-8 g. Natural draft hoods, natural draft stacks or natural draft ventilators. h. Containers, reservoirs, or tanks used exclusively for: 1. (Amended 6-1-65) Dipping operations for coating objects 2. Dipping operations for applying coatings of natural or 5. Unheated storage of organic materials with an initial 6. The storage of fuel oils with a gravity of 25° API or lower. 7. The storage of lubricating oils. 8. The storage of fuel oils with a gravity of 40° API or lower and having a capacity of 10,000 gallons or less. 9. The storage of organic liquids normally used as solvents, diluents or thinners, inks, colorants, paints, lacquers, enamels, varnishes, liquid resins or other surface coatings, and having a capacity of 6,000 gallons or less. 10. The storage of liquid soaps, liquid detergents, tallow, or vegetable oils, waxes or wax emulsions. 11. The storage of asphalt. 12. (Amended 6-1-65) Unheated solvent dispensing containers, unheated non-conveyorized solvent rinsing containers or unheated non-conveyorized coating dip tanks of 100 gallons capacity or less. 13. Etching (does not include chemical milling). 14. (Adopted 6-1-65) The storage of gasoline having a capac ity of less than 250 gallons. i. Equipment used exclusively for heat treating glass or metals, or used exclusively for case hardening, carburizing, cyaniding, nitriding, carbonitriding, siliconizing or diffusion treating of metal objects. j. Crucible furnaces, pot furnaces or induction furnaces, with a capacity of 1000 pounds or less each, in which no sweating or distilling is conducted and from which only the following metals are poured or in which only the following metals are held in a molten state: 1. Aluminum or any alloy containing over 50 per cent alu minum. 2. Magnesium or any alloy containing over 50 per cent magnesium. 3. Lead or any alloy containing over 50 per cent lead. 4. Tin or any alloy containing over 50 per cent tin. -9 5. Zinc or any alloy containing over 50 per cent zinc. 6. Copper. 7. Precious metals. k. Vacuum cleaning systems used exclusively for industrial, commercial or residential housekeeping purposes. 1. Structural changes which cannot change the quality, nature or quantity of air contaminant emissions. m. Repairs or maintenance not involving structural changes to any equipment for which a permit has been granted. n. Identical replacements in whole or in part of any article, machine, equipment or other contrivance where a permit to operate had previously been granted for such equipment under Rule 10. RULE 12. (Amended 1-16-58) TRANSFER. An authority to con struct, permit to operate or permit to sell or rent shall not be transferable, whether by operation of law or otherwise, either from one location to another, from one piece of equipment to another, or from one person to another. RULE 13. BLANKET PERMITS. (Deleted 4-2-64) RULE 14. (Amended 1-16-58) APPLICATIONS. Every application for an authority to construct, permit to operate or permit to sell or rent required under Rule 10 shall be filed in the manner and form prescribed by the Air Pollution Control Officer, and shall give all the information necessary to enable the Air Pollution Control Officer to make the determination required by Rule 20 hereof. RULE 17. (Amended 6-1-65) CANCELLATION OF APPLICATIONS. a. (Amended 6-1-65) An authority to construct shall expire and the application shall be canceled two years from the date of issuance of the authority to construct. b. (Amended 6-1-65) An application for permit to operate existing equipment shall be canceled two years from the date of filing of the application. c. (Deleted 6-1-65) -10 RULE 18. (Amended 1-16-58) ACTION ON APPLICATIONS. The Air Pollution Control Officer shall act, within a reasonable time, on an application for authority to construct, permit to operate or permit to sell or rent, and shall notify the applicant in writing of his approval, conditional approval or denial. RULE 19. (Adopted 3-28-57) PROVISION OF SAMPLING AND TESTING FACILITIES. A person operating or using any article, machine, equipment or other contrivance for which these rules require a permit shall provide and maintain such sampling and testing facilities as specified in the authority to construct or permit to operate. RULE 20. (Amended 3-14-63) STANDARDS FOR GRANTING APPLICATIONS. a. The Air Pollution Control Officer shall deny an author ity to construct, permit to operate or permit to sell or rent, except as provided in Rule 21, if the applicant does not show that every article, machine, equipment or other contrivance, the use of which may cause the issuance of air contaminants, or the use of which may eliminate or reduce or control the issuance of air contaminants, is so designed, controlled, or equipped with such air pollution control equipment, that it may be expected to operate without emitting or without causing to be emitted air contaminants in violation of Sections 24242 or 24243, Health and Safety Code, or of these Rules and Regulations. b. (Adopted 3-28-57) Before an authority to construct or a permit to operate is granted, the Air Pollution Control Officer may require the applicant to provide and maintain such facilities as are necessary for sampling and testing purposes in order to secure information that will disclose the nature, extent, quantity or degree of air contaminants discharged into the atmosphere from the article, machine, equipment or other contrivance described in the authority to construct or permit to operate. In the event of such a requirement, the Air Pollution Control Officer shall notify the applicant in writing of the required size, number and location of sampling holes; the size and location of the sampling platform; the access to the sampling platform; and the utilities for operating the sampling and testing equipment. The platform and access shall be constructed in accordance with the General Industry Safety Orders of the State of California. c. (Adopted 6-25-59) In acting upon a Permit to Operate, if the Air Pollution Control Officer finds that the article, machine, equipment or