Air Pollution Control Division

Guidance Document Library
Stationary Sources Program

This page is maintained by the Stationary Sources and Small Business Assistance Programs of the
Air Pollution Control Division.

General Permitting Guidance

• Permitting Guidance Memos
• Applicable air quality regulations by business sector
• Reporting your air emissions and applying for air permits step-by-step for Colorado small businesses
• Compliance Test Manual :  Includes procedures for performance testing.
• Criteria and non-criteria reportable pollutants
• A simple guide to calculating and reporting your volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and hazardous air pollutants (HAPs)
• Calculating rolling 12-month totals of air emissions
• Colorado Small Business Compliance Workbook 2010
  • Colorado Small Business Compliance Workbook 2010- Checklist
• Carbon Reduction Checklist
• For questions specific to hazardous waste regulations, visit the Hazardous Materials and Waste Management Division webpage and review this guide to generator requirements of the Colorado Hazardous Waste regulations . 
• For questions specific to water quality permitting, visit the Water Quality Control Division
  

Business-Specific Guidance

(Includes compliance assistance, MACT, NSPS, and pollution prevention guidance and tools)

Abrasive Blast Cleaning

• Abrasive blast cleaning guide

Agriculture

• EPA National Compliance Assistance Center - exit this site
• Hog farms (housed commercial swine feeding operations)

 Aluminum Sweat Furnaces

• A guide to air emission requirements for aluminum sweat furnaces
• Compliance checklist
• Annual afterburner inspection checklist

Asphalt Plant Production

• Hot mix asphalt
• Overview of air regulations: surface mining, concrete batch plants, and hot mix asphalt
• Decision support system for new source performance standard (NSPS) subpart I - exit this site
• General information on NSPS

Asphalt Roofing

• Asphalt roofing guide
• Decision support system for new source performance standard (NSPS) subpart UU - exit this site
• General information on NSPS

Auto Repair and Body Shops

• Surface Coating Standards
• Paint Stripping Standards 
• A guide to environmental regulations for automotive repair facilities
• Auto body pollution prevention
• Solvent cleaning alternatives
• EPA National Compliance Assistance Center - exit this site

Boilers

• An overview of air regulations for small boilers, including new source performance standard (NSPS) subpart Dc
• Decision support system for NSPS subpart D, fossil-fuel-fired steam generators- exit this site
• Decision support system for NSPS subpart Da, electric utility steam generating units -exit this site
• Decision support system for NSPS subpart Db, industrial-commercial-institutional steam generating Units -exit this site
• Decision support system for NSPS subpart Dc, small industrial-commercial-institutional steam generating units -exit this site
• General information on NSPS

Chemical and Allied Products Sector

• Chemical and allied products sector
• EPA National Compliance Assistance Center - exit this site

Chromium Electroplating 

• Chromium electroplating and anodizing guidance document and addendums  
• Chromium pre-inspection checklist  
• Hard chromium electroplating checklist  
• Decorative chromium electroplating checklist  
• Chromium anodizing checklist  

Coal Preparation Plants

• Coal preparation plants guidance document and checklist, 40 CFR part 60, subpart Y

Coffee Roasting

• Coffee Roasting - An Overview of Air Quality Regulations

Concrete Plants

• Overview of air regulations: surface mining, concrete batch plants, and hot mix asphalt

Construction

• EPA National Compliance Assistance Center - exit this site
• Land development guidance document
• Decision support system for new source performance standard (NSPS) subpart E -exit this site
• General information on NSPS

Crematories

• A guide to air permitting requirements for crematories

Dry Cleaning

• New Requirements for Leak Detectors and Monitoring Equipment

• Colorado perc dry cleaner environmental compliance calendar
• Perc dry cleaner alternatives
• Perc dry cleaner log form
• Dry cleaner permit application package
• Compliance Notification form
• New hazardous waste requirements for perc dry cleaners
• Pollution prevention tips
• Petroleum dry cleaners - A guide to environmental regulations 
• Petroleum dry cleaners - performance test log

Engines and Generators

• Internal Combustion Engine Requirements
• NSPS IIII- Stationary Compression Ignition Internal Combustion Engines 
• General Operating and Maintenance Plan for Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines

Food Service Industry

• Guide to environmental regulations for restaurants and food service businesses

Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Dispensing Stations

• A Guide to air regulations for gasoline and fuel dispensing stations 
• Decision support system for NSPS subpart K -exit this site
• Decision support system for NSPS subpart Ka -exit this site
• Decision support system for NSPS subpart Kb -exit this site
• General Information on new source performance standards (NSPS)

Halogenated Solvent Cleaning

• Halogenated solvent cleaning NESHAP applicability checklist
• Halogenated solvent cleaning NESHAP compliance checklist for batch vapor machines, checklist A
• Halogenated solvent cleaning NESHAP compliance checklist for batch cold-cleaning machines, checklist B
• Halogenated solvent cleaning NESHAP compliance checklist, checklist C

Hospitals/Health Services

• Hospital sterilization
• Medical (infection waste) compliance bulletin - non-residential
• Medical (infection waste) compliance bulletin - residential

Incinerators

• A Guide to air permitting requirements for incinerators
• A guide to air permitting requirements for crematories
• Decision support system for new source performance standard (NSPS) subpart E -exit this site
• General information on NSPS

Land Development

• Land development guidance document

Metal Finishing and Electroplating

• Electroplating/metal finishing
• EPA National Compliance Assistance Center - exit this site

Mining and Mineral Processing

• Air quality requirements for surface mining operations
• Overview of Air regulations: surface mining, concrete batch plants, and hot mix asphalt
• Guidance manual for nonmetallic mineral processing plants
• Pre-Inspection checklists for nonmetallic mineral processing equipment
• NSPS subpart OOO guidance document
• Decision support system for new source performance standard (NSPS) subpart OOO - exit this site
• General Information on NSPS

Oil and Gas

• Oil and natural gas regulatory requirements

Portland Cement

• Link to decision support system for new source performance standard, subpart F
• General information on NSPS

Printing - Lithographic

• Guide to environmental regulations for printing and imaging facilities
• EPA National Compliance Assistance Center - exit this site
• Printers' National Environmental Assistance Center (PNEAC) - exit this site

Printing - Rotogravure and Wide-Web Flexographic

• EPA National Compliance Assistance Center - exit this site

Printed Wiring Board

• EPA National Compliance Assistance Center - exit this site

Restaurants

• Colorado retail food establishment rules and regulations
• Link to Environmental Health and Sustainability

Stationary Gas Turbines

• Stationary gas turbines guidance document and checklist, 40CFR Part 60, subpart GG
• Decision support system for new source performance standard (NSPS) subpart GG - exit this site
• General information on NSPS

Surface Coating

• Surface Coating Standards
• Paint Stripping Standards
• Surface Coating Environmental Requirements
• A guide to environmental regulations for Colorado surface coating operations
  • Guide Supplements:
  • Large appliances
  • Metal cans
  • Metal coil
  • Metal furniture
  • Miscellaneous metal parts and products
  • Paper and other web
  • Plastic parts and products
  • Printing, coating, and dyeing of fabrics and other textiles
  • Wood building products
• A Guideline for surface coating calculations

Used Oil Space Heaters

• A guide to hazardous waste and air requirements for used oil space heaters

Wood Burning (Domestic)

• A guide to air regulations for domestic wood-burning in Colorado

Wood Furniture

• Paint Stripping Standards
• Wood furniture manufacturers emission standards, permit information
• Wood products and furniture and fixtures sectors
• Wood products coating

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