Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 401 - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT CABINET - DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 61 - Existing Source Standards › Section 401 KAR 61:120 - Existing fabric, vinyl and paper surface coating operations

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 fabric, vinyl or paper surface coating
				operations.
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 fabric, vinyl, or paper.
(2) "Applicator" means the mechanism or
			 device used to apply the coating including, but not limited to, roll, knife, or
			 rotogravure coater.
(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 any 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 purpose of determining compliance with this administrative regulation,
			 if any equipment or operation is considered to be a part of more than one (1)
			 coating line, its VOC emissions shall be assigned to each coating line to which
			 it is a part proportionally to the throughput of VOCs it receives from or
			 distributes to each coating line;
(i) If any 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.
(j) An
			 affected facility which is capable of performing both paper coating and paper
			 printing shall be considered as performing a paper printing operation subject
			 to
			 401
			 KAR 61:122.
(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) "Fabric coating" means the coating or
			 saturation of a textile substrate to impart properties that are not initially
			 present, such as strength, stability, water or acid repellency, functionality,
			 or appearance.
(7) "Vinyl coating"
			 means the coating of vinyl coated fabric or vinyl sheets, which includes
			 decorative, functional, or protective topcoats or printing.
(8) "Paper coating" means saturation or the
			 application of a uniform layer of material across the entire width of a web of
			 paper, pressure sensitive tapes regardless of substrate, related web coating
			 processes on plastic film such as typewriter ribbons, photographic film,
			 magnetic tape, functional films, and decorative coatings on metal foil such as
			 gift wrap and packaging, but does not include the printing of paper.
(9) "Knife coating" means the application of
			 a coating material to a substrate by means of drawing the substrate beneath a
			 knife that spreads the coating evenly over the full width of the
			 substrate.
(10) "Roll coating"
			 means the application of a coating material to a substrate by means of hard
			 rubber or steel rolls.
(11)
			 "Rotogravure coating" means the application of a uniform layer of material
			 across a substrate by means of a roll coating technique in which the entire
			 coating roll is uniformly etched with recessed cells and no pattern or design
			 is present. The coating material is picked up in these recessed cells and is
			 transferred to the substrate.
(12)
			 "Classification date" means June 29, 1979.
(13) "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 any operation
			 or design of equipment is such as to permit more than one (1) interpretation of
			 this definition, the interpretation that results in the minimum value for
			 allowable emission shall apply.
(14) "Printing" means the formation of words,
			 designs and pictures, usually by a series of application rolls each with only
			 partial coverage. It applies to flexographic and rotogravure processes as
			 applied to publication, specialty, and packaging printing as defined in
			 401
			 KAR 61:122.