New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules
Env - Department of Environmental Services
Subtitle Env-A - Air Related Programs (formerly designated as rules of Division of Air Resources.)
Chapter Env-A 100 - PURPOSE; DEFINITIONS


Current through Register No. 13, March 27, 2025

Statutory Authority: RSA 125-C:4, I; RSA 541-A:16, I(b)

REVISION NOTE #1:

Document #8256, effective 1-14-05, repealed, amended, and readopted with amendments and renumbered many definitions in Env-A 100, necessitating extensive renumbering of most of the remaining definitions, as indicated in the source notes referencing Document #8256 below.

The definitions repealed by Document #8256 include the following terms and phrases. The prior documents containing the definitions are identified in Document #8256 as follows:

Env-A 101.04 "Acid rain compliance option", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.11 "Adverse environmental effect", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.21 "Air quality control regions", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.25 "Alternative Control Technology (ACT)", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.29 "Amended water", #6482-A, effective 4-1-97

Env-A 101.33 "Annual emissions", #6469-A, effective 3-5-97

Env-A 101.34 "Appliance", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.43 "Average annual emissions", #6469-A, effective 3-5-97

Env-A 101.44 "Average emission rate", #6469-A, effective 3-5-97

Env-A 101.45 "Baseline average emission rate", #6469-A, effective 3-5-97

Env-A 101.46 "Baseline emissions", #6469-A, effective 3-5-97

Env-A 101.48 "Black liquor", #6724-A, effective 3-28-98

Env-A 101.49 "Black liquor oxidation system", #6724-A, effective 3-28-98

Env-A 101.50 "Black liquor solids", #6724-A, effective 3-28-98

Env-A 101.53 "Brown stock washer system", #6724-A, effective 3-28-98

Env-A 101.55 "Bubble concept", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.71 "Cleaning solvent", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.73 "COH", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.86 "Control Technique Guideline (CTG)", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.88 "Council's clerk", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.97 "Digester system", #6724-A, effective 3-28-98

Env-A 101.98 "Direct replacement", #6342-A, effective 9-28-96

Env-A 101.102 "Effects factor", #6428-A, effective 1-18-97

Env-A 101.109 "Emission rate", #6469-A, effective 3-5-97

Env-A 101.116 "Exhaust and ventilation system", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.117 "Exhaust emission", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.119 "Expeditiously as practicable", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.121 "Federal fiscal year", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.128 "Fly ash", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.130 "Friable asbestos material", #6482-A, effective 4-1-97

Env-A 101.140 "Geometric mean", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.153 "Indirect source", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.158 "Kraft recovery furnace", #6724-A, effective 3-28-98

Env-A 101.172 "Maximum total heat input capacity", #6469-A, effective 3-5-97

Env-A 101.179 "Multiple effect evaporator system", #6724-A, effective 3-28-98

Env-A 101.184 "New design kraft recovery furnace", #6724-A, effective 3-28-98

Env-A 101.188 "Nitric acid production unit", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.197 "Old design kraft recovery furnace", #6724-A, effective 3-28-98

Env-A 101.202 "Paper manufacturing facility", #6428-A, effective 1-18-97

Env-A 101.215 "Process, manufacturing and service-based industry", #6428-A, effective 1-18-97

Env-A 101.234 "Residual Risk Standards", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.237 "Ringelmann Smoke Chart", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.247 "Significant modification", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.248 "Significant permit amendment", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.250 "Smelt dissolving tank", #6724-A, effective 3-28-98

Env-A 101.267 "Sulfite mill", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.270 "Sulfuric acid production unit", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.296 "Utility Unit", #6057-A, effective 6-30-95

Env-A 101.301 "Wet methods", #6482-A, effective 4-1-97

REVISION NOTE #2:

Document #8304, effective 3-15-05, repealed 2 definitions in Env-A 100 and readopted with amendments and renumbered many other definitions in Env-A 100 as definitions in Env-A 1802.01 relative to asbestos management and control. These actions necessitated extensive renumbering of most of the remaining definitions in Env-A 100, as indicated in the source notes referencing Document #8304 below.

