W. Va. Code R. agency 45, tit. 45, ser. 45-13, tbl. 45-13B
Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 50, December 13, 2024
DE MINIMIS SOURCES
1. Air compressors and pneumatically-operated equipment, including hand tools; instrument air systems (excluding fuel-fired compressors); emissions from pneumatic starters on reciprocating engines, turbines or other equipment; and periodic use of air for cleanup (excluding all sandblasting activities).2. Air contaminant detectors or recorders, combustion controllers or shutoffs.3. Any consumer product used in the same manner as in normal consumers' use, provided the use results in a duration and frequency of exposure which are not greater than those experienced by consumers and which may include, but not be limited to, personal use items; janitorial cleaning supplies; office supplies; and supplies to maintain copying equipment.4. Bathroom/toilet vent emissions.5. Tobacco smoking rooms and areas.6. Batteries and battery charging stations, except at battery manufacturing plants.7. Bench-scale laboratory equipment used for physical or chemical analysis, excluding lab fume hoods or vents.8. Routine calibration and maintenance of laboratory equipment or other analytical instruments.9. Boiler water treatment operations, excluding cooling towers.10. Portable brazing, soldering, gas cutting or welding equipment used as an auxiliary to the principal equipment at the source.11. CO2 lasers, used only in metals and other materials which do not emit any hazardous air pollutants in the process.12. Combustion emissions from propulsion of mobile sources.13. Wood heaters, cook stoves or fireplaces used for heating and/or cooking at residential or publicly-owned facilities.14. Comfort air conditioning or ventilation systems not used to remove air contaminants generated by or released from specific units of equipment.15. Demineralized water tanks and demineralizer vents.16. Drop hammers or hydraulic presses for forging or metalworking.17. Equipment used exclusively for pressing, drawing or stamping of metals, excluding emissions due to quenching activities or supporting equipment.18. Emissions from die-casting machinery, excluding emissions from melt furnaces or other associated processes.19. Foundry sand molding forming equipment, provided no heat is applied and no VOCs or hazardous air pollutants are emitted, but not including the metal pouring process.20. Electric or steam-heated drying ovens, autoclaves or steam sterilizers, excluding the emissions from the articles or substances being processed in the ovens or autoclaves or the boilers delivering the steam.21. Emergency electrical generators at residential locations.22. Emergency road flares.23. Environmental chambers not using hazardous air pollutant gases.24. Emissions from food preparation at restaurants and cafeterias.25. Equipment used exclusively to slaughter animals, excluding other equipment at slaughterhouses, such as rending cookers, boilers, heating plants, incinerators, and electrical power generating equipment.26. Equipment used for quality control/assurance or inspection purposes, including sampling equipment used to withdraw materials for analysis.27. Fire suppression systems.28. Firefighting equipment and the equipment used to train firefighters and emergency response individuals, which is subject to 45CSR6 and complies with 45CSR34.29. Single-use flares used solely to indicate danger to the public.30. Hand-held applicator equipment for hot melt adhesives with no VOCs or hazardous air pollutants in the adhesive formulation.31. Hand-held equipment for buffing, polishing, cutting, drilling, sawing, grinding, turning or machining wood, metal or plastic.33. Hydraulic and hydrostatic testing equipment.34. Mobile internal combustion engines used for landscaping purposes.35. Laser trimmers using dust collection to prevent fugitive emissions.36. Laundry activities, excluding dry-cleaning and steam boilers.37. Natural gas pressure regulator vents, excluding venting at oil and gas production facilities.38. Oxygen scavenging (de-aeration) of water.39. On-site plant maintenance and upkeep activities, including lawn care, weed control, pest control, general repairs, cleaning, painting, surface coating, welding, plumbing, grinding, cutting, woodworking, janitorial activities, re-tarring roofs, installing insulation, and paving parking lots, provided that these activities are not conducted as part of a manufacturing process and are not related to the source's primary business activity; provided further, that for cleaning, surface coating and painting activities, the source is not subject to VOC or HAP control requirements and the source minimizes the generation of fugitive emissions of any regulated air pollutants; and provided further, that the source complies with the asbestos requirements in 45CSR34.40. Commercial and residential maintenance and upkeep activities occurring at a building, residence or other structure, including lawn care, weed control, pest control, general repairs, cleaning, painting, surface coating, welding, plumbing, grinding, cutting, woodworking, janitorial activities, re-tarring roofs, installing insulation, and paving parking lots, provided that these activities are not conducted as part of a manufacturing process; provided further, that for cleaning, surface coating and painting activities, the source is not subject to VOC or HAP control requirements and the source minimizes the generation of fugitive emissions of any regulated air pollutants; and provided further, that the source complies with the asbestos requirements in 45CSR34.41. Portable electrical generators that can be moved by hand from one location to another. "Moved by hand" means that it can be moved without the assistance of any motorized or non-motorized vehicle, conveyance or device.42. Process water filtration systems and demineralizers.43. Salt baths using nonvolatile salts that do not result in emissions of any regulated air pollutants.46. Steam cleaning operations, excluding hazardous air pollutant emissions.48. Steam vents and safety relief valves, provided that such valves shall be included in any permit application that may otherwise be required under this rule.49. Storage tanks, reservoirs and pumping and handling equipment of any size containing soaps, vegetable oil, animal grease or fat and aqueous salt solutions, provided appropriate lids and covers are utilized, excluding rendering plants.50. Storage tanks, vessels and containers holding or storing liquid substances that will not emit any regulated air pollutant.51. Vents from continuous emissions monitors and other analyzers.52. Operation of groundwater remediation wells, including emissions from the pumps and collection activities. This does not include emissions from air-stripping treatment or storage.53. Log wetting areas that are using only water.55. The storage, handling, and handling equipment for bark and wood dust not subject to 45CSR7.56. Solid waste dumpsters.57. Ozone generators used in water treatment facilities.58. Storage vessels having less than 10,567 gallons capacity containing petroleum or organic liquids with a vapor pressure of 1.5 psia or less at storage temperature, provided that the emissions from all such organic liquid storage tanks, in the aggregate, are less than 2 tons per year for hazardous air pollutants or VOCs.59. A source that is not major that emits only non-processed fugitive emissions (other than haul roads). W. Va. Code R. agency 45, tit. 45, ser. 45-13, tbl. 45-13B