N.J. Admin. Code § 7:27-27.8

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 11, June 3, 2024

Section 7:27-27.8 - Stack emission testing, permit applications and continuous emission monitoring

(a) Stack emission testing performed pursuant to this subchapter shall be conducted in accordance with a test protocol approved by the Department. To obtain the approval of the Department of a test protocol, the owner or operator of any source subject to this subchapter shall submit to the Department a proposed test protocol setting forth all test methods, including, but not limited to, sampling and analytical procedures; a description of sampling equipment and the source sampling locations; and provide sample calculations that will be used to determine the concentration of mercury in the gas stream, mercury in milligrams per ton of iron or steel production, and mercury in mg/MW-hr, as appropriate. The owner or operator of a source subject to this subchapter shall submit for review and approval a proposed test protocol each year, no fewer than 90 calendar days prior to conducting its first quarter stack emission testing, to the following address: Department of Environmental Protection

Division of Air Quality

Air Quality Permitting Program

Bureau of Technical Services

Emission Measurement Section

Mail Code 380-01A

PO Box 420

Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0420

(b) The Department shall not approve any proposed stack emission test protocol submitted pursuant to (a) above unless the stack emission test method proposed to measure mercury is:

1. The USEPA Reference Method 29 incorporated herein by reference, including all supplements and amendments thereto. This method can be downloaded from the USEPA website: http://www.epa.gov/ttn/emc/methods/method29.html;

2. An equivalent method demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Department to be as conservative and reliable as the USEPA Reference Method 29 for measuring mercury; or

3. A continuous emission monitoring (CEM) approval pursuant to (c) below.

(c) When a Federal performance specification is developed and published in the Federal Register, and a mercury continuous emission monitoring system capable of meeting the Federal specifications is available, an owner or operator of a source regulated by this subchapter may propose and install a mercury continuous emission monitoring system to determine compliance with this subchapter if approved by the Department. The owner or operator must demonstrate that the mercury continuous emission monitoring system that is installed complies with the quality assurance requirements detailed in the Federal specifications. After the Department determines conformance with quality assurance requirements, the owner or operator may thereafter use the CEM to demonstrate compliance with the emission standards of this subchapter in accordance with the conditions of approval for the CEM. Thereafter, quarterly stack testing is not required.

(d) The owner or operator of any source subject to this subchapter that has a reagent based mercury emission control system shall conduct optimization tests for mercury emissions control apparatus to determine the optimized reagent feed rate at which emissions of mercury for those sources are reasonably minimized below the applicable limits, as follows:

1. The optimization tests shall be performed as follows:

i.For iron and steel melters and coal-fired boilers, optimization testing shall be conducted within one year after the compliance date;

ii. For MSW incinerators, optimization testing shall be conducted by February 4, 2006, except if the owner or operator has demonstrated to the Department that it has achieved at least 95 percent control in all tests over the preceding two years;

2. If the owner or operator of any source subject to this subchapter owns or operates more than one identical applicable source at the same facility, the optimization tests may be performed on one source selected in the test protocol, and the results applied to the other identical sources at that facility;

3. Within 60 calendar days of the conclusion of the optimization tests, the owner or operator shall submit to the Department for approval a proposed optimized reagent feed rate which minimizes mercury emissions below the applicable limits, while considering the amount of reagent used; and

4. The owner or operator shall operate each applicable source at or above the optimized reagent feed rate approved by the Department.

(e) Any owner or operator of a source subject to this subchapter who is required to make changes to a current preconstruction permit or to an operating permit in order to operate in conformance with any requirements of this subchapter shall obtain an air pollution control permit for any required preconstruction permit actions, or for any required operating permit actions.

N.J. Admin. Code § 7:27-27.8

New Rule, R.2004 d.443, effective 12/6/2004 (operative January 3, 2005).
See: 36 N.J.R. 123(a), 36 N.J.R. 5406(a).
Administrative change.
See: 43 N.J.R. 2328(a).