310 CMR 7.08 U Incinerators

• Library: Code of Massachusetts Regulations
• Edition: 2020
• Currency: Current through Register Vol. 1433, December 25, 2020
• Citation: 310 CMR 7.08
• Year: 2020

(1) General.

(a) No person shall cause, suffer, allow, or permit the construction or substantial reconstruction or alteration of any incinerator for which 1. the design for construction or substantial reconstruction or alteration thereof, and 2. the Standard Operating Procedure have not been approved by the Department in writing.

(b) No person shall sell or distribute for sale any special incinerator or modular incinerator, for installation or use within the District, the design and Standard Operating Procedure for which have not been approved in writing by the Department or certification of said approval has not been given by the person selling or distributing the incinerator to the person to whom the sale or distribution is made.

(c) No person shall cause, suffer, allow, or permit the burning of refuse or any other material in any incinerator in a manner that is not in conformance with a Standard Operating Procedure (for the incinerator) that has been approved by the Department in writing.

(d) No person shall cause, suffer, allow, or permit the burning of refuse or any other material in any incinerator, other than a municipal incinerator, which is of a design that has not been approved by the Department in writing.

(e) No person shall cause, suffer, allow, or permit the burning of refuse or any other material in an incinerator at a specific site location that, in the opinion of the Department, is likely to cause or contribute to a condition of air pollution and when the person responsible for the operation of the incinerator has been notified of said opinion.

(f)310 CMR 7.08(1)(c) and 7.08(1)(d) are subject to the enforcement provisions specified in 310 CMR 310 CMRU Enforcement Provisions7.52, insofar as they pertain to domestic incinerators.

(g) No person shall cause, suffer, allow, or permit emissions from any incinerator of any particles that have a dimension greater than 100 microns. (Be referred to 310 CMR 310 CMRU Visible Emissions7.06(2).)

(h) The approval, referred to in 310 CMR 7.08(1)(a) through (d), shall be obtained pursuant to 310 CMR 310 CMRU Plan Approval and Emission Limitations7.02(3) and 310 CMRU Plan Approval and Emission Limitations7.02(5).

(2)Municipal Waste Combustors

(a) Site Assignment. No person shall, allow, or permit the construction substantial reconstruction, alteration or operation of a municipal waste combustor unit on a site which has not received a site assignment in accordance with M.G.L. c. 111, § 150A.

(b) Purpose. The purpose of 310 CMR 7.08(2) is to provide emission limitations and compliance schedules for the control of certain designated pollutants from Municipal Waste Combustors in accordance with sections 111(d) and 129 of the Clean Air Act.

