Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 22a - Environmental Protection › 174 - Abatement of Air Pollution › Section 22a-174-3b - Exemptions from permitting for construction and operation of external combustion units, automotive refinishing operations, emergency engines, nonmetallic mineral processing equipment and surface coating operations

Current through July 10, 2024
(a)
Definitions.
For the purposes of this section and section
			 22a-174-3 c of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies:
(1) "As applied" means a coating, including
			 all components such as dilution solvents and reactive constituents, prepared at
			 the time of application to a substrate;
(2) "Automobile" means a passenger car, van,
			 motorcycle, truck or any other motorized vehicle for transportation;
(3) "Automotive refinishing operation" means
			 the processes performed to apply a new surface to the pre-existing coat or
			 paint on an automobile, automotive component or any other mobile equipment or
			 part thereof, including but not limited to surface preparation, primer
			 application, topcoat application and applicator cleaning;
(4) "Electrostatic application" means the
			 application of charged atomized paint droplets by electrostatic
			 attraction;
(5) "Emergency" means
			 "emergency" as defined in section 22a-174-22 e of the Regulations of Connecticut
			 State Agencies;
(6) "Emergency
			 engine" means "emergency engine" as defined in section 22a-174-22 e of the
			 Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies;
(7) "External combustion unit" means a device
			 that combusts only natural gas, propane or fuel oil, which is not a stationary
			 internal combustion engine or turbine, and includes, but is not limited to, a
			 boiler, heater, drying oven, curing oven or furnace;
(8) "Mobile equipment" means any
			 non-automotive equipment or apparatus that is operated or is capable of being
			 operated on a roadway, including, but not limited to, truck bodies, truck
			 trailers, buses, mobile cranes, bulldozers and other construction equipment,
			 street cleaners and farm equipment;
(9) "Nonmetallic mineral" means "nonmetallic
			 mineral" as defined in  40 CFR 60.671;
(10) "Nonmetallic mineral processing
			 equipment" means any crusher, grinding mill, screening operation, bucket
			 elevator, belt conveyer, bagging operation, storage bin or other equipment used
			 to crush or grind any nonmetallic mineral at a nonmetallic mineral processing
			 plant;
(11) "Nonmetallic mineral
			 processing plant" means "nonmetallic mineral processing plant" as defined in  40 CFR 60.671;
(12) "Pre-existing coat
			 or paint" means a surface covering or coating applied to an automobile or
			 automotive component at an automotive manufacturing facility or applied to any
			 mobile equipment or part thereof at the point of manufacture;
(13) "Spray booth" means a building, a room
			 within a building or a partitioned area within a room housing automatic or
			 manual spray application equipment, that is used to apply coatings;
(14) "Surface coating operation" means a
			 process or processes used to apply a layer of material including spray
			 painting, dip coating, roller coating and electrostatic deposition, but
			 exclusive of printing, publishing or packaging operations;
(15) "Touch up repair" means the application
			 of automotive topcoat finish materials to cover minor finishing imperfections
			 equal to or less than one inch in diameter;
(16) "Tune-up" means to perform maintenance
			 and adjust equipment to proper or required operating condition; and
(17) "Twelve (12) month rolling aggregate"
			 means the sum of the total fuel use, actual emissions, coating use, solvent use
			 or actual operating time calculated for each month by adding the current
			 month's fuel use, actual emissions, coating use, solvent use or actual
			 operating time to those of the previous eleven months.