Mats Continuous Compliance

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Mats continuous compliance. To achieve compliance mats went live on april 16 2015 though many plants had. Environmental protection agency s epa mercury and air toxic standards mats rule has been in place for new coal fired electric generating units egus since 2012 but the regulation. Compliance with the mats standards as well as any 30 or in some cases 90 boiler operating day rolling averages that must be reported for mats compliance. The pm monitors could be used as a true pm cems or pm.

Mats compliance extensions mjb a has been tracking mats compliance extensions for coal fired egus over the last several years collecting extension request and approval letters from state permitting agencies. Periodic stack testing so2 emission rates systems as a surrogate for acid gases continuous hg cems hg sorbent trap systems continuous hcl or hf cems continuous pm cems 4. Less than 10 of hg emissions limit or less than 29 0 lbs of hg per year. Resilite classic mats are used as law enforcement training mats across the country in u s.

Mats was promulgated allowing certain pm cems detection technologies for filterable particulate matter fpm compliance demonstrations. Military facilities and by the fbi homeland security and the secret service as well as in many other state and local law enforcement training rooms. Utility mact applies to electric generating units egu s 3 pm compliance options pm cpms not typically used in mats rule pm cems certified using ps 11 quarterly reference method tests mats method 5 or metals method pm limits for bituminous coal fired egu s. Excess emissions and continuous monitoring system cms performance report and or summary report this is a sample notification form which can be used by facilities at their discretion to meet compliance with 40 cfr 63 subpart a 63 10 e 3.

The rolling averages are based on data from continuous emission monitoring systems cems sorbent trap monitoring systems or continuous parametric monitoring systems cpms. Initial compliance and continuous compliance requires hg cems or sorbent trap system unless unit qualifies as low emitting egu lee 63 10005 k lee is defined for hg as unit that emits. Mats compliance strategies 5 lee qualifying.