Confirmation of emissions reporting accuracy through validation of CEMS and data acquisition systems at the budget source; and(2) Review of allowance transfer and use by the budget source, geographically and temporally.(c) Each periodic audit shall examine the extent to which banked allowances have, or have not, contributed to emissions in excess of the budget for each year preceding the audit.(d) The periodic audit shall further provide an assessment of whether or not the program is consistent with the requirements for reasonable further progress and the attainment demonstration.N.H. Code Admin. R. Env-A 3215.01
#6811, EXEMPT, eff 7-17-98; ss by #7077, eff 8-25-99; ss by #8968, INTERIM, eff 8-25-07, EXPIRES: 2-21-08; ss by #9022, eff 11-2-07
Amended by Volume XXXVI Number 01, Filed January 7, 2016, Proposed by #11001, Effective 1/1/2016, Expires 1/1/2026.