Alpine County Municipal Code Art. IV Discharge Restrictions

The air pollution control officer, at any time, may require from any person subject to the regulations of the board, such information and/or analyses as will disclose the nature, extent, quantity or degree of air contaminants which are or may be discharged by such source and it is required that such disclosures be certified by a professional engineer registered in the state. Such studies shall be at the expense of the person causing the emission or planning such emission. (Ord. 325 Rule 4.8, 1972)

A person shall not discharge into the atmosphere from any single source of emission whatsoever, any air contaminant for a period or periods aggregating more than three minutes in any one hour which is:

A. As dark or darker in shade as that designated as No. 2 on the Ringelmann Chart as published by the United States Bureau of Mines;

B. Of such opacity as to obscure an observer’s view to a degree equal to or greater than does smoke described in subsection A of this section. (Ord. 325 Rule 4.1, 1972)

A. Section 24245. The provisions of Section 24242 do not apply to smoke from fires:

1. Set by or permitted by any public officer if such fire is set or permission given in the performance of the official duty of such officer, and such fire in the opinion of such officer is necessary:

a. For the purpose of the prevention of a fire hazard which cannot be abated by any other means,

b. The instruction of public employees in the methods of fighting fires,

c. For the improvement of watershed, range, or pasture;

2. Set pursuant to permit on property used for industrial purposes for the purpose of instruction of employees in methods of fighting fire.

B. Section 24251. The provisions of Section 24242 do not apply to:

1. Agricultural operations in the growing of crops, or raising of fowls or animals,

2. The use of an orchard or citrus grove heater which does not produce unconsumed solid carbonaceous matter at a rate in excess of one gram per minute;

3. The use of other equipment in agricultural operations in growing of crops, or raising of fowls or animals.

C. Section 24245.1. Set pursuant to an open burning permit issued by the air pollution control officer. (Ord. 325 Rule 4.1-1, 1972)

No person shall discharge from any nonvehicular source whatsoever, such quantities of air contaminants or other material which cause injury, detriment, nuisance or annoyance to any considerable number of persons or to the public or which endanger the comfort, repose, health or safety of any such persons or the public or which cause or have a natural tendency to cause injury or damage to business or property. (Ord. 325 Rule 4.2, 1972)

Exceptions to Section 24243, Nuisance, include the following:

A. Section 24251.1. The provisions of Section 24243 relating to odors do not apply to odors emanating from agricultural operations in the growing of crops or raising of fowls or animals;

B. Section 29077.4. All exceptions as called out in the visible emissions section. (Ord. 325 Rule 4.2-1, 1972)

No person shall, after December 31, 1971, use open fires for the purpose of disposal of petroleum wastes, demolition debris, tires, tar, trees, wood waste, or other combustible or flammable solid or liquid waste, or for metal salvage or burning of automobile bodies. (Ord. 325 Rule 4.3, 1972)

A. Section 39297. Nothing in these rules and regulations shall be construed as limiting the authority granted under other provisions of law:

1. To any public officer to set or permit a fire when such fire is, in his opinion, necessary for any of the following purposes:

a. For the purpose of the prevention of a fire hazard which cannot be abated by any other means,

b. The instruction of public employees in the methods of fighting fire,

c. Set pursuant to permit on property used for industrial purposes for the purpose of instruction of employees in the methods of fighting fires;

2. To set or cause to be set backfires necessary to save life or valuable property pursuant to Section 4426 of the Public Resources Code;

3. To abate fires pursuant to Chapter 2, Part 1, Division 12 (commencing with Section 13025) of the California Health and Safety Code.

B. Section 39297.2: Nothing in these rules and regulations shall be construed as prohibiting burning for the disposal of combustible or flammable solid waste of a single or two-family dwelling on its premises.

C. Section 39297.3. Nothing in these rules and regulations shall be construed to prohibit burning for right-of-way clearing by a public entity or utility or for levee and ditch maintenance.

D. Section 39297.4. Nothing in these rules and regulations shall be construed to prohibit open burning at county and city solid waste disposal sites if permitted pursuant to Section 39297.4. (Ord. 325 Rule 4.3-1, 1972)

No person shall discharge from any single source whatsoever particulate matter in excess of 0.3 grain per cubic foot of gas at standard conditions. (Ord. 325 Rule 4.4, 1972)

A. A person shall not discharge into the atmosphere from any source, solid particulate matter at a rate in excess of that shown for the process weight rate for the source in Table 16.04.390.

