[Title 40 CFR 60.3078]
[Code of Federal Regulations (annual edition) - July 1, 2009 Edition]
[Title 40 - PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT]
[Chapter I - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)]
[Subchapter C - AIR PROGRAMS (CONTINUED)]
[Part 60 - STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR NEW STATIONARY SOURCES--]
[Subpart Ffff - Emission Guidelines and Compliance Times for Other Solid]
[Sec. 60.3078 - What definitions must I know?]
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Sec. 60.3078 What definitions must I know?
Terms used but not defined in this subpart are defined in the Clean
Air Act and subpart A (General Provisions) of this part.
Administrator means:
(1) For approved and effective State section 111(d)/129 plans, the
Director of the State air pollution control agency, or his or her
delegatee;
(2) For Federal section 111(d)/129 plans, the Administrator of the
EPA, an employee of the EPA, the Director of the State air pollution
control agency, or employee of the State air pollution control agency to
whom the authority has been delegated by the Administrator of the EPA to
perform the specified task; and
(3) For NSPS, the Administrator of the EPA, an employee of the EPA,
the Director of the State air pollution control agency, or employee of
the State air pollution control agency to whom the authority has been
delegated by the Administrator of the EPA to perform the specified task.
Air curtain incinerator means an incineration unit operating by
forcefully projecting a curtain of air across an open, integrated
combustion chamber (fire box) or open pit or trench (trench burner) in
which combustion occurs. For the purpose of this subpart and subpart
EEEE only, air curtain incinerators include both firebox and trench
burner units.
Auxiliary fuel means natural gas, liquified petroleum gas, fuel oil,
or diesel fuel.
Batch OSWI unit means an OSWI unit that is designed such that
neither waste charging nor ash removal can occur during combustion.
Calendar quarter means three consecutive months (nonoverlapping)
beginning on: January 1, April 1, July 1, or October 1.
Calendar year means 365 consecutive days starting on January 1 and
ending on December 31.
Chemotherapeutic waste means waste material resulting from the
production or use of anti-neoplastic agents used for the purpose of
stopping or reversing the growth of malignant cells.
Class II municipal solid waste landfill means a landfill that meets
four criteria:
(1) Accepts, for incineration or disposal, less than 20 tons per day
of municipal solid waste or other solid wastes based on an annual
average;
(2) Is located on a site where there is no evidence of groundwater
pollution caused or contributed to by the landfill;
(3) Is not connected by road to a Class I municipal solid waste
landfill, as defined by Alaska regulatory code 18 AAC 60.300(c) or, if
connected by road, is located more than 50 miles from a Class I
municipal solid waste landfill; and
(4) Serves a community that meets one of two criteria:
(i) Experiences for at least three months each year, an interruption
in access to surface transportation, preventing access to a Class I
municipal solid waste landfill; or
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(ii) Has no practicable waste management alternative, with a
landfill located in an area that annually receives 25 inches or less of
precipitation.
Class III municipal solid waste landfill is a landfill that is not
connected by road to a Class I municipal solid waste landfill, as
defined by Alaska regulatory code 18 AAC 60.300(c) or, if connected by
road, is located more than 50 miles from a Class I municipal solid waste
landfill, and that accepts, for disposal, either of the following two
criteria:
(1) Ash from incinerated municipal waste in quantities less than one
ton per day on an annual average, which ash must be free of food scraps
that might attract animals; or
(2) Less than five tons per day of municipal solid waste, based on
an annual average, and is not located in a place that meets either of
the following criteria:
(i) Where public access is restricted, including restrictions on the
right to move to the place and reside there; or
(ii) That is provided by an employer and that is populated totally
by persons who are required to reside there as a condition of employment
and who do not consider the place to be their permanent residence.
Clean lumber means wood or wood products that have been cut or
shaped and include wet, air-dried, and kiln-dried wood products. Clean
lumber does not include wood products that have been painted, pigment-
stained, or pressure-treated by compounds such as chromate copper
arsenate, pentachlorophenol, and creosote, or manufactured wood products
that contain adhesives or resins (e.g., plywood, particle board, flake
board, and oriented strand board).
Collected from means the transfer of material from the site at which
the material is generated to a separate site where the material is
burned.
Contained gaseous material means gases that are in a container when
that container is combusted.
Continuous emission monitoring system or CEMS means a monitoring
system for continuously measuring and recording the emissions of a
pollutant from an OSWI unit.
Continuous OSWI unit means an OSWI unit that is designed to allow
waste charging and ash removal during combustion.
