Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 250 - Department of Environmental Management › Chapter 120 - Air Resources › Subchapter 05 - Air Pollution Control › Part 19 - Control of Volatile Organic Compounds from Surface Coating Operations (250-RICR-120-05-19) › Section 250-RICR-120-05-19.5 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. Unless otherwise expressly defined in this
				  section, the terms used in this regulation shall be defined by reference to
				  Part 0 of this Subchapter (General Definitions). As used in this regulation,
				  the following terms shall, where the context permits, be construed as follows:
1. "Actual emissions" means the quantity of
				  volatile organic compounds emitted from a source during a particular time
				  period.
2. "Adhesion primer" means
				  a coating that is applied to a polyolefin part to promote the adhesion of a
				  subsequent coating. An adhesion prime is clearly identified as an adhesion
				  prime or adhesion promoter on its accompanying material safety data
				  sheet.
3. "Air-dried coating" means
				  a coating that is dried by the use of air or forced warm air at temperatures up
				  to ninety degrees Celsius (90ºC) or one hundred and ninety-four degrees
				  Fahrenheit (194ºF).
4.
				  "Airless spray application" means a coating spray application system using high
				  fluid pressure, without compressed air, to atomize the coating.
5. "Air-assisted airless spray application"
				  means a coating spray application system using fluid pressure to atomize the
				  coating and low-pressure air to adjust the shape of the spray
				  pattern.
6. "Antifouling coating"
				  means a coating applied to the underwater portion of a pleasure craft to
				  prevent or reduce the attachment of biological organisms and registered with
				  the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a pesticide under
				  7 U.S.C. §
												136 (Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
				  Rodenticide Act).
7. "Antifouling
				  sealer" or "tie coat" means a coating applied over biocidal antifouling coating
				  for the purpose of preventing release of biocides into the environment or to
				  promote adhesion between an antifouling coating and a primer or another
				  antifouling coating.
8.
				  "As-applied" means the composition of coating at the time it is applied to a
				  substrate, including any solvent, catalyst or other substance added to the
				  coating as supplied by the manufacturer calculated using the procedure in
				  §§
											19.13(A) or
				  (B) of this Part.
9. "Baked" means cured at a temperature at or
				  above ninety degrees Celsius (90ºC) or one hundred ninety-four degrees
				  Fahrenheit (194ºF).
10.
				  "Business machine" means a device that uses electronic or mechanical methods to
				  process information, perform calculations, print or copy information or convert
				  sound into electrical impulses for transmission, including devices listed in
				  standard industrial classification numbers 3572, 3573, 3574, 3579, and 3661 and
				  photocopy machines, a subcategory of standard industrial classification number
				  3861.
11. "Camouflage coating"
				  means a coating used, principally by the military, to conceal equipment from
				  detection.
12. "Capture efficiency"
				  means the ratio of VOC emissions delivered to the control device to the total
				  VOC emissions resulting from the coating and related cleaning, expressed as a
				  percentage.
13. "Class II hardboard
				  paneling finish" means finishes that meet the specifications of Voluntary
				  Product Standard PS- 59-73 as approved by the American National Standards
				  Institute.
14. "Clear coating"
				  means a coating which lacks color and opacity or is transparent and which uses
				  the undercoat as a reflective base or undertone color.
15. "Clear wood finishes" means a clear and
				  semi-transparent topcoat applied to a wood substrate to provide a transparent
				  or translucent film.
16. "Coating"
				  means a material that is deposited in a thin, persistent, uniform layer across
				  the surface of a substrate for aesthetic, protective or functional purposes,
				  including but not limited to, paints, primers, inks and maskants.
a. "Coating" does not include protective
				  oils, acids and bases.
17. "Coating applicator" means a device,
				  mechanism, or apparatus used to apply a coating. Common types of application
				  techniques include knife, roll, spray or dip.
18. "Coating of plastic parts of automobiles
				  and trucks" means the coating of any plastic part that is or shall be assembled
				  with other parts to form an automobile or truck.
19. "Coating of plastic parts of business
				  machines" means the coating of any plastic part that is or shall be assembled
				  with other parts to form a business machine.
