310 CMR 7.13
U Stack Testing
(1) Any person owning, leasing, operating or controlling a facility for which the Department
has determined that stack testing is necessary to ascertain compliance with the Department's
regulations or design approval provisos shall cause such stack testing:
(a) to be conducted by a person knowledgeable in stack testing,
(b) to be conducted in accordance with procedures contained in a test protocol which has
been approved by the Department,
(c) to be conducted in the presence of a representative of the Department when such is
deemed necessary, and
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(d) to be summarized and submitted to the Department with analyses and report within such
time as agreed to in the approved test protocol.
(2) Any person having control of a facility, relative to which the Department determines that
stack testing (to ascertain the mass emission rates of air contaminants emitted under various
operating conditions) is necessary for the purposes of regulation enforcement or determination
of regulation compliance, shall cooperate with the Department to provide:
(a) entrance to a location suitable for stack sampling;
(b) sampling ports at locations where representative samples may be obtained;
(c) staging and ladders to support personnel and equipment for performing the tests;
(d) a suitable power source at the sampling location for the operation of sampling
equipment; and
(e) such other reasonable facilities as may be requested by the Department.