The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) defines “thermal remediation units” as a stationary source that causes contaminants to be desorbed from soils by heating the soil in a kiln. "Incinerator" is defined as a device used for the thermal oxidation of garbage or other wastes, other than a wood-fired heating device, including an air curtain incinerator burning waste other than clean lumber, wood wastes, or yard wastes.

18 AAC 50.502(b)

Minor permits are required under 18 AAC 50.502(b)(2)&(4) before construction, modification, or relocation of a stationary source containing a soil remediation unit with a rated capacity of at least five tons per hour or one or more incinerators with a cumulative rated capacity of 1,000 pounds or more per hour.

18 AAC 50.508(5)

This section of the Administrative Code contains provisions for owners or operators of soil remediation units to take Owner Requested Limits (ORLs) avoid permit classifications such as the need to obtain an Air Quality Control Title V Operating Permit issued under 18 AAC 50.326 or to avoid classification as a major source of Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) for the emissions of hydrogen fluoride (HF).

Compliance Assurance Monitoring (CAM) provisions are required under 40 C.F.R. Part 64. These provisions apply to emission units that employ the use of an add-on control device to meet an emission limit or standard and have pre-control emissions greater than 100 TPY for the pollutant for which the control device is operated. CAM provisions can apply to large and small power plant emissions units due to the operation of a control devices such as wet scrubbers (particulate matter and HAP controls).

40 C.F.R. 64

Permittees are required to comply with all stationary source-specific requirements that were carried forward from previous SIP-approved Permits to Operate issued on or before January 17, 1997 and operating permits issued between January 18, 1997 and September 30, 2004, and with all stationary source-specific requirements in EPA Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) permits, State Implementation Program (SIP)-approved construction permits, SIP-approved minor permits, and owner requested limits established under 18 AAC 50.225.

These requirements include Best Available Control Technology (BACT) limits, limits to ensure compliance with the attainment or maintenance of ambient air quality standards or maximum allowable ambient concentrations, and owner requested limits.

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