Air and Climate Regulations and Standards

Current through March 2009 amendments: Consumer Products, Low-Emission Vehicles (LEVs), Solvent Metal Degreasing, Stage II Vapor Recovery, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
PDF 3.4 MB

Note: MassDEP has proposed amendments and also recently promulgated amendments to these regulations. See below for the new Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting and Outdoor
Hydronic Heater regulations.

SECTIONS:

7.00: Authority, Legend, Preamble & Definitions
7.01: General Regulations
7.02-7.03: Plan Approvals, Emission Limitations & Construction
7.04: Fossil Fuel Utilization Facilities
7.05: Fuels All Districts
7.06: Visible Emissions
7.07-7.10: Open Burning, Incinerators, Dust, Odor, Construction & Demolition, Noise
7.11: Transportation Media
7.12: Source Registration
7.13-7.14: Stack Testing, Monitoring Devices & Reports
7.15: Asbestos
7.16: Massachusetts Rideshare Regulation
7.17: Conversions to Coal
7.18: Volatile & Halogenated Organic Compounds
7.19: Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) for NOx
7.21-7.22: Sulfur Dioxide Emissions, Acid Rain
7.24: Organic Material Storage & Distribution, Stage II Vapor Recovery
7.25: Best Available Controls for Consumer & Commercial Products
7.26: Industry Performance Standards
7.27-7.28: NOx Allowances & Trading
7.29: Emissions Standards for Power Plants
7.30-7.31: Logan Airport & East Boston Parking Freezes
7.32: Massachusetts Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR)
7.33: South Boston Parking Freeze
7.36: Transit System Improvements
7.37: High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes
7.38: Metro Boston Tunnel Ventilation System Certification
7.40-7.45: Low Emission Vehicle & Massachusetts Green Fleet Progams
7.50-7.52: Variances, Hearings & Enforcement
7.54: Large Combustion Emission Units
7.60: Severability
7.70: Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Budget Trading Program
7.71 Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting
Appendices

310 CMR 7.00 et. seq.: Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Amendments, Consumer Products & Solvent Metal Degreasing

Final Regulations Showing Changes: VOCs, Consumer Products & Paint Spray Booths
MS Word 41 KB | PDF 22 KB

See also 310 CMR 7.00 et. seq. above

Summary of Public Comments & MassDEP Responses: VOCs, Consumer Products & Paint Spray Booths
MS Word 40 KB | PDF 52 KB

Final Regulation Showing Changes: Solvent Metal Degreasing
MS Word 60 KB | PDF 26 KB

310 CMR 7.00, Appendix B(7): Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Emission Banking, Trading & Averaging

310 CMR 7.00 (Appendix B), 310 CMR 7.29 & 310 CMR 7.70: Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Budget Trading Program

Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Regulations

Final Regulations, January 2008
MS Word 446 KB | PDF 390 KB

See also 310 CMR 7.00 et. seq. above

Background Information (Including Response to Public Comments)
Web page

Related: Department of Energy Resources (DOER) Regulations: 225 CMR 13.00, CO2 Budget Trading Program Auction
DOER web site

310 CMR 7.00: Boiler, Engine, Turbine & Environmental Results Program Amendments

Regulations
MS Word 273 KB | PDF 184 KB

See also 310 CMR 7.00 et. seq. above

Background Information on October 2007 Amendments
Web page

Related Fact Sheet: Air Pollution Control Requirements for Architectural & Industrial Maintenance (AIM) Coatings, January 2009
Web page

310 CMR 7.26(10)-(16): Amendments to Environmental Results Program (ERP) Dry Cleaner Regulation

Regulations - Effective December 26, 2008
MS Word 123 KB | PDF 99 KB

See also 310 CMR 7.00 et. seq. above

MassDEP Response to Public Comments
MS Word 327 KB | PDF 105 KB

Fact Sheet
MS Word 85 KB | PDF 43 KB

Background Information on December 2008 Amendments
Web page

Related: OHH Compliance Certification Form, Instructions & Return to Compliance Plan
Web page

Related: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) List of Cleaner-Burning Phase 2 OHH Units*
EPA web site

*Only EPA Phase 2 units are eligible for MassDEP certification to be sold in Massachusetts after December 26, 2008.

310 CMR 7.28 & 310 CMR 7.32: NOx Allowance Trading & Massachusetts Clean Air Interstate Rule (Mass CAIR)

Please Note: In July 2008, a federal appeals court vacated the federal Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) in its entirety. As a result, MassDEP proposed regulatory revisions that would reinstate its Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) Allowance Trading Program (310 CMR 7.28) through amendment and rescind the Massachusetts Clean Air Interstate Rule (Mass CAIR, 310 CMR 7.32).

In December 2008, the federal appeals court reversed its decision, instead leaving CAIR in effect and instructing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a new regulation addressing the flaws in CAIR that the court identified in its July 2008 decision.

Therefore, 310 CMR 7.32 (Mass CAIR) went into effect on January 1, 2009, and has replaced 310 CMR 7.28. MassDEP has withdrawn the amendments to 310 CMR 7.28 and rescission of 310 CMR 7.32 that it proposed in November 2008. No response to comments will be issued and no further action will be taken on these proposed regulation changes.

Background information on withdrawn regulatory changes
Web page

Current Mass CAIR Regulations
MS Word 367 KB | PDF 251 KB

See also 310 CMR 7.00 above

Background Information on April 2007 Amendments
Web page

310 CMR 7.38: Certification of Tunnel Ventilation Systems in Metropolitan Boston

Final Amendments (showing changes from Emergency Regulation), June 2009
MS Word 117 KB | PDF 119 KB

Public Comments Received
MS Word 242 KB | PDF 150 KB

MassDEP Response to Public Comments
MS Word 137 KB | PDF 76 KB

Applicability Information
Web page

Background Information on December 2008 Emergency Regulation & June 2009 Amendments
Web page

Related: Stakeholder Meetings
Web page

Including Motor Vehicle Emissions Inspection & Maintenance, Current through September 2008 amendments
PDF 391 KB

Background Information on September 2008 amendments
Web page

Related: 540 CMR 4.00, Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) Regulations
RMV web site