National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPS) -

• Are established by EPA and must be implemented by the states. State air pollution control districts must consider any applicable federal standards to assure proper regulation of permitted sources. EPA has established emissions standards for certain hazardous substances under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act.

Title V Operating Permit -

• A national operating permit program for air pollution sources. The permit is a single air permit for a facility, which consolidates and replaces all of the previously issued air permits for individual pieces of equipment.

California’s Air Pollution Control Program Organization -

• The state’s implementation of the federal Clean Air Act and organization of the air pollution control program are codified in the Health and Safety Code Section 39000 – 44384. The Air Resources Board (ARB) is the agency responsible for the statewide program and direct oversight of the local and regional districts. The ARB has been incorporated as a department within the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA).
• As described above, California’s air pollution control programs are designed to meet requirements of the federal Clean Air Act. In addition, the state’s air pollution control program is authorized by statue to adopt ambient air quality standards more stringent than federal standards and implement other specific statutory programs.

The Milford-Carrell Act -

• Established the statutory scheme and organization for California’s air pollution control program in 1967. It is codified at Health and Safety Code Sections 39000-44385.

Permitting Authority -

• Health and Safety Code Sections 42300-42301 require an air pollution control district to issue a permit before any person “builds, erects, alters, replaces, operates, or uses any article, machine, equipment or contrivance that may cause the emission of air contaminations.” Air pollution control districts have adopted specific rules for permitting facilities and/or sources within their area of jurisdiction. The federal Title V permitting program under the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, implements current permitting authority and federal enforceability of district-issued permits for covered facilities.

New Source Review -

• Requirements address federal specifications for control technology, emissions limitations and assure no net increase of pollutant in a non-attainment area. New source review is conducted during the permitting process for a new source or modified source. New sources or modified sources are usually subject to best available control requirements if they exceed criteria for significance based on local district rules.

Public Health and Nuisance -

• Prohibition allows districts to regulate emissions that cause annoyance to members of the public, endangerment of health or property damage. Agricultural operations are largely exempt, but most other nuisances and sources of potentially toxic emissions may be curtailed under Health and Safety Code Section 41700.

Visible Emissions Limitations -

• Based on exceeding opacity as defined by the “Ringelman Chart” (No. 2 in most districts or No. 1, or 20 percent opacity in others) for more than three minutes in any hour may be regulated or prohibited by a district.

District Rules Limiting Emissions -

• Are the principal method for reducing emissions from specific types of sources. Such rules are designed to meet the district’s ambient air quality objectives for pollutants of concern. These rules are district-specific and usually are organized by the nature of the industry, type of equipment or source. Such rules require the installation of best available control technology on significant new sources of retrofit of certain control technology on existing sources based on both technology and economic considerations, or may regulate material usage.

AB1807, The Tanner Toxic Air Contaminant Identification Act -

• Established in 1983 a new regulatory program to identify and assess the public health risk of selected chemicals and regulate emissions of such chemicals.

The Air Toxics “Hot Spots” Information and Assessment Act -

• Introduced a new and far-reaching regulatory program in 1987 that requires covered facilities to submit an emissions inventory of the approximately 400 substances subject to the statute.

The California Clean Air Act of 1988 -

• Enacted a wide range of significant changes in California’s air pollution prevention regulatory program, such as: vehicle fuel specification and adding additional types of vehicles; consumer products with respect to Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) content; local districts may regulate indirect sources of air pollution (ridesharing, van polling, flexible work hours and other vehicle use by businesses, government and commuters); designating air basins as attainment or non-attainment for state standards and identify basins affected by transported pollutants; a 5 percent per year reduction of non-attainment pollutants must be achieved; and based on non-attainment districts, a specific classification will be assigned whereby additional requirements to achieve improvement in its status.

4. Responsibilities And Specific Program Components

Department Chairs/Directors/PI’s

a. Report new air emission sources to EH&S.
b. In the event there are air emission sources, recordkeeping records should be maintained and submitted to the EH&S annually, or as needed.
c. If PI’s are using toxic air contaminants (TACs) in their laboratories, they will need to minimize the usage so the usage rates are below the TAC Screening Emission Levels.

