Examples of Lowest Achievable Emission Rate (LAER) in a sentence
This means that a source must achieve the Lowest Achievable Emission Rate (LAER) if it exceeds 25 tons per year of VOC emissions and must offset any increase in VOC emissions by a decrease of 1.3 times that amount.
Lowest Achievable Emission Rate (LAER) where the construction, substantial reconstruction or alteration is subject to the requirements of Emission Offsets and Non- attainment Review in 310 CMR 7.00: Appendix A.
Applications for modified Authority to Construct or modified Permit to Operate which are for the sole purpose of reducing an emission unit’s potential to emit and which will not result in a modified emission unit, a modified stationary source or an actual emission reduction calculated pursuant to Rule 20.1(d)(4)(ii) shall be exempt from the Best Available Control Technology (BACT), Lowest Achievable Emission Rate (LAER), AQIA and Emission Offset provisions of Rules 20.1, 20.2, 20.3 and 20.4.
This means that a source must achieve the Lowest Achievable Emission Rate (LAER) if it exceeds 25 tons per year of VOC emissions and must offset any increase in VOC emissions by a decrease of1.3 times that amount.
A major difference in the two programs is that the control technology requirement is more stringent in nonattainment areas and is called the Lowest Achievable Emission Rate (LAER).