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ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

May 16, 1985

 THE MATTER OF:

)

PARTICULATE EMISSION LIMITATIONS,

)

 R82—1

RULE

 203(g)(l) AND

202(b)

OF

)

CHAPTER

2

)

PROPOSED RULE.

 SECOND FIRST NOTICE.

ORDER OF THE BOARD (by Jacob D. Dumelle)

On July 19,

 1984,

 the Board adopted

 a Proposed Rule/First

Notice Order,

 followed by a Proposed Rule/Second Notice Order

on

December

6,

 1984.

 Instead

 of filing the second notice proposal

with

the

Joint

Committee

Administrative

Rules

that

time,

the

 Board allowed

 a comment period since the Second Notice Order

d:Lffered

substantially

from

first

notice.

Motions

extend

the

comment

period

were

filed

various

participants

the

proceeding on January 10, January 14, February

 26 and March

25,

1985.

 Comments and

 a proposed amendment were filed by the

 Illinois Environmental Protection Agency

 (Agency)

 on April

24,

1985.

The main difficulty remaining

 in this proceeding

 is the

degradation

provision

Ill.

Adm.

Code

212.203

old

rule

203(g)(1)(C)j.

 The Agency continues to argue that the record

fully supports the adoption of the originally proposed

degradation

 rule.

 However,

 the Agency also offers an alternative

rule which would

 be essentially the same as the originally

proposed rule except that the emission baseline would be

re—established by using

 the results

 of the most recent stack

tests.

 The Agency also provided data demonstrating what the

effect

of

 the rule would be.

cthiie

 the Agency does not wish

 to go on record as

~proposirig”

this

 amendment, the Board finds

 the amendment

 to be

meritorious

 and will propose that amendment.

 Further,

 the Board

wi:Ll return to first notice

 to do so,

 since this is now the

second amendment of the proposal since

 the original first notice,

there have been numerous comments on the various proposals,

and

the Illinois Power Company

 (IPC) has requested an additional

 hearing.

 Additionally, the Agency proposes the correction of

certain errors which

 arose during the codification of this Part

which the Board will include

 in its second first

 notice proposal.

The Board agrees with IPC that an additional hearing

is

advisable for much the same reasons that it has determined

to

return

 to first notice.

 By taking this course

 the Board can

assure

a

full

 and open public airing

 of the new data presented by

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the Agency and any new issues which may arise

as

 a result of the

latest amendment to the

 proposal.

 Furthermore, one last

opportunity will be provided to cure any perceived deficiencies

in the record.

 The Board does, however,

 remain committed to

completing this rulemaking

 by the end of the year.

The Board hereby proposes the following amendments:

TITLE

35

 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

SUBTITLE

B:

 AIR POLLUTION

CHAPTER

1:

 POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

SUBCHAPTER

c:

 EMISSION STANDARDS AND LIMITATIONS

FOR STATIONARY SOURCES

PART 201

PERMITS AND GENERAL

PROVISIONS

Section 201,102

Definitions

“Air

Contaminant”:

any

solid,

liquid

gaseous

matter,

any

odor

or

any

 form of energy,

 that

 is capable of being released into the

atmosphere

 from an emission source.

“Air Pollution Control Equipment”:

 any equipment or facility of

a type intended to eliminate, prevent,

 reduce or

 control

the

emission of specified air contaminants

 to the atmosphere.

“Air

Pollution”:

the

presence

the

atmosphere

one

air contaminants

 in sufficient quantities and of such

characteristics

and

duration

 to be injurious

 to human, plant,

or animal

 life,

 to health,

or

 to property~or

 to unreasonably

Lnterfere

with

the

enjoyment

 of life or property.

uAmblent

Air’~:

that

portion

the

atmosphere

external

huildinqs

comprising

emission

sources.

“Ambient

Air

Quality

Standard”:

 those standards promulgated from

time

the

Pollution

Control

 Board

 (Board) pursuant

to

autnority contained

the

Act

and

found

Ill.

Adtn.

Code

24~

~r

 the United

States

Environmental

Protection

Agency

(USCPA)

pursuant

authority

contained

 42 U.S.C.

 7401 et

seq.

amended

from

time

time,

~C1ean Air Act”:

 the Clean Air Act of

1970,

amended,

including the Clean Air Act Amendments of

 1977,

 as amended

(42

U.S.C.

7401

seq.)

“Commence”:

the

act

entering

into

 binding agreement

or

contractual

obligation

 to undertake and complete, within a

reasonable

time,

 continuous program of construction or

modif ications.

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“Construction”:

 commencement of on-site fabrication, erection or

installation of an emission source or of air pollution control

 equipment.

“Emission Source”:

 any equipment or facility of

 a type capable

of emitting specified air contaminants

 to the atmosphere.

“Existing Air Pollution Control

 Equipment”:

 any air pollution

control equipment,

 the construction

 or modification which has

commenced prior

 to April

14,

 1972.

