Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 132 - GRAPHIC ARTS - ROTOGRAVURE AND FLEXOGRAPHY › Section 096-132-2 - Definitions

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
A.
Control device.
"Control
				device" means equipment used to reduce, by destruction or removal, the amount
				of air pollutant(s) in an air stream prior to discharge to the ambient
				air.
B.
Day.
"Day"
				means a period of 24 consecutive hours beginning at midnight local time, or
				beginning at a time consistent with a facility's operating schedule.
C.
Flexographic printing press.
"Flexographic printing press" means a printing press that uses a roll printing
				technique in which the pattern to be applied is raised above the printing roll
				and the image carrier is made of rubber or other elastomeric
				materials.
D.
Maximum
				theoretical emissions.
"Maximum theoretical emissions" means the
				quantity of VOC that theoretically could be emitted by a source without control
				devices based on the design capacity or maximum production capacity of the
				source and 8760 hours of operation per year. The design capacity or maximum
				production capacity includes use of coatings and inks with the highest VOC
				content used in practice by the source for the two years preceding the
				effective date of this regulation.
E.
Packaging rotogravure printing
				press.
"Packaging rotogravure printing press" means a rotogravure
				printing press used to print on paper, paper board, metal foil, plastic film,
				and other substrates that are, in subsequent operations, formed into packaging
				products and labels, and other nonpublication products.
F.
Printing press.
"Printing
				press" means equipment used to apply words, pictures, or graphic designs to
				either a continuous substrate or a sheet. A continuous substrate consists of
				paper, plastic, or other material that is unwound from a roll, passed through
				coating or ink applicators and any associated drying areas. The press includes
				all coating and ink applicators and drying areas between unwind and rewind of
				the continuous substrate. A sheet consists of paper, plastic, or other material
				that is carried through the process on a moving belt. The press includes all
				coating and ink applicators and drying operations between the time that the
				sheet is put on the moving belt until it is taken off.
G.
Publication rotogravure printing
				press.
"Publication rotogravure printing press" means a rotogravure
				printing press on which the following paper products are printed:
(1) Catalogues, including mail order and
				premium;
(2) Direct mail
				advertisements, including circulars, letters, pamphlets, cards, and printed
				envelopes;
(3) Display
				advertisements, including general posters, outdoor advertisements, car cards,
				window posters; counter and floor displays; points-of-purchase and other
				printed display material;
(4)
				Magazines and books;
(5)
				Miscellaneous advertisements, including brochures, pamphlets, catalogue sheets,
				circular folders, announcements, package inserts, book jackets, market
				circulars magazine inserts, and shopping news;
(6) Newspapers, magazine and comic
				supplements for newspapers, and preprinted newspaper inserts, including hi - fi
				and spectacular rolls and sections;
(7) Periodicals; or
(8) Telephone and other directories,
				including business reference services.