Washington Administrative Code
Title 173 - Ecology, Department of (See also Titles 197, 317, 372, and 508)
Chapter 173-400 - General regulations for air pollution sources
Section 173-400-108 - Excess emissions reporting
Universal Citation: WA Admin Code 173-400-108
Current through Register Vol. 24-06, March 15, 2024
(1) Notify the permitting authority.
(a) When excess emissions represent a
potential threat to human health or safety, the owner or operator must notify
the permitting authority by phone or electronic means as soon as possible, but
not later than twelve hours after the excess emissions were
discovered.
(b) For all other
excess emissions, the owner or operator must notify the permitting authority in
a report as provided in subsection (2) of this section.
(2) Report. The owner or operator must report all excess emissions to the permitting authority:
(a) To claim emissions as unavoidable under
WAC
173-400-109,
the report must contain the information in subsection (4) of this
section.
(b) Chapter 173-401 WAC
source: As provided in WAC
173-401-615(3)
and subsection (4) of this section. Subsection (3) of this section does not
apply to a chapter 401 source reporting under WAC
173-401-615.
(c) All other sources:
(i) Within thirty days after the end of the
month during which the event occurred; or
(ii) As part of the next routine emission
monitoring report.
(3) The report must contain at least the following information:
(a) Date, time,
duration of the episode;
(b) Known
causes;
(c) For exceedances of an
emission lim-itation other than opacity, an estimate of the quantity of excess
emissions;
(d) The corrective
actions taken; and
(e) The
preventive measures taken or planned to minimize the chance of
recurrence.
(4) For an excess emission event that the owner or operator claims was unavoidable under WAC 173-400-109, the report must also include the following information :
(a) Properly signed contemporaneous records
or other relevant evidence documenting the owner or operator's actions in
response to the excess emissions event;
(b) Information on whether installed emission
monitoring and pollution control systems were operating at the time of the
exceedance. If either or both systems were not operating, information on the
cause and duration of the outage; and
(c) All additional information required under
WAC
173-400-109(5)
supporting the claim that the excess emissions were unavoidable.
Statutory Authority: Chapter 70.94 RCW. 11-06-060 (Order 09-01), § 173-400-108, filed 3/1/11, effective 4/1/11.
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