South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 61 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL › Subchapter 61-62 - Air Pollution Control Regulations and Standards › Subchapter 61-62.5 - AIR POLLUTION CONTROL STANDARDS › STANDARD NO. 5 - VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS › Section 61-62.5.5.I - GENERAL PROVISIONS

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
Part A.
				  Definitions.
Unless specifically defined elsewhere in this Standard,
					 the definitions below and those contained in the South Carolina Pollution
					 Control Act and Regulation 62.1, Section I will apply to this Standard.
1. "Air dried coatings" means coatings which
				  are dried by the use of air at temperatures up to 90 degrees Celsius (C) (194
				  degrees Fahrenheit (F)).
2.
				  "Air/vapor interface" means the combined areas of the entrance and exit
				  openings of a conveyorized degreaser.
3. "Bead dipping" means the dipping of an
				  assembled tire bead into a solvent based cement.
4. "Bulk gasoline terminal" means a gasoline
				  storage plant which receives gasoline from refineries primarily by pipeline,
				  ship, or barge, and delivers gasoline to bulk plants or to commercial or retail
				  accounts primarily by tank truck, and has a daily throughput of more than
				  20,000 gallons (gal)(76,000 liters(L)) of gasoline.
5. "Capture system" means the equipment
				  (including hoods, ducts, fans, etc.) used to contain, capture, or transport a
				  pollutant to a control device.
6.
				  "Class II hardboard paneling finish" means a finish which meets the
				  specifications of Voluntary Product Standard PS-59-73 as approved by the
				  American National Standards Institute.
7. "Clear coat" is a coating which lacks
				  color and opacity or is transparent and uses the under coat as a reflectant
				  base or undertone color.
8.
				  "Coating application system" means all operations and equipment which apply,
				  convey, and dry a surface coating, including, but not limited to, spray booths,
				  flow coaters, conveyers, flashoff areas, air dryers, and ovens.
9. "Coil coating" means the coating of any
				  flat metal sheet or strip that comes in rolls or coils. This includes
				  protective, decorative, and functional coatings.
10. "Cold cleaning" means the batch process
				  of cleaning and removing soils from metal surfaces by spraying, brushing,
				  flushing, or immersion while maintaining the solvent below its boiling point.
				  Wipe cleaning is not included in this definition.
11. "Condenser" means a device which cools a
				  gas stream to a temperature which removes specific organic compounds by
				  condensation.
12. "Construction"
				  means onsite fabrication, erection, or installation of an emission source, air
				  pollution control equipment, or a plant.
13. "Control device" means equipment
				  (incinerator, adsorber, or the like) used to destroy, contain, or remove air
				  pollutant(s) prior to discharge.
14. "Control system" means any number of
				  control devices and associated equipment designed and operated to reduce the
				  quantity of Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emitted.
15. "Conveyorized degreasing" means the
				  continuous process of cleaning metal surfaces using either cold or vaporized
				  solvents.
16. "Cutback asphalt"
				  means asphalt cement which has been liquefied by blending with petroleum
				  solvents (diluents).
17. "Emission"
				  means the release or discharge, directly or indirectly, of any air pollutant
				  from any source.
18. "Existing
				  process" means any process described in any Part of Section II of this Standard
				  which was in existence or under construction on the effective date of that
				  Part.
July 1, 1979 is the effective date for Parts A, B, C, D, E,
					 N, O, S and T. July 1, 1980 is the effective date for Parts F, G, H, P, Q and
					 R.
19. "External floating
				  roof" means a storage vessel cover in an open top tank consisting of a double
				  deck or pontoon single deck which rests upon and is supported by the petroleum
				  liquid being contained and is equipped with a closure seal or seals to close
				  the space between the roof and tank shell.
20. "Extreme environmental conditions" means
				  constant exposure to the weather, exposure to temperatures consistently above
				  95 degrees C, detergents, scouring, solvents, corrosive atmospheres, or similar
				  environmental conditions.
21.
				  "Extreme performance coatings" means coatings designed for harsh exposure or
				  extreme environmental conditions.
22. "Fabric coating" includes all types of
				  coatings applied to fabric including protective, decorative, and functional
				  coatings.
23. "Flat wood paneling"
				  includes wood construction products made of plywood, particle wood, and
				  hardboard for interior paneling. Not included are tileboard or particleboard
				  used as a furniture component, or exterior siding.
24. "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 rubber-like
				  synthetic materials.
25. "Freeboard
				  height" means the distance from the top of the vapor zone to the top of the
				  degreaser tank.
26. "Freeboard
				  ratio" means the freeboard height divided by the width of the
				  degreaser.
