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40 CFR § 124.41 - Definitions applicable to PSD permits.

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title: "40 CFR § 124.41 - Definitions applicable to PSD permits."
title_number: 40
title_name: "Protection of Environment"
section_number: "124.41"
section_name: "Definitions applicable to PSD permits."
chapter_name: "ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY"
subchapter_number: "D"
subchapter_name: "WATER PROGRAMS"
part_number: "124"
part_name: "PROCEDURES FOR DECISIONMAKING"
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authority: "Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. 6901  Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. 300f  Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1251  Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7401"
regulatory_source: "48 FR 14264, Apr. 1, 1983, unless otherwise noted."
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# 124.41 Definitions applicable to PSD permits.

Whenever PSD permits are processed under this part, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

*Administrator, EPA,* and *Regional Administrator* shall have the meanings set forth in § 124.2, except when EPA has delegated authority to administer those regulations to another agency under the applicable subsection of 40 CFR 52.21, the term *EPA* shall mean the delegate agency and the term *Regional Administrator* shall mean the chief administrative officer of the delegate agency.

*Application* means an application for a PSD permit.

*Appropriate Act and Regulations* means the Clean Air Act and applicable regulations promulgated under it.

*Approved program* means a State implementation plan providing for issuance of PSD permits which has been approved by EPA under the Clean Air Act and 40 CFR part 51. An *approved State* is one administering an *approved program. State Director* as used in § 124.4 means the person(s) responsible for issuing PSD permits under an approved program, or that person's delegated representative.

*Construction* has the meaning given in 40 CFR 52.21.

*Director* means the Regional Administrator.

*Draft permit* shall have the meaning set forth in § 124.2.

*Facility or activity* means a *major PSD stationary source* or *major PSD modification.*

*Federal Land Manager* has the meaning given in 40 CFR 52.21.

*Indian Governing Body* has the meaning given in 40 CFR 52.21.

*Major PSD modification* means a *major modification* as defined in 40 CFR 52.21.

*Major PSD stationary source* means a *major stationary source* as defined in 40 CFR 52.21(b)(1).

*Owner or operator* means the owner or operator of any facility or activity subject to regulation under 40 CFR 52.21 or by an approved State.

*Permit* or *PSD permit* means a permit issued under 40 CFR 52.21 or by an approved State.

*Person* includes an individual, corporation, partnership, association, State, municipality, political subdivision of a State, and any agency, department, or instrumentality of the United States and any officer, agent or employee thereof.

*Regulated activity* or *activity subject to regulation* means a *major PSD stationary source* or *major PSD modification.*

*Site* means the land or water area upon which a *major PSD stationary source* or *major PSD modification* is physically located or conducted, including but not limited to adjacent land used for utility systems; as repair, storage, shipping or processing areas; or otherwise in connection with the *major PSD stationary source* or *major PSD modification.*

*State* means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa and includes the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.