### Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy 

### & Environmental Affairs 

# Department of Environmental Protection

One Winter Street Boston, MA 02108•617-292-5500

Charles D. Baker Governor Matthew A. Beaton Secretary
Karyn E. Polito Lieutenant Governor



### July 15, 2015

David Conroy Chief, Air Programs Branch EPA Region I 5 Post Office Square Suite 1 00

Boston, MA 021 09-3912

Re: Withdrawal of Portion of July 10, 2014 SIP Revision

Dear Mr. Conroy:

On July 10. 2014 the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) submitted a revision to the State Implementation Plan (SIP) adding amendments to 310 CMR 7.18 regulating adhesives and sealants. By this letter MassDEP hereby withdraws31 0 CMR 7.18(1)(b) from that submittal since this portion of the regulation is not needed in the SIP. Martin Suuberg Commissioner



### The withdrawn provision is indicated with strikethrough in the attached revised page of the final regulations that we originally submitted.

If you have any questions, please contact Glenn Keith of my staff at 617-292-5874.
Sincerely, ") /

# c_:.:~ Christine Kirby, Director Division of Air & 

### Climate Programs Bureau of Air and Waste

cc: Anne Arnold, EPA Region 1

This information is available in alternate format. Call Michelle Waters-Ekanem, Diversity Director, at 617-292-5751. TTY# MassRelay Service 1-800-439-2370 MassDEP Website: www.mass.gov/dep
Printed on Recycled PaperFINAL REGULATIONS 8/30/2013



### 1 [Amend 310 CMR 7.18 (1), 7.18(2)(a), 7.18(2)(b), an d 7.18(2)(f) as follows.]

310 CMR 7.18 (1) U Applicability and Handling Requirements

. (a) 310 CMR 7.18 shall apply in its entirety to per sons who own, lease, operate or control any facility which emits volatile organic compounds (VO C). (b) For purposes of 310 CMR 7.18, except for 310 CMR 7.18(30), VOC shall include both VOC as defined in 310 CMR 7.00 and Halogenated Organic Compounds (HOC) as defined in 310 CMR 7.00. (c) On or after July 1, 1980 any person owning, lea sing, operating, or controlling a facility regulated under 310 CMR 7.18, shall store and dispo se of volatile organic compounds in a manner which will minimize evaporation to the atmosphere. Proper storage shall be in a container with a tight fitting cover. Proper disposal shall includeincineration in an incinerator approved by the Department, transfer to another person licensed by the Department to handle VOC, or any other equivalent method approved by the Department. (d) Any person who owns, leases, operates, or controls a facility which is or becomes subject to 310 CMR 7.18 , except for those persons solely subject to 310 CM R 7.18(30) unless the facility is a CTG-affected facility as defined under 310 CMR 7.18 (30)(b), Definitions, shall continue to comply with all requirements of 310 CMR 7.18, even if emis sions from the subject facility no longer exceed applicability requirements of 310 CMR 7.18. (e) Any person not regulated by 310 CMR 7.18, prior to August 15, 1989 shall achieve compliance with the applicable section(s) of 310 CM R 7.18 by August 15, 1990. (f) Any person who, since January 1, 1990, obtains aplan approval for an emission unit under 310 CMR 7.02 where said approval establishes BACT o r LAER to be no less stringent than RACT for a facility size and type as defined in 310 CMR 7.18 , shall comply with the BACT or LAER as defined established in the plan approval, and is not subject to RACT st andards of 310 CMR 7.18 this section as may otherwise be applicable , until the applicable RACT standards of 310 CMR 7. 18 become more stringent than the BACT or LAER establi shed in the plan approval, at which point the person shall become subject to the updated RACT standards

. (2) U Compliance with Emission Limitations

. (a) Any person subject to 310 CMR 7.18 shall maintain continuous compliance with all requirements of 310 CMR 7.18. Except as provided f or in 310 CMR 7.18(2)(b) and (g), compliance averaging times are based on the control method sel ected to meet the applicable emission limitations and EPA test methods as codified in 40 CFR Part 60, or other methods approved by the Department and EPA, and are as follows:

Compliance Method EPA Reference Test Method Test Method Averaging Time Coating Reformulation 24 1 instantaneous

Solvent destruction or solvent 25 3hours recovery except carbon adsorption
Carbon adsorption 25 or other as appropriate the length on the adsorption cycle or 24-hours, whichever is less.

1 Reference Method 24 shall use a 60 minute bake timeat 110°C ± 5°C.
(b) Persons owning, leasing, or controlling the ope ration at a specific site location of any individual or combination of coating lines describe d in 310 CMR 7.18(3) through (7), (10) through (12), (14) through (16) , and (21) through (24) may , for compliance with dates specified in 310 CMR 7.18 (3) (2)(a), through (7), (10) through (12), (14) , (15), through (16), and (21) through (24) , and the emissions limitations contained in 310 CMR 7.18(3) through (7), (10) through (12), (14) through (16) , and (21) through (24) , submit a proposed plan containing a mix of emissio n limits for such coating lines such that the total emissions fr om all coating lines is less than or equal to the s um