[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 9]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR63.447]

[Page 508-509]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 63_NATIONAL EMISSION STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS
 
Subpart S_National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants from 
                       the Pulp and Paper Industry
 
Sec.  63.447  Clean condensate alternative.

    As an alternative to the requirements specified in Sec.  
63.443(a)(1)(ii) through (a)(1)(v) for the control of HAP emissions from 
pulping systems using the kraft process, an owner or operator must 
demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Administrator, by meeting all the 
requirements below, that the total HAP emissions reductions achieved by 
this clean condensate alternative technology are equal to or greater 
than the total HAP emission reductions that would have been achieved by 
compliance with Sec.  63.443(a)(1)(ii) through (a)(1)(v).
    (a) For the purposes of this section only the following additional 
definitions apply.
    (1) Clean condensate alternative affected source means the total of 
all HAP emission points in the pulping, bleaching, causticizing, and 
papermaking systems (exclusive of HAP emissions attributable to 
additives to paper machines and HAP emission points in the LVHC system).
    (2) Causticizing system means all equipment associated with 
converting sodium carbonate into active sodium hydroxide. The equipment 
includes smelt dissolving tanks, lime mud washers and storage tanks, 
white and mud liquor clarifiers and storage tanks, slakers, slaker grit 
washers, lime kilns, green liquor clarifiers and storage tanks, and dreg 
washers ending with the white liquor storage tanks prior to the digester 
system, and any other equipment serving the same function as those 
previously listed.
    (3) Papermaking system means all equipment used to convert pulp into 
paper, paperboard, or market pulp, including the stock storage and 
preparation systems, the paper or paperboard machines, and the paper 
machine white water system, broke recovery systems, and the systems 
involved in calendering, drying, on-machine coating, slitting, winding, 
and cutting.

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    (b) Each owner or operator shall install and operate a clean 
condensate alternative technology with a continuous monitoring system to 
reduce total HAP emissions by treating and reducing HAP concentrations 
in the pulping process water used within the clean condensate 
alternative affected source.
    (c) Each owner or operator shall calculate HAP emissions on a 
kilogram per megagram of ODP basis and measure HAP emissions according 
to the appropriate procedures contained in Sec.  63.457.
    (d) Each owner or operator shall determine the baseline HAP 
emissions for each equipment system and the total of all equipment 
systems in the clean condensate alternative affected source based on the 
following:
    (1) Process and air pollution control equipment installed and 
operating on December 17, 1993, and
    (2) Compliance with the following requirements that affect the level 
of HAP emissions from the clean condensate alternative affected source:
    (i) The pulping process condensates requirements in Sec.  63.446;
    (ii) The applicable effluent limitation guidelines and standards in 
40 CFR part 430, subparts A, B, D, and E; and
    (iii) All other applicable requirements of local, State, or Federal 
agencies or statutes.
    (e) Each owner or operator shall determine the following HAP 
emission reductions from the baseline HAP emissions determined in 
paragraph (d) of this section for each equipment system and the total of 
all equipment systems in the clean condensate alternative affected 
source:
    (1) The HAP emission reduction occurring by complying with the 
requirements of Sec.  63.443(a)(1)(ii) through (a)(1)(v); and
    (2) The HAP emissions reduction occurring by complying with the 
clean condensate alternative technology.
    (f) For the purposes of all requirements in this section, each owner 
or operator may use as an alternative, individual equipment systems 
(instead of total of all equipment systems) within the clean condensate 
alternative affected source to determine emissions and reductions to 
demonstrate equal or greater than the reductions that would have been 
achieved by compliance with Sec.  63.443(a)(1)(ii) through (a)(1)(v).
    (g) The initial and updates to the control strategy report specified 
in Sec.  63.455(b) shall include to the extent possible the following 
information:
    (1) A detailed description of:
    (i) The equipment systems and emission points that comprise the 
clean condensate alternative affected source;
    (ii) The air pollution control technologies that would be used to 
meet the requirements of Sec.  63.443(a)(1)(ii) through (a)(1)(v); and
    (iii) The clean condensate alternative technology to be used.
    (2) Estimates and basis for the estimates of total HAP emissions and 
emission reductions to fulfill the requirements of paragraphs (d), (e), 
and (f) of this section.
    (h) Each owner or operator shall report to the Administrator by the 
applicable compliance date specified in Sec.  63.440(d) or (e) the 
rationale, calculations, test procedures, and data documentation used to 
demonstrate compliance with all the requirements of this section.

[63 FR 18617, Apr. 15, 1998; 63 FR 42239, Aug. 7, 1998, as amended at 64 
FR 17563, Apr. 12, 1999]