S.D. Admin. R. 74:36:05:16.01

Current through Register Vol. 51, page 67, December 16, 2024

Section 74:36:05:16.01 - Operating permit requirements

Each permit issued for the operation of a Part 70 source must contain:

(1) The name of the person, company, political subdivision, agency, or institution granted a permit;

(2) The type of operation;

(3) The facility and mailing address;

(4) The date the operating permit was granted and on which it will expire;

(5) A number for administrative reference;

(6) The name of a designated person or officer responsible for the source's operation;

(7) A statement granting an operating permit by the board or secretary and any conditions that the board or secretary may impose to ensure compliance with the act and the Clean Air Act;

(8) Emission limits and standards, including operational requirements and limits for all regulated emission units, necessary to assure compliance with applicable requirements of the act and the Clean Air Act and including the following:

(a) The reference of authority for each term or condition;

(b) The applicable requirements from the Clean Air Act and from Title IV requirements of the Clean Air Act, reviewing both requirements and distinguishing which is more stringent and incorporating both into the permit; and

(c) If an alternative emission limit is approved in the state implementation plan (SIP), provisions to ensure that the alternative emission limit in the permit issuance, renewal, or permit modification process has been demonstrated to be equivalent to the applicable emission limit in the state implementation plan and is quantifiable, accountable, enforceable, and based on replicable procedures;

(9) Monitoring and related record keeping and reporting requirements, consisting of at least the following:

(a) All emissions monitoring and analysis procedures, alternative approved methods or test methods required under the applicable requirements, including procedures and methods in § 504(b) or 114(a)(3) of the Clean Air Act;

(b) If the applicable requirement does not require periodic testing or instrumental or noninstrumental monitoring, periodic monitoring sufficient to yield reliable data from the relevant time period that are representative of the source's compliance with the permit. Such monitoring requirements must assure use of terms, test methods, units, averaging periods, and other statistical conventions consistent with the applicable requirement;

(c) As necessary, documentation of the use, maintenance, and if appropriate, installation of monitoring equipment or methods;

(d) Documentation of the following:

(i) The date, place as defined in the permit, and time of sampling or measurements;

(ii) The date or dates analyses were performed;

(iii) The company or entity that performed the analyses;

(iv) The analytical techniques or methods used;

(v) The results of such analyses; and

(vi) The operating conditions as existing at the time of sampling or measurement;

(e) Record keeping and reporting requirements that comply with the following:

(i) Submission of reports of any required monitoring must occur at least every six months. Reports must clearly identify all deviations from permit requirements and conditions. All required reports must be certified by a responsible official; and

(ii) Deviations from permit requirements, including those attributable to upset conditions as defined in the permit, the probable cause of such deviations and any corrective actions or preventive measures taken must be promptly reported and certified by a responsible official; and

(f) Requirements for retention of monitoring records and all supporting documentation for at least five years from the date of the monitoring sample, measurement, report, or application; and

(10) If applicable, a condition prohibiting emissions exceeding any allowances that the source lawfully holds, exceedances of applicable emission rates, and the use of any allowance prior to the year for which it was allocated under the Title IV program of the Clean Air Act;

(11) A severability clause asserting the continued validity of permit requirements if any portions of the permit are challenged;

(12) Provisions stating the following:

(a) The permittee must comply with all conditions of the permit. Any permit noncompliance constitutes a violation and is grounds for enforcement action, permit termination, revocation and reissuance, permit revision, or denial of a permit renewal application;

(b) A permittee in an enforcement action may not use the defense that it would have been necessary to cease or reduce the permitted activity in order to maintain compliance;

(c) The permit may be revised, revoked and reissued, reopened, or terminated for cause. The filing of a request by the permittee for a permit revision, revocation and reissuance, or termination or of a notification of planned changes or anticipated noncompliance does not stay any permit condition;

(d) The permit does not convey property rights of any sort or any exclusive privilege; and

(e) The permittee must provide any information, including records, requested in writing by the department to determine whether cause exists for revising, revoking and reissuing, reopening, or terminating the permit or to determine compliance;

(13) Terms and conditions for reasonably anticipated operating scenarios identified by the source in its application and approved by the department. The terms and conditions must require the source, contemporaneously with making a change from one operating scenario to another, to record in a log at the permitted facility a record of the scenario under which it is operating and must ensure that the terms and conditions of each such alternative scenario meet all requirements of the Clean Air Act;

(14) Compliance requirements that contain the following:

(a) A compliance certification and testing, monitoring, reporting, and recordkeeping requirements sufficient to assure compliance with the terms and conditions of the permit. All documents, including reports, required by the permit must be certified by a responsible official consistent with subdivision 74:36:05:12(17). The compliance certification must be submitted annually from the date of permit issuance to the department and EPA;

(b) Inspection and entry requirements that require the permittee to allow the department or an authorized representative to perform the following:

(1) Enter upon the permittee's premises where a Part 70 source is located or emissions-related activity is conducted or where records must be kept under the conditions of the permit;

(2) Have access to and copy, at reasonable times, any records that must be kept under the conditions of the permit;

(3) Inspect at reasonable times any facilities, equipment, practices, or operations regulated or required under the permit; and

(4) As authorized by the Clean Air Act, sample or monitor at reasonable times substances or parameters for the purpose of assuring compliance with the permit or applicable requirements;

(c) A compliance plan in accordance with subdivision 74:36:05:12(15), including progress reports on noncompliance indicating the dates that compliance will be achieved or the dates that compliance was achieved as referred to in a schedule of compliance. The report must state an explanation for not attaining dates of compliance and must be submitted to the department semiannually or more frequently as required by the department; and

(d) A compliance certification in accordance with subdivision 74:36:05:12(16);

(15) A condition requiring a Part 70 source to pay any required fees;

(16) A condition stating that no permit revisions are required for increases in emissions allowed through emissions trading to the extent that such trades are authorized by the applicable requirements of the Clean Air Act;

(17) Any provisions the department uses to issue general permits that are in accordance with 40 C.F.R. Part 70.6(d) (July 1, 2018);

(18) Provisions for permit emission exceedances due to emergencies that are in accordance with the requirements in 40 C.F.R. Part 70.6(g) (July 1, 2018); and

(19) All applicable requirements of the Clean Air Act.

S.D. Admin. R. 74:36:05:16.01

19 SDR 157, effective 4/22/1993; transferred from; 42 SDR 52, effective 10/13/2015; 44 SDR 43, effective 9/13/2017; 46 SDR 064, effective 11/25/2019

General Authority: SDCL 34A-1-6, 34A-1-21.

Law Implemented: SDCL 34A-1-12, 34A-1-21.