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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".10" citation="COMAR 26.11.02.10" title_num="26" subtitle_num="11" chapter_num="02" heading="Sources Exempt from Permits to Construct and Approvals.">
  <text>A person may construct or modify or cause to be constructed or modified any of the following sources without first obtaining, and having in current effect, a permit to construct:</text>
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Electric generating stations that receive a certificate of public convenience and necessity (CPCN) under Public Utilities Article, §§7-207 and 7-208, Annotated Code of Maryland;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Motor vehicles, steamships, tugs, and railroad locomotives;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Fuel-burning equipment and space heaters using gaseous fuels or No. 1 or No. 2 fuel oil with a heat input less than 1,000,000 Btu (1.06 gigajoules) per hour;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>Repealed.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>Emergency stationary internal combustion engines or emergency stationary reciprocating internal combustion engines (RICE) with an output less than 500 brake horsepower (373 kilowatts);</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E-1.">
    <text>Stationary internal combustion engines or stationary reciprocating internal combustion engines (RICE) that serve as a primary source of power for agricultural equipment or industrial equipment, with an output less than 500 brake horsepower (373 kilowatts);</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>Bench scale laboratory equipment used exclusively for chemical or physical analysis or experimentation;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="G.">
    <text>Portable brazing, soldering, or welding equipment;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="H.">
    <text>Comfort air conditioning or comfort ventilating systems which are not designed to remove emissions generated by or released from specific units of equipment;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="I.">
    <text>Water cooling towers and water cooling ponds unless used for evaporative cooling of water from barometric jets or barometric condensers, or used in conjunction with an installation requiring a permit to operate;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="J.">
    <text>Equipment used exclusively for steam cleaning;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="K.">
    <text>Grain, metal, plastic, or mineral extrusion presses;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="L.">
    <text>Porcelain enameling drying ovens;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="M.">
    <text>Unheated VOC dispensing containers or unheated VOC rinsing containers of 60 gallons (227 liters) capacity or less;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="N.">
    <text>Equipment used for hydraulic or hydrostatic testing;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="O.">
    <text>The following equipment or an exhaust system or collector servicing exclusively this equipment:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Blast cleaning equipment using a suspension of abrasive in water;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Commercial bakery ovens with a rated heat input capacity of less than 2,000,000 Btu per hour;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Kilns used for firing ceramic ware, heated exclusively by natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, electricity, or any combination of these;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Confection cookers where the products are edible and intended for human consumption;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Drop hammers or hydraulic presses for forging or metal working;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Die casting machines;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>Photographic process equipment used to reproduce an image upon sensitized material through the use of radiant energy;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>Equipment for drilling, carving, cutting, routing, turning, sawing, planing, spindle sanding, or disc sanding of wood or wood products;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>Equipment for surface preparation of metals by use of aqueous solutions, except for acid solutions;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(10)">
      <text>Equipment for washing or drying products fabricated from metal or glass, provided that no VOC is used in the process and that no oil or solid fuel is burned;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(11)">
      <text>Laundry dryers, extractors, or tumblers for fabrics cleaned with only water solution or bleach or detergents;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(12)">
      <text>Containers, reservoirs, or tanks used exclusively for electrolytic plating work, or electrolytic polishing, or electrolytic stripping of brass, bronze, cadmium, copper, iron, lead, nickel, tin, zinc, and precious metals;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(13)">
      <text>Breweries with an annual beer production less than 60,000 barrels; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(14)">
      <text>Municipal solid waste landfills that have a design capacity of less than 500,000 tons of municipal solid waste and that are not major sources;</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="P.">
    <text>Natural draft hoods or natural draft ventilators;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="Q.">
    <text>Containers, reservoirs, or tanks used exclusively for:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Dipping operations for coating objects with oils, waxes, or greases, where no VOC is used;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Dipping operations for applying coatings of natural or synthetic resins which contain no VOC;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Storage of butane, propane or liquefied petroleum, or natural gas;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Storage of lubricating oils;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Unheated storage of VOC with an initial boiling point of 300°F (149°C) or greater;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Storage of Numbers 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 fuel oil and aviation jet engine fuel;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>Storage of motor vehicle gasoline, having an individual tank capacity of 2,000 gallons or less;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>The storage of VOC normally used as solvents, diluents, thinners, inks, colorants, paints, lacquers, enamels, varnishes, liquid resins, or other surface coatings and having a capacity of 2,000 gallons (7.6 cubic meters) or less;</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="R.">
    <text>Gaseous fuel-fired or electrically heated furnaces for heat-treating glass or metals, the use of which does not involve molten materials;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="S.">
    <text>Crucible furnaces, pot furnaces, or induction furnaces, with a capacity of 1,000 pounds (454 kilograms) or less each, in which no sweating or distilling is conducted, or any fluxing conducted, using chloride, fluoride, or ammonium compounds and from which only the following metals are poured or in which only the following metals are held in a molten state:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Aluminum or any alloy containing over 50 percent aluminum, if no gaseous chloride compounds, chlorine, aluminum chloride, or aluminum fluoride is used;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Magnesium or any alloy containing over 50 percent magnesium;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Lead or any alloy containing over 50 percent lead;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Tin or any alloy containing over 50 percent tin;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Zinc or any alloy containing over 50 percent zinc;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Copper; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>Precious metals;</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="T.">
    <text>Vacuum cleaning systems used exclusively for industrial, commercial, or residential house-keeping purposes;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="U.">
    <text>Charbroilers and pit barbecues as defined in COMAR 26.11.18.01 with a total cooking area of 5 square feet (0.46 square meter) or less;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="V.">
    <text>Hazardous waste incinerators, as defined in COMAR 26.13.01.03B(33), and for which a hazardous waste facility permit has been applied or issued by the Department under COMAR 26.13.07;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="W.">
    <text>Sheet-fed letter or lithographic printing presses with a cylinder width of less than 18 inches; and</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="X.">
    <text>Other installations if:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The proposed installation is not subject to any source-specific State or federal limitation or emissions standard, including any mass emissions rate limitation, pollutant concentration limitation, material formulation standard, equipment performance standard, or work practice standard;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The emissions contain not more than 1 pound per day of a Class I toxic air pollutant, as defined in COMAR 26.11.15.01B(4); and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>The pre-control potential-to-emit from the proposed installation, combined with any potential increase in emissions from other installations that could be caused by the proposed installation, is less than 1 ton per calendar year for:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Volatile organic compounds;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Each pollutant for which there is a federal ambient air quality standard; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Each Class II toxic air pollutant, as defined in COMAR 26.11.15.01B(5).</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>