New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 27 - AIR POLLUTION CONTROL
Subchapter 4 - CONTROL AND PROHIBITION OF PARTICLES FROM COMBUSTION OF FUEL
Section 7:27-4.1 - Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

"Air contaminant" means solid particles, liquid particles, vapors or gases which are discharged into the outdoor atmosphere.

"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.

"Control apparatus" means any device which prevents or controls the emission of any air contaminant.

"Department" means the Department of Environmental Protection.

"Direct heat exchanger" means equipment in which heat from the combustion of fuel is transferred to a substance being heated so that the latter is contacted by the products of combustion and may contribute to the total effluent.

"Equipment" means any device capable of causing the emission of an air contaminant into the open air and any stack, chimney, conduit, flue, duct, vent or similar device connected or attached to, or serving the equipment. This shall include equipment in which the preponderance of the air contaminants emitted is caused by the manufacturing process.

"Fuel" means solid, liquid or gaseous materials used to produce useful heat by burning.

"Heat input rate" means the rate at which the aggregate heat content based on the higher heating value of the fuel is introduced into the fuel burning equipment.

"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, or 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.

"Isokinetic" means a method for sampling air contaminants from the gas stream in a stack or chimney in such a manner that the gas stream enters a sampling probe in the same direction and at the same velocity as the gas stream in a stack or chimney.

"Liquid particles" means particles which have volume but are not of rigid shape and which upon collection tend to coalesce and create uniform homogeneous films upon the surface of the collecting media.

"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.

"Marine installation" means equipment for propulsion, power or heating on all types of marine craft and floating equipment.

"Maximum allowable emission rate" means the maximum amount of air contaminant which may be emitted into the outdoor air at any instant in time or during any prescribed interval of time.

"Modify" or "modification" means any physical change, 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.

"Particles" means any material, except uncombined water, which exists as liquid particles or solid particles at standard conditions.

"Performance test principle" means a concept of measurement as required for determining compliance with a specific standard for the emission of air contaminants.

"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).

"Sampling train" means a combination of entrapment devices, instruments, and auxiliary apparatus arranged in a prescribed sequence to selectively separate and collect samples of specified air contaminants.

"Solid particles" means particles of rigid shape and definite volume.

"Stack or chimney" means a flue, conduit or opening designed, constructed, and/or utilized for the purpose of emitting air contaminants into the outdoor air.

"Standard conditions" means or shall be 70 degrees Fahrenheit and one atmosphere pressure (14.7 psia or 760 mm Hg).