North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 15A - Environmental Quality
Chapter 02 - ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Subchapter D - AIR POLLUTION CONTROL REQUIREMENTS
Section .0200 - AIR POLLUTION SOURCES
Section 02D .0201 - CLASSIFICATION OF AIR POLLUTION SOURCES
Universal Citation: 15A NC Admin Code 02D .0201
Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 6, September 16, 2024
(a) Purpose. This Rule establishes a system for classifying air pollution sources. The Commission shall use the system for classifying air pollution sources set forth in this Rule to classify air pollution sources governed by this Subchapter.
(b) Scope. This Rule shall apply to all air pollution sources, both combustion and non-combustion. The following system for classifying air pollution sources shall be used:
(1) "Class I-C" includes all sources of air
pollution using fuel-burning equipment for the production of heat to generate
electricity for public use.
(2)
"Class II-C" includes all sources of air pollution using fuel-burning equipment
for the production of steam, and for other process uses at commercial and
industrial establishments.
(3)
"Class III-C" includes all sources of air pollution using fuel-burning
equipment for comfort heating at institutional, commercial, or industrial
establishments, or at apartment houses having a central heating system serving
more than four apartments.
(4)
"Class IV-C" includes all sources of air pollution that burn trash, rubbish,
refuse, or similar materials in incinerators, teepee burners, or similar
devices.
(5) "Class V-C" includes
all sources of air pollution using fuel-burning equipment for comfort heating
that are not included in Class III-C.
(6) "Class VI-C" includes all sources of air
pollution using internal combustion engines.
(7) "Class I-I" includes all sources of air
pollution resulting from industrial plants engaged in the manufacture of
chemicals or allied products whose processes depend on the chemical reaction of
two or more elements or compounds, and includes plants producing acids,
fertilizer materials, dyestuff, synthetic fibers, and industrial
gases.
(8) "Class II-I" includes
all sources of air pollution resulting from industrial plants engaged in the
production of pulp and paper.
(9)
"Class III-I" includes all sources of air pollution resulting from the mining
and processing of minerals, stone, clay, and cement products, and includes
phosphate ore, mica and feldspar operations, stone quarries and crushers,
cement plants, concrete mixing plants, and masonry block plants.
(10) "Class IV-I" includes all sources of air
pollution resulting from industrial operations using petroleum products, and
includes asphalt mix plants, roofing felt plants, and petroleum products
storage areas.
(11) "Class V-I"
includes all sources of air pollution resulting from furniture, lumber, or wood
product plants.
(12) "Class VI-I"
includes all sources of air pollution resulting from textile manufacturing,
textile dyeing, or finishing plants.
(13) "Class VII-I" includes all sources of
air pollution resulting from the shelling, drying, storage, ginning, and
processing of tobacco, corn, soybeans, peanuts, cotton, fruits, vegetables, or
other agricultural products.
(14)
"Class VIII-I" includes all sources of air pollution resulting from industries
engaged in the processing of metals, and includes smelting, casting foundries,
metal working, and other similar operations.
(15) "Class IX-I" includes all sources of air
pollution resulting from slaughtering and processing of meat, poultry, fish,
and similar products and from rendering or the recovering of by-products of
these operations.
(16) "Class X-I"
includes all sources of air pollution resulting from industries which do not
fall within the classifications described in Subparagraphs (b)(7) through
(b)(15) of this Rule.
Authority
G.S.
143-215.3(a)(1);
143-215.107(a)(4);
Eff. February 1, 1976;
Amended Eff. July 1, 1984; December 1,
1976;
Readopted Eff. January 1,
2018.
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