Stationary Source

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-026708",
  "term": "Stationary Source",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. A fixed-site producer of pollution, mainly power plants and other facilities using industrial combustion processes.\n\n2. A place or object from which pollutants are released and which does not move around. Stationary sources include power plants, gas stations, incinerators, houses etc.\n\n3. A source of pollution that is fixed in space.\n\n4. Any building, structure, facility, or installation which emits or may emit any air pollutant.\n\n5. Any building, structure, facility, or installation which emits or may emit any air pollutant subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act.\n\n6. Any building, structure, facility, or installation that emits, or may emit, any air pollutant.\n\n7. Emission sources other than mobile sources such as large industrial sources such as power plants and refineries, smaller industrial and commercial sources such as dry cleaners and commercial cooking, and residential sources such as residential wood combustion and consumer products usage. Stationary sources may be characterized as being emitted from \"major\" sources or \"area\" sources based on the 10-ton or 25-ton definitions contained in the Clean Air Act. For presentation purposes, the NATA results are identified as \"point\" and \"nonpoint\" sources rather than \"major\" and \"area\" sources. The point and nonpoint designations reflect the way each source of emissions is modeled. Some smaller sources that are area sources in the inventory (based on the amount of their emissions) are modeled as point sources because the location of their emissions was identified with latitude and longitude coordinates.\n\n8. Buildings, structures, equipment, installations, or substance emitting stationary activities which belong to the same industrial group, which are located on one or more contiguous properties, which are under the control of the same person (or persons under common control), and from which an accidental release may occur. The term stationary source does not apply to transportation, including storage incident to transportation, of any regulated substance or any other extremely hazardous substance under the provisions of this part. A stationary source includes transportation containers used for storage not incident to transportation and transportation containers connected to equipment at a stationary source for loading or unloading.\n\n9. Sources of air emissions that do not move. Stationary sources include large industrial sources such as power plants and refineries, smaller industrial and commercial sources such as dry cleaners, and residential sources such as residential wood burning and consumer products usage.\n\n10. Any buildings, structures, equipment, installations, or substance-emitting stationary activities which belong to the same industrial group, which are located on one or more contiguous properties, which are under the control of the same person (or persons under common control), and from which an accidental release may occur.",
  "abbreviation": "SS",
  "subject": "Air",
  "references": [
    "Terms of Environment",
    "Air Permitting Terms",
    "Improving Air Quality in Your Community Glossary",
    "Community-Based Air Pollution Projects Glossary; 40 CFR 51.301 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 49.22 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 49.123 (CFR 2013)",
    "National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) Glossary",
    "Definition truncated. For full definition see, 40 CFR 68.3 (CFR 2018)",
    "85 FR 22250; The Navigable Waters Protection Rule: Definition of “Waters of the United States; 40 CFR 1604.2 (CFR 2020)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/stationary-source/"
}