Current through Register Vol. 24-06, March 15, 2024
(1)
Source classification list. In counties without a local air
pollution control authority, or for sources under the jurisdiction of ecology,
the owner or operator of each source within the following source categories
must register the source with ecology:
(a)
Agricultural chemical facilities engaging in the manufacturing of liquid or dry
fertilizers or pesticides;
(b)
Agricultural drying and dehydrating operations;
(c) Any category of stationary source that
includes an emissions unit subject to a new source performance standard (NSPS)
under 40 C.F.R. Part 60 (in effect on the date in WAC
173-400-025
), other than subpart AAA (Standards of Performance for New Residential Wood
Heaters);
(d) Any stationary source
that includes an emissions unit subject to a National Emission Standard for
Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) under 40 C.F.R. Part 61 (in effect on the
date in WAC
173-400-025
), other than:
(i) Subpart M (National
Emission Standard for Asbestos); or
(ii) Sources or emission units emitting only
radionuclides, which are required to obtain a license under WAC
246-247-060,
and are subject to 40 C.F.R. Part 61, subparts H and/or I, and that are not
subject to any other part of 40 C.F.R. Parts 61, 62, or 63, or any other parts
of this section.
(e) Any
source, or emissions unit subject to a National Emission Standard for Hazardous
Air Pollutants for Source Categories under 40 C.F.R. Part 63 (in effect on the
date in WAC
173-400-025
) that is not subject to chapter 173-401 WAC;
(f) Any source, stationary source or emission
unit with an emission rate of one or more pollutants equal to or greater than
an "emission threshold" defined in WAC
173-400-030;
(g) Asphalt and asphalt products production
facilities;
(h) Brick and clay
manufacturing plants, including tiles and ceramics;
(i) Casting facilities and foundries, ferrous
and nonferrous;
(j) Cattle feedlots
with operational facilities which have an inventory of one thousand or more
cattle in operation between June 1st and October 1st, where vegetation forage
growth is not sustained over the majority of the lot during the normal growing
season;
(k) Chemical manufacturing
plants;
(l) Composting operations,
including commercial, industrial and municipal, but exempting residential
composting activities;
(m) Concrete
product manufacturers and ready mix and premix concrete plants;
(n) Crematoria or animal carcass
incinerators;
(o) Dry cleaning
plants;
(p) Materials handling and
transfer facilities that generate fine particulate, which may include pneumatic
conveying, cyclones, baghouses, and industrial housekeeping vacuuming systems
that exhaust to the atmosphere;
(q)
Flexible vinyl and urethane coating and printing operations;
(r) Grain, seed, animal feed, legume, and
flour processing operations, and handling facilities;
(s) Hay cubers and pelletizers;
(t) Hazardous waste treatment and disposal
facilities;
(u) Ink
manufacturers;
(v) Insulation fiber
manufacturers;
(w) Landfills,
active and inactive, including covers, gas collections systems or
flares;
(x) Metal plating and
anodizing operations;
(y) Metallic
and nonmetallic mineral processing plants, including rock crushing
plants;
(z) Mills such as lumber,
plywood, shake, shingle, wood-chip, veneer operations, dry kilns, pulpwood
insulating board, or any combination thereof;
(aa) Mineralogical processing
plants;
(bb) Other metallurgical
processing plants;
(cc) Paper
manufacturers;
(dd) Petroleum
refineries;
(ee) Petroleum product
blending operations;
(ff) Plastics
and fiberglass product fabrication facilities;
(gg) Rendering plants;
(hh) Soil and groundwater remediation
projects;
(ii) Surface coating
manufacturers;
(jj) Surface coating
operations including: Automotive, metal, cans, pressure sensitive tape, labels,
coils, wood, plastic, rubber, glass, paper and other substrates;
(kk) Synthetic fiber production
facilities;
(ll) Synthetic organic
chemical manufacturing industries;
(mm) Tire recapping facilities;
(nn) Wastewater treatment plants;
(oo) Any source that has elected to opt-out
of the operating permit program by limiting its potential-to-emit (synthetic
minor) or is required to report periodically to demonstrate nonapplicability to
EPA requirements under Sections 111 or 112 of Federal Clean Air
Act.
(2)
Equipment
classification list. In counties without a local authority, the owner or
operator of the following equipment must register the source with ecology:
(a) Boilers, all solid and liquid fuel
burning boilers with the exception of those utilized for residential
heating;
(b) Boilers, all gas fired
boilers above 10 million British thermal units per hour input;
(c) Chemical concentration
evaporators;
(d) Degreasers of the
cold or vapor type in which more than five percent of the solvent is comprised
of halogens or such aromatic hydrocarbons as benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene or
xylene;
(e) Ethylene oxide (ETO)
sterilizers;
(f) Flares utilized to
combust any gaseous material;
(g)
Fuel burning equipment with a heat input of more than 1 million Btu per hour;
except heating, air conditioning systems, or ventilating systems not designed
to remove contaminants generated by or released from equipment;
(h) Incinerators designed for a capacity of
one hundred pounds per hour or more;
(i) Ovens, burn-out and heat-treat;
(j) Stationary internal combustion engines
and turbines rated at five hundred horsepower or more;
(k) Storage tanks for organic liquids
associated with commercial or industrial facilities with capacities equal to or
greater than 40,000 gallons;
(l)
Vapor collection systems within commercial or industrial facilities;
(m) Waste oil burners above 0.5 mm Btu heat
output;
(n) Woodwaste
incinerators;
(o) Commercial and
industrial solid waste incineration units subject to WAC
173-400-050(4);
(p) Small municipal waste combustion units
subject to WAC
173-400-050(5).
Statutory Authority:
RCW
70.94.152. 05-03-033 (Order 03-07), §
173-400-100, filed 1/10/05, effective 2/10/05. Statutory Authority:
Chapter
70.94 RCW,
RCW
70.94.141,[70.94.]152 , [70.94.]331,
[70.94.]510 and 43.21A.080. 01-17-062 (Order 99-06), § 173-400-100, filed
8/15/01, effective 9/15/01. Statutory Authority:
Chapter
70.94 RCW. 95-07-126
(Order 93-40), § 173-400-100, filed 3/22/95, effective 4/22/95; 93-18-007
(Order 93-03), § 173-400-100, filed 8/20/93, effective 9/20/93; 91-05-064
(Order 90-06), § 173-400-100, filed 2/19/91, effective 3/22/91. Statutory
Authority:
RCW
70.94.331,
70.94.395 and
70.94.510. 85-06-046 (Order
84-48), § 173-400-100, filed 3/6/85. Statutory Authority:
Chapters
43.21A and
70.94 RCW. 83-09-036 (Order DE
83-13), § 173-400-100, filed 4/15/83. Statutory Authority:
RCW
70.94.331. 80-11-059 (Order DE 80-14), §
173-400-100, filed 8/20/80. Statutory Authority:
RCW
43.21A.080 and
70.94.331. 79-06-012 (Order DE
78-21), § 173-400-100, filed 5/8/79; Order DE 76-38, § 173-400-100,
filed 12/21/76. Formerly WAC 18-04-100.