40 C.F.R. § 52.2781

Current through September 30, 2024

Section 52.2781 - Visibility protection

(a) The requirements of section 169A of the Clean Air Act are not met, because the plan does not include approvable procedures for protection of visibility in mandatory Class I Federal areas.

(b)-(c) [Reserved]

(d) Regional Haze Plan for Virgin Islands National Park. The regional haze plan for the Virgin Islands consists of a Federal Implementation Plan entitled: "FEDERAL IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR REGIONAL HAZE FOR THE UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS." The applicable requirements consist of:

(1)Applicability. This section addresses Clean Air Act requirements and EPA's rules to prevent and remedy future and existing man-made impairment of visibility in the mandatory Class I area of the Virgin Islands National Park through a Regional Haze Program. This section applies to the owner and operator of HOVENSA L.L.C. (HOVENSA), a petroleum refinery located on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.

(2)Definitions. Terms not defined below shall have the meaning given them in the Clean Air Act or EPA's regulations implementing the Clean Air Act. For purposes of this section: NO_X means nitrogen oxides.

Owner/operator means any person who owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises a facility or source identified in paragraph (d)(1) of this section.

PM means particulate matter.

Process unit means any collection of structures and/or equipment that processes, assembles, applies, blends, or otherwise uses material inputs to produce or store an intermediate or a completed product. A single stationary source may contain more than one process unit, and a process unit may contain more than one emissions unit. For a petroleum refinery, there are several categories of process units that could include: Those that separate and/or distill petroleum feedstocks; those that change molecular structures; petroleum treating processes; auxiliary facilities, such as steam generators and hydrogen production units; and those that load, unload, blend or store intermediate or completed products.

SO₂ means sulfur dioxide.

Startup means the setting in operation of an affected facility for any purpose.

(3)Reasonable Progress Measures. On June 7, 2011, EPA and HOVENSA entered into a Consent Decree (CD) in the U.S. District Court for the Virgin Islands to resolve alleged Clean Air Act violations at its St. Croix, Virgin Islands facility. The CD requires HOVENSA, among other things, to achieve emission limits and install new pollution controls pursuant to a schedule for compliance. The measures required by the CD reduce emissions of NO_X by 5,031 tons per year (tpy) and SO₂ by 3,460 tpy. The emission limitations, pollution controls, schedules for compliance, reporting, and recordkeeping provisions of the HOVENSA CD constitute an element of the long term strategy and address the reasonable progress provisions of 40 CFR 51.308(d)(1) . Should the existing federally enforceable HOVENSA CD be revised, EPA will reevaluate, and if necessary, revise the FIP after public notice and comment.

(4)HOVENSA requirement for notification. HOVENSA must notify EPA 60 days in advance of startup and resumption of operation of refinery process units at the HOVENSA, St. Croix, Virgin Islands facility. HOVENSA shall submit such notice to the Director of the Clean Air and Sustainability Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 2, 290 Broadway, 25th Floor, New York, New York, 10007-1866. HOVENSA's notification to EPA that it intends to startup refinery process units must include information regarding those emission units that will be operating, including unit design parameters such as heat input and hourly emissions, information on potential to emit limitations, pollution controls and control efficiencies, and schedules for compliance. EPA will revise the FIP as necessary, after public notice and comment, in accordance with regional haze requirements including the "reasonable progress" provisions in 40 CFR 51.308(d)(1) . HOVENSA will be required to install any controls that are required by the revised FIP as expeditiously as practicable, but no later than 5 years after the effective date of the revised FIP.

(5)Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART) measures. Emissions limitations, the owners/operators subject to this section shall not emit or cause to be emitted SO₂, NO_X, and PM in excess of the following limitations:

Table 1 to Paragraph (d)(5)

