NEW CONSTRUCTION OR SOURCE; NOTICE TO CITY
Salt Lake City Code § 9.24.080
in effect9.24.080: NEW CONSTRUCTION OR SOURCE; NOTICE TO CITY:
A. Notice Required When: Except for the exemptions listed herein, any person planning to construct a new installation which will or might reasonably be expected to become a source of air pollution, or to make modifications to an existing installation which will or might reasonably be expected to increase the amount or change the effect of or the character of air contaminants discharged, so that such installation may be expected to become a source of air pollution, or any person planning to install control equipment or other equipment intended to control emission of air contaminants, shall submit to the air quality section a notice of intent to construct prior to initiation of construction.
B. Information Required: The following information shall be submitted with the notice of construction:
1. A description of the nature of the process(es) involved; the nature, procedure for handing, and the quantities of raw materials; the type and quantity of fuels employed; and the nature and quantity of finished product;
2. Expected composition of effluent stream, both before and after treatment by any control equipment, including emission rate, volume, temperature and contaminants;
3. Expected physical characteristics of aerosols;
4. Size, type and performance characteristics of control equipment;
5. Location and elevation of the emission point and other factors relating to dispersion and diffusion of the air contaminant in the outer air, the relation of the emission to nearby structures and window openings, and other information necessary to appraise the possible effects of the effluent;
6. The location of planned sampling points, and the tests to be made of the completed installation by the owner, when necessary to ascertain compliance.
C. Exemptions: The following types of installations are exempt from the notice requirements:
1. Comfort heating equipment, boilers, water heaters, air heaters and steam generators with the rated capacity of less than five hundred thousand (500,000) Btu per hour;
2. Comfort ventilating systems not designed to remove air contaminants generated by or released from equipment;
3. Unit space heaters;
4. Vacuum cleaning systems used exclusively for commercial or residential housekeeping;
5. Exhaust systems for controlling steam and heat which do not contain combustion products;
6. Fuel burning equipment using no other fuel than natural gas or LPG, or other mixed gas distributed by a utility in accordance with the rules of the state public service commission. (Prior code § 3-1-10)
Source: Salt Lake City, Utah, City Code (American Legal Publishing, codelibrary.amlegal.com)URL: https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/saltlakecityut/latest/saltlakecity_ut/0-0-0-50801Fetched: 11/1/2026