N.J. Admin. Code § 7:27-8.1
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Actual emissions" means the rate at which an air contaminant is actually emitted, either directly or indirectly, to the outdoor atmosphere, in units of mass per calendar year, seasonal period, or other time period specified by the Department.
"Agricultural commodity" means any vegetable matter or animal matter.
"Air contaminant" means any substance, other than water or distillates of air, present in the atmosphere as solid particles, liquid particles, vapors or gases.
"Air quality impact analysis" means a procedure, entailing the use of air quality simulation modeling, for determining whether air contaminant emissions will result in ambient air concentrations that exceed standards established for the protection of human health and welfare and the environment.
"Air quality simulation model" means a mathematical procedure, taking into account the dispersive capacity of the atmosphere, meteorological data, topography, and other relevant factors, to predict the concentration of an air contaminant in the ambient air. Such procedure may entail use of a mathematical model or a physical model.
"Air stripping equipment" means equipment used to transfer any air contaminant from water or other liquids directly or indirectly into the outdoor atmosphere including, but not limited to, packed columns and water spray equipment.
"Ambient air monitoring" means the measurement of concentrations of one or more air contaminants in the outdoor atmosphere.
"Amendment" means a change made to a permit and certificate under N.J.A.C. 7:27-8.21, Amendments.
"AP-42" means the January 1995, 5th edition version of the manual entitled "Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors," which is published by the EPA, and including supplements A, B, C, D, E, F and G and any subsequent revisions. This document may be obtained from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, Virginia 22161, (703) 487-4650; or from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402, (202) 783-3228. In addition, this document can be accessed electronically through the EPA technology transfer network chief site on the worldwide web at http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/ap42.html.
"Application form" means the form the Department requires an applicant to submit to apply for a preconstruction permit and operating certificate, a preconstruction permit and operating certificate for an environmental improvement pilot test, a preconstruction permit and operating certificate revision, or a compliance plan change. Also, a renewal application stub is an application form.
"Banking" means the reservation of creditable emission reductions, pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:27-18, for future use as emission offsets.
"Brake horsepower" or "bhp" means a measure of mechanical power generated by a reciprocating engine determined by a brake attached to the shaft coupling.
"Certificate" means either an operating certificate or a temporary operating certificate, which is legally valid.
"CFR" means the United States Code of Federal Regulations.
"Class I substance" means an air contaminant that is listed in 42 U.S.C. § 7671a(a), or promulgated by EPA in a Federal rule, as a substance that has been found to cause or contribute significantly to harmful effects on the stratospheric ozone layer.
"Class II substance" means an air contaminant that is listed in 42 U.S.C. § 7671a(b), or promulgated by EPA in a Federal rule, as a substance that is known or may reasonably be anticipated to cause or contribute to harmful effects on the stratospheric ozone layer.
"Clean Air Act" or "CAA" means the Federal Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 7401 et seq.; and any subsequent amendments or supplements to that act.
"Commercial fuel" means solid, liquid, or gaseous fuel normally produced or manufactured, and sold for the purpose of creating useful heat.
"Commodity" means a mass-produced product that can be bought and sold, including agricultural products, produce, logs, vehicles, and clothing.
"Compliance inspection" means the on-site examination by representatives of the Department of equipment or control apparatus to determine if the requirements of this subchapter and other applicable laws have been and are being complied with.
"Compliance plan change" means a change made to a permit and certificate under N.J.A.C. 7:27-8.19, Compliance plan changes.
"Construct" or "construction" means to fabricate or erect equipment or control apparatus at a facility where it is intended to be used, but shall not include the dismantling of existing equipment or control apparatus, site preparation, or the ordering, receiving, temporary storage, or installation of equipment or control apparatus. Unless otherwise prohibited by Federal law, this term shall also not include the pouring of footings or placement of a foundation where equipment or control apparatus is intended to be used.
"Construction engine" means a mobile engine used for construction at a facility for a limited time period. Construction engine includes a mobile electric generator that is used until regular electric power lines are available to replace the function of the electric generator at the facility. Construction engine does not include:
1. An engine attached to a foundation;
2. An engine (including any replacement engines) at the same facility for more than 12 months;
3. An engine (including any replacement engines) at a seasonal source for at least 90 days per year for two years or longer; or
4. An engine that is moved from one facility to another in an attempt to circumvent the residence time criteria at paragraphs 2 or 3 above.
