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Bureau of Air Quality Planning
Emission Statement Program
The Federal Clean Air Act requires that states with designated ozone non-attainment areas gather Emission Statement data from sources of volatile organic compounds (VOC) and oxides of nitrogen (NOx) beginning in 1992 (reporting in 1993). These two air contaminants react in the presence of sunlight to form ozone in the lower atmosphere, the troposphere, where it affects human health. Carbon monoxide by itself affects human health and elevated levels tend to occur primarily in the winter months. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), therefore, requires the State of New Jersey to report the emissions from major sources annually. The Emission Statement rule (N.J.A.C. 7:27-21) established requirements for the annual reporting of air contaminant emissions from stationary sources allowing the state to meet these requirements. The Emission Statement rule requires the the following air contaminants to be reported; carbon monoxide (CO), sulfur dioxide (SO2), ammonia (NH3), total suspended particulate matter (TSP), respirable particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), lead (Pb), volatile organic compounds (VOC), and oxides of nitrogen (NOx), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and the 36 toxic air pollutants (TAP’s).
The emission statement data is made publicly available and reported to the USEPA’s national database, National Emissions Inventory (NEI). USEPA’s Consolidated Emissions Reporting Rule (CERR), 40 CFR Part 51, requires the state to prepare a comprehensive statewide inventory every three years and a reduced point source submittal annually using the NEI. This database is useful for federal and regional planning agencies interested in national trends and information. Much of the information required by New Jersey’s Emission Statement program is required by the CERR.
Emission Statements are intended to help the state in their reporting and analysis of emissions into the ambient air. All emission estimates reported on Emission Statements will be used in tracking the state’s progress toward meeting the mandatory emission reduction targets specified as a percentage reduction from the 1990 base year inventory. This tracking will help to monitor the progress that areas make toward attainment of the ozone and carbon monoxide National Ambient Air Quality Standard and will be used as an indicator to measure the state’s progress in maintaining a healthy environment. The Act also requires the state to periodically compile and report a comprehensive, accurate, and current inventory of all air contaminant sources in the state. One component of the Department’s Strategic Plan is to achieve healthy air quality throughout the state by 2007. The emissions data from the Emission Statement program provides an impact indicator of emissions on the ambient air quality from the stationary sources in New Jersey.
If you have any questions regarding this material, please contact
Danny Wong of the Bureau of Air Quality Planning at (609) 292-6722.
Contents of this page
- Submittal
Dates for 2006 Emission Statement Reporting
- Downloading
Reference Documents & Reporting Forms
- Information
on RADIUS and Emission Statement Reporting
- Subscribing
to ListServ for the Emission Statement Program
- Contact Information
- Frequently
Asked Questions
- Other
Useful Links
1. Submittal Dates for 2006 Emission Statement Reporting
2. Downloading Reference Documents & Other Reporting
Forms
The 2003 Emission Statement Guidance Document, the 2004 Addendum to the 2003
Guidance Document, and other forms are available here in two formats, Adobe
Acrobat Reader PDF or Microsoft Word 97.
PDF files require the Adobe
Acrobat® Reader appropriate for your hardware and operating system to
view and print the file. The document appears exactly as it was in printed
form. The Microsoft Word files may be viewed by any word-processing
software capable of reading such documents.
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DOWNLOADABLE FILES |
| MS Word97 format |
Adobe PDF format |
2003 Guidance Document |
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| 2004 Addendum |
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| 2005 Addendum |
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| SCC Table |
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| Certification Form |
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| PINCODE Request Form |
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| Department Checklist for Emission Statement Review |
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- PIN CODE REQUEST FORM FOR RADIUS SUBMITTAL - please complete this
form and return to NJDEP-BNSR to obtain a PIN Code for the certification
process in RADIUS. If you already have a PIN Code for the permitting
program, please use that same PIN Code.
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- ES_2005 is a PowerPoint
file that highlights changes to the Emission Statement Program.
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- Possible resources for calculating PM2.5 are AP-42, FIRE, and the
PM Calculator, all located at USEPA
- Chief. Please remember that PM10 and PM2.5 emissions include
both filterables and condensables.
