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Petition No. 97004

LCB File No. R105-97

Date Received by Commission: 08/08/1997

Summary: Air Quality Operating Permit Program streamlining

Current Status: Codification completed 7/17/98 by LCB

Nevada Administrative Code: 445B.001 to 445B.395

Permanent Adoption/Hearing: 01/22/1998

Temporary Adoption: N/A

Effective/Filed: 03/05/1998

Codified by LCB: 07/17/1998

Petitioner: NDEP / Bureau of Air Quality

Description of Petition:

Petition 97004 (LCB R105-97) amended NAC 445B.001 to 445B.395 by adding a new provision for a stationary source to request a revision for a air quality Class II operating permit. In addition, NAC 445B.011 is revised to reference the NRS. NAC 445B.019, "applicable requirement" is re/defined to delete temporary source; NAC 445B.094 amends the definition of major source to exclude mobile sources as defined under Title II of the Federal Clean Air Act; and NAC 445B.221 is amended to add various subparts for New Source Performance Standard Industrial/Commercial/Institutional Steam Generating Units, Municipal Landfills, dry cleaners, chrome anodizing tanks, industrial process cooling towers, halogenated solvents, wood furniture manufacturing, printing and publishing, tanks, containers, surface impoundments, individual drain system and oil or organic water separators. The term "modification" is supplanted with the term "revision" from NAC 445B.001 to NAC 445B.395. NAC 445B.321 is amended to add thresholds in defining minor revisions for Class I operating permits. It is proposed that NAC 445B.024, 445B.025, 445B.026, 445B.039, 445B.040, 445B.089, 445B.100, 445B.101, 445B.150, 445B.238, 445B.240, 445B.241, 445B.243, 445B.244, 445B.245, and 445B.367 be repealed.

Annotated History of the Petition:

Petition 97004 received by SEC from BAQ on 8/8/97; to LCB on 8/11/97 for drafting, to SEC on 1/22/98; amended and adopted by SEC 1/22/98; to LCB on 1/27/98; filed w/Secretary of State on 3/5/98.