"Consumer Price Index" or "CPI" means the annual Consumer Price Index for a calendar year as determined year to year using the decimal increase in the September through August, 12-month average for the previous year of the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), as published by the United States Department of Labor.
"Control apparatus" means any device which prevents or controls the emission of any air contaminant directly or indirectly into the outdoor atmosphere.
"Conveyorized surface cleaner" means a surface cleaner through which the parts to be cleaned are moved by means of a continuous, automatic system.
"Criteria pollutant" means any air contaminant for which a national ambient air quality standard has been promulgated under 40 CFR 50 or for which a State ambient air quality standard has been promulgated in N.J.A.C. 7:27-13.
"Delivery vessel" means any vehicle designed and constructed or converted to be capable of transporting liquid VOC cargo such as gasoline or fuel oil. This term includes, but is not limited to, tank trucks, tank trailers, railroad tank cars, and marine tank vessels.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
"Distillates of air" means helium (He), nitrogen (N[2]), oxygen (O[2]), neon (Ne), argon (Ar), krypton (Kr), and xenon (Xe).
"Domestic treatment works" means a publicly or privately owned treatment works and includes a treatment works processing primarily domestic wastes together with any ground water, surface water, storm water, or industrial process wastewater that may be present.
"Domestic waste" means waste derived from humans, animals, households, restaurants, cafeterias, hotels, hospitals, markets, and similar installations.
"Dry cleaning equipment" means equipment, located at a commercial establishment, used for cleaning textiles or garments, in which the cleaning agent is a chemical or petroleum solvent.
"Dump" means a land site at which solid waste is disposed of in a manner which does not protect the environment, is susceptible to open burning, or is exposed to the elements, vectors and scavengers.
"Effective stack height" means the distance to the plume center line from the ground as determined by adding the plume rise to the physical height of the stack.
"Effluent limitation" means any restriction on quantities, quality, discharge rates, concentration of chemical, physical, thermal, biological, or other constituents of a pollutant. This term shall have the same meaning as defined for the term "effluent limitation" at N.J.A.C. 7:14A-1.9.
"Emergency" means any situation that arises from sudden and reasonably unforeseeable events beyond the control of an owner or operator of a facility, such as an unforeseen system capacity shortage caused by an act of God, that requires immediate corrective action to prevent system collapse or to restore normal operations at the facility.
"Emergency fumigation" or "emergency fumigation operation" means the fumigation of a commodity or industrial structure that is required by a State or Federal authority, including the United States Department of Agriculture or the United States Food and Drug Administration, on an emergency basis.
"Emergency management activity" means an activity to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to, and recover from threatened or actual natural disasters, acts of terrorism, or other man-made disasters.
"Emissions" means any air contaminant or category of air contaminants discharged directly or indirectly into the outdoor atmosphere.
"Emissions unit" means any part of activity of a stationary source that emits or has the potential to emit any regulated air pollutant or any pollutant listed under 42 U.S.C. § 7412(b).
"Emit" means to cause or release emissions.
"Energy and Environmental Technology Verification Act" or "EETV Act" means N.J.S.A. 13:1D-134 et seq., that authorizes the Department to develop and implement an innovative energy and environmental technology verification and certification process.
"Environmental improvement pilot test" means a sampling and analytical program using prototype equipment or processes on a temporary basis for the purpose of collecting data necessary for the design of a full scale process to achieve an environmental improvement, or for the purpose of determining the feasibility of using the equipment or process for a particular environmental improvement.
"EPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
"Equipment" means any device capable of causing the emission of an air contaminant, and any stack or chimney, conduit, flue, duct, vent or similar device connected or attached to, or serving the equipment.
"Facility" means the combination of all structures, buildings, equipment, control apparatus, storage tanks, source operations, and other operations that are located on a single site or on contiguous or adjacent sites and that are under common control of the same person or persons.
"Farm" means any land which meets the eligibility requirements of the Farmland Assessment Act of 1964 (N.J.S.A. 54:4-23.1 et seq.) for land deemed in agricultural use.
