Reporting EEMSS Activity

Reporting Requirements Updated for Emissions Events and Scheduled Maintenance, Startup, or Shutdown Activities

Texas rules that identify regulated entities required to report annually on emissions event or scheduled maintenance, startup, or shutdown activity were revised on January 5, 2006. See 30 TAC 101.201 and 101.211 .

Beginning in 2007, the rules require an annual report to the TCEQ and all local air pollution control agencies with jurisdiction from owners or operators of regulated entities that experienced at least one emissions event or at least one scheduled maintenance, startup, or shutdown activity during the prior calendar year if they are either:

• subject to the emissions inventory reporting requirements, 30 TAC §101.10 —timely submission of an annual emissions inventory will also satisfy the new requirements;
  
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• the owners or operators of regulated entities located in any of the following:
  • nonattainment, maintenance, or early action compact areas,
  • Nueces County, or
  • San Patricio County.
  Owners or operators in those areas who do not submit an annual emissions inventory must complete and submit the following form by March 31 for the preceding calendar year—
• • Emissions Event and Maintenance, Startup, or Shutdown Activity Annual Report Form (PDF)
    
    
  • Instructions for completing the form (PDF)

For all regulated entities subject to EE-SMSS reporting, the annual report must include, at a minimum:

1. the Regulated Entity Number;
2. the total number of emissions events at the regulated entity, whether “reportable” or “non-reportable” under other rules;
3. the total number of scheduled maintenance, startup, or shutdown activities at the regulated entity, whether “reportable” or “non-reportable” under other rules; and
4. the total annual amount of all pollutants released during such emissions events or scheduled maintenance, startup, or shutdown activities.

Mail signed forms to:

Emissions Inventory Data, MC 166
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
P.O. Box 13087
Austin, TX 78711-3087

Fax forms to:

Emissions Inventory Data, MC 166
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
512-239-1500

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