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An Ordinance providing for a revision to the Allegheny County's Portion of the Pennsylvania State Implementation Plan for the Attainment and Maintenance of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards and Allegheny County Health Department Rules and Regulations Article XXI, Air Pollution Control. (SULFUR OXIDE EMISSIONS)
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Whereas, The Board of Health has at a regularly scheduled and advertised meeting, and after a period of
public comment, adopted amendments to Article XXI;
Whereas, that Regulation has also been adopted as County Ordinance 16782;
Whereas, this Regulation must be submitted to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
and to the United States Environmental Protection Agency for concurrence;
Whereas, the approval of this action will re-designate Allegheny County from non-attainment to
attainment for sulfur dioxide emissions.
The Council of the County of Allegheny hereby enacts as follows:
2104.03 Sulfur Oxide Emissions
a. Fuel Burning or Combustion Equipment. No person shall operate, or allow to be operated, any fuel-burning or combustion equipment in such manner that emissions of sulfur oxides, expressed as sulfur dioxide, exceed the following rates at any time:
1. For equipment fired only with natural gas and/or liquefied petroleum gas, a rate no greater than the
potential to emit:
2. For all other equipment:
A. Where the actual heat input to such equipment is greater than 0.50 million BTUs per hour but
less than 50 million BTUs per hour, the rate of 1.0 pound per million BTU of actual heat input;
B. Where the actual heat input to such equipment is equal to or greater than 50 million BTUs per
hour, but less than 2000 million BTUs per hour, the rate determined by the formula:
A = 1.7E where A = allowable emissions in pounds per million BTUs of actual
heat input, and,
E = actual heat input in millions of BTUs per hour;
C. Where the actual...
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