"Federally enforceable" means any limitation or condition on operation, production, or emissions which can be enforced by the EPA. These limitations and conditions that can be enforced by EPA include, but are not limited to, those established pursuant to:
1. Any standard of performance for new stationary sources (NSPS) promulgated at 40 CFR Part 60 or promulgated under 42 U.S.C. § 7411;
2. Any national emission standard for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) promulgated at 40 CFR Part 61, 40 CFR Part 63, or promulgated under 42 U.S.C. § 7412;
3. Any standard or other requirement provided for in a SIP that has been approved by EPA, or promulgated through rulemaking by EPA; or
4. Any permit or order issued pursuant to requirements established at 40 CFR 51, Subpart I (including any preconstruction permit and certificate issued pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:27-8 or any operating permit issued pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:27-22); 40 CFR 52.21; 40 CFR Part 70; 40 CFR Part 71; or 40 CFR Part 72 .
"Fuel cell system" means an electrochemical device that converts the chemical energy in its fuel directly into electricity and heat. This term also includes any associated fuel processor, such as a reformer, that produces the fuel.
"Fumigant" means a pesticide registered with the EPA under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) that is a vapor or gas, or forms a vapor or gas upon application, and whose pesticidal action is through the vapor or gaseous state.
"Fumigation" or "fumigation operation" means the use of a fumigant in a sealed, enclosed space to prevent, control, or eliminate pests in stored or in-transit commodities by treating the commodity or commodity storage or transport space.
"Gasoline dispensing facility" means a facility consisting of one or more stationary gasoline storage tanks together with dispensing devices used to fill vehicle fuel tanks.
"General permit" means a type of standardized permit and certificate, issued by the Department under N.J.A.C. 7:27-8.8.
"Graphic arts operation" means the application of one or more surface coating formulations non-uniformly across a surface, using one or more printing units, together with any associated drying or curing areas. A single graphic arts operation ends after drying or curing and before other surface coating formulations are applied. For any web line, this term means an entire application system, including any associated drying ovens or areas between the supply roll and take-up roll or folder. This term does not include any surface coating operation.
"Greenhouse gas" or "GHG" means any of the following gases: carbon dioxide (CO[2]); methane (CH[4]); nitrous oxide (N[2]O); certain hydrofluorocarbons (HFC-23, HFC-125, HFC-134a, HFC-143a, HFC-152a, HFC-227ea, HFC-236fa, HFC-4310mee); certain perfluorocarbons (CF[4], C[2]F[6], C[4]F[10], C[6]F[14]); and sulphur hexafluoride (SF[6]).
"Group I TXS" means an air contaminant that is included in the list of Group I TXS at N.J.A.C. 7:27-17.3.
"Group II TXS" means an air contaminant that is included in the list of Group II TXS at N.J.A.C. 7:27-17.3.
"Group III TXS" means an air contaminant that is included in the list of Group III TXS at N.J.A.C. 7:27-17.3.
"Hazardous air pollutant" or "HAP" means an air contaminant listed in or pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 7412(b).
"Hazardous waste" means those materials defined as hazardous waste under N.J.A.C. 7:26G-5.1.
"Hazardous waste landfill" means a solid waste facility or part of a facility where hazardous waste is placed in or on land and which is not a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, an injection well, or a waste pile.
"Identical" means, in relation to the replacement of equipment or control apparatus, that the equipment or control apparatus is of the same type and size as the equipment or control apparatus being replaced, and is used in the same process, with the same materials.
"Incinerator" means any device, apparatus, equipment, or structure using combustion or pyrolysis for destroying, reducing or salvaging any material or substance, but does not include thermal or catalytic oxidizers used as control apparatus on manufacturing equipment.
"Indirect emissions" means a discharge of any air contaminant into the outdoor atmosphere through any opening that is not a stack or chimney directly connected to the equipment.
"Industrial structure" means an enclosed space, including a warehouse, container, bin, silo, trailer, storage facility, commodity pallet, any type of fumigation chamber, such as under a tarpaulin, or manufacturing or processing equipment, in which fumigation occurs as a significant source operation. "Industrial structure" does not include a private residence or commercial office or commercial building in which fumigation occurs.
"Insignificant source" means, for the purposes of this subchapter, any equipment or source operation that does not need a permit and certificate under N.J.A.C. 7:27-8.2.