“Existing Emission Source”:

 any emission source,

the

construction or modification of which has commenced prior

to

April

14,

 1972.

“Modification’’:

 any physical change

in,

or

change

the

method

of operations,

of

emission

source

air

pollution

control

equipment which increases the amount of any specified air

contaminant emitted by such source or equipment or which results

in the emission of any specified air contaminant not previously

emitted.

It

shall

presumed

that

increase

the

use

raw

materials,

 the time of operation or the rate of production will

change

the

amount

 of any specified air contaminant emitted.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this definition,

for

 purposes of permits

 issued pursuant to Subpart D,

 the Illinois

Environmental Protection Agency

 (Agency) may specify conditions

under

 which an emission source or air pollution control equipment

may be operated without causing a modification as herein defined,

and normal cyclical variations, before the date operating permits

are

 required,

 shall not be considered modifications.

“New Air Pollution Control Equipment”:

 any air pollution control

equipment,

 the construction or modification of which

 is commenced

on or after April

 14, 1972.

“New Emission Source”:

 any emission source,

 the construction

or

modification of which

 is commenced on or after April

14,

 1972.

“Owner

 or Operator”:

 any person who owns,

 leases,

 controls

or

supervises

 an emission source or air pollution control equipment.

“Person”:

 any individual,

 corporation, partnership’, firm,

association,

 trust estate, public or private institution, group,

agency,

 political subdivision or agency thereof or any legal

successor,

 representative,

 agent or agency of the foregoing.

“PSD Increment”:

 the maximum allowable increase over baseline

concentration of s~E~d~4e

 any air contaminant as determined

by Section 163

 of the Clean Air Act

 (42 U.S.C.

 7473)

and

regulations adopted thereunder.

“Specified Air Contaminant”:

 any air contaminant

as

 to which

this

 ap~rcontains emission standards or other

 specific

limitations.

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“Standard Industrial Classification Manual”:

 The Standard

Industrial

Classification

Manual

(1972),

Superintendent

Documents,

 U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington,

 D.C.

20402.

5ection 201.103

 Abbreviations and Units

a)

 Th~ following abbreviations have been used

 in this Part:

htu or Btu

gal

hp

hr

gal/mo

gal/yr

kPa

kPa absolute

k W

1

mmbtt~,’heor

Fl

~4W

PS i

psia

British thermal units

 (60 F)

gallons

horsepower

hour

gallons

per

month

gallons per year

kilopascals

kilopascals absolute

kilowatts

liters

million ~tt~’~pe~~et~

megawatts;

one

million

watts

pounds per square inch

pounds per square inch absolute

b)

 The following conversion factors have been used

 in this

Part:

English

 Metric

1 gal

1000 gal

1 hp

1 mmbtu/hr

1 psi

3,785

1

3,785

cubic

meters

07452 kW

0.293 MI~

6,897

PART 211

DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL PROVISIONS

SUBPART

9:

 DEFINITIONS

Sec1:.i~r~

2:11,121

 Other Definitions

All terms defined

 in 35

 III. Mm,

 Code 201 which appear

in

35

Ill. Adm~Code

~

 211—217 have the definitions specified by

35

 Iii.

 .Adm.

 Code 201.202.

 Otherwise the definitions specified

in Section 211.122 apply.

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PART 212

VISUAL AND PARTICULATE MATTER EMISSIONS

SUBPART

B:

 VISUAL EMISSIONS

Section

212.123

Limitations

 for All Other Sources

a)

 No person shall cause or allow the emission of smoke or

other particulate matter from any e~1’tefemission source

other

than

those

sources

subject

Section

212.122

into

the atmosphere of

 an opacity greater than

30

percent.

b)

 Exception:

 The emission of smoke

 or other particulate

matter from any such emission source may have

 an opacity

greater than 30 percent but not greater than 60 percent

for

 a period or periods aggregating

 8 minutes

 in any 60

minute period provided that such more opaque emissions

permitted during any 60 minute period shall occur

 from

only one such emission source located within

a

 305 m

(1000 ft) radius from the center point of any other such

emission source owned or operated by such person,

and

provided further that such more opaque emissions

permitted from each such emission source shall

be

limited to

 3 times

 in any 24 hour period.

SUBPART E:

 PARTICULATE MATTER EMISSIONS

FROM FUEL COMBUSTION EMISSION SOURCES

Section 212.201

 Existing Sources Using Solid Fuel Exclusively

Located

 in the Chicago Area

t~4o pe~rsonshall cause or allow the emission of particulate matter

into the atmosphere from any existing fuel combustion source

using solid fuel exclusively, located

 in the Chicago major

metropolitan area,

 to exceed 0.15 kg

 of particulate matter per

~I—hr of actual heat

 input in any one hour period

 (0.10

lbs./MBtu/hr) except as provided

 in Section 212.203.

