Applicable Rules and Regulations for Cotton Gins
Links to rules and regulations governing the permitting of cotton gins facilities.
The following rules and regulations may apply to your facility.
- Title 30, Texas Administrative Code
Chapter 39
- Public Notice - 30 TAC
Chapter 101 - General Air Quality Rules
- 30 TAC
Chapter 106 - Permits by Rule
- 30 TAC Chapter 111 -
Control of Air Pollution from Visible Emissions and Particulate
Matter
- Agricultural sources are subject to the process weight
allowables in 30 TAC Chapter 111, Section
111.171 . The control devices necessary to meet this
requirement vary depending on whether the gin is authorized to
process stripper, burr extracted, or picker cotton. Gins authorized
to gin any stripper cotton at a rate greater than 24 bales per hour
are usually affected by this rule and certain controls, such as
cyclones on the first lint cleaner exhausts, may be required to
bring hourly emission rates down to an acceptable level. All
facilities are required to be in compliance with the nuisance rule,
Section
101.4 in the General Rules.
- Agricultural sources are subject to the process weight
allowables in 30 TAC Chapter 111, Section
111.171
- 30 TAC Chapter 112 - Control of Air Pollution from Sulfur Compounds
- 30 TAC Chapter 113 - Control of Air Pollution From Toxic Materials
- 30 TAC
Chapter 114 - Control of Air Pollution from Motor
Vehicles
- 30 TAC Chapter 115 - Control of Air Pollution from Volatile Organic Compounds
- 30 TAC
Chapter 116 - Control of Air Pollution by Permits for
New Construction or Modification
- 30 TAC Chapter 117 - Control of Air Pollution from Nitrogen Compounds
- 30 TAC
Chapter 118 - Control of Air Pollution Episodes
- 30 TAC
Chapter 122 - Federal Operating Permits Program
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