"Install" or "installation" means to carry out final setup activities necessary to provide equipment or control apparatus with the capacity for use or service. This term includes, but is not limited to, connection of equipment or control apparatus, associated utilities, piping, ductwork or conveyor systems. This term does not include construction, as defined above, nor the reconfiguration of equipment or control apparatus to an alternate configuration specified in a permit application and approved by the Department. This term includes relocation of existing equipment or control apparatus.
"Intermediate product" means one or more desired results of a production process that is made into a product in a subsequent production process at the same industrial facility, without the need for pollution treatment prior to its being made into a product. An intermediate product is not considered nonproduct output. Increases in quantities of intermediate products do not count towards use reduction or nonproduct output reduction goals. This term shall have the same meaning as defined for the term "intermediate product" at N.J.A.C. 7:1K-1.5; if there is any conflict between the definition at N.J.A.C. 7:1K-1.5 and this one, the definition at N.J.A.C. 7:1K-1.5 shall control.
"Laboratory operations" means any action, process, or treatment utilizing chemical, physical, or biological factors to conduct experimental research, tests, or demonstrations.
"Land treatment facility" means a facility, or part of a facility, at which waste is applied onto or incorporated into the soil surface so as to change the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics or composition of the waste.
"Liquid particles" means particles which have volume but are not of rigid shape.
"MACT standard" or "Maximum Achievable Control Technology standard" means a National Emission Standard for a Hazardous Air Pollutant (NESHAP) establishing an emission limitation for a specific category or subcategory of facilities which emit one or more hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), which NESHAP is:
1. Promulgated by EPA pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 7412; or
2. Determined by the Department on a case-by-case basis pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 7412(g) or (j).
"Major facility" means a facility that has the potential to emit any of the air contaminants listed below in an amount that is equal to or exceeds the applicable major facility threshold level given below. The major facility threshold levels are as follows:
| Air contaminant | Major Facility Threshold Level |
| CO | 100 tons per year |
| PM[10] | 100 tons per year |
| PM[2.5] | 100 tons per year |
| TSP | 100 tons per year |
| SO[2] | 100 tons per year |
| SO[2] (as a PM[2.5] precursor) | 100 tons per year |
| NO[x] | 25 tons per year |
| NO[x] (as a PM[2.5] precursor) | 100 tons per year |
| VOC | 25 tons per year |
| Lead | 10 tons per year |
| Any HAP | 10 tons per year |
| All HAPs, collectively | 25 tons per year |
| Any other air contaminant, except CO[2] | 100 tons per year |
"Manufacturing process" means any action, operation or treatment embracing chemical, industrial, manufacturing, or processing factors, methods or forms including, but not limited to, furnaces, kettles, ovens, converters, cupolas, kilns, crucibles, stills, dryers, roasters, crushers, grinders, mixers, reactors, regenerators, separators, filters, reboilers, columns, classifiers, screens, quenchers, cookers, digesters, towers, washers, scrubbers, mills, condensers or absorbers.
"Microturbine" means a combustion turbine with output of 25 kW to 500 kW.
"Modify" or "modification" means any physical change in, or change in the method of operation of, existing equipment or control apparatus that increases the amount of actual emissions of any air contaminant emitted by that equipment or control apparatus or that results in the emission of any air contaminant not previously emitted. This term shall not include normal repair and maintenance. Also, for the purposes of this definition, "air contaminant" shall have the meaning of "category of air contaminants" in a case where the regulatory limit is placed on a grouping of contaminants (such as VOCs) rather than on a single species of contaminant.
"National ambient air quality standard" or "NAAQS" means an ambient air quality standard promulgated at 40 CFR 50.
"NESHAP" means a National Emission Standard for a Hazardous Air Pollutant as promulgated under 40 CFR Part 61 or 40 CFR Part 63.
"New Jersey ambient air quality standard" or "NJAAQS" means an ambient air quality standard promulgated at N.J.A.C. 7:27-13.
"New Jersey Hazardous Air Pollutant" or "NJHAP" means a substance listed at N.J.A.C. 7:27-17.3, Table 2.