other contrivance has been constructed not in accordance with the Authority to Construct, he shall deny the Permit to Operate. The Air Pollution Control Officer shall not accept any further application for Permit to Operate the article, machine, equipment or other contrivance so constructed until he finds that the article, machine, equipment or other contrivance has been reconstructed in accordance with the Authority to Construct. -11 RULE 21. (Amended 12-4-58) CONDITIONAL APPROVAL. a. The Air Pollution Control Officer may issue an authority to construct or a permit to operate, subject to conditions which will bring the operation of any article, machine, equipment or other contrivance within the standards of Rule 20, in which case the conditions shall be specified in writing. Commencing work under such an authority to construct or operation under such a permit to operate shall be deemed acceptance of all the conditions so specified. The Air Pollution Control Officer shall issue an authority to construct or a permit to operate with revised conditions upon receipt of a new application, if the applicant demonstrates that the article, machine, equipment or other contrivance can operate within the standards of Rule 20 under the revised conditions. b. The Air Pollution Control Officer may issue a permit to sell or rent, subject to conditions which will bring the operation of any article, machine, equipment or other contrivance within the standards of Rule 20, in which case the conditions shall be specified in writing. Selling or renting under such a permit to sell or rent shall be deemed acceptance of all the conditions so specified. The Air Pollution Control Officer shall issue a permit to sell or rent with revised conditions upon receipt of a new application, if the applicant demonstrates that the article, machine, equipment or other contrivance can operate within the standards of Rule 20 under the revised conditions. RULE 22. (Amended 1-16-58) DENIAL OF APPLICATIONS. In the event of denial of an authority to construct, permit to operate or permit to sell or rent, the Air Pollution Control Officer shall notify the applicant in writing of the reasons therefor. Service of this notification may be made in person or by mail, and such service may be proved by the written acknowledgment of the person s served or affidavit of the person making the service. The Air Pollution Control Officer shall not accept a further application unless the applicant has complied with the objections specified by the Air Pollution Control Officer as his reasons for denial of the authority to construct, the permit to operate or the permit to sell or rent. RULE 23. (Amended 1-16-58) FURTHER INFORMATION. Before acting on an application for authority to construct, permit to operate or permit to sell or rent, the Air Pollution Control Officer may require the applicant to furnish further information or further plans or specifications. RULE 24. (Amended 1-16-58) APPLICATIONS DEEMED DENIED. The applicant may at his option deem the authority to construct, permit to operate or permit to sell or rent denied if the Air Pollution Control Officer fails to act on the application within 30 days after filing, or within 30 days after applicant furnishes the further information, plans and specifications requested by the Air Pollution Control Officer, whichever is later. -12 RULE 25. (Amended 1-16-58) APPEALS. Within 10 days after notice, by the Air Pollution Control Officer, of denial or conditional approval of an authority to construct, permit to operate or permit to sell or rent, the applicant may petition the Hearing Board, in writing, for a public hearing. The Hearing Board, after notice and a public hearing held within 30 days after filing the petition, may sustain or reverse the action of the Air Pollution Control Officer; such order may be made subject to specified conditions. REGULATION III. FEES. RULE 40. (Amended 6-1-65) PERMIT FEES. Every applicant, except any state or local governmental agency or public district, for an authority to construct or a permit to operate any article, machine, equipment or other contrivance, for which an authority to construct or permit to operate is required by the State law or the Rules and Regulations of the Air Pollution Control District, shall pay a filing fee of $40.00. Where an application is filed for a permit to operate any article, machine, equipment or other contrivance by reason of transfer from one person to an other, and where a permit to operate had previously been granted under Rule 10 and no alteration, addition or transfer of location has been made, the applicant shall pay only a $10.00 filing fee. (Amended 6-1-65) Every applicant, except any state or local governmental agency or public district, for a permit to operate, who files an application with the Air Pollution Control Officer, shall, in addition to the filing fee prescribed herein, pay the fee for the issuance of a permit to operate in the amount prescribed in the following schedules, provided, however, that the filing fee shall be applied to the fee prescribed for the issuance of the permit to operate. (Amended 6-1-65) If an application for an authority to construct or a permit to operate is canceled, or if an authority to construct or a permit to operate is denied and such denial becomes final, the filing fee required herein shall not be refunded nor applied to any subsequent application. (Amended 6-1-65) Where an application is filed for a permit to operate any article, machine, equipment or other contrivance by reason of transfer of location or transfer from one person to another, or both, and where a permit to operate had previously been granted for such equipment under Rule 10 and an alteration or addition has been made, the applicant shall be assessed a fee based upon the increase in total horsepower rating, the increase in total fuel consumption expressed in thousands of British Thermal Units (BTU) per hour, the increase in total electrical energy rating, the increase in maximum horizontal inside cross sectional |