Deviation means any instance in which a unit that meets the
requirements in Sec. 60.2991, or an owner or operator of such a source:
(1) Fails to meet any requirement or obligation established by this
subpart, including but not limited to any emission limitation, operating
limit, or operator qualification and accessibility requirements;
(2) Fails to meet any term or condition that is adopted to implement
an applicable requirement in this subpart and that is included in the
operating permit for any unit that meets requirements in Sec. 60.2991
and is required to obtain such a permit; or
(3) Fails to meet any emission limitation, operating limit, or
operator qualification and accessibility requirement in this subpart
during startup, shutdown, or malfunction, regardless of whether or not
such failure is allowed by this subpart.
Dioxins/furans means tetra-through octachlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins
and dibenzofurans.
Energy recovery means the process of recovering thermal energy from
combustion for useful purposes such as steam generation or process
heating.
EPA means the Administrator of the EPA or employee of the EPA that
is delegated the authority to perform the specified task.
Institutional facility means a land-based facility owned and/or
operated by an organization having a governmental, educational, civic,
or religious purpose such as a school, hospital, prison, military
installation, church, or other similar establishment or facility.
Institutional waste means solid waste (as defined in this subpart)
that is combusted at any institutional facility using controlled flame
combustion in an enclosed, distinct operating unit: Whose design does
not provide for energy recovery (as defined in this subpart); operated
without energy recovery (as defined in this subpart); or operated with
only waste heat recovery (as defined in this subpart). Institutional
waste also means solid waste (as defined in this subpart) combusted on
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site in an air curtain incinerator that is a distinct operating unit of
any institutional facility.
Institutional waste incineration unit means any combustion unit that
combusts institutional waste (as defined in this subpart) and is a
distinct operating unit of the institutional facility that generated the
waste. Institutional waste incineration units include field-erected,
modular, cyclonic burn barrel, and custom built incineration units
operating with starved or excess air, and any air curtain incinerator
that is a distinct operating unit of the institutional facility that
generated the institutional waste (except those air curtain incinerators
listed in Sec. 60.2994(b)).
Intermittent OSWI unit means an OSWI unit that is designed to allow
waste charging, but not ash removal, during combustion.
Low-level radioactive waste means waste material that contains
radioactive nuclides emitting primarily beta or gamma radiation, or
both, in concentrations or quantities that exceed applicable Federal or
State standards for unrestricted release. Low-level radioactive waste is
not high-level radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel, or byproduct
material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C.
2014(e)(2)).
Malfunction means any sudden, infrequent, and not reasonably
preventable failure of air pollution control equipment, process
equipment, or a process to operate in a normal or usual manner. Failures
that are caused, in part, by poor maintenance or careless operation are
not malfunctions.
Metropolitan Statistical Area means any areas listed as metropolitan
statistical areas in OMB Bulletin No. 05-02 entitled ``Update of
Statistical Area Definitions and Guidance on Their Uses'' dated February
22, 2005 (available on the Web at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/
bulletins/).
Modification or modified unit means an incineration unit you have
changed on or after June 16, 2006 and that meets one of two criteria:
(1) The cumulative cost of the changes over the life of the unit
exceeds 50 percent of the original cost of building and installing the
unit (not including the cost of land) updated to current costs (current
dollars). For an OSWI unit, to determine what systems are within the
boundary of the unit used to calculate these costs, see the definition
of OSWI unit.
(2) Any physical change in the OSWI unit or change in the method of
operating it that increases the amount of any air pollutant emitted for
which section 129 or section 111 of the Clean Air Act has established
standards.
Municipal solid waste means refuse (and refuse-derived fuel)
collected from the general public and from residential, commercial,
institutional, and industrial sources consisting of paper, wood, yard
wastes, food wastes, plastics, leather, rubber, and other combustible
materials and non-combustible materials such as metal, glass and rock,
provided that: (1) The term does not include industrial process wastes
or medical wastes that are segregated from such other wastes; and (2) an
incineration unit shall not be considered to be combusting municipal
solid waste for purposes of this subpart if it combusts a fuel feed
stream, 30 percent or less of the weight of which is comprised, in
aggregate, of municipal solid waste, as determined by Sec. 60.2993(b).
Municipal waste combustion unit means, for the purpose of this
subpart and subpart EEEE, any setting or equipment that combusts
municipal solid waste (as defined in this subpart) including, but not
limited to, field-erected, modular, cyclonic burn barrel, and custom
built incineration units (with or without energy recovery) operating
with starved or excess air, boilers, furnaces, pyrolysis/combustion
units, and air curtain incinerators (except those air curtain
incinerators listed in Sec. 60.2994(b)).
