State-Approved Plans

States and jurisdictions can operate their own occupational safety and health plans with OSHA approval. State plans must establish standards that meet federal requirements. Approved state plans must extend their coverage to state and local government workers. Alliances enable organizations committed to workplace safety and health to collaborate with OSHA to prevent injuries and illnesses in the workplace. OSHA and its allies work together to reach out to, educate, and lead the nation s employers and their employees in improving and advancing workplace safety and health. 

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The bubble may be only used for pollutants in an area where the state implementation plan has an approved schedule to meet air-quahty standards for that pollutant. 

The states are required to submit to the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans, known as State Implementation Plans (SIP), showing how they will achieve the standards in their jurisdictions within a specified time period. If after that time period there are areas within the states where these standards have not been attained, the states are required to submit and obtain EPA approval of revised plans to achieve the standards in these "nonattainment" areas. EPA also designates certain areas where the standards are being met, but which have the potential for future nonattainment, as Air Quality Maintenance Areas (AQMA). Such regions have stricter requirements than attainment areas for the granting of permits for new sources of the pollutant not in attainment status. 

In 1986, six states (California, Kentucky, Louisianan, Maryland, North Carolina, and South Carolina) had fully U.S. EPA-approved plans to control TRS at kraft pulp mills, two states had approved TRS standards but their compliance schedules had not yet been approved (Arkansas and Georgia), and... 

Iudividual states are required to develop state implemeutatiou plaus (SIPs), a collectiou of the regulatious that a state will use to cleau up polluted areas. The states must iuvolve the pubhc, through heariugs aud opportuuities to commeut, in the development of each state implementation plan. The EPA must approve each plan, and if a state implementation is not acceptable, the EPA can take over, enforcing the Clean Air Act in that state. 

Under the RCRA RD D permits issued to both sites, waste may be shipped offsite only once it has met agent-related criteria set in the permit, as reflected in the state-approved waste analysis plan (WAP). PCAPP submitted a WAP with its Stage 3 permit modification that outlines the waste control limits for each secondary waste to be shipped offsite, including hydrolysate. However, the WAP has notyet been approved by the CDPHE. 

Part 1956 Plans for State and Local Government Employees without Approved Plans... 

The State plans require comphance by the operators either within one year after EPA has approved the State s Plan or within three years if the State has developed a schedule of steps which win bring the State Plan into compliance during that interval. The schedule must be verifiable. Regardless of the route a State takes, aU existing Hospital/Medical Infectious Waste Incinerators (HMIWI) must be in compliance with the EPA r ulations within five years after the final rule was published. 

The OSH Act encourages states to develop and operate their own job safety and health programs. Federal OSHA approves and monitors state plans and provides up to 50 percent of an approved plan s operating costs. There are currently 22 states and jurisdictions operating complete state plans (covering both the private sector and state and local government employees) and five states which I cover public employees only. The following information is current as of February 7, 2014. 

State Implementation Plans (SIPs) are federally approved plans developed by state (or local) air quality management authorities to attain and maintain the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. Generally, these SIPs are a state s (local) air quality rules and regulations that are considered an acceptable control strategy once approved by the USEPA. The purpose of SIPs is to control the amoimt and types of pollution for any given area or region of the United States. 

The application involves locations that are solely within states or territories with OSHA-approved plans. 

A. States with OSHA-approved plans may require employers to keep records for the State, even though those employers are within an industry exempted by the Federal rule. 

NSR permits are most often issued by the state, but they can also be issued by local air pollution control agencies. EPA may also issue permits. State and local air pollution control agencies may run their own air pollution permitting programs if they are approved by EPA in the State Implementation Plan (SIP) or they may be delegated the authority to issue permits on behalf of EPA. 

The approved standard states that plans must specify "trigger" events which will require further action. It does not state explicitly that carbon monoxide must be used as the basis for setting triggers, but this in fact is industry practice. For example, one mine, to be discussed below, sets three trigger levels for CO concentrations in areas where mining has been completed and which are sealed off (except for gas monitoring points). They are as follows less than 50 ppm (parts per million) is normal 50-120 ppm is a level 1 alarm between 120-500 ppm is a level 2 alarm and above 500 ppm is a level 3 alarm. 

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