Design and Construction Service

a. Provide building and renovation plans to EH&S for review and comment.
b. Report any new air emission sources to EH&S.

Facilities Management

a. Provide building and renovation plans to EH&S for review and comment.
b. Report any new air emission sources to EH&S.

EH&S Environmental Management Division

a. Provide good customer service to meet campus needs in the form of providing technical advice and regulatory updates.
b. Provide training resources/consultative services.
c. Prepare and submit all the necessary permit applications for all air emission sources located throughout campus. Departments will be required to pay for initial permit fees and EH&S will pay for annual fees; however, if there are any changes to existing permitted sources, then the same aforementioned fee structure applies.
d. Review all construction and renovation plans to identify any new emission sources.
e. Conduct comprehensive inventory of air emissions of the campus.
f. Perform air quality compliance audit to ensure proper monitoring and recordkeeping requirements (MRRs) are being performed.
g. Develop enhanced monitoring and compliance certification protocols.
h. Prepare and submit the operation permit applications.
i. Prepare and submit annual emissions report to the SCAQMD.
j. Prepare and submit semi-annual & annual compliance certifications

5. Reporting requirements

A. Annual Emissions Report

The SCAQMD requires facilities to file Annual Emissions Report. UC Irvine must use either the SCAQMD reporting software or paper forms for calculating and reporting annual air emissions of its equipment for the period from July 1 through June 30. The data collected and reported is used to update the comprehensive emissions inventory for the SCAQMD, which includes Orange County, the non-desert portions of Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, and the Riverside county areas west of the Palo Verde Valley.

B. Semi-Annual/Annual Compliance Certifications

Semi-Annual

Since UC Irvine has been issued a final Title V permit, the campus is required to submit a monitoring report to the SCAQMD Compliance Team every six months. The report includes a statement indicating if all monitoring required by the permit was conducted. Monitoring may include observations, measurements, calculations, sampling and anything else involved with the operation of equipment that is required by the permit to be monitored. Also, the monitoring report must identify all instances of deviations from permit requirements. Furthermore, SCAQMD requires that the first monitoring report be submitted by August 31st for the first six calendar months and the second report for the last six calendar months be submitted by February 28th. The Semi-Annual Monitoring report need not be submitted to EPA

Annual

Since UC Irvine has been issued a final Title V permit, EH&S Department is required to certify annually that UC Irvine is in compliance with the conditions of the Title V permit. EH&S will review pertinent records each year to determine if the UC Irvine complied with all permit requirements including emission limits, work practice standards, and monitoring, recordkeeping and reporting requirements. The certification must be submitted to the SC QMD Compliance Team and EPA by March 1st.

C. Toxic Emissions Inventory Reporting (Updates)

Under Health and Safety Code Section 44344, UC Irvine is subject to the AB2588 Program and is required to submit a quadrennial update of the campus Air Toxics Emissions Inventory to the SCAQMD once every four years.

6. Information references

Guidelines for Minimizing Toxic Air Contaminant Emissions from Laboratories: This help sheet outlines how to reduce emissions of toxic air contaminants.

Equipment That Needs An Operating Permit From The SCAQMD: This document details the types of equipment for which you would typically need to submit a Permit To Construct application (in order to obtain a Permit To Operate), as part of SCAQMD Rule 219 – Equipment Not Requiring a Written Permit Pursuant to Regulation II.

Introducing the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD): This web page will provide an overview of what the SCAQMD is all about.

7. External references

Laws and Regulations on Stationary Source Air Emissions and Pollution Control

State Laws

Authority, Permits and New Source Requirements

Toxic Air Contaminants

Air Toxic Hot Spots

Federal Laws

State Regulations

Authority, Permits and New Source Requirements

Toxic Air Contaminants

Air Toxic Hot Spots

Federal Regulations

Document Initiator: Dick Sun
Rev.: 6/03