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Zero Emission Vehicle Credits for Manufacturers
Starting with model year 2027, automobile manufacturers will be required to include a specified percentage of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) in the fleet of cars they provide for sale in Delaware. Manufacturers who exceed the percentage targets may receive credits that they can use to offset future year requirements. Manufacturers can also earn credits during theDivision of Air Quality
The DNREC Division of Air Quality monitors the ambient air quality and regulates air emissions, asbestos removal and open burning. The division maintains emission inventories from various source types and develops the State’s clean air implementation plans. And the division advises the Secretary of DNREC on possible new air regulations and supports the enforcement ofVehicle Inspection and Maintenance
The Delaware Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance (I/M) program is a mandatory control measure to help the State of Delaware meet the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for ozone.Contact Us
Deanna Morozowich Division of Air Quality 302-739-9402
Sandblasting Water Tanks
The sandblasting of water tanks is part of a group of smaller sources of pollution known as area sources — smaller activities by businesses or facilities that, when measured across a group of sites, can accumulate to large amounts of pollution impacting Delaware’s air quality. [panel type=”success” heading=”Contact Us”Gasoline Delivery
Gasoline delivery is part of a group of smaller sources of pollution known as area sources — smaller activities by businesses or facilities that, when measured across a group of sites, can accumulate to large amounts of pollution impacting Delaware’s air quality.Contact Us
Solvent Cleaning and Drying
Solvent cleaning and drying is part of a group of smaller sources of pollution known as area sources — smaller activities by businesses or facilities that, when measured across a group of sites, can accumulate to large amounts of pollution impacting Delaware’s air quality. [panel type=”success”Dry Cleaners
Dry cleaners are part of a group of smaller sources of pollution known as area sources — smaller activities by businesses or facilities that, when measured across a group of sites, can accumulate to large amounts of pollution impacting Delaware’s air quality. [panel type=”success” heading=”Contact Us”Auto Body Shops
Auto body shops are part of a group of smaller sources of pollution known as area sources — smaller activities by businesses or facilities that, when measured across a group of sites, can accumulate to large amounts of pollution impacting Delaware’s air quality.Contact Us
Open Burning by Fire Companies
Fire companies in Delaware are allowed to conduct certain open burning activities, including assisting farmers with agricultural burning and the intentional burning of structures for the purposes of firefighting instruction. The State Fire Marshall has lifted the statewide outdoor burning ban announced on Oct. 15, 2024. Reminder: Open burning mustAgricultural Burning
Farmers may conduct agricultural burning for crop residue, field maintenance, and land clearing for agricultural operations. This does not include clearing land in order to construct structures, even those used in conjunction with agricultural operations. The State Fire Marshall has lifted the statewide outdoor burning ban announced on Oct. 15,Prescribed Burns
A prescribed fire is the burning of undisturbed vegetation intentionally ignited to meet specific land management objectives such as wildlife habitat improvement, disease or invasive species control, forest management, fuel suppression, and other recognized conservation practices under such conditions that the fire is confined to a predetermined area. The StateAir Quality Forecast
DNREC works with the EPA and regional partners to track air quality and help you know if you need to take precautions. For current ozone and particulate conditions, visit the EPA AirNow website. Annual Forecast Reports 2023Hydrofluorocarbons
In March of 2021, the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) adopted a regulation on prohibitions of hydrofluorocarbons in specific end-uses.Contact
Kyle Krall Division of Air Quality 302-324-2083
7 DE Admin. Code 1102 Natural Minor Permit Applications
Agilent Technologies, Inc. Little Falls Site, requests a construction permit to construct an ultrasonic vapor degreaser at their 2850 Centerville Road, Wilmington, facility.Reg. 1102 Permit Application: Brandywine Auto Body
Brandywine Auto Body, located at 301 Brandywine Blvd, Wilmington has applied for a permit to operate an Auto Body Shop that conducts any or all of the following: collision repair, vehicle painting, paint stripping, or sanding.7 DE Admin. Code 1102 Natural Minor Permit Application: Heritage Concrete
HMA Concrete, LLC, dba Heritage Concrete, requests a permit amendment to include a concrete silo and associated baghouse to the original construction permit application for their concrete production facility located at 1100 South Heald Street, in Wilmington.7 DE Admin. Code 1102 Natural Minor Permit Application: Delaware City Refining Company
The Delaware City Refining Company has submitted an application to install additional controls for cuff oil processing at their Wastewater Treatment Plant including additional carbon canisters as well as a Hydrogen Sulfide Scrubber and Catalytic Oxidizer, at their facility at 4550 Wrangle Hill Road, Delaware City.7 DE Admin. Code 1102 Natural Minor Permit Application: Delaware City Refining Company
The Delaware City Refining Company requests a permit to add an additional carbon control system to their Oily Water Sewer System (OWS) at their facility at 4550 Wrangle Hill Road, in Delaware City.Federally Enforceable 7 DE Admin. Code 1102 Permits: Delaware City Refining Company
The Delaware City Refining Company requests amendments to operation permits of Nitrogen Oxide producing equipment at their 4550 Wrangle Hill Road, Delaware City, New Castle County facility.7 DE Admin. Code 1102 Natural Minor Permit Application: Beebe Healthcare
Beebe Healthcare requests permission for the installation of a diesel-fired emergency generator at Beebe Healthcare-South Coastal Campus ED and Cancer Center, at 32750 Roxana Road, Millville.Reg. 1102 Permit Application: Clear Definitions, LLC
Clear Definitions, LLC, located at 110 N. Rehoboth Blvd, in Milford, has applied for a permit to operate an Auto Body Shop that conducts any or all of the following: collision repair, vehicle painting, paint stripping, or sanding.7 DE Admin. Code 1102 Natural Minor Permit Application: Superior Contractor Services, Inc.
