Title 40

SECTION 52.1126

52.1126 Control strategy: Sulfur oxides.

§ 52.1126 Control strategy: Sulfur oxides.

(a) The revisions to the control strategy resulting from the modification to the emission limitations applicable to the sources listed below or resulting from the change in the compliance date for such sources with the applicable emission limitation is hereby approved. All regulations cited are air pollution control regulations of the State, unless otherwise noted. (See § 52.1125 for compliance schedule approvals and disapprovals pertaining to one or more of the sources listed below.)

(b)(1) Massachusetts Regulation 310 CMR 7.05(1) (formerly Regulation 5.1) for the Pioneer Valley Air Pollution Control District, which allows a relaxation of sulfur in fuel limitations under certain conditions, is approved for the following sources. All other sources remain subject to the previously approved requirements of Regulation 7.05(1) which stipulate that sources are required to burn residual fuel oil having a sulfur content not in excess of 0.55 pounds per million Btu heat release potential (approximately equivalent to 1 percent sulfur content.)

Deerfield Specialty Paper Company, Monroe Bridge; Amherst College, Amherst; Brown Company, Holyoke; Monsanto Polymer and Petrochemical Company, Building 21, Springfield; Monsanto Polymer and Petrochemical Company, Building 49, Springfield; Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley; Uniroyal Tire Inc., Chicopee; Smith College, Northampton; West Springfield Generating Station, Western Massachusetts Electric, West Springfield. Pioneer Valley APCD Belchertown State School, Belchertown James River Graphics (formerly Scott Graphics), south Hadley (conditioned upon operation of the boilers on only one of the two stacks at any given time, and operation being so restricted in the source's operating permit granted by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Quality Engineering.) Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Springfield. Northampton State Hospital, Northampton. Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield. Stanley Home Products, Easthampton. Stevens Elastomeric Industries, Easthampton. Ware Industries, Ware. Westfield State College, Westfield. Westover Air Force Base (Building 1411), Chicopee. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Mount Tom Generating Station, Holyoke.

(2) Massachusetts Regulation 310 CMR 7.05(1)(e)(3) for Pioneer Valley, as submitted on March 2, 1979, and May 5, 1981, which allows sources in Hampshire and Franklin Counties rated at less than 100 million Btu per hour heat input capacity to burn fuel oil having a sulfur content of not more than 1.21 pounds per million Btu heat release potential (approximately equivalent to 2.2% sulfur content) is approved for all such sources with the exception of:

Strathmore Paper Co., Montague.

(c) Massachusetts Regulation 310 CMR 7.05(1) (formerly Regulation 5.1) which allows a relaxation of sulfur in fuel limitations for the Central Massachusetts Air Pollution Control District, except in the City of Worcester, is approved for the following sources. All other sources remain subject to the previously approved requirements of Regulation 7.05(1) which stipulate that sources are required to burn residual fuel oil having a sulfur content not in excess of 0.55 pounds per million BTU heat release potential (approximately equivalent to 1 percent sulfur content fuel oil).

American Optical Company, Southbridge, Wyman Gordon Company, Grafton, James River - Massachusetts Inc., Fitchburg, Fitchburg Paper Company, Fitchburg (only boilers which emit through the 55 meter stack). Central Massachusetts APCD Borden, Inc., Chemical Division, Leominster (conditioned upon first completing construction of new stack and certification of completion to the EPA by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Quality Engineering.). Gardner State Hospital, Gardner. Grafton State Hospital, Grafton. Haywood-Shuster Woolen, E. Douglas. Cranston Prints Works, Webster. Baldwinville products, Templeton - (conditioned upon first completing construction of new stack, and certification of completion to the EPA by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Quality Engineering.).

