CSR 45-5-12. Reporting and Testing

§45-5-12. Reporting and Testing. 12.1. At such reasonable times as the Director may designate, the owner or operator of a coal preparation plant may be required to conduct or have conducted stack tests to determine the dust loading in exhaust gases and mass emission rates of particulate matter. All tests to determine compliance with exhaust gas dust concentrations and particulate matter mass emission rates shall be conducted in accordance with Methods 1-5 of 40 CFR Part 60, Appendix A provided that all compliance tests must consist of not less than three (3) test runs, test run duration shall not be less than sixty (60) minutes, and not less than thirty (30) standard cubic feet of exhaust gas must be sampled during each test run. Should the Director exercise his option to conduct such tests, the operator will provide all necessary sampling connections and sampling ports to be located in such manner as the Director may require, power for test equipment and the required safety equipment such as scaffolding, railings, ladders, etc., to comply with generally accepted good safety practices. 12.2. The Director, or his duly authorized representative, may conduct such other tests as he may deem necessary to evaluate air pollution emissions other than those noted in subsection 12.1. 12.3. The owner or operator shall submit a test protocol for the Director's approval not less than thirty (30) days prior to any test to determine compliance with this rule and shall provide at least fifteen (15) days notice of all compliance tests to the Director. 12.4. Tests to determine compliance with the visible emission limitations of sections 3 and 6 shall be conducted by certified visible emission observers in accordance with Method 9 of 40 CFR Part 60, Appendix A. 12.5. Nothing in subsection 12.4, however, shall preclude any owner or operator or the Director from using opacity data from a properly installed, calibrated, maintained and operated continuous opacity monitor from being used as evidence to demonstrate compliance or a violation of visible emission requirements of this rule. 12.6. Any stack venting thermal dryer exhaust gases and/or air table exhaust gases or exhaust gases or air from any air pollution control device shall include straight runs of sufficient length to establish flow patterns consistent with acceptable stack sampling procedures. Flow straightening devices shall be required where cyclonic gas flow would exist in the absence of such devices.