The
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed to eliminate certain start
up, shut down, and malfunction (SSM) air emission exemptions present in many
state regulations, including Ohio. The
propose rule will require each of the 36 affected states to remove certain
provision in their respective State Implementation Plans (SIPs) that allow
exemptions from emission limitations during SSM events. If the proposed rule is adopted as a final
rule, the effects can be far reaching as these state exemptions are reflected
in Clean Air Act permits that each state issues to companies operating within
its borders. How that will play out is unclear at this time
The
administrative rules impacted in Ohio are OAC 3745-15-06(A)(3) and OAC3745-15-06(C).
Comments to the proposed EPA rule were
due no later than March 25, 2013.
Below are EPA and Federal Register links
regarding the proposed rulemaking:
*Docket for rulemaking, "State
Implementation Plans: Response to Petition for Rulemaking; Findings of
Substantial Inadequacy; and SIP Calls to Amend Provisions Applying to Excess
Emissions During Periods of Startup, Shutdown, and Malfunction"
(EPA-HQ-OAR-2012-0322):
*State Plans to Address Emissions During Startup, Shutdown, and
Malfunction: Proposed Response to Petition for Rulemaking , Findings of
Inadequacy, and Call for Plan Revisions--Fact Sheet:
*Federal Register Vol. 78, No. 36, Part III issued Friday, February 22,
2013:
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