Alpine County Municipal Code Art. II Permits

Any person building, erecting, altering or replacing any article, machine, equipment, or other contrivance, or multi-component system, the use of which may cause the issuance of air contaminants or the use of which may eliminate or reduce or control the issuance of air contaminants, shall first obtain authorization for such construction from the air pollution control officer. An authority to construct shall remain in effect until the permit to operate the equipment for which the application was filed is granted or denied or the application is cancelled. (Ord. 325 Rule 2.1(A), 1972)

A. Before any article, machine, equipment or other contrivance or multi-component system, described in Section 16.04.060 may be operated or used, a written permit shall be obtained from the air pollution control officer. No permit to operate or use shall be granted either by the air pollution control officer or the hearing board for any article, machine, equipment or contrivance described in Section 16.04.060, constructed or installed without authorization as required by Section 16.04.060, until the information required is presented to the air pollution control officer and such article, machine, equipment, or contrivance is altered, if necessary, and made to conform to the standards set forth in Section 16.04.120 and elsewhere in these rules and regulations.

B. Posting of Permit to Operate. A person who has been granted under this section a permit to operate any article, machine, equipment or other contrivance described in subsection A of this section, shall firmly affix such permit to operate, an approved facsimile, or other approved identification bearing the permit number upon the article, machine, equipment or other contrivance in such a manner as to be clearly visible and accessible. In the event that the article, machine, equipment or other contrivance is so constructed or operated that the permit to operate cannot be so placed, the permit to operate shall be mounted so as to be clearly visible in an accessible place within twenty-five feet of the article, machine, equipment or other contrivance, or maintained readily available at all times on the operating premises.

C. A person shall not wilfully deface, alter, forge, counterfeit or falsify a permit to operate any article, machine, equipment or other contrivance.

D. A permit to operate shall be obtained by existing industries within ninety days of adoption of these rules and regulations. (Ord. 325 Rule 2.1(B)-(E), 1972)

An authority to construct or a permit to operate shall not be required for.

A. Vehicles as defined by the Vehicle Code of the state of California, but not including any article, machine, equipment or other contrivance mounted on such vehicle that would otherwise require a permit under the provisions of these rules and regulations;

B. Vehicles used to transport passengers or freight;

C. Equipment utilized exclusively in connection with any structure, which is designed for and used exclusively as a dwelling for not more than four families including incinerators and barbecue equipment not used for commercial purposes;

D. Incinerators used in connection with any structure, which structure is designed for and used exclusively as a dwelling for not more than two families;

E. Outdoor recreational and cooking fires to include barbecues;

F. The following equipment:

1. Piston-type internal combustion engines,

2. Equipment used exclusively for steam cleaning,

3. Equipment used exclusively for space heating, other than boilers,

4. All sheet-fed printing presses and all other printing presses using exclusively inks containing less than ten percent organic solvents, diluents, or thinners,

5. Lint traps used exclusively in conjunction with dry cleaning tumblers,

6. Equipment used in eating establishments for the purpose of preparing food for human consumption,

7. Abrasive blast cabinet-dust filter integral combination unit where the total internal volume of the blast section is fifty cubic feet or less,

8. Batch mixers of five cubic feet rated working capacity or less,

9. Smokehouses in which the maximum horizontal inside cross-sectional area does not exceed twenty square feet,

10. Platen presses used for laminating;

G. The following equipment exclusive of any exhaust system or collector serving such equipment:

1. Ovens, mixers and blenders used in bakeries where the products are edible and intended for human consumption,

2. Laboratory equipment used exclusively for chemical or physical analyses and bench scale laboratory equipment,

3. Confection cookers where the products are edible and intended for human consumption;

4. Photographic process equipment by which an image is reproduced upon material sensitized to radiant energy,

5. Brazing, soldering, or welding equipment,

6. Equipment used for buffing (except automatic or semi-automatic tire buffers) or polishing, carving, cutting, drilling, machining, routing, sanding, sawing, surface grinding or turning of ceramic artwork, ceramic precision parts, leather, metals, plastics, rubber, fiberboard, asbestos, carbon or graphite,

7. Equipment used for carving, cutting, drilling, surface grinding, planing, routing, sanding, sawing, shredding, or turning of wood, or the pressing or storing of sawdust, wood chips or wood shavings,

8. Laundry dryers, extractors or tumblers used for fabrics cleaned only with water solutions of bleach or detergents,

9. Vacuum producing devices used in laboratory operations or in connection with other equipment which is exempted by this section;

H. Steam generators, steam superheaters, water boilers, water heaters, and closed heat-transfer systems that are fired, exclusively with one of the following:

1. Natural gas,

2. Liquefied petroleum gas,

3. A combination of natural gas and liquefied gas;

I. Natural draft hoods, natural draft stacks or natural draft ventilators;

J. Containers, reservoirs, or tanks used exclusively for:

1. Storage of liquefied gases,

2. The storage of fuel oils with a gravity of twenty-five degrees API or lower,

3. The storage of lubricating oils,

4. The storage of fuel oils with a gravity of forty degrees API or lower and having capacity of ten thousand gallons or less,