(c) Definitions. The definitions found in 310 CMRAir Pollution Control310 CMR 7.00 apply to 310 CMR 7.08(2) unless otherwise defined in 310 CMR 7.08(2). The following words and phrases shall have the following meanings as they appear in 310 CMR 7.08(2) CALENDAR QUARTER means any consecutive three-month period (nonoverlapping) beginning on January 1st, April 1st, July 1st or October 1st. CALENDAR YEAR means any period starting January 1st and ending on December 31st. CHIEF FACILITY OPERATOR means the person in direct charge and control of the operation of a municipal waste combustor and who is responsible for daily on-site supervision, technical direction, management, and overall performance of the facility. CLEAN WOOD means untreated wood or untreated wood products including clean untreated lumber, tree stumps (whole or chipped), and tree limbs (whole or chipped). Clean wood does not include yard waste, or construction, renovation, and demolition wastes (including, but not limited to, railroad ties and telephone poles). CONTINUOUS BURNING means the continuous, semicontinuous, or batch feeding of municipal solid waste for purposes of waste disposal, energy production, or providing heat to the combustion system in preparation for waste disposal or energy production. The use of municipal solid waste solely to provide thermal protection of the grate or hearth during a startup period, when municipal solid waste is not being fed to the grate, is not considered to be continuous burning. CONTINUOUS EMISSION MONITORING SYSTEM means a monitoring system for continuously measuring the emissions of a pollutant from a municipal waste combustor unit. MUNICIPAL WASTE COMBUSTOR UNIT CAPACITY means the maximum charging rate of a municipal waste combustor unit expressed in tons per day of municipal solid waste combusted calculated according to the procedures under 40 CFR 40Compliance and performance testing60.58b(j) as last amended May 10, 2006 40 CFR 40Compliance and performance testing60.58b(j) includes procedures for determining municipal waste combustor unit capacity for continuous and batch feed municipal waste combustors. MUNICIPAL WASTE COMBUSTOR UNIT LOAD means the steam load of the municipal waste combustor unit measured as specified in 40 CFR 40Compliance and performance testing60.58b(i)(6) as last amended May 10, 2006. PARTICULATE MATTER means total particulate matter emitted from municipal waste combustor units measured as specified in 40 CFR, Part 60: Appendix A, Reference Method 5. PLASTICS/RUBBER RECYCLING UNIT means an integrated processing unit where plastics, rubber, and/or rubber tires are the only feed materials (incidental contaminants may be included in the feed materials) and they are processed into a chemical plant feedstock or petroleum refinery feedstock, where the feedstock is marketed to and used by a chemical plant or petroleum refinery as input feedstock. The combined weight of the chemical plant feedstock and petroleum refinery feedstock produced by the plastics/rubber recycling unit on a calendar quarter basis shall be more than 70% of the combined weight of the plastics, rubber, and rubber tires processed by the plastics/rubber recycling unit on a calendar quarter basis. The plastics, rubber, and/or rubber tire feed materials to the plastics/rubber recycling unit may originate from the separation or diversion of plastics rubber, or rubber tires from MSW or industrial solid waste, and may include manufacturing scraps trimmings, and off-specification plastics, rubber, and rubber tire discards. The plastics, rubber, and rubber tire feed materials to the plastics/rubber recycling unit may contain incidental contaminants (e.g., paper labels on plastic bottles, metal rings on plastic bottle caps, etc.) POTENTIAL HYDROGEN CHLORIDE EMISSION CONCENTRATION means the hydrogen chloride emission concentration that would occur from combustion of municipal solid waste in the absence of any emission controls for municipal waste combustor acid gases. POTENTIAL MERCURY EMISSION CONCENTRATION means the mercury emission concentration that would occur from combustion of municipal solid waste in the absence of any mercury emissions control. POTENTIAL SULFUR DIOXIDE EMISSIONS means the sulfur dioxide emission concentration that would occur from combustion of municipal solid waste in the absence of any emission controls for municipal waste combustor acid gases. RECONSTRUCTION means rebuilding a municipal waste combustor unit for which the reconstruction commenced after June 19, 1996, and the cumulative costs of the construction over the life of the unit exceed 50% of the original cost of construction and installation of the unit (not including any cost of land purchased in connection with such construction or installation) updated to current costs (current dollars). REFRACTORY UNIT OR REFRACTORY WALL FURNACE means a combustion unit having no energy recovery (e.g., via a waterwall) in the furnace (i.e., radiant heat transfer section) of the combustor. REFUSE-DERIVED FUEL means a type of municipal solid waste produced by processing municipal solid waste through shredding and size classification. This includes all classes of refuse-derived fuel including, but not limited to, low-density fluff refuse-derived fuel, densified refuse-derived fuel and pelletized refuse-derived fuel. REFUSE-DERIVED FUEL STOKER means a steam generating unit that combusts refuse-derived fuel in a semisuspension firing mode using air-fed distributors. SECOND CALENDAR HALF means the period starting July 1st and ending on December 31st in any year. SHIFT SUPERVISOR means the person who is in direct charge and control of the operation of a municipal waste combustor and who is responsible for onsite supervision, technical direction, management, and overall performance of the facility during an assigned shift. SMALL MUNICIPAL WASTE COMBUSTOR UNIT means a municipal waste combustor unit with a municipal waste combustor unit capacity greater than 39 tons per day but equal to or less than 250 tons per day of municipal solid waste. STANDARD CONDITIONS means a temperature of 20ºC and a pressure of 101.3 kilopascals. TOTAL MASS DIOXIN/FURAN OR TOTAL MASS means the total mass of tetra- through octa-chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans, as determined using 40 CFR, Part 60: Appendix A, Reference...