Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 401 - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT CABINET - DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 61 - Existing Source Standards › Section 401 KAR 61:124 - Existing factory surface coating operations of flat wood paneling

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
				KRS
				224.20-100,
				224.20-110,
				224.20-120,
				40 C.F.R. 60 Appendix A (Method 24),
				42 U.S.C.
				7401 et seq., 7407, 7408, 7410
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
				KRS
				224.10-100 requires the Environmental and
				Public Protection Cabinet to prescribe administrative regulations for the
				prevention, abatement and control of air pollution.
				42
				USC 7410 likewise requires the state to
				implement standards for national primary and secondary ambient air quality.
				This administrative regulation provides for the control of volatile organic
				compound emissions from existing factory surface coating operations of flat
				wood paneling.
Section 1. Definitions.
			 As used in this administrative regulation, all terms not defined in this
			 section shall have the meaning given to them in
			 401 KAR
			 61:001.
(1) "Affected
			 facility" means a coating line for the factory surface coating of interior flat
			 wood paneling.
(2) "Applicator"
			 means the mechanism or device used to apply the coating including but not
			 limited to roll coaters, curtain coaters, sprays and brushes.
(3) "Flash-off area" means the space between
			 the applicator and the oven.
(4)
			 "Coating line" means a series of equipment or operations used to apply, dry, or
			 cure coatings containing volatile organic compounds (VOCs). This shall include,
			 but is not limited to:
(a) Mixing
			 operations;
(b) Process
			 storage;
(c) Applicators;
(d) Drying operations including, but not
			 limited to, flash-off area evaporation, oven drying, baking, curing, and
			 polymerization;
(e) Clean up
			 operations;
(f) Leaks, spills and
			 disposal of VOCs;
(g) Processing
			 and handling of recovered VOCs;
(h)
			 For the purposes of determining compliance with this administrative regulation,
			 if equipment or an operation is considered to be a part of more than one (1)
			 coating line, its VOC emissions shall be assigned to each coating line of which
			 it is a part proportionally to the throughput of VOC it receives from or
			 distributes to each coating line;
(i) If a portion of the series of equipment
			 or operations qualifies for an exemption according to Section 6 of this
			 administrative regulation, then that portion shall be considered to be a
			 separate coating line;
(5) "Process storage" means mixing tanks,
			 holding tanks, and other tanks, drums, or other containers which contain
			 surface coatings, VOCs, or recovered VOCs, but does not mean storage tanks of
			 petroleum liquids which are subject to
			 401 KAR
			 59:050, 401 KAR 59:052, or
			 401 KAR
			 61:050.
(6) "Interior flat wood paneling" means
			 printed interior wall panels made of hardwood plywood and thin particle board,
			 natural finish hardwood plywood panels, or hardboard paneling with Class II
			 finishes.
(7) "Printed panels"
			 means panels whose grain or natural surface is obscured by fillers and
			 base-coats upon which a simulated grain or decorative pattern is
			 printed.
(8) "Hardwood plywood"
			 means plywood whose surface layer is a veneer of hardwood.
(9) "Particle board" means a manufactured
			 board made of individual wood particles which have been coated with a binder
			 and formed into flat sheets by pressure. Thin particle board has a thickness of
			 one-fourth (1/4) inch or less.
(10)
			 "Natural finish hardwood plywood panels" means panels whose original grain
			 pattern is enhanced by essentially transparent finishes frequently supplemented
			 by fillers and toners.
(11)
			 "Hardboard" means a panel manufactured primarily from interfelted
			 lignocellulosic fibers which are consolidated under heat and pressure in a
			 hot-press.
(12) "Class II hardboard
			 paneling finishes" means finishes which meet the specifications of Voluntary
			 Product Standard PS-59-73, which has been incorporated by reference in
			 401 KAR
			 50:015, as approved by the American National Standards
			 Institute.
(13) "Classification
			 date" means February 4, 1981.
(14)
			 "VOCs net input" means the total amount of VOCs input to the affected facility
			 minus the amount of VOCs that are not emitted into the atmosphere. VOCs that
			 are prevented from being emitted to the atmosphere by the use of control
			 devices shall not be subtracted from the total for the purposes of determining
			 VOCs net input. If the nature of an operation or a design of equipment permits
			 more than one (1) interpretation of this definition, the interpretation that
			 results in the minimum value for allowable emissions shall
			 apply.