B. Where the process weight rate falls between figures listed in the table, the exact rate of permitted discharge shall be determined by linear interpolation.

C. For the purposes of this rule, solid particulate matter includes any material which would become solid particulate matter if cooled to standard conditions.

Table 16.04.390

MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE EMISSION RATE BASED ON PROCESS WEIGHT RATE

* Sum of emissions from all emission points of process.

(Ord. 325 Rule 4.6, 1972)

No person shall discharge from any single source whatsoever any one or more of the following contaminants in any state or combination thereof, exceeding in concentration at the point of discharge:

A. Sulphur compounds calculated as sulphur dioxide: two thousand parts per million (0.2 percent), by volume;

B. Combustion contaminants: 0.3 grain per cubic foot of gas calculated to twelve percent of carbon dioxide at standard conditions. In measuring the combustion contaminants from incinerators used to dispose of combustible refuse by burning, the carbon dioxide produced by combustion of any liquid or gaseous fuels shall be excluded from the calculation to twelve percent of carbon dioxide. (Ord. 325 Rule 4.5, 1972)

A person shall not discharge any form of total reduced sulfur (TRS), into the atmosphere from any single emission point at a concentration exceeding sixty parts per million by volume, or in excess of the total daily weight calculated by the formula:

whichever is the more restrictive condition, where H, is the height in feet of the emission point above mean ground elevation. Mean ground elevation shall be computed as the arithmetic average of the highest and lowest ground-level elevations with a one-thousand-yard radius of the emission point. Total reduced sulfur (TRS) means total reduced sulfur contained in hydrogen sulfide, mercaptans, dimethyl sulfide, dimethyl disulfide or other organic sulfide compounds, all expressed as hydrogen sulfide, sulfide dioxide, sulfur trioxide, or sulfuric acid mist are not to be included in the determination of TRS. (Ord. 325 Rule 4.11, 1972)

The following sections of the State Health and Safety Code, and any future amendments thereto, are part of the rules and regulations by reference: Section 39068.2 et seq., Chapter 3, Article 2, Part 1, Division 26. (Ord. 325 Rule 4.9, 1972)

The following section of the State Health and Safety Code, and any future amendments thereto, are part of these rules and regulations by reference: Section 39298.7, Article 4, Chapter 10, Part 1, Division 26. (Ord. 325 Rule 4.12, 1972)

A. If air contaminants from a single source operation are emitted through two or more emission points, the total emitted quantity of any air contaminant, limited in this regulation cannot exceed the quantity which would be the allowable emission through a single emission point; and the total emitted quantity of any such air contaminant shall be taken as the product of the highest concentration measured in any of the emission points and the exhaust gas volume through all emission points, unless the person responsible for the source operation establishes the correct total emitted quantity.

B. If air contaminants from two or more source operations are combined prior to emission and there are adequate and reliable means reasonably susceptible to confirmation and use by the control officer for establishing a separation of the components of the combined emission to indicate the nature, extent, quantity and degree of emission arising from each such source operation, this regulation shall apply to each such source operation separately.

C. If air contaminants from two or more source operations are combined prior to emission, and the combined emissions cannot be separated according to the requirements of subsection A of this section, this regulation shall be applied to the combined emission as if it originated in a single source operation subject of the most stringent limitations and requirements placed by this regulation on any of the source operations whose air contaminants are so combined.

D. “Source operation” means the last operation preceding the emission of an air contaminant, which operation

1. Results in the separation of the air contaminant from the process materials or in the conversion of the process materials into air contaminants, as in the case of combustion of fuel; and

2. Is not an air pollution abatement operation. (Ord. 325 Rule 4.10, 1972)

No person shall build, erect, install or use any article, machine, equipment or other contrivance, the use of which, without resulting in a reduction in the total release of air contaminant to the atmosphere, reduces or conceals an emission which would otherwise constitute a violation. (Ord. 325 Rule 4.7, 1972)

Violations of Section 16.04.340 are excepted from Section 16.04.450. (Ord. 325 Rule 4.7-1, 1972)