20. "Coating unit" means a series of one or
				  more coating applicators and any associated drying area and/or oven wherein a
				  coating is applied, dried, and/or cured. A coating unit ends at the point where
				  the coating is dried or cured, or prior to any subsequent application of a
				  different coating. It is not necessary for a coating unit to have an oven or
				  flash-off area.
21. "Coil coating"
				  means the application of a coating to any continuous metal strip with thickness
				  of 0.006 inch or more that is packaged in a roll or coil.
22. "Dip coating" means a method of applying
				  a coating to a surface by submersion into and removal from a coating
				  bath.
23. "Drum" means any
				  cylindrical metal shipping container of 13- to 110-gallon capacity.
24. "Electric dissipating coating" means a
				  coating that rapidly dissipates a high-voltage electric charge.
25. "Electric-insulating and
				  thermal-conducting coating" means a coating that displays an electrical
				  insulation of at least one thousand (1000) volts DC per mil on a flat test
				  plate and an average thermal conductivity of at least 0.27 BTU per
				  hour-foot-degree-Fahrenheit.
26.
				  "Electric-insulating varnish" means a non-convertible-type coating applied to
				  electric motors, components of electric motors, or power transformers, to
				  provide electrical, mechanical, and environmental protection or
				  resistance.
27. "Electrostatic
				  application" means a method of applying coating particles or coating droplets
				  to a grounded surface by electrically charging such particles or
				  droplets.
28. "Electrostatic prep
				  coat" means a coating that is applied to a plastic part solely to provide
				  conductivity for the subsequent application of a prime, a topcoat, or other
				  coating through the use of electrostatic application methods. An electrostatic
				  prep coat is clearly identified as an electrostatic prep coat on its
				  accompanying material safety data sheet.
29. "EMI/RFI shield coating" means a coating
				  that functions to attenuate electromagnetic interference, radio frequency
				  interference signals or static discharge.
30. "Emission baseline" means a level of
				  emissions calculated by multiplying two factors:
a. The lowest of the source's actual or
				  allowable emission rate in emissions per unit of production; and,
b. The source's actual capacity utilization,
				  or units of production, over some representative time period. Generally, the
				  time period is the preceding two-year average unless the source can demonstrate
				  that those years were not representative of historical production.
31. "Etching filler" means a
				  coating that contains less than twenty-three percent (23%) solids by weight and
				  at least 0.5% acid by weight and is used as a substitute for the application of
				  a pretreatment coating followed by a primer.
32. "Extreme high gloss coating" means any
				  coating which achieves greater than ninety percent (90%) reflectance on a sixty
				  degree (60°) meter when tested by ASTM Method D 523-89.
33. "Extreme performance coatings" means
				  coatings intended for exposure to any of the following; outdoor weather
				  conditions all of the time, temperatures frequently above ninety-five degrees
				  Celsius (95ºC) or two-hundred and three degrees Fahrenheit (203ºF),
				  detergents, abrasive and scouring agents, solvents, corrosive atmospheres, or
				  similar environmental conditions.
34. "Fabric coating" means the coating of a
				  textile substrate with a knife, roll or rotogravure coater to impart properties
				  that are not initially present, such as strength, stability, water or acid
				  repellency, or appearance.
35.
				  "Finish primer or surfacer" means a coating applied with a wet film thickness
				  of less than ten (10) millimeters prior to the application of a topcoat for
				  purposes of providing corrosion resistance, adhesion of subsequent coatings, a
				  moisture barrier or promotion of a uniform surface necessary for filling in
				  surface imperfections.
36.
				  "Flatwood paneling coating" means the application of a coating to flat wood
				  panels including: printed interior panels made of hardboard plywood and thin
				  particle board (i.e., less than or equal to 0.25 inches in thickness) natural
				  finish hardboard plywood panels; and hardboard paneling with Class II finishes.
a. Flatwood paneling does not include: Class
				  I hardboard panels, particle board used in furniture or wood products,
				  insulation board, exterior siding, tile board, and soft wood plywood coating
				  lines.
37. "Flexible
				  coating" means any coating that is required to comply with engineering
				  specifications for impact resistance, mandrel bend, or elongation as defined by
				  the original equipment manufacturer.
38. "Flexible primer" means a primer with
				  elastomeric qualities that provides a compatible, flexible substrate over
				  bonded sheet rubber and rubber-type coatings.
