Any stationary source subject to this part shall be subject to the following requirements:
- (1) Sampling ports. To provide any sampling ports, at the request of the Division of Environmental Quality, required for air emissions sampling, including safe and easy access to such ports;
(2) Sampling.
- (A) To conduct air contaminant emissions sampling, at the request of the division, to determine the rate, opacity, composition, and/or contaminant concentration of the emissions.
- (B) All compliance testing shall be done at the expense of the permittee by an independent firm, unless otherwise approved by the division.
- (C) Sampling shall not be required for those pollutants monitored with continuous emissions monitors;
- (3) Averaging times. All compliance testing averaging times shall be consistent with the averaging times of the applicable emissions limitations stated in the applicable permit, which in no case shall be greater than the minimum averaging times of the applicable National Ambient Air Quality Standard;
(4) Process rates.
- (A) Unless otherwise approved by the division, all air contaminant emissions sampling shall be performed with the equipment being tested operating at least at ninety percent (90%) of its permitted capacity.
- (B) Emissions results shall be extrapolated to correlate with one hundred percent (100%) of permitted capacity to determine compliance;
(5) Testing time frames. Any equipment that is to be tested, at the request of the division, shall be tested in accordance with the following time frames:
- (A) Equipment to be constructed or modified shall be tested within sixty (60) days after achieving its maximum permitted production rate but no later than one hundred eighty (180) days after its initial start-up; and
- (B) Equipment already operating shall be tested according to the time frames set forth by the division; and
(6) Testing methods and records.
(A)
(i) The division shall require that all applicable testing be performed using the methods described in:
- (a) (a) 40 C.F.R. pt. 51 app. M, as of the effective date of the federal final rule published by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register on April 2, 2014 (79 Fed. Reg. 18,452);
- (b) (b) 40 C.F.R. pt. 60 app. A, as of the effective date of the federal final rule published by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register on February 27, 2014 (79 Fed. Reg. 11,257);
- (c) (c) 40 C.F.R. pt. 61 app. B, as of the effective date of the federal final rule published by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register on October 17, 2000 (65 Fed. Reg. 62,161); and
- (d) (d) 40 C.F.R. pt. 63 app. A, as of the effective date of the federal final rule published by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register on December 29, 1992 (57 Fed. Reg. 62,002).
- (ii) The division may approve, at its discretion, alternative sampling methods that are equivalent to the specified methods.
- (B) The results of such tests shall be submitted to the division within the time frame and on such forms as required by the division and federal regulations.
- (C) The owner or operator of the equipment shall retain the results of such tests for at least five (5) years and shall make the results available to any agents of the division or the United States Environmental Protection Agency during regular business hours.