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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".13" citation="COMAR 26.11.02.13" title_num="26" subtitle_num="11" chapter_num="02" heading="Sources Subject to State Permits to Operate.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Except for a source that is covered by a Part 70 permit, a person may not operate or cause to be operated any of the following sources without first obtaining, and having in current effect, a State permit to operate as required by this regulation:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>General and by-product waste incinerators of 2,000 pounds (907 kilograms) or more per hour rated capacity, crematoriums, pathological incinerators, incinerators burning special medical waste as defined in COMAR 26.13.11.02B, and sewage sludge incinerators;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Fuel-burning equipment, hot oil heaters, and stationary combustion turbines with a maximum rated heat input capacity of 50 million Btu (52.8 gigajoules) or more per hour;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Glass melting furnaces of 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour throughput, or 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more capacity;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Metallurgical furnaces involving molten metal holding 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more of metal or having a throughput greater than 500 pounds (227 kilograms) per hour;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Metal reclamation furnaces;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>By-product recovery furnaces of 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more capacity or 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour throughput;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>Lime kilns;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>Cement kilns;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>Other kilns of 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour throughput;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(10)">
      <text>Rendering cookers and offal dryers;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(11)">
      <text>Wood digesters;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(12)">
      <text>Sulfuric acid plants;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(13)">
      <text>Installations associated with chemical production facilities, including reactors, distillation columns, evaporators, and strippers, that have:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>A pre-control potential-to-emit for VOC of 20 pounds or more per day; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Are located at a premises that has a total pre-control potential-to-emit for VOC of 100 pounds or more per day from all chemical production processes subject to COMAR 26.11.19.30;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(14)">
      <text>Mineral products or metallic ore through-circulation dryers of 5 tons (4540 kilograms) or more per hour throughput or 5 tons (4540 kilograms) or more capacity;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(15)">
      <text>Spray dryers of 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more capacity or 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour dry product throughput;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(16)">
      <text>Crushers, hammermills, shredders, grinders, classifying screens of 5 tons (4540 kilograms) or more per hour throughput;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(17)">
      <text>Dry type ball and roller mills of 2 tons (1810 kilograms) or more per hour throughput;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(18)">
      <text>VOC storage tanks required by State or federal regulations to have VOC recovery or control devices, except gasoline storage tanks at gasoline dispensing facilities not located at a bulk gasoline plant or a bulk gasoline terminal, as those terms are defined by COMAR 26.11.13.01B;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(19)">
      <text>Motor vehicle fuel storage tanks, except for diesel fuel, with a capacity of 40,000 gallons (151 cubic meters) or more;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(20)">
      <text>Gasoline tank truck loading racks outloading 20,000 gallons (75.7 cubic meters) or more per day;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(21)">
      <text>VOC recovery installations, including distillation units and condensers, used to recover VOC for reuse in processes at a premises that has a total pre-control potential-to-emit for VOC of 100 pounds or more per day from all VOC recovery installations;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(22)">
      <text>Inorganic chemical or pigment production installations of 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour rated product throughput;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(23)">
      <text>Coating, decorating, and impregnating lines with integral drying ovens at which solvent-based materials are applied by automatic equipment to surfaces at a premises that has a total pre-control potential-to-emit for VOC emissions of 100 or more pounds per day from all coating, decorating, and impregnating lines;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(24)">
      <text>“Web printing” press lines with integral drying ovens as defined in COMAR 26.11.19.01B;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(25)">
      <text>Grain elevators and terminals of 10,000 bushels or more per hour grain leg capacity;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(26)">
      <text>Frit smelters;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(27)">
      <text>Portland cement clinker coolers;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(28)">
      <text>Benzene storage tanks of 500 gallons (1.9 cubic meters) or more capacity;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(29)">
      <text>Benzene truck loading racks;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(30)">
      <text>Galvanizing operations using fluxes and pre-fluxes;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(31)">
      <text>Coal tar or petroleum pitch impregnating operations;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(32)">
      <text>Gypsum calcining kettles;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(33)">
      <text>Pulverized material separators with 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour capacity;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(34)">
      <text>Honeycomb core manufacturing installations;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(35)">
      <text>Yeast production installations;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(36)">
      <text>Plastic credit card manufacturing installations;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(37)">
      <text>Magnetic tape manufacturing installations;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(38)">
      <text>Coal or ore export loading or unloading installations;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(39)">
      <text>Petroleum-contaminated soil treatment installations;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(40)">
      <text>Stainless steel manufacturing installations including electric arc furnaces, argon-oxygen decarbonization vessels, re-heat furnaces, pickling lines, or slab and billet grinding;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(41)">