39. "Flow coating" means a non-atomized
				  technique of applying coating to a substrate using a fluid nozzle in a fan
				  pattern with no air supplied to the nozzle.
40. "Fog coat" means a coating that is
				  applied to a plastic part at a thickness of no more than 0.5 mils of coating
				  solids for the purpose of color matching without masking a molded-in
				  texture.
41. "Gloss reducer" means
				  a coating that is applied to a plastic part solely to reduce the shine of the
				  part. A gloss reducer shall not be applied at a thickness of more than 0.5 mils
				  of coating solids.
42. "Hardboard"
				  means a panel manufactured primarily from inter-felted ligno-cellulosic fibers
				  that are consolidated under heat and pressure in a hot press.
43. "Hardwood plywood" means plywood whose
				  surface layer is a veneer of hardwood.
44. "Heat-resistant coating" means a coating
				  that is required to withstand a temperature of at least 204.5°C (400°F)
				  during normal use.
45. "High build
				  primer or surfacer" means a coating applied with a wet film thickness of ten
				  (10) millimeters or more prior to the application of a topcoat for purposes of
				  providing corrosion resistance, adhesion of subsequent coatings, a moisture
				  barrier or promotion of a uniform surface necessary for filling in surface
				  imperfections.
46. "High-gloss
				  coating" means a coating that achieves at least eight-five percent (85%)
				  reflectance on a sixty (60) degree meter when tested by ASTM Method
				  D-523.
47. "High-temperature
				  coating" means a coating that during normal use must withstand a temperature of
				  at least four hundred twenty-six degrees Celsius (426°C) of eight-hundred
				  degrees Fahrenheit (800°F).
48.
				  "HVLP spray application" means to apply a coating using a high-volume,
				  low-pressure spray application system that is designed to operate at air
				  pressures between 0.1 and 10 pounds per square inch gauge, measured dynamically
				  at the center of the air cap and the air horns.
49. "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.
50. "Large appliance
				  coating" means the application of a coating to the surface of component metal
				  parts (including, but not limited to, doors, cases, lids, panels and interior
				  parts) of any residential or commercial washer, dryer, freezer, range,
				  refrigerator, water heater, dishwasher, trash compactor, air conditioner, or
				  other similar products under Standard Industrial Classification Code 363.
a. Large appliance coating does not include
				  the use of quick drying lacquers for repair of scratches and nicks that occur
				  during assembly, provided that the volume of coating does not exceed 0.25
				  gallons in any one 8-hour period.
51. "Magnet wire coating" means the
				  application of a coating in which an electrically insulating varnish or enamel
				  is applied onto the surface of a wire for use in electrical
				  machinery.
52. "Metal furniture
				  coating" means the application of a coating to any furniture piece made of
				  metal or any metal part that will be assembled with other metal, wood, fabric,
				  plastic, or glass parts to form a furniture piece including, but not limited
				  to, tables, chairs, waste baskets, beds, desk, locker, benches, shelving, file
				  cabinets, and room dividers.
53.
				  "Metallic coating" means a coating that contains more than five (5) grams of
				  metal particle per liter of coating, as-applied;
54. "Military specification coating" means a
				  coating which has a formulation approved by a United States Military Agency for
				  use on military equipment.
55.
				  "Miscellaneous metal and plastic parts coating" means a coating applied to the
				  surface of a varied range of metal and plastic parts and products constructed
				  either entirely or partially from metal or plastic. These miscellaneous metal
				  products and plastic parts include, but are not limited to, metal and plastic
				  components of the following types of products as well as the products
				  themselves:
a. Automotive or transportation
				  equipment;
b. Bicycles and sporting
				  goods;
c. Construction
				  equipment;
d. Electronic
				  equipment;
e. Extruded aluminum
				  structural components;
f.
				  Fabricated metal products (metal covered doors, frames, etc.);
g. Interior or exterior automotive
				  parts;
h. Laboratory and medical
				  equipment;
i. Lawn and garden
				  equipment;
j. Motor vehicle
				  accessories;
k. Recreational
				  vehicles;
l. Pleasure craft or
				  recreational boats;
m. Small and
				  large farm machinery (harvesting, fertilizing and planting machines, tractors,
				  combines, lawn and garden tractors, lawn mowers, rototillers, etc.);
n. Small appliances (fans, mixers, blenders,
				  crock pots, dehumidifiers, vacuum cleaners, etc.);
o. Commercial machinery (business machines.
				  office equipment, computers and auxiliary equipment, typewriters, calculators,
				  vending machines, etc.);
p.
