Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
a) The owner or operator of a CAAPP source,
pursuant to 35 Ill. Adm. Code 270, shall submit to the Agency within its CAAPP
application a list of the following activities or emission levels:
1) Any emission unit determined to be an
insignificant activity by the Agency pursuant to Section
201.211
of this Part;
2) Emission units
with emissions that never exceed 0.1 lbs/hr of any regulated air pollutant in
the absence of air pollution control equipment and that do not emit any air
pollutant listed as hazardous pursuant to section 112(b) of the Clean Air
Act;
3) Emission units with
emissions that never exceed 0.44 tons/year of any regulated air pollutant in
the absence of air pollution control equipment and that do not emit any air
pollutant listed as hazardous pursuant to section 112(b) of the Clean Air
Act;
4) Direct combustion units
designed and used for comfort heating purposes and fuel combustion emission
units as follows:
A) Units with a rated heat
input capacity of less than 2.5 mmbtu/hr that fire only natural gas, propane or
liquefied petroleum gas;
B) Units
with a rated heat input capacity of less than 1.0 mmbtu/hr that fire only oil
or oil in combination with only natural gas, propane, or liquefied petroleum
gas;
C) Units with a rated capacity
of less than 200,000 btu/hr which never burn refuse or treated or chemically
contaminated wood;
5)
Extruders used for the extrusion of metals, minerals, plastics, rubber, or
wood, excluding extruders used in the manufacture of polymers, provided that
volatile organic materials or class I or II substances subject to the
requirements of Title VI of the Clean Air Act are not used as foaming agents or
release agents or were not used as foaming agents in the case of extruders
processing scrap material;
6)
Furnaces used for melting metals other than beryllium with a brim full capacity
of less than 450 cubic inches by volume;
7) Equipment used for the melting or
application of less than 50,000 lbs/yr of wax to which no organic solvent has
been added;
8) Equipment used for
filling drums, pails or other packaging containers, excluding aerosol cans,
with soaps, detergents, surfactants, lubricating oils, waxes, vegetable oils,
greases, animal fats, glycerin, sweeteners, corn syrup, aqueous salt solutions,
or aqueous caustic solutions;
9)
Equipment used for the mixing and blending of materials at ambient temperature
to make water based adhesives provided each material contains less than 5%
organic solvent by weight;
10)
Storage tanks, as follows:
A) Storage tanks
of organic liquids with a capacity of less than 10,000 gallons and an annual
throughput of less than 100,000 gallons provided the tank is not used for the
storage of any amount of gasoline, including gasoline/ethanol blend fuels, or
any amount of material or mixture of any material listed as a hazardous air
pollutant pursuant to section 112(b) of the Clean Air Act;
B) Storage tanks of gasoline, including
gasoline/ethanol blend fuels, with a capacity of less than 2000
gallons;
11) Storage
tanks of virgin or rerefined distillate oil (including kerosene and diesel
fuel), hydrocarbon condensate from natural gas pipeline or storage systems,
lubricating oil, or residual fuel oils;
12) Die casting machines where a metal or
plastic is formed under pressure in a die;
13) Coating operations (excluding powder,
architectural and industrial maintenance coating) with aggregate VOM usage that
never exceeds 15 lbs/day from all coating lines at the source, including VOM
from coating, dilutents, and cleaning materials;
14) Printing operations with aggregate
organic solvent usage that never exceeds 750 gallons per year from all printing
lines at the source, including organic solvent from inks, dilutents, fountain
solutions, and cleaning materials;
15) Gas turbines and stationary reciprocating
internal combustion engines of less than 112 kW (150 horsepower) power
output;
16) Gas turbines and
stationary reciprocating internal combustion engines of between 1118 and 112 kW
(1500 and 150 horsepower) power output that are emergency or standby
units;
17) Storage tanks of any
size containing exclusively soaps, detergents, surfactants, waxes, glycerin,
vegetable oils, greases, animal fats, sweetener, corn syrup, aqueous salt
solutions, or aqueous caustic solutions provided an organic solvent has not
been mixed with such materials;
18)
Loading and unloading systems for railcars, tank trucks, or watercraft that
handle only the following liquid materials provided an organic solvent has not
been mixed with such materials: soaps, detergents, surfactants, lubricating
oils, waxes, glycerin, vegetable oils, greases, animal fats, sweetener, corn
syrup, aqueous salt solutions, or aqueous caustic solutions; and
19) Fuel dispensing operations and fuel
dispensing equipment for the fuels specified in subsections (a)(19)(A) and (B),
for mobile sources, including on-road and off-road vehicles, for use in those
mobile sources. For purposes of this subsection (a)(19), fuel dispensing
equipment means equipment for transferring fuel to a mobile source, including
nozzles, hoses, swivels, breakaways, hose retractors, vapor valves, dispensers,
vacuum-assist devices, vapor-return piping, and liquid collection points.
Storage tanks and storage tank equipment are not included in fuel dispensing
operations or fuel dispensing equipment and are addressed separately.
A) Gasoline, including gasoline/ethanol blend
fuels, if the annual throughput of the fuel dispensed is less than 120,000
gallons (rolling 12 month total).
