N.J. Admin. Code § 7:27-22.27

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 12, June 17, 2024

Section 7:27-22.27 - Operating scenarios

(a) The Department will include operating scenarios in an operating permit, if the operating scenarios meet all applicable requirements, including, but not limited to, all applicable emission standards.

1. Operating scenarios may, as appropriate, be incorporated into a permit through an application for an initial operating permit, a significant modification, or a minor modification pursuant to 7:27-22.5, 22.24 or 22.23, respectively.

2. New operating scenarios may be authorized through a notice of a seven-day-notice change pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:27-22.22, provided the emission limit for a source operation included in operating scenarios that are being added by a seven-day-notice to an existing operating permit shall not exceed the maximum allowable emission limits in the existing operating permit for the source operation.

(b) At a facility authorized to operate under one or more operating scenarios, the permittee shall maintain contemporaneous information on the change from one operating scenario to another. This can be any means of recording information associated with the scenario in question, either manually or electronically, including but not limited to: batch sheets, production sheets, fuel records, and process records.

(c) The permittee shall ensure that operation under an operating scenario meets all permit conditions, applicable requirements, and the requirements of this chapter.

(d) An applicant or permittee seeking authorization for operating scenarios shall provide to the Department, in the application for an initial operating permit, significant modification, or minor modification, or in a seven-day-notice, at least the following information:

1. A description of each proposed operating scenarios, including, but not limited to, information on any emission changes from existing approved operating scenarios;

2. The specific source operations that are to be included in the proposed operating scenarios;

3. If the equipment combusts fuel, the fuels that will be used under the proposed operating scenarios, and the maximum quantity of fuel proposed to be used annually;

4. The product(s) that will be produced under the proposed operating scenarios; and

5. For any operating parameter addressed or limited in the existing operating permit that may be changed under the proposed operating scenario, proposed ranges, or limits for that parameter relevant to air contaminant emissions. This shall include, but not be limited to, parameters, such as the quantity or type of raw material used. Operating parameters that do not affect emissions need not be included in the operating scenario. As long as the facility operates within the range or limit of each specified parameter in an approved operating scenario, such operation shall be considered consistent with that operating scenario.

(e) In addition to the information required at (d) above, the following information shall be provided to the Department if the operating scenario is proposed to be added to an existing operating permit as a seven-day-notice:

1. For each source operation included in the operating scenario:

i. The maximum allowable emissions limits established in the operating permit for each air contaminant;

ii. A demonstration that each of the emissions limits listed pursuant to (e)i above will not be exceeded under the proposed operating scenario; and

iii. A demonstration that, under the proposed operating scenario, any new air contaminant not authorized by the existing operating permit would be emitted at a rate less than the applicable threshold for reporting emissions at N.J.A.C. 7:27-17.9, Tables 3A and 3B or at 7:27-22 Appendix, Table A, incorporated herein by reference.

N.J. Admin. Code § 7:27-22.27

Adopted by 50 N.J.R. 409(a), effective 1/16/2018

Amended by 54 N.J.R. 560(a), effective 4/4/2022