SB374: relative to emissions requirements for municipal waste combustion units.

SB 374 - AS INTRODUCED

2004 SESSION

04-3080

08/10

SENATE BILL 374

AN ACT relative to emissions requirements for municipal waste combustion units.

SPONSORS: Sen. Cohen, Dist 24; Rep. Phinizy, Sull 23

COMMITTEE: Energy and Economic Development

ANALYSIS

This bill prescribes emissions requirements for municipal waste combustion units.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

04-3080

08/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Four

AN ACT relative to emissions requirements for municipal waste combustion units.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 New Section; Municipal Waste Combustion Requirements. Amend RSA 125-C by inserting after section 10 the following new section:

125-C:10-a Municipal Waste Combustion Units. All municipal waste combustion units, large and small, as defined in 40 CFR 60.51b and 40 CFR 60.1940, respectively, shall be limited to the following levels of emissions, unless otherwise provided for by a more stringent federal regulation, or by other state statute:

I. Particulate matter: 27 milligrams/dry standard cubic meter, corrected to 7 percent oxygen, 3-run average (run duration specified in test method).

II. Opacity: 10 percent (6-minute average), 30 6-minute averages.

III. Cadmium: 0.040 milligrams/dry standard cubic meter, corrected to 7 percent oxygen, 3-run average (run duration specified in test method).

IV. Lead: 0.44 milligrams/dry standard cubic meter, corrected to 7 percent oxygen, 3-run average (run duration specified in test method).

V. Mercury: 0.028 milligrams/dry standard cubic meter, corrected to 7 percent oxygen, or 85 percent control efficiency, 3-run average (run duration specified in test method).

VI. Sulfur dioxide: 29 parts per million by volume, or 25 percent of the potential sulfur dioxide emission concentration, corrected to 7 percent oxygen (dry basis), 24-hour daily block geometric average concentration or percent reduction.

VII. Hydrogen chloride: 29 parts per million by volume, or 5 percent of the potential hydrogen chloride emission concentration, corrected to 7 percent oxygen (dry basis), 3-run average (minimum run duration is 1 hour).

VIII. Dioxins/furans: 60 nanograms/dry standard cubic meter (total mass), corrected to 7 percent oxygen, where an electrostatic precipitator-based emission control system is employed; or 30 nanograms/dry standard cubic meter (total mass) corrected to 7 percent oxygen, where an electrostatic precipitator-based emission control system is not employed, 3-run average (minimum run duration is 4 hours).

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.