New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 20 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 2 - AIR QUALITY (STATEWIDE)
Part 66 - COTTON GINS
Section 20.2.66.7 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 6, March 26, 2024
In addition to the terms defined in 20.2.2 NMAC (Definitions), as used in this part.
A. "Bale" means a unit of measurement to denote an amount of lint cotton with a nominal weight of 500 pounds.
B. "Class I area" means any federal land area that is classified or reclassified as class I as described in 20.2.74.108 NMAC.
C. "Cotton ginning facility" or "facility" means any facility that separates seed, lint, and trash from raw cotton, and bales lint cotton for further processing, that will emit no more than fifty (50) tons per year of any regulated air contaminant for which there is a national ambient air quality standard, and that has the standard industrial classification code 0724 (cotton ginning) and the North American industrial standard classification code 115111 (cotton ginning).
D. "Department" is the state of New Mexico environment department.
E. "Fugitive emissions" means those emissions that could not reasonably pass through a stack, chimney, vent, or other functionally equivalent opening.
F. "High efficiency cyclone dust collector" means any cyclone type collector of the 2D-2D or 1D-3D configuration. These designations refer to the ratio of cylinder to cone length, where D is the diameter of the cylinder portion. A 2D-2D cyclone would exhibit a cylinder length of 2 x D and a cone length of 2 x D, with a ninety percent (90%) efficiency for total suspended particulates. A 1D-3D cyclone would exhibit a cylinder length of 1 x D and a cone length of 3 x D, with a ninety-five percent (95%) efficiency for total suspended particulates.
G. "High pressure exhausts" means the exhaust from all air handling systems located at a cotton gin that are not defined as 'low pressure exhausts'.
H. "Low pressure exhausts" means the exhaust from systems at a cotton gin that handle air from the cotton lint handling system and battery condenser.
I. "Non-attainment" means designated by the United States environmental protection agency as not meeting one or more of the national ambient air quality standards.
J. "Opacity" means the degree to which emissions reduce the transmission of light and obscure the view of an object in the background.
K. "Owner or operator" is any person who owns or operates a process or process equipment at the source for which coverage under the permit has been granted.
L. "20.2.72 NMAC" means the air quality control regulation 20.2.72 NMAC (Construction Permits); that is, Part 72 of Title 20, Chapter 2 of the New Mexico administrative code.
