If you use an air pollution control device other than a wet scrubber, dry scrubber, electrostatic precipitator, or fabric filter to comply with the emission limitations under § 60.3022, you must petition the EPA Administrator for specific operating limits to be established during the performance test and then continuously monitored thereafter. Additionally, unless you demonstrate continuous compliance according to § 60.3032(d), if you limit emissions in some manner other than an add-on control device to comply with the emission limitations under § 60.3022, such as by material balance, then you must submit a petition for approval of your means of limiting your emissions. You must submit the petition at least 60 days before the performance test is scheduled to begin and not conduct the initial performance test until after the petition has been approved by the EPA. Your petition must include the five items listed in paragraphs (a) through (e) of this section.

(a) Identification of the specific parameters you propose to use as operating limits.

(b) A discussion of the relationship between these parameters and emissions of regulated pollutants, identifying how emissions of regulated pollutants change with changes in these parameters, and how limits on these parameters will serve to limit emissions of regulated pollutants.

(c) A discussion of how you will establish the upper and/or lower values for these parameters that will establish the operating limits on these parameters.

(d) A discussion identifying the methods you will use to measure and the instruments you will use to monitor these parameters, as well as the relative accuracy and precision of these methods and instruments.

(e) A discussion identifying the frequency and methods for recalibrating the instruments you will use for monitoring these parameters.

[70 FR 74907, Dec. 16, 2005, as amended at 90 FR 27958, June 30, 2025]