Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 401 - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT CABINET - DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 61 - Existing Source Standards › Section 401 KAR 61:110 - Existing large appliance 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 large appliance 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 large appliances such as, but not limited
			 to, doors, cases, lids, panels and interior support parts of residential and
			 commercial washers, dryers, ranges, refrigerators, freezers, water heaters,
			 dishwashers, trash compactors, and air conditioners.
(2) "Applicator" means the mechanism or
			 device used to apply the coating, including but not limited to dipping or
			 spraying.
(3) "Flash-off area"
			 means the space between the applicator and the oven.
(4) "Prime coat" means the first film of
			 coating applied in a two (2) coat operation.
(5) "Topcoat" means the final film of coating
			 applied in a two (2) coat operation.
(6) "Single coat" means a single film coating
			 applied directly to the metal substrate omitting the prime coat.
(7) "Coating line" means a series of
			 equipment or operations used to apply, dry, or cure any prime, topcoat or
			 single 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 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 of 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.
(8) "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.
(9) "Classification date" means June 29,
			 1979.
(10) "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 permits more than one (1)
			 interpretation of this definition, the interpretation that results in the
			 minimum value for allowable emission shall apply.