1.Scope. This section applies to those fuel-burning sources in the State that are not required to achieve the lower emission rates of new source performance standards or as required to satisfy the case-by-case
requirements of best available control technology or best available retrofit technology.
[
2007, c. 95, §4 (AMD)
.]
2.Prohibitions. Except as provided in subsections 4 , 5 and 8, no person may use any liquid fossil fuel with a sulfur content exceeding the limits in paragraph A or any solid fossil fuel
with a sulfur content to heat content ratio exceeding the limits of paragraph B.
A. The sulfur content for liquid fossil fuels is as follows.
(1) In the Central Maine, Downeast, Aroostook County and Northwest Maine Air Quality Control Regions, no person may use any
liquid fossil fuel with a sulfur content greater than 2.5% until November 1, 1991, and 2.0% by weight any time thereafter.
In the Metropolitan Portland Air Quality Control Region outside the Portland Peninsula Air Quality Control Region, no person
may use any liquid fossil fuel with a sulfur content greater than 2.5% until November 1, 1991, and 2.0% by weight any time
thereafter.
(2) In the Portland Peninsula Air Quality Control Region, no person may use any liquid fossil fuel with a sulfur content
greater than 1.5% by weight any time after November 1, 1975. [1989, c. 501, Pt. CC, §1 (AMD).]
B. The sulfur content for solid fossil fuels is as follows:
(1) One and two-tenths pounds sulfur per million British Thermal Units until November 1, 1991, and .96 pounds sulfur per million British Thermal
Units thereafter, calculated as a calendar quarter average for sources in the Central Maine, Downeast, Aroostook County, Northwest
Maine Air Quality Control Regions and that portion of the Metropolitan Portland Air Quality Region outside the Portland Peninsula
Air Quality Region. A calendar quarter is composed of the months as follows: (1) January, February, March; (2) April, May, June; (3) July, August, September; and (4)
October, November, December; and
(2) Seventy-two hundredths pounds sulfur per million British Thermal Units calculated as a calendar quarter average for sources in the Portland Peninsula
Air Quality Region. A calendar quarter is composed of the months as follows: (1) January, February, March; (2) April, May, June; (3) July, August, September; and (4)
October, November, December. [2007, c. 95, §5 (AMD).]
[
2007, c. 95, §5 (AMD)
.]
3.Records.
[
1991, c. 663, §1 (RP)
.]
4.Flue gas desulfurization. Any source that installs any approved flue gas desulfurization system or other prescribed sulfur removal device must be
permitted to use fuel with a sulfur content in excess of the limitations of subsection 2 such that, after control, total sulfur
dioxide emissions do not exceed 1.92 pounds of sulfur dioxide per million British Thermal Units in any 24-hour period or emission
rates corresponding to the fuel sulfur limitations required for sources on the Portland peninsula.
Except for lime kilns at pulp and paper mills, the department may require any person achieving compliance by means of an approved
flue gas desulfurization system or other prescribed sulfur removal device to operate a continuous emission monitoring device
for sulfur dioxide.
[
1993, c. 464, §2 (AMD)
.]
4-A.Electrical generating facilities.
[
1999, c. 657, §25 (RP)
.]
5.Fuel blending.
[
1991, c. 663, §2 (RP)
.]
6.Test methods and procedures.
[
1991, c. 663, §2 (RP)
.]
7.Emergency variance.
[
1991, c. 663, §2 (RP)
.]
8.Best available retrofit technology or BART requirements. For those BART eligible units determined by the department to need additional sulfur air pollution controls to improve visibility,
the controls must:
A. Be installed and operational no later than January 1, 2013; and [2007, c. 95, §6 (NEW).]
B. Either:
(1) Require the use of sulfur oil having 1% or less of sulfur by weight; or
(2) Be equivalent to a 50% reduction in sulfur emissions from a BART eligible unit based on a BART eligible unit source emission
baseline determined by the department under 40 Code of Federal Regulations, Section 51.308 (d)(3)(iii)(2006) and 40 Code of
Federal Regulations, Section 51 Appendix Y (2006). [2007, c. 95, §6 (NEW).]
[
2007, c. 95, §6 (NEW)
.]
SECTION HISTORY
1983, c. 504, §10 (NEW).
1985, c. 162, §9 (AMD).
1989, c. 501, §§CC1-3 (AMD).
1989, c. 890, §§A40,B173 (AMD).
1991, c. 663, §§1,2 (AMD).
1993, c. 464, §2 (AMD).
1999, c. 657, §§24,25 (AMD).
2007, c. 95, §§4-6 (AMD).
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