Facility	BART unit	BART controls/limits
Facility	BART unit	Control	SO₂ (tons/year)	NO_X (tons/year)	PM (tons/year)
HOVENSA	Boilers:
	1 (B-1151)		330.1	450.6	40.6.
	3 (B-1153)		330.1	450.6	40.6.
	4 (B-1154)		322.5	443.5	39.7.
	5 (B-1155)		484.9	676.9	60.7.
	6 (B-3301)		330.8	435.3	40.6.
	7 (B-3302)		330.8	435.3	40.6.
	8 (B-3303)		640.1	559.8	78.6.
	9 (B-3304)		640.1	559.8	78.6.
	Turbines:
	GT1 (G-1101E)		135.5	805.7	12.2.
	GT2 (G-1101F)		135.5	805.7	12.2.
	GT3 (G-1101G)		135.5	805.7	12.2.
	GT4 (G-3404)		161.0	809.5	12.9.
	GT5 (G-3405)		161.0	766.5	12.9.
	GT6 (G-3406)		161.0	766.5	12.9.
	GT7 (G-3407)		161.0	766.5	12.9.
	GT8 (G-3408)		167.6	1002.1	15.1.
	GT9 (G-3409)	Steam Injection for NO_X Control	52.2	150.2	14.0.
	Process Heaters:
	H-101		155.5	232.5	19.3.
	H-104		115.5	172.8	17.2.
	H-200		8.1	16.0	1.2.
	H-201		8.2	16.1	1.2.
	H-202		26.6	146.5	4.0.
	H-401A		197.6	279.1	24.4.
	H-401B		197.6	279.1	24.4.
	H-401C		197.6	279.1	24.4.
	H-1401A		163.1	388.7	21.1.
	H-1401B		155.4	370.2	20.1.
	H-1500		13.0	25.5	2.0.
	H-1501		13.7	26.8	2.0.
	H-160		29.6	163.0	4.4.
	H-600		11.5	22.5	1.7.
	H-601		7.8	15.2	1.2.
	H-602		62.6	344.4	9.4.
	H-603		17.2	33.7	2.6.
	H-604		8.1	15.9	1.2.
	H-605		3.4	6.6	0.5.
	H-606		11.8	23.1	1.8.
	H-800A		9.4	18.4	1.4.
	H-800B		9.4	18.4	1.4.
	H-801		22.0	121.1	3.3.
	H-2101		116.4	283.2	15.1.
	H-2102		112.7	274.1	14.6.
	H-2201A		13.4	26.3	2.0.
	H-2201B		13.4	26.3	2.0.
	H-2202		26.1	143.7	3.9.
	H-2400		7.2	14.2	1.1.
	H-2401		24.1	132.5	3.6.
	H-2501		44.5	244.5	6.7.
	H-4502		32.5	178.9	4.9.
	H-4503		30.8	169.6	4.6.
	H-4504		27.6	151.9	4.1.
	H-4505		23.9	131.3	3.6.
	H-3101A		356.7	507.1	48.1.
	H-3101B		356.7	507.1	48.1.
	H-4101A		356.7	507.1	48.1.
	H-4101B		356.7	507.1	48.1.
	H-4401		29.4	161.5	4.4.
	H-4402		28.0	153.8	4.2.
	H-4451		83.4	458.7	12.5.
	H-4452		54.3	298.6	8.1.
	H-4453		54.3	298.6	8.1.
	H-4454		16.9	33.1	2.5.
	H-4455		30.3	166.6	4.5.
	H-4201		367.7	448.1	44.9.
	H-4202		355.7	433.6	43.4.
	H-5401		29.4	161.5	4.4.
	H-5402		28	153.8	4.2.
	H-5451		83.4	458.7	12.5.
	H-5452		54.3	298.6	8.1.
	H-5453		54.3	298.6	8.1.
	H-5454		16.9	33.1	2.5.
	H-5455		30.3	166.6	4.5.
	H-4601A		13.4	26.3	2.
	H-4601B		13.4	26.3	2.
	H-4602		26.1	143.7	3.9.
	H-4301A		14.6	28.7	2.2.
	H-4301B		14.6	28.7	2.2.
	H-4302		26.7	147.1	4.
	H-5301A		14.6	28.7	2.2.
	H-5301B		14.6	28.7	2.2.
	H-5302		26.7	147.1	4.
	TGT unit No. 2 Beavo:
	H-4761 & T-4761		2.0	4.0	1.0.
	TGI units:
	H-1032		1.6	3.1	0.2.
	H-1042		3.3	6.5	0.5.
	H-4745		900.0	28.0	3.0.
	Compressors:
	C-200A	Catalytic Converters for NO_X and CO control	0.0	33.1	0.2.
	C-200B	Catalytic Converters for NO_X and CO control	0.0	33.1	0.2.
	C-200C	Catalytic Converters for NO_X and CO control	0.0	33.1	0.2.
	C-1500A		0.0	40.0	0.1.
	C-1500B		0.0	40.0	0.1.
	C-1500C		0.0	40.0	0.1.
	C-2400A	Catalytic Converters for NOx and CO control	0.0	19.4	0.3.
	C-2400B	Catalytic Converters for NO_X and CO control	0.0	19.4	0.3.
	C-4601A		0.0	380.6	0.9.
	C-4601B		0.0	380.6	0.9.
	C-4601C		0.0	380.6	0.9.
	Flares:
	#2 Flare (H-1105)		150.0	237.0	negligible.
	#3 Flare (H-1104)		150.0	237.0	negligible.
	#5 Flare (H-3351)		150.0	237.0	negligible.
	#6 Flare (H-3352)		150.0	237.0	negligible.
	#7 Flare (H-3301)		150.0	237.0	negligible.
	Water Pumps:
	PD-1602		1.9	40.6	2.9.
	PD-1603		1.9	40.6	2.9.
	PD-1604		1.9	40.6	2.9.
	PD-1605		1.9	40.6	2.9.
	PD-1620		1.3	27.0	1.9.

40 C.F.R. §52.2781

50 FR 28553, July 12, 1985, as amended at 52 FR 45137, Nov. 24, 1987; 77 FR 64421, Oct. 22, 2012; 82 FR 3129, Jan. 10, 2017; 87 FR 7731, Feb. 10, 2022

87 FR 7731, 3/14/2022