[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 40, Volume 26]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 40CFR270.24]



[Page 341-342]

 

                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)

 

PART 270_EPA ADMINISTERED PERMIT PROGRAMS: THE HAZARDOUS WASTE PERMIT 

PROGRAM--Table of Contents

 

                      Subpart B_Permit Application

 

Sec.  270.24  Specific part B information requirements for process vents.



    Except as otherwise provided in Sec.  264.1, owners and operators of 

facilities that have process vents to which subpart AA of part 264 

applies must provide the following additional information:

    (a) For facilities that cannot install a closed-vent system and 

control device to comply with the provisions of 40 CFR 264 subpart AA on 

the effective date that the facility becomes subject to the provisions 

of 40 CFR 264 or 265 subpart AA, an implementation schedule as specified 

in Sec.  264.1033(a)(2).

    (b) Documentation of compliance with the process vent standards in 

Sec.  264.1032, including:

    (1) Information and data identifying all affected process vents, 

annual throughput and operating hours of each affected unit, estimated 

emission rates for each affected vent and for the overall facility 

(i.e., the total emissions for all affected vents at the facility), and 

the approximate location within the facility of each affected unit 

(e.g., identify the hazardous waste management units on a facility plot 

plan).

    (2) Information and data supporting estimates of vent emissions and 

emission reduction achieved by add-on control devices based on 

engineering calculations or source tests. For the purpose of determining 

compliance, estimates of vent emissions and emission reductions must be 

made using operating parameter values (e.g., temperatures, flow rates, 

or concentrations) that represent the conditions that exist when the 

waste management unit is operating at the highest load or capacity level 

reasonably expected to occur.

    (3) Information and data used to determine whether or not a process 

vent is subject to the requirements of Sec.  264.1032.

    (c) Where an owner or operator applies for permission to use a 

control device other than a thermal vapor incinerator, catalytic vapor 

incinerator, flare, boiler, process heater, condenser, or carbon 

adsorption system to comply with the requirements of Sec.  264.1032, and 

chooses to use test data to determine the organic removal efficiency or 

the total organic compound concentration achieved by the control device, 

a performance test plan as specified in Sec.  264.1035(b)(3).

    (d) Documentation of compliance with Sec.  264.1033, including:

    (1) A list of all information references and sources used in 

preparing the documentation.

    (2) Records, including the dates, of each compliance test required 

by Sec.  264.1033(k).

    (3) A design analysis, specifications, drawings, schematics, and 

piping and instrumentation diagrams based on the appropriate sections of 

``APTI Course 415: Control of Gaseous Emissions'' (incorporated by 

reference as specified in Sec.  270.6) or other engineering texts 

acceptable to the Regional Administrator that present basic control 

device information. The design analysis shall address the vent stream 

characteristics and control device operation parameters as specified in 

Sec.  264.1035(b)(4)(iii).

    (4) A statement signed and dated by the owner or operator certifying 

that the operating parameters used in the design analysis reasonably 

represent the conditions that exist when the hazardous waste management 

unit is or would be operating at the highest load or capacity level 

reasonably expected to occur.

    (5) A statement signed and dated by the owner or operator certifying 

that the control device is designed to operate at an efficiency of 95 

weight percent or greater unless the total organic emission limits of 

Sec.  264.1032(a) for affected process vents at the facility can



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be attained by a control device involving vapor recovery at an 

efficiency less than 95 weight percent.



[55 FR 25518, June 21, 1990, as amended at 56 FR 19290, Apr. 26, 1991; 

70 FR 59577, Oct. 12, 2005]