BOARD MEETING DATE: February 1, 2008
AGENDA NO. 26
PROPOSAL:
Stationary Source Committee
SYNOPSIS:
The Stationary Source Committee met Friday, January 18, 2008. Following is a summary of that meeting. The next meeting will be February 15, at 10:30 a.m., in Conference Room CC8.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Receive and file.
Dennis Yates, Chair
Stationary Source Committee
Attendance
The meeting began at 10:30 a.m. Present were Dennis Yates, Jane Carney, Ronald Loveridge (left at 11:40 a.m.), Joseph Lyou and Gary Ovitt.
ACTION ITEM
- Execute Contract to Provide Electricity Resource Planning for South Coast Air Quality Management District Region
This item was approved by the Committee.
INFORMATIONAL ITEMS
Kurt Wiese, District Counsel, announced that public comments should be directed toward new matters pertaining to Rule 1110.2 raised during the committee meeting and should not rehash the issues already raised at the January Board meeting on this matter.
Marty Kay, Technology Advancement Program Supervisor presented this item. After the continuation of the January 4, 2008 public hearing until February 1, 2008 for the proposed amendments to Rule 1110.2, staff proposed two changes to address the monitoring issues brought up by Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Agency (MTA) and Bear Valley Electric Service (BVES). One was to excuse public transit agencies from installing a continuous emission monitoring system (CEMS) on their CNG compressor engines if they replace the engines with electric motors by December 31, 2014. The other was to exclude from the low-use exception for CEMS operation of engines by an electric utility in the Big Bear Lake area due to the failure of a transmission line that normally brings electric power to the area. Staff pointed out that the BVES engines have only been operating about 70 hours per year, and that they could qualify for the exception from the CEMS requirement by limiting operation to 1,000 hours per year.
Representatives of MTA, BVES, Southern California Gas Company and Eastern Municipal Water District commented on the monitoring issue. All wanted less stringent monitoring than CEMS. The committee agreed with staff’s recommendation about BVES. However, the committee recommended that staff provide in the rule an option for public agencies to not install a CEMS on an engine if the operator does periodic monitoring with a portable analyzer, as smaller engines would be required to do, but on a more frequent schedule. The Committee also recommended that if the periodic monitoring showed a significant frequency of excess emissions, beyond a rule requirement or permit limit for which enforcement action would be taken, then a CEMS would be required. Staff discussed similar requirements contained in Rule 1469 - Hexavalent Chromium Emissions from Chrome Plating and Chromic Acid Anodizing Operations, relative to the increase in issuance of NOV’s and the requirement to install additional air pollution control equipment. There was also discussion regarding, in the case of MTA, requiring CEMS as part of the enforcement process if there where emissions violations from the CNG fuel compressors at MTA’s refueling facilities. The Committee recommended increasing the frequency of staff performing independent field source testing using portable hand-held analyzers and suggested staff consider use of contractors to perform the testing.
Susan Nakamura, Planning and Rules Manager, provided the staff presentation on Proposed Amended Rule 1401 and Proposed Rule 1472 highlighting changes to the proposals since the November Stationary Source Committee Meeting. Mayor Yates asked if a longer compliance time could be given to municipalities and public agencies like the time extension given to health facilities, universities, and colleges because they face similar planning and funding issues. Staff answered that it could.
Lyle Nelson, Southern California Edison (SCE), commented on the staff presentation outlining the issues with its power generating facility at Catalina Island and compliance with Rule 1402 once diesel PM is added to the list of TACs in Rule 1401. Elaine Chang stated that resolution language will be added to direct staff to work with all stakeholders on compliance issues with Rule 1402 for diesel ICEs.
Dr. Lyou asked what would happen if diesel PM were added to Rule 1401 and Proposed Rule 1472 was not adopted. Staff responded that all existing facilities with emergency diesel engines would be required to go through the Rule 1402/AB 2588 process beginning with submitting an air toxics emissions inventory. Further steps would follow depending on the risk created by the engines. With current staffing, processing approximately 5,900 facilities could take a decade. Therefore, Proposed Rule 1472 would provide a more efficient way to handle the large number of facilities and would require compliance earlier.
Dr. Lyou expressed concern about whether Proposed Rule 1472 would be as health protective as Rule 1402 and was concerned with the principle of handling one air toxic differently than others. He did not think it was appropriate for the district to ask U.S. EPA and CARB to do more to reduce diesel PM emissions from mobile sources if the district did not also do the same for stationary sources. Ms. Carney was also concerned about the health protectiveness of Proposed Rule 1472.
Dr. Lyou also commented on the Distance Factor Table of Proposed Rule which, in some instances, shows higher values for smaller engines and asked if this had to do with stack height and buoyancy of the exhaust. Staff answered that it was due to buoyancy.
The committee suggested to staff to give additional compliance time to municipalities and public agencies and make clear in the staff report and the Board Presentation in February how Rule 1472 is as health protective as implementation of Rule 1402.
This item was waived due to time constraints.
This item was waived due to time constraints.
Laki Tisopulos, Assistant Deputy Executive Officer of Planning and Rules stated that since this item will be heard at the March Board Meeting, it will be brought back to the Committee in February.
Rita Loof of RadTech stated for the record that she had submitted written comments on Rule 1125, not in the areas proposed for amendment, but regarding other areas of can and coil coating. For several years they have advised staff of the availability of low emission UV/EB technology and they request this be addressed in the staff report.
This item was carried over to the February meeting.
This item was carried over to the February meeting.
This item was carried over to the February meeting.
WRITTEN REPORTS
All written reports were acknowledged by the Committee.
The meeting was adjourned at 12:00 p.m.
Attachments (Doc 69 kb)
January 18, 2008 Committee Agenda (without its attachments)