## JUN () j- 2010

MEMORANDUM

SUBJECT: Control Technique Guidelines for Miscellaneous Metal and Plastic Part Coatings —

Industry Request for Reconside

FROM: Stephen D. Page, Directo

Office of Air Quality Pla , ing and Stanydar r s((C404-04)

TO: Chief, Air Branch

Regions I-X

The purpose of this memorandum is to inform EPA Regional Offices that members of the pleasure craft industry have contacted EPA to request changes to the Control Techniques Guidelines (CTG) for Miscellaneous Metal and Plastic Part Coatings (MMPPC) (EPA-453/R-08- 0373). This memorandum serves as a reminder to EPA Regional Offices of the role that CTG play in the State Implementation Plans (SIP) process for ozone nonattainment areas. CTG provide information and recommendations for state and local air pollution control agencies to consider when developing rules to meet the Clean Air Act's (CAA) reasonably available control technology (RACT) requirements. Specifically, we reiterate that the information contained in CTG, including the MMPPC CTG, is provided only as guidance. The CTG do not impose any legally binding requirements on any entity, State and local air pollution control agencies are free to implement other technically-sound approaches that are consistent with the CAA and EPA's implementing regulations. Therefore, EPA does not intend to revise the MMPPC CTG. Instead, EPA is recommending that the pleasure craft industry work together with state agencies in the RACT rule development process for MMPPC to assess what is reasonable for the specific sources regulated under each state's rules. EPA will evaluate the state-developed RACT rules and determine through notice and comment rulemaking in the SIP approval process, whether the submitted rules meet the RACT requirements of the CAA and EPA's regulations.

BACKGROUND

The MMPPC CTG were published on October 7, 2008 (73 FR 58486). On September 14, 2009, EPA was contacted by the pleasure craft industry with a request for EPA to reconsider some of the emission limits for volatile organic compounds (VOC) recommended in the MMPPC CTG. In its letter to EPA, industry asserted that three of the emission limits for VOC, recommended in the MMPPC CTG for pleasure craft, were too low considering the performance requirements of pleasure craft coatings, and that overall, the VOC emission limits recommended in the MMPPC2

CTG did not represent RACT for the national pleasure craft coatings industry. To get further clarification of the issues, EPA held an industry conference call and spoke with individual industry members on several other occasions. The pleasure craft industry presented what they deemed to be technological and feasibility challenges to meeting the VOC emission limits recommended in the MMPPC CTG.
Table 2 of the MMPPC CTG recommends the following VOC content limits (expressed in terms of mass of VOC per volume of coating, excluding water and exempt compounds, as applied) for surface coating of pleasure craft:

Table 2. Pleasure Craft Surface Coating VOC Content Limits

Extreme High Gloss Topcoat 0.49 4.1 High Gloss Topcoat 0.42 3.5 Pretreatment Wash Primers 0.78 6.5 Finish Primer/Surfacer 0.42 3.5 High Build Primer Surfacer 0.34 2.8 Aluminum Substrate Antifoulant Coating 0.56 4.7 Other Substrate Antifoulant Coating 0.33 2.8 All other pleasure craft surface coatings for metal or plastic 0.42 3.5

Also, the MMPPC CTG provide an option to meet alternate emission rate limits based on lowVOC coatings and add-on controls. Table 10 of the MMPPC CTG recommends the following emission rate limits for pleasure craft operations:

Table 10. Pleasure Craft Surface Coating VOC Emission Rate Limits (VOC per Volume Solids)

Extreme High Gloss Topcoat 1,10 9.2 High Gloss Topcoat 0.80 6.7 Pretreatment Wash Primers 6.67 55.6 Finish Primer/Surfacer 0.80 6.7 High Build Primer Surfacer 0.55 4.6 Aluminum Substrate Antifoulant Coating 1.53 12.8 Other Substrate Antifoulant Coating 0.53 4.4 All other pleasure craft surface coatings for metal or plastic 0.80 6.7

The three pleasure craft categories that industry requested EPA to reconsider were extreme gloss, high gloss and antifoulant coatings. Industry urged EPA to revise the MMPPC CTG to include an averaging approach as a compliance option to allow pleasure craft coating facilities to use a combination of high and low VOC-containing products as long as the average value was kept3

below a level specified by EPA. In summary, the pleasure craft industry suggested that the CTG be revised to include (one or all of) the following measures:

1, Regulate VOC emissions from facilities using pleasure craft coatings by including an averaging approach as a compliance option. If this is not deemed possible, then points 2 and 3 should apply.

2. Amend the MMPPC CTG "Finish Primer/Surfacer" VOC limit from 420g/L to 600g/L for a four-year interim period to allow coating manufacturers and users sufficient time to develop and implement compliant coatings.

3. Make permanent changes to the MMPPC CTG with immediate and permanent effects, as follows:

• Add an additional specialty category of "Antifouling Sealer/Tie Coat" with VOC limit of 420g/L to align the MMPPC CTG with the International Maritime Organization's International Convention on the Control of Harmful Antifouling Systems on Ships;

%atin g" Change the VOC emission limits in the category, "Other Substrate Antifoulant from 330g/L to 400g/L;

• Change the VOC emission limits in the category, "Extreme High Gloss" from 420 g/L to 600 g/L, reflecting the very specialized nature of the coatings in this category; and • Revise the coating category definition of "Extreme High Gloss Topcoat" to read: "Extrenze high gloss coating fneans any coating which achieves greater than 90 peNcent reflectance on a 60° fneter when tested by ASTMMethod D 523-89. "

4. Make the provisions and VOC limits in the pleasure craft categories of the MMPPC CTG consistent with the requirements of the planned revision to the Shipbuilding MACT Standard.

OAQPS RECOMMENDATION

After careful evaluation of the issues raised by the pleasure craft industry, OAQPS is recommending that the pleasure craft industry work with state agencies during their RACT rule development process to assess what is reasonable for the specific sources regulated because the CTG impose no legally binding requirements on any entity, including pleasure craft coating facilities. CAA Section 172(c)(1) provides that SIPs for nonattainment areas must include "reasonably available control measures" (RACM), including RACT, for sources of emissions. Section 182(b)(2)(A) provides that for certain nonattainment areas, states must revise their SIPs to include RACT for each category of VOC sources covered by a CTG document issued between November 15, 1990, and the date of attainment. The CTG are intended to provide state and local air pollution control authorities with information to assist them in determining RACT for VOC.

Based on available information and data, EPA has provided recommendations for RACT for MMPPC operations, including pleasure craft coating operations, in the MMPPC CTG. States can use the recommendations from the MMPPC CTG to inform their own determination as to what constitutes RACT for VOC for pleasure craft coating operations in their particular ozone nonattainment areas.~

Regardless of whether a state chooses to implement the recommendations contained in the MMPPC CTG through state rules, or to issue state rules that adopt different approaches, states must submit their R.ACT rules to EPA for review and approval as part of the SIP process. EPA will evaluate the state's RACT rules and determine, through notice and comment rulemaking in the SIP approval process, whether the submitted rules meet the RACT requirements of the CAA and EPA's regulations. If a state proposes to adopt any of the recommendations in the MMPPC CTG into its state RACT rules, interested parties can comment on and raise objections about the application of any specific RACT recommendation in the MMPPC CTG to a particular situation during the development of the state rules and EPA's SIP approval process.

Should you have further questions, please contact Kaye Whitfield of my staff at 919-541- 2509 or whitfield.kaye@epa.gov
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