Environment

Air Plan Approval; Ohio; Source-Specific Non-CTG RACT for Ohio

🇺🇸United States··Proposed Rule·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This regulation proposes to authorize specific air quality measures in Ohio, impacting facilities like Lubrizol, Henkel, and Cleveland-Cliffs in the Cleveland area. The goal is to meet moderate RACT requirements for tackling ozone pollution from major VOC and NOX sources. Compliance ensures existing controls and emissions limits align with state assessments, potentially impacting operational practices.

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Key Changes

  • Approval of source-specific RACT for Ohio's major VOC and NOX sources
  • Impact on operational practices of facilities like Lubrizol, Henkel, and Cleveland-Cliffs
  • Ensures compliance with state assessments for emission controls

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Major VOC and NOX sources not covered by CTGs with potential to emit 100+ tpy must submit detailed source-specific RACT studies analyzing technological and economic feasibility of available control measures within one year of rule effective date

Major stationary VOC and NOX sources in Cleveland nonattainment area (Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage, and Summit counties) with uncontrolled potential to emit 100+ tpy not covered by CTGs
reporting
high

Facilities must ensure existing controls and emissions limits align with Ohio's RACT determinations and state assessments for VOC and NOX emissions

Affected facilities including Lubrizol, Henkel, and Cleveland-Cliffs Cleveland Works in the Cleveland nonattainment area
operational
high

Existing boilers, stationary combustion turbines, stationary internal combustion engines, reheat furnaces, and other sources at facilities must comply with NOX RACT rules in OAC Chapter 3745-110 if uncontrolled potential to emit is 100+ tpy

Facilities with NOX-emitting equipment in the Cleveland nonattainment area with uncontrolled potential to emit 100+ tpy of NOX
operational
high

VOC source categories in the Cleveland nonattainment area must comply with RACT rules in OAC Chapter 3745-21 if uncontrolled potential to emit is 100+ tpy for both CTG and non-CTG major sources

VOC source categories in Cleveland nonattainment area with uncontrolled potential to emit 100+ tpy
operational
high

Ohio must evaluate information provided in required RACT studies and make RACT determinations for each major non-CTG source of VOCs and NOX

State of Ohio (Ohio EPA)
reporting

Affected Parties

LubrizolHenkel+1 more…

Tags

RACT,VOC,NOX