5. The storage of organic liquids, except gasoline, normally used as solvents, diluents or thinners, inks, colorants, paints, lacquers, enamels, varnishes, liquid resins or other surface coatings, and having a capacity of six thousand gallons or less,

6. The storage of liquid soaps, liquid detergents, vegetable oils, waxes or wax emulsions,

7. The storage of gasoline having a capacity of less than two hundred fifty gallons,

8. The storage of asphalt,

9. Transporting materials on streets or highways;

K. Vacuum cleaning systems used exclusively for industrial, commercial, or residential housekeeping purposes;

L. Structural changes which cannot change the quality, nature, or quantity of air contaminant emissions;

M. Repairs or maintenance not involving structural changes to any equipment for which a permit has been granted;

N. Identical replacements in whole or in part of any article, machine, equipment, or other contrivance where a permit to operate had previously been granted for such equipment under Section 16.04.070. (Ord. 325 Rule 2.2, 1972)

Every application for an authority to construct or permit to operate, required under Sections 16.04.060 and 16.04.070 shall be filed in the manner and form prescribed by the air pollution control officer and shall give all the information necessary to enable the air pollution control officer to make the determination required by Section 16.04.120. (Ord. 325 Rule 2.4, 1972)

Before acting on an application for authority to construct or permit to operate, the air pollution control officer may require the applicant to furnish further information or further plans or specifications. (Ord. 325 Rule 2.11, 1972)

The air pollution control officer shall act, within a reasonable time, on an application for authority to construct or permit to operate and shall notify the applicant in writing of his approval, conditional approval, or denial. (Ord. 325 Rule 2.6, 1972)

A. The air pollution control officer shall deny an authority to construct or permit to operate except as provided in Section 16.04.130, if the applicant does not show that every article, machine, equipment, other contrivance, or multi-component system, the use of which may cause the issuance of air contaminants or the use of which may eliminate or reduce or control the issuance of air contaminants, is so designed, controlled, or equipped with such air pollution control equipment, that it may be expected to operate without emitting or without causing to be emitted air contaminants in violation of Sections 24242 or 24243, Health and Safety Code, or of these rules and regulations.

B. Before an authority to construct or a permit to operate is granted, the air pollution control officer may require the applicant to provide and maintain such facilities as are necessary for sampling and testing purposes in order to secure information that will disclose the nature, extent, quantity or degree of air contaminants discharged into the atmosphere from the article, machine, equipment or other contrivance described in the authority to construct or permit to operate. In the event of such requirements, the air pollution control officer shall notify the applicant in writing of the required size, number and location of sampling holes; the size and location of the sampling platform; the access to the sampling platform; and the utilities for operating the sampling and testing equipment. The platform and access shall be constructed in accordance with the General Industry Safety Orders of the state.

C. In acting upon a permit to operate, if the air pollution control officer finds that the article, machine, equipment, or other contrivance has been constructed not in accordance with the authority to construct, he shall deny the permit to operate. The air pollution control officer shall not accept any further application for permit to operate the article, machine, equipment, or other contrivance so constructed until he finds that the article, machine, equipment or other contrivance has been reconstructed in accordance with the authority to construct. (Ord. 325 Rule 2.8, 1972)

The air pollution control officer may issue an authority to construct or a permit to operate, subject to conditions which will bring the operation of any article, machine, equipment or other contrivance within the standards of Section 16.04.120, in which case the conditions shall be specified in writing, commencing work under such an authority to construct or operation under such a permit to operate, shall be deemed acceptance of all the conditions so specified. The air pollution control officer shall issue an authority to construct or a permit to operate with revised conditions upon receipt of a new application, if the applicant demonstrates that the article, machine, equipment or other contrivance can operate within the standards of Section 16.04.120 under the revised conditions. (Ord. 325 Rule 2.9, 1972)

A person operating or using any article, machine, equipment, or other contrivance for which these rules require a permit, shall provide and maintain such sampling and testing facilities as specified in the authority to construct or permit to operate. (Ord. 325 Rule 2.7, 1972)

An authority to construct or permit to operate shall not be transferable, whether by operation of law or otherwise from one location to another, or from one piece of equipment to another, except on written approval of the air pollution control officer. (Ord. 325 Rule 2.3, 1972)

In the event of denial of an authority to construct or permit to operate, the air pollution control officer shall notify the applicant in writing of the reasons therefor. Service of the notification may be made in person or by mail, and such service may be proved by the written acknowledgment of the persons served or affidavit of the person making the service. The air pollution control officer shall not accept a further application unless the applicant has complied with objections specified by the air pollution control officer as his reasons for denial of the authority to construct or the permit to operate. (Ord. 325 Rule 2.10, 1972)

A. An authority to construct shall expire and the application shall be cancelled two years from the date of issuance of the authority to construct.

B. An application for permit to operate existing equipment shall be cancelled two years from the date of filing of the application. (Ord. 325 Rule 2.5, 1972)

Within ten days after notice, by the air pollution control officer, of denial or conditional approval of an authority to construct or permit to operate, the applicant may petition the hearing board, in writing, for a public hearing. The hearing board, after notice and a public hearing held within thirty days after filing the petition, may sustain or reverse the action of the air pollution control officer, such order may be made subject to specified conditions. (Ord. 325 Rule 2.12, 1972)