Other solid waste incineration (OSWI) unit means either a very small
municipal waste combustion unit or an institutional waste incineration
unit, as defined in this subpart. Unit types listed in Sec. 60.2993 as
being excluded from the subpart are not OSWI units subject to this
subpart. While not all OSWI units will include all of the following
components, an OSWI unit includes, but is not limited to, the municipal
or institutional solid waste feed system, grate system, flue gas system,
waste heat recovery equipment, if any, and bottom
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ash system. The OSWI unit does not include air pollution control
equipment or the stack. The OSWI unit boundary starts at the municipal
or institutional waste hopper (if applicable) and extends through two
areas:
(1) The combustion unit flue gas system, which ends immediately
after the last combustion chamber or after the waste heat recovery
equipment, if any; and
(2) The combustion unit bottom ash system, which ends at the truck
loading station or similar equipment that transfers the ash to final
disposal. The OSWI unit includes all ash handling systems connected to
the bottom ash handling system.
Particulate matter means total particulate matter emitted from OSWI
units as measured by Method 5 or Method 29 of appendix A of this part.
Pathological waste means waste material consisting of only human or
animal remains, anatomical parts, and/or tissue, the bags/containers
used to collect and transport the waste material, and animal bedding (if
applicable).
Reconstruction means rebuilding an incineration unit and meeting two
criteria:
(1) The reconstruction begins on or after June 16, 2006.
(2) The cumulative cost of the construction over the life of the
incineration unit exceeds 50 percent of the original cost of building
and installing the unit (not including land) updated to current costs
(current dollars). For an OSWI unit, to determine what systems are
within the boundary of the unit used to calculate these costs, see the
definition of OSWI unit.
Refuse-derived fuel means a type of municipal solid waste produced
by processing municipal solid waste through shredding and size
classification. This includes all classes of refuse-derived fuel
including two fuels:
(1) Low-density fluff refuse-derived fuel through densified refuse-
derived fuel.
(2) Pelletized refuse-derived fuel.
Shutdown means the period of time after all waste has been combusted
in the primary chamber. For continuous OSWI, shutdown shall commence no
less than 2 hours after the last charge to the incinerator. For
intermittent OSWI, shutdown shall commence no less than 4 hours after
the last charge to the incinerator. For batch OSWI, shutdown shall
commence no less than 5 hours after the high-air phase of combustion has
been completed.
Solid waste means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment
plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility
and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or
contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial,
mining, agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does
not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or
dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges
that are point sources subject to permits under section 402 of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1342), or
source, special nuclear, or byproduct material as defined by the Atomic
Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2014).
Standard conditions, when referring to units of measure, means a
temperature of 68 [deg]F (20 [deg]C) and a pressure of 1 atmosphere
(101.3 kilopascals).
Startup period means the period of time between the activation of
the system and the first charge to the OSWI unit. For batch OSWI,
startup means the period of time between activation of the system and
ignition of the waste.
Very small municipal waste combustion unit means any municipal waste
combustion unit that has the capacity to combust less than 35 tons per
day of municipal solid waste or refuse-derived fuel, as determined by
the calculations in Sec. 60.3076.
Waste heat recovery means the process of recovering heat from the
combustion flue gases outside of the combustion firebox by convective
heat transfer only.
Wet scrubber means an add-on air pollution control device that
utilizes an aqueous or alkaline scrubbing liquor to collect particulate
matter (including nonvaporous metals and condensed organics) and/or to
absorb and neutralize acid gases.
Wood waste means untreated wood and untreated wood products,
including tree stumps (whole or chipped), trees,
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tree limbs (whole or chipped), bark, sawdust, chips, scraps, slabs,
millings, and shavings. Wood waste does not include:
(1) Grass, grass clippings, bushes, shrubs, and clippings from
bushes and shrubs from residential, commercial/retail, institutional, or
industrial sources as part of maintaining yards or other private or
public lands.
(2) Construction, renovation, or demolition wastes.
(3) Clean lumber.
(4) Treated wood and treated wood products, including wood products
that have been painted, pigment-stained, or pressure treated by
compounds such as chromate copper arsenate, pentachlorophenol, and
creosote, or manufactured wood products that contain adhesives or resins
(e.g., plywood, particle board, flake board, and oriented strand board).
Yard waste means grass, grass clippings, bushes, shrubs, and
clippings from bushes and shrubs. Yard waste comes from residential,
commercial/retail, institutional, or industrial sources as part of
maintaining yards or other private or public lands. Yard waste does not
include two items:
(1) Construction, renovation, and demolition wastes.
(2) Clean lumber.