Section 8040. Standard for dioxin/furan  


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  • No owner or other person shall cause or permit to be discharged into the atmosphere from any affected facility any gases that contain municipal waste combustor organics, expressed as total mass dioxins/furans, in excess of the following limits:

    1. For facilities that employ an electrostatic precipitator-based emission control system, 60 nanograms per dry standard cubic meter (total mass), corrected to 7.0% oxygen.

    2. For facilities that do not employ an electrostatic precipitator-based emission control system, 30 nanograms per dry standard cubic meter (total mass), corrected to 7.0% oxygen.

Historical Notes

Derived from Volume 15, Issue 21, eff. August 4, 1999.

Statutory Authority

§ 10.1-1308 of the Code of Virginia.