Section 24-154. Environmental ratings; applications and appeals

(a) The
  commissioner may require any owner of  equipment  to  provide  pertinent
  data concerning emissions so as to show compliance with the requirements
  of section 24-153 of this code.
    (b)  When  required  by  the  commissioner,  the owner of equipment in
  operation before August twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred seventy-one shall
  submit a  detailed  environmental  rating  report  which  shall  include
  emission   data,   pertinent   environmental   factors  and  a  proposed
  environmental rating showing either conformity with the requirements  of
  section  24-153  of  this  code or proposed corrective measures. If this
  report is  acceptable,  the  commissioner  will  so  notify  the  person
  operating  or maintaining the equipment. If the report is not acceptable
  to the department, the commissioner shall notify the applicant as to the
  reason  therefor,  together  with  an  environmental  rating   that   is
  acceptable  and  a  time  schedule  for compliance. Upon petition to the
  commissioner within thirty days of such notice, the  commissioner  shall
  grant  a  hearing  to  such  petitioner  on  the issue of an appropriate
  environmental rating.
    (c)  Persons  beginning   or   modifying   operations   after   August
  twenty-fifth,   nineteen   hundred   seventy-one  shall  submit  to  the
  commissioner  or  his  or  her  representative,  either  prior   to   or
  concurrently   with   submission   of   applications  for  a  permit  or
  registration, a detailed  report,  including  emission  data,  pertinent
  environmental  factors  and the proposed environmental rating to be used
  for design purposes.
    (d) Environmental rating reports concerning equipment  for  which  the
  submission  of  an  application for a permit or operating certificate is
  required shall be professionally certified.