      <text>Catalyst manufacturing installations including reactors, calciners, dryers, crushers, or classifying systems;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(42)">
      <text>Primary aluminum production installations including potlines, anode bake ovens, reverbatory furnaces, or alumina handling systems;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(43)">
      <text>Installations associated with titanium dioxide production facilities, including chlorination reactors, oxidation reactors, and spray driers, of 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour physical capacity or 1 ton (907 kilograms) or more per hour throughput capacity;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(44)">
      <text>Automobile or truck production and assembly premises;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(45)">
      <text>Stationary internal combustion engines located at natural gas pumping stations or electric generating stations;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(46)">
      <text>Waste oil disposal, treatment, or recovery installations located at commercial premises that collect or consolidate materials containing waste oil from more than one premises unless:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>The total pre-control potential-to-emit for VOC from all such installations is less than 20 pounds per day;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>The total pre-control potential-to-emit for Class I toxic air pollutants from all such installations is 1 pound or less per day, and for Class II toxic air pollutants is less than 1 ton per year;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Incoming waste materials, and any recovered oils, are not heated to a temperature greater than 212°F during any phase of transfer, processing or storage; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Such installations do not require control equipment to comply with any Maryland air pollution control regulation, including regulations that prohibit odor and nuisance beyond facility boundaries;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(47)">
      <text>Synthetic fuel, rocket fuel, or explosives production premises of 500 pounds (227 kilograms) or more per hour product throughput;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(48)">
      <text>Synthesized pharmaceutical manufacturing installations that:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Have a pre-control potential-to-emit for VOC of 15 or more pounds per day; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Are located at a premises that has a total pre-control potential-to-emit for VOC of 33 pounds or more per day from all synthesized pharmaceutical manufacturing processes;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(49)">
      <text>Specialty footwear manufacturing installations;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(50)">
      <text>Asphalt blowing and asphalt building products saturation or roll coating installations;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(51)">
      <text>Slab, billet, or ingot re-heat furnaces with a maximum rated heat input capacity of 50 million Btu (52.8 gigajoules) or more per hour;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(52)">
      <text>Polyester resin products manufacturing installations, including installations manufacturing reinforced plastic products such as fiberglass, at a premises with a total polyester resin consumption of more than 50 tons per year;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(53)">
      <text>All alkyd resin reactors and alkyd resin thin-down tanks;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(54)">
      <text>Solvent-based paint manufacturing installations with a potential product throughput of 250 or more gallons per hour;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(55)">
      <text>Fluoropolymer material (FPM) process installations that treat FPM so that its shape or form is permanently changed, and have total actual uncontrolled VOC emissions of 20 pounds or more on any operating day;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(56)">
      <text>Hot-mix asphalt concrete production installations;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(57)">
      <text>Installations used to treat wood with creosote or chrome copper arsenate (CCA) by impregnation in a pressurized vessel;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(58)">
      <text>Iron and steel production installations as defined in COMAR 26.11.10.01B;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(59)">
      <text>Solvent-based adhesive manufacturing installations located at a premises with a total pre-control potential-to-emit for VOC of 50 pounds or more per day from all such installations;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(60)">
      <text>A source for which the owner or operator requests a State permit to operate in order to make the permit federally enforceable under Regulation .03 of this chapter; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(61)">
      <text>Any other source that the Department determines has the potential to have a significant impact on air quality.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>In determining whether a source has the potential to have a significant impact on air quality, for purposes of §A(61) of this regulation, the Department shall consider the following:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The quality, quantity, or characteristics of the pollutants discharged, including their toxicity;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The location of the source, including its affects on an area that has not met ambient air quality standards; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Whether permit conditions are necessary to ensure that the source complies continuously with the requirements of the State air pollution control law.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Section A of this regulation requires a State permit to operate for each emissions unit at a source covered by a Part 70 permit if the emissions unit is not provided for in the Part 70 permit and is a source listed in §A of this regulation. When the Part 70 permit is revised to include the emissions unit, the Part 70 permit constitutes the State permit to operate for that emissions unit.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>The Department, on a case-by-case basis, may exempt a source from the requirement for a State permit to operate on the basis of capacity, nature of equipment or materials, amount of emissions, or other evidence that the source has a limited potential to cause air pollution.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>The Department may issue a single State permit to operate for two or more sources located at a single facility or the Department may issue two or more State permits to operate for emission units within a source.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>A State permit to operate issued by the Department under §A(60) of this regulation is not a required permit to operate under Environment Article, §2-404(a)(1), Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="G.">
    <text>Unless it is not practical to do so, a permittee shall maintain all permits in the vicinity of the source for which the permit was issued and make the permit immediately available to officials of the Department upon request.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="H.">
    <text>The Department may issue a general State permit to operate covering similar sources.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>