27. "Functional coating"
				  means a coating that serves a purpose beyond decoration or protection of the
				  substrate being coated. An example of functional coatings could include a layer
				  of light sensitive coating which helps form the photographic image on
				  photographic film. Also, the camouflaging outercoat used by the army on its
				  vehicles is a functional coating.
28. "Gasoline" means a petroleum distillate
				  having a Reid vapor pressure of 4 pounds per square inch (psi) (27.6 kilopascal
				  (kPa)) or greater that is used as fuel for internal combustion
				  engines.
29. "Gasoline tank truck"
				  means tank truck (or trailer equipped with a storage tank) used for the
				  transport of gasoline to or from bulk gasoline terminals.
30. "Green tires" means assembled tires
				  before molding and curing.
31.
				  "Green tire spraying" means the spraying of green tires, both inside and
				  outside, with release compounds which help remove air from the tire during
				  molding and which prevent the tire from sticking to the mold after
				  curing.
32. "Hardboard" means a
				  panel manufactured primarily from inter-elted lingo-cellulosic fibers which are
				  consolidated under heat and pressure in a hot press.
33. "Hardwood plywood" means plywood whose
				  surface layer is a veneer of hardwood.
34. "Heavy coverage" means thick or large
				  areas of a given color.
35.
				  "Internal floating roof" means a cover or roof in a fixed roof tank which rests
				  upon or is floated upon the petroleum liquid being contained, and which is
				  equipped with a closure seal or seals to close the space between the roof edge
				  and tank shell.
36. "Large
				  appliances" means doors, cases, lids, panels and interior support parts of
				  residential and commercial washers, dryers, ranges, refrigerators, freezers,
				  water heaters, dishwashers, trash compactors, air conditioners, and other
				  similar products.
37. "Light
				  coverage" means thin or small areas of a given color.
38. "Liquid-mounted seal" means a primary
				  seal mounted in continuous contact with the liquid between the tank wall and
				  the floating roof around the circumference of the tank.
39. "Low solvent coatings" means coatings
				  which emit organic solvent in amounts equal to or less than that required by
				  the Standard in specified applications.
40. "Magnet wire coating" means the process
				  of applying a coating of electrically insulating varnish or enamel to aluminum
				  or copper wire used in electrical machinery. This includes protective,
				  decorative, and functional coatings.
41. "Manufacture of pneumatic rubber tires"
				  means the production of passenger car tires, light and medium truck tires, and
				  other tires manufactured on assembly lines using automated equipment.
42. "Metal furniture" includes any furniture
				  made of metal or any metal part which will be assembled with other metal, wood,
				  fabric, plastic, or glass parts to form a furniture piece.
43. "Natural finish hardwood plywood panels"
				  means panels whose original grain pattern is enhanced by essentially
				  transparent finishes frequently supplemented with fillers and toner.
44. "Nonattainment county" means a county
				  which is determined by the Department to exceed any National Ambient Air
				  Quality Standard.
45.
				  "Non-designated county" means any county which has neither been exempted in
				  Section I. Part B nor listed as a nonattainment county.
46. "Open top vapor degreasing" means the
				  batch process of cleaning metal surfaces by condensing hot solvent vapor on the
				  colder metal parts.
47. "Organic
				  material" means a chemical compound of carbon excluding carbon monoxide, carbon
				  dioxide, carbonic acid, metallic carbides or carbonates, and ammonium
				  carbonate.
48. "Oven" means a
				  heated chamber used to bake, cure, polymerize, and/or dry a surface
				  coating.
49. "Overall emission
				  reduction efficiency" means the weight (per unit of time) of VOC removed by a
				  control device divided by the weight (per identical unit of time) of VOC
				  emissions generated by a source, expressed as a percentage.
50. "Owner or operator" means any person who
				  owns, leases, controls, operates, or supervises a plant, emission source, or
				  air pollution control equipment.
51. "Packaging rotogravure printing" means
				  rotogravure printing upon paper, paper board, metal foil, plastic film, and
				  other substrates, which are, in subsequent operations, formed into containers
				  and/or labels for articles to be sold.
52. "Paper coating" means a coating put on
				  paper and pressure sensitive tapes regardless of substrate. Related web coating
				  processes on plastic film, decorative coatings on metal foil, and functional
				  coatings are included in this definition.
53. "Passenger type tire" means agricultural,
				  airplane, industrial, mobile home, light and medium duty truck, and passenger
				  vehicle tires with a bead diameter up to 20.0 inches and cross section
				  dimension up to 12.8 inches.
54.
