OFFICIAL SITE OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY

Authorized by the New Jersey Air Pollution Control Act, the Department formed a SOTA workgroup, as an integral part of its Air Program reengineering efforts. The SOTA workgroup provided advice to the Department on the development of technical manuals to be used by permit applicants for demonstrating advances in the art of air pollution control.

The workgroup was open to the public throughout the process. Representatives of source operations covered by the technical manuals worked in partnership with the Department to develop these manuals. The manuals were finalized after a public workshop and two public comment periods noticed in the New Jersey Register.

Use of these technical manuals should result in significant savings to permit applicants, both in time spent and costs incurred, for demonstrating advances in the art of air pollution control. For a source operation subject to a SOTA technical manual, case-by-case SOTA demonstration is not required if the applicant shows conformance with the SOTA specified in the manual.

The environment benefits from the SOTA technical manuals because they specify emission performance levels that reflect emission levels achieved by the best performing sources, with the best pollution prevention measures and air pollution control apparatus.

SOTA manuals are updated periodically to ensure the State of the Art performance limits are the best available.