"Nonattainment area" means any area of the State:
1. Identified by the Department as one in which the ambient air concentration of a criteria pollutant exceeds a NAAQS or NJAAOS; or
2. Designated by the EPA at 40 CFR 81.331 as an area in which the ambient air concentration of a criteria pollutant exceeds the applicable NAAQS.
"Non-commercial fuel" means solid, liquid or gaseous fuel not normally produced or manufactured, and sold for the purpose of creating useful heat.
"Non-reactive process" means a process in which no chemical reaction is occurring. The air contaminants emitted by the process are the same as those emitted by the raw materials involved in the process, and no reaction by-products are produced or emitted.
"Nonproduct output" or "NPO" means all hazardous substances or hazardous wastes that are generated prior to storage, out-of-process recycling, treatment, control or disposal, and that are not intended for use as a product. NPO includes fugitive releases. This term shall have the same meaning as defined for the term "nonproduct output" at N.J.A.C. 7:1K-1.5.
"NO[x]" or "oxides of nitrogen" means all oxides of nitrogen including, but not limited to, nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide, except nitrous oxide.
"NSPS" means Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources as promulgated under 40 CFR 60, commonly referred to as New Source Performance Standards.
"112(r) contaminant" means an air contaminant that is listed by EPA pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 7412 as a substance which, in the case of an accidental release, is known to cause or may reasonably be anticipated to cause death, injury, or serious adverse effects to human health or the environment.
"On-specification used oil" is as defined at N.J.A.C. 7:27-20.1.
"Open top surface cleaner" means a surface cleaner, including, but not limited to, a surface cleaner equipped with a cover, in which there is at any time an opening to the atmosphere greater than 25 percent of the surface area of the VOC solvent contained therein or greater than 25 percent of the surface area of a sink-like work area where the surface cleaning occurs.
"Operating certificate" or "certificate" means a "Certificate to Operate Control Apparatus or Equipment" issued by the Department pursuant to N.J.S.A. 26:2C-1 et seq., and in particular N.J.S.A. 26:2C-9.2, and this subchapter.
"Operating permit" means the consolidated preconstruction and operating permit issued pursuant to Title V of the Federal Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 7661 et seq., this subchapter, Title I of the Federal Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq., and N.J.A.C. 7:27-22. This term includes a general operating permit that is applicable facility wide, but does not include a general operating permit that applies only to a part of a facility. Where a general operating permit applies only to a part of a facility, the general operating permit shall be incorporated into the operating permit. This term also includes an operating permit issued for a temporary facility; for a facility subject to a MACT or GACT standard pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:27-22.26; or for a component of a facility pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:27-22.5(j).
"Operational parameter" means a measurable characteristic of the operation of a piece of equipment or control apparatus.
"Order" means any and all orders issued by the Department including, but not limited to, Administrative Orders, and Administrative Consent Orders.
"Particles" means any material, except uncombined water, which exists as liquid particles or solid particles at standard conditions.
"Performance test" means a series of test runs used for the purpose of determining emissions of air contaminants to the outdoor atmosphere.
"Periodic compliance inspection" means any compliance inspection carried out in accordance with a schedule included in the conditions of approval of a permit or certificate. This term does not include a compliance inspection which the Department may carry out as part of its consideration as to whether to approve or renew an operating certificate.
"Permit" means a preconstruction permit as defined in this section.
"Permit revision" means a change made to a permit and certificate under N.J.A.C. 7:27-8.18, Permit revisions.
"Permittee" means, for the purpose of this subchapter, any person to whom the Department has issued a permit or certificate pursuant to this subchapter.
"Person" means an individual, public or private corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, society, joint stock company, international entity, institution, county, municipality, state, interstate body, the United States of America, or any agency, board, commission, employee, agent, officer, or political subdivision of a state, an interstate body, or the United States of America.
"Plume rise" means the vertical distance from the point at which an effluent stream is discharged into the outdoor atmosphere to the highest point attained by the center line of the effluent stream.
" PM[10]" means a class of air contaminants that includes all particulate matter having an aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to a nominal 10 microns.
"PM[2.5]" means a class of air contaminants that includes all particulate matter having an aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to a nominal 2.5 microns.