Superior Contractor Services, Inc., requests a permit amendment to operate their jaw crusher, impact crusher, and other permitted equipment at River Asphalt 2, located at 36393 Sussex Highway, in Delmar.7 DE Admin. Code 1102 Natural Minor Permit Application: Zack Excavating, Inc.
Zack Excavating, Inc., requests a construction permit to install mobile jaw crusher, screen, and conveyor for use at 2935 South DuPont Blvd, Smyrna, 161 Twin Oak Drive, Cheswold, and 18195 DuPont Hwy, Harrington.7 DE Admin. Code 1102 Natural Minor Permit Application: Zack Excavating, Inc.
Zack Excavating, Inc., requests a (construction) permit to install an impact crusher, screen, and conveyor for use at 2935 South DuPont Blvd, Smyrna, 161 Twin Oak Drive, Cheswold, and 18195 DuPont Hwy, Harrington.Title V Synthetic Minor Permit Application: Christiana Care Health Services, Inc. – Wilmington Hospital
Christiana Care Health Services, Inc. requests to revise their federally enforceable limits of operating hours and fuel usage in order to incorporate two 1500 kW emergency generators at the ir location at 501 West 14th Street, Wilmington.Federally Enforceable 7 DE Admin. Code 1102 Application: Christiana Care Health Services
Christiana Care Health Services, Inc. – Wilmington Hospital – has requested federally enforceable 7 DE Admin. Code 1102 construction permits for a natural gas fired emergency generator and a diesel/natural gas fired emergency generator to provide additional emergency back up support for the hospital’s expansion at 501 West 14th Street, Wilmington, Delaware.7 DE Admin. Code 1102 Natural Minor Permit Application: GFP Mobile Mix Supply, LLC
GFP Mobile Mix Supply, LLC, requests a construction permit to construct a cement storage silo and baghouse at their facility at 14 Hadco Road, in Wilmington.7 DE Admin. Code 1102 Natural Minor Permit Application: Ameresco Delaware Energy, and DSWA
Ameresco Delaware Energy, LLC and the Delaware Solid Waste Authority, have requested a permit to extend five existing exhaust stacks from a height of 32 feet to a height of 53 feet for five existing General Electric landfill gas generators (one megawatt each) at the Southern Solid Waste Management Center located at 29806 Landfill Lane (Route 20), Georgetown, Sussex County, Delaware.Federally Enforceable 7 DE Admin. Code 1102 Permit Application: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. requests a federally enforceable 7 DE Admin. Code 1102 construction permit for the installation of one natural gas fired emergency generator at Route 896 & Corporate Blvd, Newark, New Castle County, Delaware.Title V Synthetic Minor Permit Application: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. has submitted an application, pursuant to 7 DE Admin. Code 1102, for a permit amendment at 500 GBC Drive, Building 500, Newark, Delaware.Reg 1102 Permit Application: Hertrich Collision Center of Milford
Hertrich Collision Center of Milford, Inc. located at 1449 Bay Road, Milford has applied for a permit to operate an Auto Body Shop that conducts any or all of the following: collision repair, vehicle painting, paint stripping, or sanding.Reg 1102 Permit Application: B & G Auto Body
B & G Auto Body located at 863 Old Baltimore Pike, Newark has applied for a permit to operate an Auto Body Shop that conducts any or all of the following: collision repair, vehicle painting, paint stripping, or sanding.7 DE Admin. Code 1102 Natural Minor Permit Application: Sunoco Pipeline
Sunoco Pipeline, L.P., requests a temporary operation permit for a portable 7344 SCFM EXPRO Model No. FS6X25 23.6 mmBTU\hr butane fired flare at their Claymont, Delaware, facility in order to support required pipeline testing and to minimize the safety risk and emissions impact for the required maintenance activities.7 DE Admin. Code 1102 Natural Minor Permit Application: Amick Farms
Amick Farms, LLC, requests a construction permit to replace existing cyclones (particulate control devices) with three new high efficiency cyclones for an existing pellet cooler at their 10281 Amick Drive, Delmar, Sussex County facility.7 DE Admin. Code 1102 Natural Minor Permit Application: Normaco
Normaco requests a construction permit to add two new chemicals to their pharmaceutical manufacturing process at their 500 Swedes Landing Road, Wilmington, New Castle County, facility.Federally Enforceable Air Permit Applications: GT USA Wilmington, LLC
