Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 401 - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT CABINET - DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 61 - Existing Source Standards › Section 401 KAR 61:122 - Existing graphic arts facilities using rotogravure and flexography

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 24A),
				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 graphic arts facilities which use rotogravure
				and flexography.
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 printing line for packaging rotogravure, publication
			 rotogravure, specialty rotogravure, and flexographic printing.
(2) "Applicator" means the mechanism or
			 device used to apply the ink.
(3)
			 "Flash-off area" means the space between the applicator and the oven.
(4) "Printing line" means a series of
			 equipment or operations used to apply, dry, or cure any inks containing 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)
			 printing line, its VOC emissions shall be assigned to each printing line of
			 which it is a part proportionally to the throughput of VOCs it receives from or
			 distributes to each printing 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 printing line;
(j) All
			 units in a machine which has both coating and printing units shall be
			 considered as performing a printing operation.
(5) "Process storage" means mixing tanks,
			 holding tanks, and other tanks, drums, or other containers which contain inks,
			 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) "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.
(7) "Coating" means the application of a
			 uniform layer of material across the entire width of a web.
(8) "Classification date" means February 4,
			 1981.
(9) "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 emissions shall apply.
(10) "Packaging rotogravure printing" means
			 rotogravure printing upon paper, paper board, metal foil, plastic film, and
			 other substrates, which are, in subsequent operations, formed into packaging
			 products and labels for articles to be sold.
(11) "Publication rotogravure printing" means
			 rotogravure printing upon paper which is subsequently formed into books,
			 magazines, catalogs, brochures, directories, newspaper supplements, and other
			 types of printed materials.
(12)
			 "Flexographic printing" means the application of words, designs and pictures to
			 a substrate by means of 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.
(13) "Rotogravure printing" means the
			 application of words, designs, and pictures to a substrate by means of a roll
			 printing technique which involves intaglio or recessed image areas in the form
			 of cells.
(14) "Roll printing"
			 means the application of words, designs and pictures to a substrate usually by
			 means of a series of hard rubber or steel rolls each with only partial
			 coverage.
(15) "Specialty
			 rotogravure printing" means all rotogravure printing except packaging
			 rotogravure and publication rotogravure printing. It includes, but is not
			 limited to, rotogravure printing on paper cups and plates, patterned gift wrap,
			 wallpaper and floor coverings.