"Pollution prevention process modification" means any physical or operational change to a process which reduces air contaminant emissions to the environment. This definition is solely for purposes of at risk construction or operation in accordance with N.J.S.A. 26:2C-9.4 and this subchapter and shall not be deemed to amend or otherwise affect the definition of "pollution prevention" set forth in the New Jersey Pollution Prevention Act at N.J.S.A. 13:1D-37.
"Portable" means not attached to a permanent foundation, and designed and capable of being carried or moved from one location to another by means of wheels, skids, carrying handles, dolly, trailer, platform, or similar device.
"Potential to emit" means the same as that term is defined by the EPA at 40 CFR 70.2 or any subsequent amendments thereto. In general, the potential to emit is the maximum aggregate capacity of a source operation or of a facility to emit an air contaminant under its physical and operational design. Any physical or operational limitation on the capacity of a source operation or a facility to emit an air contaminant, including any limitation on fugitive emissions as a result of any applicable requirement, control apparatus, and restrictions on hours of operation or on the type or amount of material combusted, stored, or processed, shall be treated as part of its design, if the limitation is Federally enforceable. Unless otherwise indicated, source-related fugitive emissions shall be included in the determination of potential to emit. However, the determination shall not include the holding by the owner or operator of emission reductions that are banked pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:27-18.8.
"Preconstruction permit" or "permit" means a "Permit to Construct, Install, or Alter Control Apparatus or Equipment" issued by the Department pursuant to N.J.S.A. 26:2C-1 et seq., in particular N.J.S.A. 26:2C-9.2, and this subchapter.
"Private entity" means any private individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, owner or operator but shall not include any municipal, county, or State agency or authority or any agency, authority or subdivision created by any municipal, county or State government.
"Probe" means an air contaminant sampling method used to determine compliance with one or more emission allowables. For the purpose of assessing supplementary fees at N.J.A.C. 7:27-8.6, B. Supplementary Fee Schedule, any of the following shall be considered a single probe:
1. Multiple methods using real-time instrument analyzers, except for analyzers used in determining specific gaseous organic compounds;
2. Any multiple-sample method used for a single air contaminant;
3. Inlet and outlet sampling of a control apparatus for the same air contaminant; or
4. Any single-sample method used to determine multiple air contaminants within an air contaminant class (for example, metals).
"Process material testing" means the testing of any solid, liquid, or gaseous substance involved in a manufacturing process or other operation. This term includes, but is not limited to, fuel and other feed material, process intermediates, products, by-products, and wastes, but excludes any source emission testing.
"Process unit" means equipment assembled to produce intermediate or final products. A process unit can operate independently if supplied with sufficient feed or raw materials and sufficient storage facilities for the product. The storage and transfer of product or raw materials to and from the process unit shall be considered separate from the process unit for the purposes of making reconstruction determinations. Product recovery equipment shall be considered to be part of the process unit, not part of the control apparatus.
"Product" means one or more desired result(s) of a production process that is used as a commodity in trade in the channels of commerce by the general public in the same form as it is produced. Products include intermediate products transferred to a separate industrial facility owned or operated by the same owner or operator. This term shall have the same meaning as defined for the term "product" at N.J.A.C. 7:1K-1.5.
"Production process" means a process, line, method, activity or technique, or a series or combination of processes, lines, methods or techniques, used to produce a product or reach a planned result. This term shall have the same meaning as defined for the term "production process" at N.J.A.C. 7:1K-1.5.
"PSD" or "prevention of significant deterioration" means the requirements pursuant to 40 CFR 51.166, administered through the Department's permitting process, which apply to a new or modified major facility located in an attainment area. The Department accepted delegation of the administration of the PSD program from EPA on February 22, 1983.
"Publicly owned treatment works" (POTW) means any device or system used in the treatment (including recycling and reclamation) of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature which is owned by a "State or municipality." This term includes sewers, pipes, or other conveyances only if they convey wastewater to a POTW providing treatment.
"Rated power output" means the maximum electrical or equivalent mechanical power output stated on the nameplate affixed to an engine or the International Standard Organization (ISO) rated electrical or equivalent mechanical power stated on the nameplate affixed to a turbine by the manufacturer.
"Rate of production" means the quantity per unit time of any process intermediate, product, by-product, or waste generated through the use of any equipment, source operation, or a process.
