Illinois Administrative Code › Title 35 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part 218 - ORGANIC MATERIAL EMISSION STANDARDS AND LIMITATIONS FOR THE CHICAGO AREA › Subpart E - SOLVENT CLEANING › Section 218.187 - Other Industrial Solvent Cleaning Operations

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) Applicability. On and after January 1,
				2012:
1) Except as provided in subsection
				(a)(2) of this Section, the requirements of this Section shall apply to all
				cleaning operations that use organic materials at sources that emit a total of
				226.8 kg per calendar month (500 lbs per calendar month) or more of VOM, in the
				absence of air pollution control equipment, from cleaning operations at the
				source other than cleaning operations identified in subsection (a)(2) of this
				Section. For purposes of this Section, "cleaning operation" means the process
				of cleaning products, product components, tools, equipment, or general work
				areas during production, repair, maintenance, or servicing, including but not
				limited to spray gun cleaning, spray booth cleaning, large and small
				manufactured components cleaning, parts cleaning, equipment cleaning, line
				cleaning, floor cleaning, and tank cleaning, at sources with emission
				units;
2) Notwithstanding
				subsection (a)(1) of this Section:
A) The
				following cleaning operations shall be exempt from the requirements of
				subsections (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), and (g) of this Section:
i) Cleaning operations subject to the
				limitations in Sections
				218.182,
				218.183,
				or
				218.184;
ii) Janitorial cleaning;
iii) Stripping of cured coatings, inks, or
				adhesives;
iv) Cleaning operations
				in printing pre-press areas, including the cleaning of film processors, color
				scanners, plate processors, film cleaning, and plate cleaning;
B) Cleaning operations for
				emission units within the following categories shall be exempt from the
				requirements of subsections (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), and (g) of this Section:
i) Flexible package printing;
ii) Lithographic printing;
iii) Letterpress printing;
iv) Flat wood paneling coating;
v) Large appliance coating;
vi) Metal furniture coating;
vii) Paper, film, and foil coating;
viii) Wood furniture coating;
ix) Plastic parts coating;
x) Miscellaneous metal parts
				coating;
xi) Fiberglass boat
				manufacturing;
xii) Miscellaneous
				industrial adhesives; and
xiii)
				Auto and light-duty truck assembly coating;
C) The following cleaning operations shall be
				exempt from the requirements of subsections (b), (c), (f), and (g) of this
				Section:
i) Cleaning of solar cells, laser
				hardware, scientific instruments, and high-precision optics;
ii) Cleaning conducted as part of performance
				laboratory tests on coatings, adhesives, or inks; research and development
				operations; or laboratory tests in quality assurance laboratories;
iii) Cleaning of paper-based gaskets and
				clutch assemblies where rubber is bonded to metal by means of an
				adhesive;
iv) Cleaning of cotton
				swabs to remove cottonseed oil before cleaning of high-precision
				optics;
v) Cleaning of medical
				device and pharmaceutical manufacturing operations if the facility uses no more
				than 5.7 liters (1.5 gallons) per day of
				solvents for such cleaning;
vi)
				Cleaning of adhesive application equipment used for thin metal
				laminating;
vii) Cleaning of
				electronic or electrical cables;
viii) Touch-up cleaning performed on printed
				circuit boards where surface mounted devices have already been
				attached;
ix) Cleaning of coating
				and adhesive application processes utilized to manufacture transdermal drug
				delivery products using no more than three gallons per day of ethyl
				acetate;
x) Cleaning of application
				equipment used to apply coatings on satellites and radiation effect
				coatings;
xi) Cleaning of
				application equipment used to apply solvent-borne fluoropolymer
				coatings;
xii) Cleaning of
				ultraviolet or electron beam adhesive application;
xiii) Cleaning of sterilization indicating
				ink application equipment if the facility uses no more than 5.7 liters
(
1.5 gallons)
				per day of solvents for such cleaning;
xiv) Cleaning of metering rollers, dampening
				rollers, and printing plates;
xv)
				Cleaning of numismatic dies;
xvi)
				Cleaning operations associated with digital printing;
xvii) Cleaning with aerosol products if the
				facility uses no more than 4.7 liters (1.25 gallons) per
				day of such products;
xviii)
				Cleaning of plastic-based or vinyl-based substrates for use in the screen
				printing process when using UV curable ink and coating systems;
xix) Cleaning conducted as part of
				performance tests on coatings, adhesives, or inks that are in research and
				development and that are not yet commercially used for the applications for
				which they are being tested. This exemption is limited to the use of up to a
				total of 90.9 liters (24 gallons) of cleaning solvent per calendar month and
				416.3 liters (110 gallons) per calendar year for such cleaning.