B) Distillate oil (including kerosene and
diesel fuel), biodiesel, and biodiesel/distillate oil blends.
b) The owner or
operator of a CAAPP source is not required to individually list the following
activities in a CAAPP application pursuant to 35 Ill. Adm. Code 270. The
applicant shall denote whether any of the following activities are present at
the source in its CAAPP application:
1) Air
conditioning or ventilating equipment not designed to remove air contaminants
generated by or released from associated equipment;
2) Photographic process equipment by which an
image is reproduced upon material sensitized to radiant energy;
3) Equipment used for hydraulic or
hydrostatic testing;
4) General
vehicle maintenance and servicing activities at the source, other than fuel
handling or dispensing of gasoline (including gasoline/ethanol blend fuels),
distillate oil (including kerosene and diesel fuel), biodiesel, or
biodiesel/distillate oil blends;
5)
Cafeterias, kitchens, and other facilities used for preparing food or beverages
primarily for consumption at the source;
6) Equipment using water, water and soap or
detergent, or a suspension of abrasives in water for purposes of cleaning or
finishing provided no organic solvent has been added to the water;
7) Administrative activities including, but
not limited to, paper shredding, copying, photographic activities, and
blueprinting machines. This does not include incinerators;
8) Laundry dryers, extractors, and tumblers
processing clothing, bedding, and other fabric items used at the source that
have been cleaned with water solutions of bleach or detergents provided that
any organic solvent present in such items before processing that is retained
from clean-up operations shall be addressed as part of the VOM emissions from
use of cleaning materials;
9)
Housekeeping activities for cleaning purposes, including collecting spilled and
accumulated materials at the source, including operation of fixed vacuum
cleaning systems specifically for such purposes, but not including use of
cleaning materials that contain organic solvent;
10) Refrigeration systems, including storage
tanks used in refrigeration systems, but excluding any combustion equipment
associated with such systems;
11)
Bench scale laboratory equipment and laboratory equipment used exclusively for
chemical and physical analysis, including associated laboratory fume hoods,
vacuum producing devices and control devices installed primarily to address
potential accidental releases;
12)
Restroom facilities and associated clean-up operations, and stacks or vents
used to prevent the escape of sewer gases through plumbing traps;
13) Activities associated with the
construction, on-site repair, maintenance or dismantlement of buildings,
utility lines, pipelines, wells, excavations, earthworks and other structures
that do not constitute emission units;
14) Storage tanks of organic liquids with a
capacity of less than 500 gallons, provided the tank is not used for storage of
any amount of material or mixture of any material listed as a hazardous air
pollutant pursuant to section 112(b) of the Clean Air Act;
15) Piping and storage systems for natural
gas, propane, and liquefied petroleum gas;
16) Water treatment or storage systems, as
follows:
A) Systems for potable water or
boiler feedwater;
B) Systems,
including cooling towers, for process water provided that such water has not
been in direct or indirect contact with process streams that contain volatile
organic material or materials listed as hazardous air pollutants pursuant to
section 112(b) of the Clean Air Act;
17) Lawn care, landscape maintenance, and
groundskeeping activities;
18)
Containers, reservoirs, or tanks used exclusively in dipping operations to coat
objects with oils, waxes, or greases, provided no organic solvent has been
mixed with such materials;
19) Cold
cleaning degreasers that are not in-line cleaning machines, where the vapor
pressure of the solvents used never exceed 2 kPa (15 mmHg or 0.3 psi) measured
at 38°C (100°F) or 0.7 kPa (5 mmHg or 0.1 psi) at 20°C
(68°F);
20) Manually operated
equipment used for buffing, polishing, carving, cutting, drilling, machining,
routing, sanding, sawing, scarfing, surface grinding or turning;
21) Use of consumer products, including
hazardous substances as that term is defined in the Federal Hazardous
Substances Act (
15
USC 1261 et seq.), where the product is used
at a source in the same manner as normal consumer use;
22) Activities directly used in the diagnosis
and treatment of disease, injury or other medical condition;
23) Firefighting activities and training in
preparation for fighting fires conducted at the source;
BOARD NOTE: Open burning permits may be required for certain
training activities.
24) Internal
combustion engine or boiler (including the fuel system) of motor vehicles,
locomotives, aircraft, watercraft, lifttrucks, and other vehicles powered by
nonroad engines;
25) Activities
associated with the construction, repair or maintenance of roads or other paved
or open areas, including operation of street sweepers, vacuum trucks, spray
trucks and other vehicles related to the control of fugitive emissions of such
roads or other areas;
26) Storage
and handling of drums or other transportable containers where the containers
are sealed during storage and handling;
27) Individual points of emission or
activities as follows:
A) Individual flanges,
valves, pump seals, pressure relief valves and other individual components that
have the potential for leaks;
B)
Individual sampling points, analyzers, and process instrumentation, whose
operation may result in emissions;
C) Individual features of an emission unit
such as each burner and sootblowers in a boiler or each use of cleaning
materials on a coating or printing line;
D) Individual equipment that is transportable
or activities within a facility established for testing units prior to sale or
distribution or for purposes of research; and
E) Individual equipment or activities within
a pilot plant facility that is used for research or training;
BOARD NOTE: Notwithstanding the foregoing, such points of
emissions or activities shall be addressed in a CAAPP application in sufficient
detail to identify applicable requirements and demonstrate compliance with such
requirements. Emission data for such activities shall be addressed in the
aggregate for each emission unit or group of related emission units.
28) Activities at a
source associated with the modification only or construction only of a
facility, an emission unit or other equipment at the source; and
BOARD NOTE: Notwithstanding the status of this activity as
insignificant, a particular activity that entails modification or construction
of an emission unit or construction of air pollution control equipment may
require a construction permit pursuant to Section
201.142
of this Part and may subsequently require a revised CAAPP permit. A revised
CAAPP permit may also be necessary for operation of an emission unit after
completion of a particular activity if the existing CAAPP permit does not
accommodate the new state of the emission unit.
29) Activities at a source associated with
the maintenance, repair, or dismantlement of an emission unit or other
equipment installed at the source, not including the shutdown of the unit or
equipment, including preparation for maintenance, repair or dismantlement, and
preparation for subsequent startup, including preparation of a shutdown vessel
for entry, replacement of insulation, welding and cutting, and steam purging of
a vessel prior to startup.
