New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 20 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 2 - AIR QUALITY (STATEWIDE)
Part 3 - AMBIENT AIR QUALITY STANDARDS
Section 20.2.3.110 - SULFUR COMPOUNDS
Universal Citation: 20 NM Admin Code 20.2.3.110
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
The maximum allowable concentrations of the following sulfur-containing air contaminants in the ambient air are as follows:
A. Sulfur Dioxide:
(1) For the state except on the area within
3.5 miles of the Chino Mines Company smelter furnace stack at Hurley:
(a) 24-hour average: 0.10 ppm;
(b) Annual arithmetic average: 0.02
ppm;
(2) For the area
within 3.5 miles of the Chino Mines Company smelter furnace stack at Hurley:
(a) 24-hour average, not be exceeded more
than once per year: 0.14 ppm;
(b)
3-hour average, not to be exceeded more than once per year: 0.50 ppm;
(c) Annual arithmetic average: 0.03
ppm.
B. Hydrogen Sulfide:
(1) For the state, except
the Pecos-Permian Basin Intrastate Air Quality Control Region (1-hour average,
not to be exceeded more than once per year): 0.010 ppm;
(2) For the Pecos-Permian Basin Intrastate
Air Quality Control Region (1/2 hour average): 0.100 ppm;
(3) For within corporate limits of
municipalities within the Pecos-Permian Basin Intrastate Air Quality Control
Region (1/2 hour average): 0.030 ppm;
(4) For within five miles of the corporate
limits of municipalities having a population of greater than twenty thousand
and within the Pecos-Permian Basin Intrastate Air Quality Control Region (1/2
hour average): 0.030 ppm.
C. Total Reduced Sulfur:
(1) For the state, except the Pecos-Permian
Basin Intrastate Air Quality Control Region except for hydrogen sulfide (1/2
hour average): 0.003 ppm;
(2) For
the Pecos-Permian Basin Intrastate Air Quality Control Region, except for
hydrogen sulfide (1/2 hour average): 0.010 ppm;
(3) For within corporate limits of
municipalities within the Pecos-Permian Basin Intrastate Air Quality Control
Region, except for hydrogen sulfide (1/2 hour average): 0.003 ppm;
(4) For within five miles of the corporate
limits of municipalities having a population of greater than twenty thousand
and within the Pecos-Permian Basin Intrastate Air Quality Control Region,
except for hydrogen sulfide (1/2 hour average): 0.003 ppm.
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