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Air Regulations - Chapter 140

Chapter 140 - REGULATION FOR EMISSIONS TRADING

Part I (pdf) - NOx Budget Trading Program
[Effective July 17, 2002; last amendment: March 24, 2004]

Part II (pdf) - NOX Annual Trading Program

[Effective April 18, 2007; last amendment: December 26, 2007]

Part III (pdf) - NOX Ozone Season Trading Program

[Effective April 18, 2007; last amendment: December 26, 2007]

Part IV (pdf) - SO2 Annual Trading Program

[Effective April 18, 2007; last amendment: December 26, 2007]

Part VI (pdf) - Hg Budget Trading Program for Coal Fired Electric Steam Generating Units

[Effective April 4, 2007]

 

 

Viewable in Adobe PDF format or read specific sections online via the Legislative Information System database. 

Article 1. NOx Budget Trading Program General Provisions.

Section 10 - Purpose.

Section 20 - Definitions.

Section 30 - Measurements, abbreviations, and acronyms.

Section 31 - Federal regulations incorporated by reference.

Section 40 - Applicability.

Section 50 - Retired unit exemption.

Section 60 - Standard requirements.

Section 70 - Computation of time.

Article 2. Authorized Account Representative for NOx Budget Sources.

Section 100 - Authorization and responsibilities of the NOx authorized account representative.

Section 110 - Alternate NOx authorized account representative.

Section 120 - Changing the NOx authorized account representative and the alternate NOx authorized account representative; changes in the owners and operators.

Section 130 - Account certificate of representation.

Section 140 - Objections concerning the NOx authorized account representative.

Article 3. Permits.

Section 200 - General NOx Budget permit requirements.

Section 210 - Submission of NOx Budget permit applications.

Section 220 - Information requirements for NOx Budget permit applications.

Section 230 - NOx Budget permit contents.

Section 240 - Effective date of initial NOx Budget permit.

Section 250 - NOx Budget permit revisions.

Article 4. Compliance Certification.

Section 300 - Compliance certification report.

Section 310 - Permitting authority's and administrator's action on compliance certifications.

Article 5. NOx Allowance Allocations.

Section 400 - State trading program budget.

Section 410 - Timing requirements for NOx allowances allocations.

Section 420 - NOx allowance allocations.

Section 430 - Compliance Supplement Pool.

Article 6. NOx Allowance Allocations Tracking System.

Section 500 - NOx Allowance Tracking System accounts.

Section 510 - Establishments of accounts.

Section 520 - NOx Allowance Tracking System responsibilities of NOx authorized account representative.

Section 530 - Recordation of NOx allowance allocations.

Section 540 - Compliance.

Section 550 - Banking.

Section 560 - Account error.

Section 570 - Closing of general accounts.

Article 7. NOx Allowance Transfers.

Section 600 - Scope and submission of NOx allowance transfers.

Section 610 - EPA recordation.

Section 620 - Notification.

Article 8. Monitoring and Reporting.

Section 700 - General requirements.

Section 710 - Initial certification and recertification procedures.

Section 720 - Out of control periods.

Section 730 - Notifications.

Section 740 - Recordkeeping and reporting.

Section 750 - Petitions.

Section 760 - Additional requirements to provide heat input data for allocation purposes.

Article 9. Individual Unit Opt-ins.

Section 800 - Applicability.

Section 810 - General.

Section 820 - NOx authorized account representative.

Section 830 - Applying for NOx Budget opt-in permit.

Section 840 - Opt-in process.

Section 850 - NOx Budget opt-in permit contents.

Section 860 - Withdrawal from NOx Budget Trading Program.

Section 870 - Change in regulatory status.

Section 880 - NOx allowance allocations to opt-in units.

Article 10. State Trading Program Budget and Compliance Pool.

Section 900 - State trading program budget.

Section 910 - Compliance supplement pool budget.

Section 920 - Total electric generating unit allocations.

Section 930 - Total non-electric generating unit allocations.

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