The definitions repealed by Document #8304 include the following terms and phrases. The prior documents containing the definitions are identified in Document #8304 as follows:

Env-A 101.80 "Competent person", #7845, effective 3-8-03

Env-A 101.240 "Sawing", #6482-A, effective 4-1-97

The definitions readopted with amendments and renumbered from Env-A 100 as rules in Env-A 1802.01 include the following terms and phrases. The prior document containing the definitions is identified in Document #8304 as Document #6482-A, effective 4-1-97:

"Aggressive sampling"

"Analytical service"

"Asbestos"

"Asbestos abatement"

"Asbestos-containing material"

"Category I nonfriable ACM"

"Category II nonfriable ACM"

"Clean room"

"Emergency Asbestos Project"

"Encapsulant"

"Encapsulation"

"Equipment room"

"Glovebag"

"HEPA filtration"

"Major asbestos abatement project-Class N"

"Major asbestos abatement project-Class S demolition"

"Major asbestos abatement project-Class S renovation"

"Minor asbestos abatement project"

"Regulated Asbestos-Containing Material"

"Removal"

"Renovation"

"Sheets" or "sheeting"

"Shower room"

"Tape"

REVISION NOTE #3:

Document #9839, effective 12-21-10, adopted 2 definitions in Env-A 100 and readopted with amendments and renumbered Env-A 101.113, defining "major source," as Env-A 115. These actions necessitated extensive renumbering of most of the remaining definitions in Env-A 100, as indicated in the source notes referencing Document #9839 below.

The definitions adopted by Document #9839 are:

Env-A 101.35 "Carbon dioxide equivalent emissions (CO2e)"

Env-A 101.96 "Greenhouse gases (GHGs)"

REVISION NOTE #4:

Document #13105, effective 9-25-20, adopted, repealed, readopted, and readopted with amendments all of the rules in Chapter Env-A 100, and extensively re-numbered of all of the definitions. Document #13105 also changed the chapter heading from "Definitions" to "Purpose; Definitions."

The rules adopted by Document #13105 are:

Env-A 101.01 Purpose.

Env-A 101.03 Federal Definitions Incorporated.

Env-A 101.01 and Env-A 101.03 were adopted in Part Env-A 101 titled "Purpose; Statutory and Federal Definitions Incorporated" which was formerly titled "Definitions."

Document #13105 eliminated the reserved number for the former rule Env-A 101.168 defining "sand and gravel sources". This definition had previously been readopted with amendment and renumbered as Env-A 2802.04 in Document #9793, effective 10-1-10, and the rule number had been reserved. The prior documents containing the definition included:

#1717, effective 2-19-81

#2332, effective 4-29-83

#2938, effective 12-27-84

#5033, effective 12-27-90

#6057-A, effective 6-30-95

#6428-A, effective 1-18-97

The former Env-A 101.168 had been renumbered during its filing history, including by Document #5033 and Document #6057-A, and renumbered due to rulemaking on other rules in Document #8256. See Revision Note #1 and Revision Note #2.

Document #13105 also eliminated the reserved number for the former Part Env-A 102 titled "Description of N. H. Air Resources Council and Division", which had expired 12-27-96 before Document #8256 was effective 1-14-05, as described in Revision Note #1, and the number for Part Env-A 102 was subsequently reserved. The prior filings affecting the former Part Env-A 102 included the following documents:

#1717, eff 2-19-81

#2332, eff 4-29-83

#2938, eff 12-27-84

#5033, eff 12-27-90; EXPIRED: 12-27-96

Document #13105 repealed Part Env-A 103, titled "Claims of Confidentiality", which contained the following rules:

Env-A 103.01 Purpose.

Env-A 103.02 Applicability.

Env-A 103.03 Procedure for Making a Claim of Confidentiality.

Env-A 103.04 Criteria for Claims of Confidentiality.

Env-A 103.05 Release or Other Use of Information.

The prior filings affecting the rules in the former Part Env-A 103 included the following documents:

#1717, eff 2-19-81

#2332, eff 4-29-83

#2938, eff 12-27-84

#5033, eff 12-27-90

#6057-A, eff 6-30-95

Document #13105 renumbered all of the existing definitions in Chapter Env-A 100, moving them from Part Env-A 101, re-titled as "Definitions", into the formerly reserved number Part Env-A 102, re-titled as "Definitions; A Through C", Part Env-A 103 titled "Definitions: D Through L", Part Env-A 104 titled "Definitions: M Through R", and Part Env-A 105 titled "Definitions: S Through Z". The former rule numbers are indicated in the source notes and as outlined below:

Former Rule

Rule in Document #13105

Env-A 101.01

Env-A 101.02

Env-A 101.02-Env-A 101.57

Env-A 102.01-Env-A 102.56

Env-A 101.58-Env-A 101.113

Env-A 103.01-Env-A 103.57

Env-A 101.114-Env-A 101.167

Env-A 104.01-Env-A 104.52

Env-A 101.169-Env-A 101.220

Env-A 105.01-Env-A 105.52

Document #13105 replaces all prior filings for the rules in Chapter Env-A 100. As organizational rules the rules in Document #13105 will not expire except pursuant to RSA 541-A:17, II

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