06- 096 C.M.R. ch. 124, § 5

Current through 2024-51, December 18, 2024

Section 096-124-5 - Recordkeeping and Reporting

A. Except when the conditions of Sections 3(A)(3) or 3(J) of this Chapter are met, any owner or operator subject to this Chapter shall perform the following recordkeeping and reporting requirements:

(1) For each recovery furnace or lime kiln, calculate and record on a daily basis, twelve (12)-hour block average TRS concentrations for the two (2) periods of each operating day. Each twelve (12)-hour block average shall be determined as the arithmetic mean of the appropriate twelve (12) contiguous one (1)-hour average TRS concentrations provided by each continuous emissions monitoring system installed pursuant to Section 4(A) and (D);

(2) For each recovery furnace or lime kiln, calculate and record on a daily basis twelve (12)-hour block average oxygen concentrations for the two (2) consecutive periods of each operating day. These twelve (12)-hour block averages must correspond to the twelve (12)-hour block average TRS concentrations under Section 5(A)(1) of this Chapter and shall be determined as an arithmetic mean of the appropriate twelve (12) contiguous one (1)-hour average oxygen concentrations provided by each continuous emissions monitoring system installed pursuant to Section 4(A), and (D); and

(3) All concentrations of TRS required to be measured from lime kilns, incinerators, or other combustion devices shall be corrected to ten (10)% oxygen by volume and those concentrations from recovery furnaces shall be corrected to eight (8)% oxygen by volume. These corrections shall be made in the following manner:

corr = meas x (21 - X) /(21 - Y)

Where: corr = The concentration corrected for oxygen.

meas = The concentration uncorrected for oxygen.

X = The volumetric oxygen concentration in percentage to be corrected to eight (8)% for recovery furnaces and ten (10)% for lime kilns, incinerators, or other combustion devices.

Y = The measured twelve (12)-hour block average volumetric oxygen concentration; and

B. Any owner or operator subject to this Chapter must report verbally, in writing or via facsimile to the Department, on the next State working day:

(1) any venting of TRS to the atmosphere from the LVHC or steam stripper collection system of longer than fifteen (15) minutes; and

(2) any venting of TRS to the atmosphere from the HVLC system of longer than four (4) hours.

C. Any owner or operator subject to this Chapter must submit to the Department quarterly reports which contain the following:

(1) For any recovery furnace, TRS emissions in concentrations corrected to eight (8)% oxygen by volume dry basis for each twelve (12)-hour block average in a quarter which exceeds either license limits or the emission standards of Section 3(H) or 3(I);

(2) For any lime kiln, TRS emissions in concentrations corrected to ten (10)% oxygen by volume dry basis for each twelve (12)-hour block average in a quarter which exceeds either license limits or the emission standards of Section 3(K);

(3) The total number of twelve (12)-hour block averaging periods in the quarter, which include periods of start up, shutdown or malfunction, but exclude periods when the facility is not operating. The following periods of excess emissions are not a violation of this Chapter:

(a) For any recovery furnace, the first two twelve (12)-hour block averages in a quarter which exceed either license limits or the emission standards of Section 3(H) or 3(I);

(b) For any lime kiln, the first four twelve (12)-hour block averages in a quarter which exceed either license limits or the emission standards of Section 3(K);

(4) Where the requirements of Section 3(A)(3) of this Chapter apply, all periods in excess of five (5) minutes and their duration during which the combustion temperature at the point where 0.5 second retention time occurs is less than 1200^oF;

(5) All venting of TRS from the LVHC system or associated equipment that exceeds 40 minutes in duration;

(6) All venting of TRS from the LVHC system or associated equipment for greater than one (1) minute which contributes to an aggregate TRS venting of more than one (1)% of quarterly operating time;

(7) All events of venting of TRS from the LVHC system of greater than fifteen (15) minutes when the aggregate TRS venting exceeds 0.5% of quarterly operating time. For each event include an explanation of the cause of the event and action taken to prevent similar events from occurring in the future;

(8) All venting of TRS from the HVLC system greater than one (1) minute in duration when the sum of all venting occurrences are in excess of four (4)% of the quarterly brownstock washer operating time on a total mass weighted basis;

(9) All venting of TRS from the steam stripper collection system or alternative TRS control system, that is not part of an HVLC system, greater than one (1) minute in duration when the sum of all venting occurrences is in excess of one (1)% of the quarterly steam stripper collection system or alternative TRS control system operating time;

(10) All continuous emissions monitor downtimes as specified by Chapter 117; and

(11) All temperature monitoring device downtimes in excess of five (5)% downtime based on the quarterly incineration time of the combustion source.

06- 096 C.M.R. ch. 124, § 5