If the facility does not, in the judgment of the Department, submit sufficient evidence to demonstrate to the Department that the shutdown was temporary, then the Department may revoke the plan approval. If the Department revokes the plan approval, the facility must obtain a new plan approval prior to re-commencing operation of that facility or emission unit.
(Also see310 CMR 7.04(9), and 7.05(7) through (9).)
NOTE: Multiple fuel utilization emission units constructed or modified at a single facility must be evaluated for aggregate emissions to ensure that 310 CMR 7.00: Appendix A or PSD (40 CFR 52.21) is not triggered.
Actions that would contravene emission control equipment design specifications, capture and/or destruction efficiency standards for control equipment, emission limits established by a BACT approval, air contaminant ventilation characteristics such as a reduction in stack height, or limitations on the VOC/HOC content of coatings, require a plan approval. Where the action would result in an increase in allowable or potential emissions above limits established in an approved RES, the RES must be modified as described in 310 CMR 7.02(10). In order to determine applicability under 310 CMR 7.02(4)(a)3.b., emissions must be calculated in accordance with 310 CMR 7.02(4)(b).
NOTE: Multiple fuel utilization emission units installed at a facility must be evaluated for aggregate emissions to ensure that 310 CMR 7.00: Appendix A or PSD (40 CFR 52.21) is not triggered.
Table 3
Adams | Fall River | Millbury | Southbridge |
Amherst | Fitchburg | Milton | Springfield |
Arlington | Gardner | Needham | Stoneham |
Athol | Grafton | New Bedford | Taunton |
Attleboro | Greenfield | Newburyport | Wakefield |
Auburn | Hadley | Newton | Waltham |
Belmont | Haverhill | North Adams | Ware |
Boston | Holden | Northampton | Watertown |
Boylston | Holyoke | Orange | Webster |
Braintree | Lawrence | Palmer | West Boylston |
Brookline | Lee | Peabody | Westfield |
Cambridge | Leicester | Pittsfield | West Springfield |
Canton | Leominster | Quincy | Weymouth |
Chelsea | Longmeadow | Revere | Winchester |
Chicopee | Lowell | Salem | Winthrop |
Dalton | Ludlow | Sandwich | Woburn |
Dedham | Lynn | Saugus | Worcester |
Easthampton | Malden | Shrewsbury | |
East Longmeadow | Medford | Somerset | |
Everett | Melrose | Somerville |
Table 4
Facility Type | Size | Existing unit |
Ferrous Cupola Foundries | ||
Production | all | 0.06 grains/DSCF1 |
Jobbing | all | 0.21 grains/DSCF |
Non-ferrous Cupola Foundries | all | 0.06 grains/DSCF |
Municipal, Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Incinerators | all | 0.1 grains/scf at 12% CO22 |
Municipal Sewerage Sludge Incinerators | all | 0.65 gr./kg dry sludge input |
Asphalt Batching plants | all | 0.04 gr./DSCF |
Fossil Fuel Utilization Facility | 3 - 250 MMBtu3 | 0.12 lb./MMBtu |
250 MMBtu or larger | 0.12 lb./MMBtu | |
Fuel Utilization Facilities | City of Worcester only | |
Solid Fuel | 3 MMBtu or larger | 0.12 lb./MMBtu |
Residual Oil | 3 MMBtu or larger | 0.12 lb./MMBtu |
Distillate oil | 3 MMBtu or larger | 0.10 lb./MMBtu |
Natural gas | 3 MMBtu or larger | 0.10 lb./MMBtu |
Table 5
Facility Type | Size | Existing unit |
Fossil Fuel Utilization Facility | 3 - 250 MMBtu | 0.15 lb./MMBtu |
250 MMBtu or larger | 0.15 lb./MMBtu | |
Ferrous Cupola Foundries | ||
Production | all | 0.13 gr./DSCF |
Jobbing | all | 0.21 gr./DSCF |
Non-ferrous Cupola Foundries | all | 0.08 gr./DSCF |
Municipal, Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Incinerators | all | 0.1 gr./scf at 12% CO2 |
Municipal Sewerage Sludge Incinerators | all | 0.65 gr./kg dry sludge input |
Asphalt Batching Plants | all | 0.06 gr./DSCF |
1 DSCF - Dry Standard Cubic Foot
2 CO2 - Carbon Dioxide
3 MBTU- Million British Thermal Units
Table 6
Facility Size | Emission Limitation | |
Million Btu/hr. Input | lbs.(particulate)/million Btu | |
Wood | New | New (Critical Area -Table 3) |
3-25 | 0.20 | 0.10 |
greater than 25 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
Fossil Fuel | ||
3-250 | 0.10 | |
greater than 250 | 0.05 |
310 CMR 7.02(14)(c)4. Table 1: Indicators |
AIR QUALITY / CLIMATE 1 |
Particulate Matter 2.5 (PM2.5) levels in air in microgram per cubic meter (µg/m3), annual average and state percentile |
Ozone summer seasonal average of daily maximum eight-hour concentration in air in parts per billion (ppb) and state percentile |
Traffic proximity by block group and state percentile |
Diesel particulate matter level in air in µg/m3 and state percentile |
Air Toxics Cancer Risk per million and state percentile |
Air Toxics Respiratory Hazard Index (HI) and state percentile |
Impervious Surface percent and state percentile |
NEARBY REGULATED FACILITIES 2 |
Facilities with DEP air permits |
Facilities reporting under the EPA Toxics Release Inventory program |
Facilities reporting under the Toxics Use Reduction Act (i.e., Large Quantity Toxic Users) |
Hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities |
Solid waste diversion and disposal facilities3 |
Large quantity hazardous waste generators |
Wastewater treatment plants |
Airports |
Freight rail yards |
Port facilities |
HEALTH 1 |
Asthma prevalence in schools per 100 students total both sexes for each individual school (k-8),2,4 public and private averaged for the most recent three school years available and percent of state rate |
Elevated blood lead levels prevalence (rate per 1,000 screened of confirmed blood lead levels above five micrograms per deciliter (µg/dL) for ages nine months to 47 months) averaged for three years and percent of state rate |
Low birth weight (rate per 1,000 of full-term singleton births (µg/dL) 2500 grams) averaged for five years and percent of state rate |
Premature deaths per 100,000 before age 75 years averaged for five years and percent of state rate |
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among adults aged 18 years or older, crude prevalence (percentage) and percent of state rate |
Coronary heart disease among adults aged 18 years or older, crude prevalence (percentage) and percent of state rate |
SOCIOECONOMIC 1 |
Median household income and percent of state median for each EJ block group |
Minority population percent for each EJ block group |
English language isolation household percent for each EJ block group |
Young (<5 years old) (percent and state percentile) |
Older (>65 years old) (percent and state percentile) |
NEARBY SENSITIVE RECEPTORS 2 |
Schools (k-12)4 |
Long-term care residences |
Public housing |
Childcare facilities |
Prisons |
1 Report indicator data for most recent year or years available, for each census tract with an EJ block group (unless otherwise stated) within one or five miles of proposed project and the state rate or average and percent of state rate or average for comparison. 2 Identify name, type of site or facility within one mile (for non-major source) or five miles (for major source) of the proposed project. Provide distance from proposed project to nearby sensitive receptors. Provide map of nearby facilities and sensitive receptors within one or five miles of proposed project. 3 Include transfer stations by type, active waste combustors, active landfills, and recycling operations. Include map of points and landfill polygons as available. 4 Schools in or within ½ mile of the boundary of any nearby environmental justice population. |
310 CMR 7.02