[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 19]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR124.4]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 124--PROCEDURES FOR DECISIONMAKING--Table of Contents
 
                 Subpart A--General Program Requirements
 
Sec. 124.4  Consolidation of permit processing.

    (a)(1) Whenever a facility or activity requires a permit under more 
than one statute covered by these regulations, processing of two or more 
applications for those permits may be consolidated. The first step in 
consolidation is to prepare each draft permit at the same time.
    (2) Whenever draft permits are prepared at the same time, the 
statements of basis (required under Sec. 124.7 for EPA-issued permits 
only) or fact sheets (Sec. 124.8), administrative records (required 
under Sec. 124.9 for EPA-issued permits only), public comment periods 
(Sec. 124.10), and any public hearings (Sec. 124.12) on those permits 
should also be consolidated. The final permits may be issued together. 
They need not be issued together if in the judgment of the Regional 
Administrator or State Director(s), joint processing would result in 
unreasonable delay in the issuance of one or more permits.
    (b) Whenever an existing facility or activity requires additional 
permits under one or more of the statutes covered by these regulations, 
the permitting authority may coordinate the expiration date(s) of the 
new permit(s) with the expiration date(s) of the existing permit(s) so 
that all permits expire simultaneously. Processing of the subsequent 
applications for renewal permits may then be consolidated.
    (c) Processing of permit applications under paragraph (a) or (b) of 
this section may be consolidated as follows:
    (1) The Director may consolidate permit processing at his or her 
discretion

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whenever a facility or activity requires all permits either from EPA or 
from an approved State.
    (2) The Regional Administrator and the State Director(s) may agree 
to consolidate draft permits whenever a facility or activity requires 
permits from both EPA and an approved State.
    (3) Permit applicants may recommend whether or not the processing of 
their applications should be consolidated.
    (d) [Reserved]
    (e) Except with the written consent of the permit applicant, the 
Regional Administrator shall not consolidate processing a PSD permit 
with any other permit under paragraph (a) or (b) of this section when to 
do so would delay issuance of the PSD permit more than one year from the 
effective date of the application under Sec. 124.3(f).

[48 FR 14264, Apr. 1, 1983, as amended at 65 FR 30910, May 15, 2000]