"Raw material" means any input to equipment, control apparatus, or a process, including fuels, but excluding heat and other forms of energy. Such inputs may include mixtures, composites, compounds and elemental substances.
"Reconfiguration" means a change in the setup of equipment or control apparatus, or both, to an alternate configuration. This term also includes reorientation or reconnection into an alternate pattern of equipment or control apparatus, or both. This term does not include a change in the location of equipment or control apparatus from that specified in the preconstruction permit.
"Reconstruct" or "reconstruction" means the replacement of part(s) of equipment included in a process unit, or the replacement of part(s) of control apparatus, if the fixed capital cost of replacing the part(s) exceeds both of the following amounts:
1. Fifty percent of the fixed capital cost that would be required to construct a comparable new process unit; or, if it is part(s) of control apparatus that is being replaced, 50 percent of the fixed capital cost that would be required to construct comparable new control apparatus; and
2. $ 80,000, in 1995 dollars, adjusted by the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
"Registrant" means a person who submits a registration form.
"Registration" means the process of registering with the Department on a registration form, the following:
1. One or more sources under a general permit, in accordance with N.J.A.C. 7:27-8.8; or
2. One or more used oil space heaters that burn on-specification used oil whose total combined gross heat input does not exceed 500,000 British Thermal Units per hour, in accordance with N.J.A.C. 7:27-20.3(a).
"Registration form" means the online or paper form the Department requires a registrant to submit for registration.
"Renewal" means the process of renewing an operating certificate or a registration.
"Renewal application stub" means the part of the renewal invoice that a permittee or registrant detaches and submits with the renewal fee payment to renew an operating certificate or a registration.
"Rental facility" means a business that owns and rents or leases portable equipment to another person.
"Repair or maintenance" means upkeep of existing equipment or control apparatus, including the replacement of parts, but does not include the reconstruction of equipment or control apparatus.
"Research" means investigations directed toward the discovery of facts, scientific principles, reactions, or substances.
"Risk assessment" means a procedure for characterizing the probability that potential exposure to air contaminants will result in adverse effects on human health, or welfare or the environment.
"Sampling" means the selective collection of a quantity of raw materials, process intermediates, products, by-products or wastes.
"Sanitary landfill" means a solid waste facility, at which solid waste is deposited on or into the land as fill for the purpose of permanent disposal or storage for a period of time exceeding six months, except that it does not include any waste facility approved for disposal of hazardous waste.
"Seven-day-notice change" means a change made to a permit and certificate under N.J.A.C. 7:27-8.20, Seven-day-notice changes.
"Significant net emission increase" means an emission increase of any air contaminant determined pursuant to the procedures set forth in N.J.A.C. 7:27-18.7 to be a significant net emission increase.
"Significant source operation" or "significant source" means a source that is classified as a significant source pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:27-8.2(c) and that is not exempted from being a significant source pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:27-8.2(d) or (e).
"Solid particles" means particles of rigid shape and definite volume.
"Solid waste facility" means any system, site, equipment, or building which is utilized for the storage, collection, processing, transfer, transportation, separation, recycling, recovery, or disposal of solid waste.
"Source emission testing" means the testing of a discharge of any air contaminant from equipment, control apparatus or source operation through any stack or chimney.
"Source operation" or "source" means any process, or any identifiable part thereof, that emits or can reasonably be anticipated to emit any air contaminant either directly or indirectly into the outdoor atmosphere. A source operation may include one or more pieces of equipment or control apparatus.
"SO[2]" or "sulfur dioxide" means a gas that has a molecular composition of one sulfur atom and two oxygen atoms.
"Space heater" is as defined at N.J.A.C. 7:27-20.1.
"Stack or chimney" means a flue, conduit or opening designed, constructed, or utilized for the purpose of emitting any air contaminant into the outdoor atmosphere.
"Standard conditions" means 70 degrees Fahrenheit (21.1 degrees centigrade) and one atmosphere pressure (14.7 pounds per square inch absolute or 760.0 millimeters of mercury).
"State implementation plan" or "SIP" means a plan or portion thereof, prepared by a state and approved by the EPA pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 7410, which includes enforceable emission limitations or other control measures, means or techniques, and provides for implementation, maintenance, and enforcement of one or more NAAQS.