GT USA Wilmington, LLC has submitted applications for construction/operation permits for diesel engines for three existing mobile cranes for unloading and loading of cargo at the Port of Wilmington.Air Toxics Questions and Answers
Questions and answers about air toxics and the Delaware Air Toxics Assessment Study (DATAS). Toxic air pollutants, also referred to as air toxics or hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), are chemicals that, at sufficient concentrations and exposures, are known or suspected to cause cancer. HAPs can alsoRegional Haze
Air pollutants can cause haze, a veil of white or brown that obscures and blurs what we can see in the distance. Federal law requires states to prepare implementation plans to reduce the pollutants that can cause haze in important scenic areas. Delaware was determined to have an impact on haze only for the BrigantineThe Delaware Particulate Matter Advance Program
The state and local governments in Delaware have joined together to work with industry to reduce particulate matter emissions and protect the public under the EPA’s Particulate Matter Advance Program.Contact Us
Ozone
Ozone is a colorless, naturally occurring gas found in two layers of the atmosphere. In the upper layers of the atmosphere, ozone protects life on Earth by absorbing some of the sun’s ultraviolet rays. In the layer closest to the ground, however, ozone is an air pollutant that is a key ingredient of smog andAir Toxics
Toxic air pollutants, also referred to as air toxics or hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), are chemicals that, at sufficient concentrations and exposures, are known or suspected to cause cancer. They can also cause other serious health problems or cause adverse environmental effects. DNREC monitors Delaware’s air for air toxics and publishes regular Air Toxics Strategic PlansAir Quality
The Division of Air Quality manages programs to monitor air quality, mitigate air quality problems, and forecast air quality conditions in Delaware. Air Quality Forecast See current air quality readings and get the latest air quality forecast for our region.
Regulation 1102 Permit Application: Eurshall Miller’s Collision Center
Notice has been given that Eurshall Miller’s Collision Center located at 36371 Sussex Highway, Delmar, has applied for a permit to operate an Auto Body Shop.7 DE Admin. Code 1102 Natural Minor Permit Applications: GSOE I, LLC
GSOE I, LLC, requests a permit to construct, operate, and decommission an unmanned Meteorological Buoy (Met Buoy) to collect meteorological data in Delaware’s Outer Continental Shelf approximately 16.5 statute miles off the coast of Rehoboth Beach.Public Hearing: Outer Continental Shelf Air Regulations
The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) Division of Air Quality will conduct a public hearing on proposed amendments to 7 DE Admin. Code 1150, Outer Continental Shelf Air Regulations.Title V Permit Renewal Applications – DSWA Georgetown
The Delaware Solid Waste Authority has submitted a request for an Air Quality permit renewal pursuant to 7 DE Admin. Code 1130, Section 7, for an operating for its facility at 28560 Landfill Lane, Georgetown, Delaware.7 DE Admin. Code 1102 Natural Minor Permit Applications
Noramco has applied for an air quality construction permit to add two batch manufacturing processes at their facility located at 550 Swedes Landing Rd, in Wilmington, Delaware.7 DE Admin. Code 1102 Natural Minor Permit Applications
Division of Air Quality Start Date: 4/14/2019 End Date: 4/29/2019
Title V Permit Renewal Applications – Veolia Red Lion Plant
The Veolia Red Lion Plant at 766 Governor Lea Road, New Castle, Delaware, has submitted a request for permit renewal pursuant to 7 DE Admin. Code 1130, Section 7 Permit: AQM-003/00673 Renewal 1 and associated Permit: APC-2003/0739-OPERATION (Amendment 3)(NSPS)(CAP).Federally Enforceable 7 DE Admin. Code 1102 Applications
MEDAL Air Liquide has requested a federally enforceable 7 DE Admin. Code 1102 construction permit for a new regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO) at a facility at 305 Water St., Newport.Page: 12 of 2 total pages