				  "Petroleum liquids" means petroleum, condensate, and any finished or
				  intermediate products manufactured in a petroleum refinery but does not mean
				  Number 2 through Number 6 fuel oils as specified in A.S.T.M. D396-80, gas
				  turbine fuel oils Numbers 2-GT through 4-GT as specified in A.S.T.M. D2880-82,
				  or diesel fuel oils Numbers 2-D and 4-D as specified in A.S.T.M.
				  D975-82.
55. "Prime coat" means the
				  first film of coating applied in a multicoat operation.
56. "Printed interior panels" means panels
				  whose grain or natural surface is obscured by fillers and basecoats upon which
				  a simulated grain or decorative pattern is printed.
57. "Production equipment exhaust system"
				  means a device for collecting and directing out of the work area VOC fugitive
				  emissions from reactor openings, centrifuge openings, and other vessel openings
				  for the purpose of protecting workers from excessive VOC exposure.
58. "Publication rotogravure printing" means
				  printing upon paper which is subsequently formed into books, magazines,
				  catalogues, brochures, directories, newspaper supplements, or similar types of
				  printed materials.
59. "Roll
				  printing" means the application of words, designs, and pictures to a substrate
				  by means of hard rubber or steel rolls, each with only partial
				  coverage.
60. "Saturation process"
				  - Saturation processes include coatings which saturate throughout the body of a
				  web, fabric, or paper and do not merely coat the surface of the web. Textile
				  dyeing processes are not included.
61. "Reactor" means a vat or vessel, which
				  may be jacketed to permit temperature control, designed to contain chemical
				  reactions.
62. "Separation
				  operation" means a process that separates a mixture of compounds and solvents
				  into two or more components. Specific mechanisms include extraction,
				  centrifugation, filtration, and crystallization.
63. "Single coat" means only one film of
				  coating applied on the metal substrate.
64. "Solvent" means organic materials which
				  are liquid at standard conditions and which are used as dissolvers, viscosity
				  reducers, or cleaning agents.
65.
				  "Solvent metal cleaning" means the process of cleaning soils from metal
				  surfaces by cold cleaning or open top vapor degreasing or conveyorized
				  degreasing.
66. "Synthesized
				  pharmaceutical manufacturing" means manufacture of pharmaceutical products by
				  one or more chemical reactions followed by a series of purifying operations.
				  Organic chemicals are used as raw materials and as solvents.
67. "Thin particleboard" means a manufactured
				  board one-quarter inch or less in thickness made of individual wood particles
				  which have been coated with a binder and formed into flat sheets by
				  pressure.
68. "Tileboard" means
				  paneling that has a colored waterproof surface coating.
69. "Topcoat" means the final film of coating
				  applied in a multicoat operation.
70. "Total potential emissions" means the
				  maximum capacity of a plant or portion of a plant (of a type governed by this
				  regulation) to emit a pollutant under its physical or operational design, in
				  the absence of air pollution control equipment. Any physical or operational
				  limitations which affect the capacity of the plant to emit a pollutant,
				  including restrictions on hours of operation or on the type or amount of
				  material combusted, stored or processed, shall be treated as part of its design
				  if the limitation or the effect it would have on emissions is
				  enforceable.
71. "True vapor
				  pressure" means the equilibrium partial pressure exerted by a petroleum liquid
				  as determined in accordance with methods described in American Petroleum
				  Institute Bulletin 2517, "Evaporation Loss From Floating Roof Tanks,"
				  1962.
72. "Tread end cementing"
				  means the application of a solvent based cement to the tire tread
				  ends.
73. "Undertread cementing"
				  means the application of a solvent based cement to the underside of a tire
				  tread.
74. "Vapor collection
				  system" means a vapor transport system which uses direct displacement by the
				  gasoline being transferred to force vapors from the vessels being loaded into
				  either a vessel being unloaded or a vapor control system or vapor holding
				  tank.
75. "Vapor control system"
				  means a system that prevents release to the atmosphere of at least 90 percent
				  by weight of organic compounds in the vapors displaced from a vessel during
				  transfer of gasoline.
76.
				  "Vapor-mounted seal" means any primary seal mounted so that there is an annular
				  space underneath the seal. The annular vapor space is bounded by the bottom of
				  the primary seal, the tank wall, the liquid surface, and the floating
				  roof.
77. "Vinyl coating" means any
				  protective, decorative, or functional topcoat applied over vinyl coated fabric
				  or vinyl sheets. It does not include the application of vinyl plastisol to the
				  fabric (emissions from the application of plastisol are near zero). Also,
				  organisol and plastisol coatings cannot be used to bubble emissions from vinyl
				  printing and topcoating.
78.
				  "Water based sprays" means release compounds, sprayed on the inside and outside
				  of green tires, in which solids, water, and emulsifiers have been substituted
				  for organic solvents for all but 10 percent by weight of the total.