Small Business Assistance - Permit Primer

Existing Business

Does your existing business include processes from any of the 4 main categories listed below? (Combustion, VOCs, Material Handling, or Miscellaneous Processes)

(If you experience problems with the drop-down definitions, you can view/print out the PDF file below. Hit your browser's "Back" button when finished viewing/printing the PDF).

Topics with Clickable, Drop-down Definitions

1) Combustion

• External Combustion Furnaces
• Indirect Malt Dryers
• Emergency Electric Generators Powered by Internal Combustion Engines
• Equipment that Temporarily Increases Steam Electric Generation Capability

2) Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) & Other Organic Emissions

• Use adhesives, coatings, paints, inks, other solvents or solvent containing materials
• Automobile Refinishing Operations
• Painting or Coating Operations
• Graphic Arts Operation
• Storage Tanks - Organic Compounds
• Storage Tanks - Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
• Bulk Gasoline Plants
• Cold Cleaning Equipment
• Batch Cold Cleaning Equipment
• Open Top Vapor Degreasing Equipment
• Batch Open Top Vapor Degreasing Equipment
• Conveyorized Non-vapor Degreasing and Conveyorized Vapor Degreasing Equipment
• Perchloroethylene Dry Cleaning Area Sources
• Private Alcohol Fuel Production Systems
• Soil or Water Remediation
• Other Processes that Emit Organic Vapors

3) Material Handling

• Incinerators
• Grain Dryers
• Grain Storage Facilities
• Grain Processing Facilities
• Portland Concrete Batch Plants
• Ledge Rock Quarries
• Industrial Sand Mines
• Fixed Sand and Gravel Plants
• Portable Sand and Gravel Plants
• Replacement of Equipment at a Nonmetallic Mineral Processing Facility
• Indirect Sources - Existing Sources, Road and Highway Projects, Parking

4) Miscellaneous Processes

• Chromium Electroplating and Anodizing Operations
• Crematories
• Gasoline Dispensing Facilities
• Laboratories Emitting Air Pollutants
• Paper Sorting or Transporting Equipment
• Municipal Drinking Water Chlorination Facilities
• Research and Testing Equipment
• Renovation or Demolition Operations Involving Friable Asbestos

If you have anything not included under the specific categories above you will need to bypass the "Yes" / "No" question below and click on the "Other Process" button.

• Other Processes that Emit Aerosols, Mists, Fumes
• Other Processes that Emit Dusts
• Other Processes that Emit Acid Gases

Having trouble with drop-down menus? Click on PDF file below (open in new window)

Categories of Exempt Sources (PDF, 134 KB)

Does your existing business include any processes from the 4 main categories listed above? (Combustion, VOCs, Material Handling, or Miscellaneous Processes)

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