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Contact Information:
Georgia Environmental Protection Division
2 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
Suite 1152 East Tower
Atlanta, GA 30334
(404) 363-7000.
Or view the Department's
Website
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GEORGIA
DE MINIMIS EXEMPTIONS:
Boilers are exempted from permitting if they are below the following size limits:
Natural gas or fuel oil fired: 10 MMBtu/hour
Wood or fossil fuel fired: 5 MMBtu/hour
Any other type of fuel: 2.5 MMBtu/hour
There is no size exemption for engines, however the state will usually write an exemption for microturbines
with a potential to emit less than the following:
5 tons per year of NOx and VOC in a nonattainment area
20 tons per year of NOx, PM, SO2 and VOC in attainment areas
Combustion turbines less than 100 kW and peaking units located outside of Atlanta and surrounding areas as well
as operating no more than 200 hours per year are also exempted.
MINOR SOURCE PERMITTING:
In nonattainment area and surrounding areas there are NOx limits. Small turbines and boilers must stay below 30
ppm of NOx and engines must stay below 80 ppm. These NOx limits apply May 1-Sept 30 of each year. There is also
an opacity limit of 20% for boilers and 40% for turbines and engines which applies to the whole state.
There is a 30 day public comment period and the whole permitting process takes about 120 days.
There is a 14 day public comment period and the state has 90 additional days to issue the permit.
MAJOR NSR/PSD PERMITTING:
A potential to emit 250 tons per year of a criteria pollutant triggers PSD. In the nonattainment area a potential
to emit 50 tons per year of NOx or VOCs triggers NSR.
TREATMENT OF EMERGENCY ENGINES:
The unit's potential to emit is calculated based on 500 hours of operation per year. Most emergency engines
are exempted based on the potential to emit. There is no hourly-operating limit, but units can only be used during
blackouts and for maintenance.
The Georgia Public Service Commission regulates only investor-owned utilities, and has no siting
responsibility for any independent power producer, co-op, or municipal utility. The moratorium that was in
effect previously on the permitting of electrical facilities has been removed.
Georgia Department of Community Affairs
In the state of Georgia, the Department of Community Affairs is given the responsibility
by the legislature for adopting state codes. The Uniform Codes Act is codified at chapter 2 of title 8 of The Official Code of Georgia Annotated.
O.C.G.A. Section 8-2-20(9)(B) (under "Buildings and Housing," and then "State Building, Plumbing, and Electrical Codes" section) identifies the fourteen "state minimum standard codes". Each of these
separate codes typically consist of a base code (e.g. The Standard Building Code as published by the
Southern Building Code Congress International) and a set of Georgia amendments to the base code. Georgia
law further dictates that eight of these codes are "mandatory" (are applicable to all construction whether
or not they are locally enforced) and six are "permissive" (only applicable if a local government chooses
to adopt and enforce one or more of these codes). These codes are as follows:
Mandatory Codes:
Standard Building Code;
National Electrical Code;
Standard Gas Code;
Standard Mechanical Code;
Georgia State Energy Code for Buildings;
Standard Fire Prevention Code;
Standard Plumbing Code
Permissive Codes:
Excavation and Grading Code;
Standard Existing Buildings Code;
Standard Unsafe Building Abatement Code.
A locality is
free to adopt the state mandated codes, but may not adopt standards less strict than those set by the state
legislature.
Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner
The Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner sets the minimum fire safety standards in
the state. The office enforces the fire safety rules and regulations for hotels, apartment
houses, schools, day care centers, personal care homes, churches, hospitals, nursing
homes, mercantile occupancies, buildings four or more stories in height and race tracks.
The engineering staff reviews and approves construction plans while the fire safety
compliance officers examine new and existing structures for compliance with safety fire
laws.
International Code Council State Adoption Information Page
Provides an easy to use US map to locate state and local adoption of the International Code Council's model codes.
US DOE's Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs, Building Codes Database
The US DOE's database provides a comprehensive look at a state's building code implementation and enforcement
process.
Georgia Power
| BU-4 Backup Service Rider |
| Load Size |
Min operation = 6000 hrs/yr |
| Basic Charge |
$155.00 |
| Metering Service |
n/a |
Back-up/
Standby/Emergency |
Firm Standby Reserve Charge: $2.13/kW
Local Facilities Charge: $0.76/kW
***Firm Standby Capacity Charges, Interruptible Back-Up Capacity
Charges, and Interruptible Maintenance Capacity Charges calculated by the company on a case by case basis
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| Supplementary/Auxillary |
Firm Standby Reserve Charge: $2.13/kW
Local Facilities Charge: $0.76/kW |
| Maintenance |
Firm Standby Reserve Charge: $2.13/kW
Local Facilities Charge: $0.76/kW |
| Net-Metering |
n/a |
| Company Power Purchase |
n/a |
| RNR-1 Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources |
| Load Size |
< 100 kW |
| Metering Service |
Single directional: $2.68
Bi-directional: $4.18
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| Company Power Purchase |
Payments calculated on a case by case basis using tariffs
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