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- Simplified Worksheets to Estimate VOC Emissions from Fixed Roof
Storage Tanks
The following simplified worksheets are provided primarily for
minor facilities that may not be familiar with USEPA Tanks Program,
to estimate VOC emissions from aboveground and underground horizontal
or vertical fixed roof tanks containing gasoline or fuel oil. Most
of the information required for these calculations have been provided
as default values to minimize the information a facility needs to
provide.
These excel worksheets are labeled as TECF_HOR1.xls (for horizontal aboveground storage tanks), TECF_VER1.xls (for vertical aboveground storage tanks) and TECF_UND1.xls (for underground storage tanks). Each worksheet has four spreadsheets
for the following products: Residual fuel oil #6, Distillate fuel
oil #2, Gasoline RVP9 and Gasoline RVP13.
To use these worksheets, the only information you need to insert
is the tank height, the tank diameter, and the total amount of product
loaded into the tank for the calendar year in the highlighted boxes.
The spreadsheet will calculate the estimated VOC emissions in terms
of breathing losses, working losses and total losses.
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- PM2.5 (Total) calculated for the 2002 NEI by the Department.
The NJDEP was required by USEPA's Consolidated Emissions Reporting
Rule (CERR) to report PM2.5 for the National Emissions Inventory
(NEI). Because facilities were only required to report PM10 and
not PM2.5, the Department had to calculate PM2.5 from the reported
PM10. The Department used the PM
Calculator to convert PM10 to PM2.5. The resulting values are
available here as an Excel file (PM25.xls)
. The Department followed the instructions of the PM
Calculator website to arrive at the resulting values.
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3. Information on Radius and Emission Statement
Reporting
Emission Statements must be submitted electronically using RADIUS and are due May 15th of the reporting year. Paper forms will not be accepted except
for those facilities that can prove hardship without paper forms. For these
facilities, proof of hardship must be submitted to the Department in writing
along with the request for a copy of the paper forms. Emission Statements
on paper forms are due April 15th of the reporting year.
RADIUS Software
Currently, RADIUS is only available by downloading from the NJDEP website.
To download RADIUS, please go to the RADIUS webpage.
Follow the directions for downloading the software on the RADIUS webpage. Please
be advised that RADIUS is only compatible with Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows
NT, and Windows XP. Also, please save the old RADIUS.DB
file in a separate directory as a backup. For Emission Statement reporting,
the latest version of RADIUS (v.3.1) is required.
- Submitting Emission Statements in RADIUS: The "Submit"
function in RADIUS does not automatically send the Emission Statement to the
Department. Emission Statement files will have to be manually attached
to an e-mail to the Department or mailed on a disk with a signed paper certification,
if necessary, to the Department. The "Submit" function initiates the
Administrative Check, provide certification options, and creates an export
file, but does not send any data to the Department.
- E-Mail Submittal: The Department encourages all facilities
to submit their 2004 Emission Statement via e-mail. Facilities that certify
their Emission Statement submittal electronically with their PIN may submit
their files through e-mail will get an e-mail confirmation of receipt from
the Department for the facilities' own records. This method will facilitate
a quick response to submittals. For facilities that choose to mail their disk
to the Department, no receipt letter will be mailed unless they specifically
have a written request for it. As part of the Department's goal to improve
the environment, paper usage reduction is important and submittal via e-mail
will help accomplish this objective.
4. ListServ for the Emission Statement
Program
ListServ is an electronic mailing list configured for the Emission Statement
Program. The ListServ is an avenue to update subscribers with important information
on the Emission Statement Program through electronic mail. Subscribing to
ListServ will allow you to stay informed of any developments and changes in
the Emission Statement Program.
To Subscribe to ListServ, please follow the
instructions:
5. Contact Information
NJDEP - Bureau of Air Quality Planning
Attn: Emission Statement Program
401 East State Street, 7th Floor
P.O. Box 418
Trenton, NJ 08625-0418
Telephone (609) 984-5483
Fax (609) 984-6533
E-mail emis_statement@dep.state.nj.us
6. Frequently Asked Questions
7. Other Useful Links
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