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 173-400-151 - Retrofit requirements for visibility protection
Current through Register Vol. 24-06, March 15, 2024
(1) The requirements of this section apply to an existing stationary facility. An "existing stationary facility" means a stationary source of air contaminants that meets all of these conditions:
Fossil-fuel fired steam electric plants of more than 250 million British thermal units per hour heat input, |
Coke oven batteries, |
Coal cleaning plants (thermal dryers), |
Sulfur recovery plants, |
Kraft pulp mills, |
Carbon black plants (furnace process), |
Portland cement plants, |
Primary lead smelters, |
Primary zinc smelters, |
Fuel conversion plants, |
Iron and steel mill plants, |
Sintering plants, |
Primary aluminum ore reduction plants, |
Secondary metal production facilities, |
Primary copper smelters, |
Chemical process plants, |
Municipal incinerators capable of charging more than 250 tons of refuse per day, |
Fossil-fuel boilers of more than 250 million British thermal units per hour heat input, |
Hydrofluoric, sulfuric, and nitric acid plants, |
Petroleum storage and transfer facilities with a capacity exceeding 300,000 barrels, |
Petroleum refineries, |
Taconite ore processing facilities, |
Lime plants, |
Glass fiber processing plants, and |
Phosphate rock processing plants, |
Charcoal production facilities. |
(2) Ecology shall identify each existing stationary facility which may reasonably be anticipated to cause or contribute to visibility impairment in any mandatory Class 1 federal area in Washington and any adjacent state.
(3) For each existing stationary facility identified under subsection (2) of this section, ecology, in consultation with the permitting authority shall determine BART for each air contaminant of concern and any additional air pollution control technologies that are to be required to reduce impairment from the existing stationary facility.
(4) Each existing stationary facility shall apply BART as new technology for control of the air contaminant becomes reasonably available if:
Statutory Authority: RCW 70.94.152. 05-03-033 (Order 03-07), § 173-400-151, 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), § 173-400-151, filed 8/15/01, effective 9/15/01. Statutory Authority: Chapter 70.94 RCW. 91-05-064 (Order 90-06), § 173-400-151, filed 2/19/91, effective 3/22/91.