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Section 212,202

 Existing Sources Using Solid Fuel Exclusively

Located Outside the Chicago Area

person

shall

cause

allow

the

emission

particulate

matter

into

the

atmosphere

from

any

existing

fuel

combustion

source

using

solid

fuel

exclusively,

which

located

outside

the

Chicago

 major metropolitan area,

 to exceed the limitations

specified

in

 the table below and Illustration A

 in any one hour

period

 except as provided

 in Section 212.203.

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METRIC UNITS

H

 (Range)

S

Megawatts

 Kilograms

per

megawatt

Less than or equal

to

 2.93

 1.55

Greater than 2.93 but

 3.33H°715

Smaller than 73.2

Greater than or equal to 73.2

 0.155

ENGLISH UNITS

H

 (Range)

S

Million Btu per hour

 Pounds per million btu

Less than or equal

to

10

1.0

Greater than 10

but

smaller than 250

 5.18

Greater than or

 equal

 to 250

0.1

where:

S

 Allowable emission standard in lbs/MBtu/hr

or

 kg/MW of

actual heat input, and

H

 Actual heat input

 in million Btu per hour

 or megawatts

Section 212.203

 Existing Controlled Sources Using Solid Fuel

Exclusively

Notwit.hstanding Section 212.201

and

212.202,

any

existing

fuel

combustion source using

 solid fuel exclusively may,

 in any one

hour period,

 emit up

 to, but not exceed 0.31 kg/MW—hr

 (0.20

lbs/mmbtu),

if

 as of April

14,

 1972, e~ti~efany one

 of the

following conditions was met:

a)

 The emission source heed an hourly emission rate

 based on

original design or

 equipment performance test conditions,

whichever

 is stricter, which *e we? less than 0.31 kg/MWhr

(0.20 ibs/mmbtu)

 of actual heat.

 input,

 and the emission

control of such source

 is not allowed to degrade more than

0.077

 kg,’MW—hr

 (0.05 lbs/mmbtu) from such original design

or

acceptance performance test conditions;

or,

b)

 The source ~e was

 in full compliance with

 the terms

and

conditions of

 a variance granted by the Pollution Control

Board

 (Board)

 sufficient to achieve an hourly emission rate

less than 0.31 kg/MW—hr

 (0.20

 lbs/mmbtu),

 and construction

hafld commenced on equipment or modifications prescribed under

that program; and emission control of such source

 is not

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allowed

 to degrade more than 0.077 kg/MW—hr

 (0.05 lbs/mmbtu)

from original design or equipment performance test

conditions, whichever is stricter,

or,

c)

 The emission source had

 art hourly emission

 rate based on

—

 original design

 or equipment performance

 test conditions,

whichever

 is stricter, which was less than 0.31 kg/MW—hr

(0.120 lbs/mmbtu)

of

 actual heat input, and the emission

control

of

 such source

 is not allowed to degrade more than

0.77 kg/MW—hr

 O.05 lbs/mmbtu)

 from that rate demonstrated by

the most recent stack

 test,

 submitted to and accepted by the

Agency prior

 to April

1,

 1985, provided that:

1)

 Owners and operators of sources subject to this

subsection

 shall apply~for

 a new operating permit within

I~0days of the effective date of this section; and

2)

 The application

for

 a new operating permit

 shall include

a demonstration that the proposed emission rate,

if

~fi~ter than the emission rate allowed by subsections

(a)

or

(b)

 of this section, will not under any

foreseeable operating conditions

 arid potential

meteorological conditions cause or contribute

 to a

violation of any applicable primary

 or secondary ambient

air quality standard for particulate matter,

 or violate

any applicable prevention of

 significant deterioration

(PSD)

 increment,

 or violate

35

 Ill. Adm.

 Code 201.141;

and

3)

The

 emission limits determined pursuant to this

subsection

 (c) shall be submitted to the tJSEPA

if

required pursuant

 to the Clean Air Act.

Section 212.204

 New Sources Using Solid

 Fuel Exclusively

No person

shall

 cause or allow the emission of particulate

 matter

into the atmosphere ~n ~iy one ~

 ~e~Eed from any new fuel

combustion emission source using solid fuel exclusively

 to exceed

0.15 kg of particulate matter per MW—hr

 of actual heat input

 (0.1

lbs

/mBtu) ~~ny

 one hour~eriod,

Section 212.210

 Effective Date

This Part shall be effective immediately, but compliance with

Sections 212.123,

 212.201,

 212.202, 212,203 and 212.204 shall

not

be required until January 1,

 1987.

IT

 IS SO ORDERED.

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Dorothy

Gunn,

 Clerk of the

Illinois

Pollution

Control

Board,

 hereby certify that the above Order was adopted on

the

 day of

__________________,

 1985 by

 a vote

of ~

Dorothy

M.

 G(inn,

 Clerk

Illinois

Pollution

Control

Board

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