"Stationary reciprocating engine" means an internal combustion engine that is a reciprocating engine that remains for more than 30 days at a single site (for example, any building, structure, facility, or installation), but does not include a mobile electric generator being used by the military, a locomotive engine, or a construction engine. A stationary reciprocating engine:
1. Is not self-propelled, but may be mounted on a vehicle for portability; or
2. Is self-propelled on rails at a facility, but does not in the course of its normal operation leave the facility.
"Stationary storage tank" means any immobile storage tank. This term also includes any delivery vessel, excluding a sealed vessel, such as a railroad tank car or similar container, used for storing VOC remaining on site at a facility for more than 30 days.
"Storage tank" means any tank, reservoir, or vessel which is a container for liquids or gases, wherein:
1. No manufacturing process, or part thereof, other than filling or emptying takes place; and
2. The only treatment carried out is that necessary to prevent change from occurring in the physical condition or the chemical properties of the liquids or gases deposited into the container. Such treatment may include recirculating, agitating, maintaining the temperature of the stored liquids or gases, or replacing air in the vapor space above the stored liquids or gases with an inert gas in order to inhibit the occurrence of chemical reaction.
"Stratospheric ozone depleting substance" means any Class I substance or any Class II substance.
"Surface cleaner" means a device to remove unwanted foreign matter from the surfaces of materials by using VOC or HAP solvents in liquid or vapor state.
"Surface coating operation" means the application of one or more surface coating formulations uniformly across a surface, using one or more coating applicators, together with any associated drying or curing areas. A single surface coating operation ends after drying or curing and before other surface coating formulations are applied. For any web coating line, this term means an entire coating application system, including any associated drying ovens or areas between the supply roll and take-up roll, that is used to apply surface coating formulations onto a continuous strip or web. This term does not include any graphic arts operation.
"Surface impoundment" or "impoundment" means a facility or part of a facility which is a natural topographic depression, man-made excavation, or diked area formed primarily of earthen materials (although it may be lined with man-made materials), which is designed to hold an accumulation of liquid wastes or wastes containing free liquids, and which is not an injection well. Examples of surface impoundments are holding, storage, settling, and aeration pits, ponds, and lagoons.
"Surface stripping" means the removal of paints and other coatings from the surface of materials.
"Technology Acceptance and Reciprocity Partnership" or "TARP" means a workgroup of the Environmental Council of States (ECOS). The workgroup was formed to promote the reciprocal evaluation, acceptance, and approval of innovative environmental technologies.
"Temporary facility" means a facility which, by design, is intended to be operated at more than one location and which is relocated more than once in five years.
"Temporary operating certificate" means an operating certificate with a term shorter than five years, issued under N.J.A.C. 7:27-8.7(d).
"Testing" means a procedure for the determination of the kind and amount of one or more air contaminants, potential air contaminants or air contaminant precursors present. This term includes, but is not limited to, sampling, sample custody, analysis, and reporting of findings.
"Test run" or "run" means a single integrated measurement or procedure used for the purpose of collecting a sample of any air contaminant emitted during a specified time interval.
"Total fixed capital cost" means the total sum, in dollars, paid to purchase and install equipment or control apparatus, including any design costs incurred. This term does not include any costs of operation or startup. This term also does not include the costs of dismantling any equipment or control apparatus being replaced, site preparation, placement of any footings or foundation upon which the structural elements of the equipment or control apparatus rest. This term also does not include any charges for legal services, governmental taxes or fees, or any patent or licensing costs.
"Total suspended particulate matter" or "TSP" means any air contaminant dispersed in the outdoor atmosphere which exists as solid particles or liquid particles at standard conditions and is measured in accordance with N.J.A.C. 7:27B-1; 40 CFR 60, Appendix A, Methods 5 through 5H; or another method approved by the Department and EPA.
"Use" means to engage in any form or manner of operation of equipment or control apparatus subsequent to the installation of such equipment or control apparatus. This term includes any trial operation.
"Used oil" is as defined at N.J.A.C. 7:27-20.1.
"Volatile organic compound" or "VOC" means a volatile organic compound as that term is defined by the EPA at 40 CFR 51.100(s), as supplemented or amended, which is incorporated by reference herein.
N.J. Admin. Code § 7:27-8.1