APPENDIX B -
CONTINUOUS MONITORING
IV. STANDARDS
OF PERFORMANCE OF MONITORING SYSTEMS
APPENDIX B -
CONTINUOUS MONITORING
I. INSTALLATION
Owners or operators of sources required to have
continuous emission monitors shall have installed all necessary equipment and
shall have begun monitoring and recording by
(a) File of
Records
Owners or operators
subject to the provisions of these rules and regulations shall maintain for a
period of at least two years a record in a permanent form suitable for
inspection and shall make such record available upon request, to the California
Air Resources Board and the Mendocino County Air Quality Management District. The record shall include:
(1) Occurrence and duration of any start up, shut down or malfunction in the operation of any
affected facility.
(2) Performance testing, evaluations,
calibration checks, adjustments, and maintenance of any continuous emission monitors
that have been installed pursuant to these rules.
(3) Emission measurements reported in units
consistent with applicable standards.
(b) Quarterly Report
Owners or operators
subject to provisions of these rules and regulations shall submit a written
report for each calendar quarter to the Air Pollution Control Officer. The report is due by the 30th day following
the end of the calendar quarter and shall include:
(1) Time intervals, date and magnitude of
excess emissions, nature and cause of the excess (if known), corrective actions
taken and preventive measures adopted.
(2) Averaging period used for data reporting
corresponding to averaging period specified in the emission test period used to
determine compliance with an emission standard for the pollutant/source
category in question.
(3) Time and date of each period during which
the continuous monitoring system was inoperative except for zero and span
checks and the nature of system repairs and adjustments.
(4) A negative declaration when no excess
emissions occurred.
(5) Reports on opacity monitors giving the
number of three-minute periods during which the average opacity exceeded the
standard for each hour of operation. The
averages may be obtained by integration over the averaging period or by
arithmetically averaging a minimum of four equally spaced instantaneous opacity
measurements per minute. Any time period
exempted shall be considered before determining the excess averages of opacity.
(c) Reports of
Violations
Any violation of any
emissions standard to which the stationary source is required to conform, as
indicated by the records of the monitoring device, shall be reported by the
operator of the source to the Mendocino County Air Quality Management District
within 96 hours after such occurrence.
The District shall, in turn, report the violation to the Air Resources
Board within five working days after receiving the report of the violation from
the operator.
Data shall be reduced according to the procedure
established in Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 51, Appendix
P, paragraphs 5.0 through 5.3.3, or by other methods deemed equivalent by joint
decision of the Mendocino County Air Quality Management District, the California
Air Resources Board, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
IV. STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE OF MONITORING SYSTEMS
(a) Systems shall be installed, calibrated,
maintained, and operated in accordance with the following sections of Title 40
of the Code of Federal Regulations:
(1)
Fossil-Fuel Fired Steam Generators: Section 60.45
(2)
Sulfuric Acid Plants: Section 60.84
(3)
Nitric Acid Plants: Section 60.73
(4)
Petroleum Refineries: Section 60.105
(5)
Kraft Pulp Mills; NCASI Technical Bulletin # 89
(b) Calibration gas mixtures shall meet the
specifications in Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 51,
Appendix P, Section 3.3 and Part 60, Appendix B, Performance Specification 2,
Section 2.11.
(c) Cycling times shall be those specified in
Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 51, Appendix P, Section 3.4,
3.4.1, and 3.4.2.
(d) The continuous SO2 and NOx monitors shall
meet the applicable performance specification requirements in Title 40 of the
Code of Federal Regulations, Part 51, Appendix P, and Part 60, Appendix B.
(e) The continuous CO2 and O2 monitoring systems
shall meet the performance specification requirements in Title 40 of the Code
of Federal Regulations, Part 51, Appendix P, and Part 60, Appendix B.
(f) Opacity monitoring systems shall meet the
performance specifications of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part
60, Appendix B, Performance Specification No. 1.
Equivalent alternate performance specifications
may be established by mutual agreement of the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, the California Air Resources Board and the Mendocino County Air Quality
Management District.
Definitions shall be those given in Title 40 of
the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 51.