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TITLE 30ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
PART 1TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
CHAPTER 113STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS AND FOR DESIGNATED FACILITIES AND POLLUTANTS
SUBCHAPTER DDESIGNATED FACILITIES AND POLLUTANTS
DIVISION 4EMISSIONS GUIDELINES AND COMPLIANCE TIMES FOR COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL SOLID WASTE INCINERATION UNITS THAT COMMENCED CONSTRUCTION ON OR BEFORE NOVEMBER 30, 1999
RULE §113.2200Definitions

    (B) Pelletized refuse-derived fuel.

  (29) Shutdown--The period of time after all waste has been combusted in the primary chamber.

  (30) Solid waste--Any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, §402, as amended (33 United States Code (USC), §1342), or source, special nuclear, or byproduct material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 USC, §2014). For purposes of this division, only, solid waste does not include the waste burned in the fifteen types of units described in 40 Code of Federal Regulations §60.2555.

  (31) Standard conditions--When referring to units of measure, a temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius) and a pressure of 1 atmosphere (101.3 kilopascals).

  (32) Startup period--The period of time between the activation of the system and the first charge to the unit.

  (33) Wet scrubber--An add-on air pollution control device that utilizes an aqueous or alkaline scrubbing liquor to collect particulate matter (including nonvaporous metals and condensed organics) and/or to absorb and neutralize acid gases.

  (34) Wood waste--Untreated wood and untreated wood products, including tree stumps (whole or chipped), trees, tree limbs (whole or chipped), bark, sawdust, chips, scraps, slabs, millings, and shavings. Wood waste does not include:

    (A) Grass, grass clippings, bushes, shrubs, and clippings from bushes and shrubs from residential, commercial/retail, institutional, or industrial sources as part of maintaining yards or other private or public lands.

    (B) Construction, renovation, or demolition wastes.

    (C) Clean lumber.


Source Note: The provisions of this §113.2200 adopted to be effective May 14, 2009, 34 TexReg 2771

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