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TITLE 30ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
PART 1TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
CHAPTER 111CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION FROM VISIBLE EMISSIONS AND PARTICULATE MATTER
SUBCHAPTER AVISIBLE EMISSIONS AND PARTICULATE MATTER
DIVISION 2INCINERATION
RULE §111.125Testing Requirements

Upon the request of the executive director or a designated representative of the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (commission), or a representative of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, or the local air pollution control agency, compliance with §111.121 of this title (relating to Single-, Dual-, and Multiple-Chamber Incinerators) shall be demonstrated by application of the test methods included in paragraphs (1) - (4) of this section, as appropriate. Compliance with §111.124 of this title (relating to Burning Hazardous Waste Fuels in Commercial Combustion Facilities) shall be demonstrated by application of the test methods included in paragraphs (1) - (5) of this section. Test reports prepared to demonstrate compliance with §111.124 of this title shall clearly document the operating conditions and waste feed composition existing during the test.

  (1) Particulate matter. Test Method 5 (40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 60, Appendix A) modified to include particulate caught by impinger train;

  (2) Hydrogen chloride. Test Method 26 or 26A (40 CFR 60, Appendix A), or Test Method outlined in Chapter 5 of the TNRCC "Sampling Procedures Manual," dated July 1985;

  (3) Carbon monoxide. Test Method 10, 10A, or 10B (40 CFR 60, Appendix A) or, for total hydrocarbons: Test Method 25A (40 CFR Part 50, Appendix A);

  (4) Opacity. Test Method 9 (40 CFR Part 60, Appendix A);

  (5) Destruction and removal efficiency. Destruction and removal efficiency, measuring principal organic hazardous constituent (POHC) mass feed rate to the commercial combustion facility, measuring the mass emission rate of POHC in the stack gas, and analyzing the POHC sample obtained from the stack gas, using the following test methods, respectively: Method 8240 of SW-846 "Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste," Method 0030 (VOST) of SW-846, Method 5040 of SW-846; or

  (6) Alternative methods. Equivalent test methods approved by the executive director.


Source Note: The provisions of this §111.125 adopted to be effective February 7, 1990, 15 TexReg 434; amended to be effective November 14, 1990, 15 TexReg 6303; amended to be effective July 11, 1991, 16 TexReg 3605; amended to be effective June 11, 2000, 25 TexReg 5361

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