New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 20 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 2 - AIR QUALITY (STATEWIDE)
Part 70 - OPERATING PERMITS
Section 20.2.70.402 - REVIEW BY THE ADMINISTRATOR AND AFFECTED PROGRAMS
Universal Citation: 20 NM Admin Code 20.2.70.402
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A. Notification: The Department shall not issue an operating permit (including permit renewal or reissuance), minor permit modification or significant permit modification, until affected programs and the Administrator have had an opportunity to review the proposed permit as required under this section. Permits for source categories waived by the Administrator from this requirement and any permit terms or conditions which are not required under the Federal Act or under any of its requirements are not subject to Administrator review or approval.
(1) Within five (5) days of notification by
the Department that the application has been determined complete, the applicant
shall provide a copy of the complete permit application (including the
compliance plan and all additional materials submitted to the Department)
directly to the Administrator. The permit or permit modification shall not be
issued without certification to the Department of such notification. The
Department shall provide to the Administrator a copy of each draft permit, each
proposed permit, each final operating permit, and any other relevant
information requested by the Administrator.
(2) The Department shall provide notice of
each draft permit to any affected program on or before the time that the
Department provides this notice to the public under 20.2.70.401 NMAC, except to
the extent that minor permit modification procedures require the timing of the
notice to be different.
(3) The
Department shall keep for five (5) years such records and submit to the
Administrator such information as the Administrator may reasonably require to
ascertain whether the state program complies with the requirements of the
Federal Act or related applicable requirements.
B. Responses to Objections:
(1) No permit for which an application must
be transmitted to the Administrator under this Part shall be issued by the
Department if the Administrator, after determining that issuance of the
proposed permit would not be in compliance with applicable requirements,
objects to such issuance in writing within forty-five (45) days of receipt of
the proposed permit and all necessary supporting information.
(2) If the Administrator does not object in
writing under paragraph (1) of subsection B of 20.2.70.402 NMAC, any person
may, within sixty (60) days after the expiration of the Administrator's 45-day
review period, petition the Administrator to make such objection. Any such
petition shall be based only on objections to the permit that were raised with
reasonable specificity during the public comment period provided for in
20.2.70.401 NMAC, unless the petitioner demonstrates that it was impracticable
to raise such objections within such period, or unless the grounds for such
objection arose after such period. If the Administrator objects to the permit
as a result of a petition filed under this paragraph, the Department shall not
issue the permit until the Administrator's objection has been resolved, except
that a petition for review does not stay the effectiveness of a permit or its
requirements if the permit was issued after the end of the 45-day review period
and prior to the Administrator's objection.
(3) The Department, as part of the submittal
of the proposed permit to the Administrator (or as soon as possible after the
submittal for minor permit modification procedures allowed under subsection B
of 20.2.70.404 NMAC), shall notify the Administrator and any affected program
in writing of any refusal by the Department to accept all recommendations for
the proposed permit that the affected program submitted during the public or
affected program review period. The notice shall include the Department's
reasons for not accepting any such recommendation. The Department is not
required to accept recommendations that are not based on federally enforceable
applicable requirements.
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