Combined Pollutant Standard: Control Technology Requirements for NOx, SO2, and PM Emissions

Section 225.296  Combined Pollutant Standard:  Control Technology Requirements for NO x , SO 2 , and PM Emissions a)         Control Technology Requirements for NO x and SO 2 . 1)         On or before December 31, 2013, the owner or operator must either permanently shut down or install and have operational FGD equipment on Waukegan 7; 2)         On or before December 31, 2014, the owner or operator must either permanently shut down or install and have operational FGD equipment on Waukegan 8; 3)         On or before December 31, 2015, the owner or operator must either permanently shut down or install and have operational FGD equipment on Fisk 19; 4)         If Crawford 7 will be operated after December 31, 2018, and not permanently shut down by this date, the owner or operator must: A)        On or before December 31, 2015, install and have operational SNCR or equipment capable of delivering essentially equivalent NO x reductions on Crawford 7; and B)        On or before December 31, 2018, install and have operational FGD equipment on Crawford 7; 5)         If Crawford 8 will be operated after December 31, 2017 and not permanently shut down by this date, the owner or operator must: A)        On or before December 31, 2015, install and have operational SNCR or equipment capable of delivering essentially equivalent NO x emissions reductions on Crawford 8; and B)        On or before December 31, 2017, install and have operational FGD equipment on Crawford 8. b)         Other Control Technology Requirements for SO 2 .  On and after April 16, 2015, Will County 3 must not combust coal.  On and after December 31, 2016, Joliet 6, 7, and 8 must not combust coal.  Owners or operators of the other specified EGUs must permanently shut down, permanently cease combusting coal at, or install FGD equipment on each specified EGU (except Will County 4), on or before December 31, 2018, unless an earlier date is specified in subsection (a) of this Section. c)          Control Technology Requirements for PM.  The owner or operator of the specified EGU listed in this subsection that is equipped with a hot-side ESP must replace the hot-side ESP with a cold-side ESP, install an appropriately designed fabric filter, or permanently shut down the EGU by the date specified.  Hot-side ESP means an ESP on a coal-fired boiler that is installed before the boiler's air-preheater where the operating temperature is typically at least 550ºF, as distinguished from a cold-side ESP that is installed after the air pre-heater where the operating temperature is typically no more than 350ºF.  Waukegan 7 on or before December 31, 2013. d)          Beginning on December 31, 2008, and annually thereafter up to and including December 31, 2015, the owner or operator of the Fisk power plant must submit in writing to the Agency a report on any technology or equipment designed to affect air quality that has been considered or explored for the Fisk power plant in the preceding 12 months.  This report will not obligate the owner or operator to install any equipment described in the report. e)         Notwithstanding 35 Ill. Adm. Code 201.146(hhh), until an EGU has complied with the applicable requirements of subsections 225.296(a), (b), and (c), the owner or operator of the EGU must obtain a construction permit for any new or modified air pollution control equipment that it proposes to construct for control of emissions of mercury, NO x , PM, or SO 2 .