Toledo, Ohio

TOLEDO, OHIO

Effective Redesignation Date: 8/1/95 (60 FR 39115, 8/1/95)

Maintenance Plan - Key Features

• 1990 base year, emissions budget through 2005
• controls included in Ohio's non-CTG RACT rules, OAC 3745-21-09(UU)
• new sources are subject to preconstruction review under Part C of the PSD program
• shutdowns of utility units
• "low NO_x burner" requirements of Title IV
• declining growth in stationary sources

Contingency Plan Trigger

• Trigger 1: 3 exceedances of ozone NAAQS in 1 year
• Trigger 2: violation has been monitored
• Trigger 3: violation after implementation of Stage II and I/M
• Trigger 4: VOC emissions greater than 95 percent of the 1990 level of VOC emissions

Contingency Measures

• Trigger 1: Stage II
• Trigger 2: Stage II and I/M
• Trigger 3: NO_x RACT
• Trigger 4: Stage II and/or I/M

Schedule

- To implement Stage II

• identify and verify third exceedance or violation within 1 month
• final compliance of all non-independent facilities within 2 years
• final compliance of 100 percent of facilities owned by each marketer within 3 years

- To implement I/M

• program rules become effective within 6 months and 30 days
• new analyzer specifications issued, if necessary, and begin certifying 4 gas analyzers within 12 months
• mandatory testing at centralized test stations within 18 months

- To implement NOx RACT

• identify and verify violation following implementation of OAC 3745-21-09 and I/M within 1 month
• source demonstration of compliance or submittal of schedule to achieve compliance within 3 months
• achieve compliance with requirements of OAC 3745-14-03 or request extension within 18 months

For further information:

William Jones
Regulation Development Section
Air Enforcement Branch (AE-17J)
U.S. EPA, Region V
77 West Jackson Boulevard
Chicago, Illinois 60604

Telephone: (312) ; Email: jones.william@epamail.epa.gov