(d) Massachusetts Regulation 310 CMR 7.05(1) (formerly Regulation 5.1) for the Southeastern Massachusetts Air Pollution Control District, which allows a relaxation of sulfur in fuel limitations under certain conditions is approved for the following sources. All other sources remain subject to the previously approved requirements of Regulation 7.05(1) which stipulate that sources are required to burn residual fuel oil having a sulfur content not in excess of 0.55 pounds per million Btu heat release potential (approximately equivalent to 1 percent sulfur content.)

New England Power Company, Brayton Point Station, Somerset; Montaup Electric Company, Somerset Station, Somerset (limited to 75% capacity while burning higher sulfur fuels.) Canal Electric Company, Sandwich; Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant, Somerset Avenue, Taunton. Southeastern Massachusetts APCD L&O Realty Trust, Taunton. New Bedford Gas and Electric, New Bedford. Texas Instruments, Attleboro. Arkwright Finishing Incorporated, Fall River. Foster Forbes Glass Company, Milford. Owens Illinois Inc., Mansfield. Harodite Finishing Corporation, Dighton - (conditioned upon prior removal of rain-caps from stack, and certification of completion to the EPA by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Quality Engineering.) Polaroid Corporation, New Bedford.

(e) Massachusetts Regulation 310 CMR 7.05(1) (formerly Regulation 5.1) for the Merrimack Valley Air Pollution Control District, excluding the City of Lawrence and the towns of Andover, Methuen, and North Andover, which allows a relaxation of sulfur in fuel limitations under certain conditions, is approved for the following sources. All other sources remain subject to the previously approved requirements of Regulation 7.05(1) which stipulates that sources are required to burn residual fuel oil having a sulfur content not in excess of 0.55 pounds per million Btu heat release potential (approximately equivalent to 1 percent sulfur content).

Hollingsworth and Vose, West Groton; James River Paper, Pepperell; Haverhill Paperboard Corp., Haverhill. Residual oil burning facilities less than 100 million Btu's per hour heat input capacity, except in the City of Lawrence, and Towns of Andover, Methuen, and North Andover.

(f) Massachusetts Regulation 310 CMR 7.05(1) (formerly Regulation 5.1) for the Metropolitan Boston Air Pollution Control District, which allows a relaxation of sulfur in fuel limitations under certain conditions, is approved for the following sources. All other sources remain subject to the previously approved requirements of Regulation 7.05(1) which stipulate that sources in Arlington, Belmont, Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Medford, Newton, Somerville, Waltham, and Watertown (the Boston Core Area) are limited to burn fuel with a sulfur content not in excess of 0.28 pounds per million Btu heat release potential (approximately 0.5% sulfur content residual oil; sources in the remaining APCD are limited to burn fuel with a sulfur content not in excess of 0.55 pounds per million Btu heat release potential (approximately 1% sulfur content residual oil).

Metropolitan Boston APCD General Motors, Framingham. Polaroid Corporation, Norwood. Bird and Son, East Walpole. Massachusetts Correctional Institute, South Walpole. Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater. Hanscom Field, Bedford. Wellesley College, Wellesley. National Tanning and Trading, Peabody. General Tire, Reading. General Food Corporation, Atlantic Gelatin, Woburn. Massachusetts Correctional Institute, Bridgewater. W. R. Grace, Acton. Massachusetts Correctional Institute, Concord. Danvers State Hospital, Danvers. New England Power Company, Salem Harbor Station, Salem; Boston Edison, L Street, New Boston Station, Boston; Boston Edison, Mystic Station, Everett; Ventron Corporation, Danvers; General Electric, Lynn River Works, Lynn; U.S.M. Corporation, Beverly; Medfield State Hospital, Medfield; General Dynamics, Quincy; Hollingsworth and Vose, East Walpole; Kendal Company, Walpole; Dennison Manufacturing Company, Framingham. Procter and Gamble Company, Quincy. Natick Paperboard Corporation, Natick. [38 FR 9089, Apr. 10, 1973] Editorial Note:For Federal Register citations affecting § 52.1126, see the List of CFR Sections Affected, which appears in the Finding Aids section of the printed volume and at www.govinfo.gov.

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