				  Toys;
q. Steel drums; and
r. Metal pipes.
s. Miscellaneous metal or plastic parts or
				  product coating does not include:
(1)
				  Aerospace coating;
(2) Automotive
				  refinishing subject to Part 30 of this Subchapter (Control of Volatile Organic
				  Compounds from Automobile Refinishing Operations);
(3) Architectural and industrial maintenance
				  coating subject to Part 33 of this Subchapter (Control of VOC from
				  Architectural Coatings and Industrial Maintenance Coatings);
(4) Wood furniture coating subject to Part 35
				  of this Subchapter (Control of Volatile Organic Compounds and Volatile
				  Hazardous Air Pollutants from Wood Products Manufacturing
				  Operations);
(5) Industrial
				  adhesives and sealants subject to Part 44 of this Subchapter (Control of VOC
				  from Adhesives and Sealants);
(6)
				  Can, coil, large appliance, magnet wire, and metal furniture coating and
				  cleaning operations subject to specific separate requirements in this
				  Part;
(7) Fiberglass boat
				  manufacturing materials subject to Part 51 of this Subchapter (Control of
				  Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from Fiberglass Boat Manufacturing);
(AA) Specifically, the miscellaneous metal
				  products and plastic parts categories do not include gel coats applied to
				  fiber-reinforced plastic (fiberglass composite) products removed from the mold
				  or used as in-mold coatings in the production of fiberglass parts and body
				  fillers and putties used to repair surface defects in fiberglass composite
				  parts, or putties used to bond fiberglass composite parts together. These
				  putties are part of the composite structure and are not coatings.
(8) Automobiles and light-duty
				  truck assembly coatings;
(9)
				  Shipbuilding and ship repair facilities;
(10) Coating applied to test materials, test
				  panels and coupons in research and development, quality control or performance
				  testing.
56.
				  "Multi-colored coating" means a coating packaged in a single container and
				  applied in a single coat which exhibits more than one color when
				  applied.
57. "Multicomponent
				  coating" means a coating which is packaged in two or more parts, which parts
				  are combined before application, and where a coreactant from one part of the
				  coating chemically reacts, at ambient conditions, with a coreactant from
				  another part of the coating.
58.
				  "Natural finish hardwood plywood panels" means panels whose original grain
				  pattern is enhanced by essentially transparent finishes frequently supplemented
				  by fillers and toners.
59.
				  "One-component coating" means a coating that is ready for application as
				  packaged for sale, except for the addition of a thinner to reduce the
				  viscosity.
60. "Optical coating"
				  means a coating applied to an optical lens.
61. "Oven" means a chamber within which heat
				  is used to bake, cure or polymerize and/or dry a surface coating.
62. "Overvarnish" means a coating applied
				  directly over ink to reduce the coefficient of friction, to provide gloss or to
				  protect the finish against abrasion and corrosion.
63. "Pail" means any cylindrical metal
				  shipping container with a capacity of greater than or equal to one (1) and less
				  than thirteen (13) gallons and constructed of 29-gauge (0.0141 inches) and
				  heavier material.
64. "Pan-backing
				  coating" means a coating applied to the surface of pots, pans, or other cooking
				  implements that are exposed directly to a flame or other heating
				  elements.
65. "Paper, film and foil
				  coating" means the application of a continuous layer of coating across the
				  width or any portion of the width of a paper, film or foil substrate to:
a. Create a functional or protective
				  layer;
b. Saturate a substrate for
				  lamination; or
c. Provide adhesion
				  between two substrates for lamination.
d. Paper film and foil coating does not
				  include:
(1) Coating performed on or in-line
				  with any offset lithographic, screen, letterpress, flexographic, rotogravure,
				  or digital printing press is part of a printing process.
66. "Pleasure craft" means any
				  marine or freshwater vessel manufactured or operated primarily for recreational
				  purposes.
67. "Pleasure craft
				  coating" means any marine coating, except unsaturated polyester resin
				  (fiberglass), applied to a pleasure craft or to parts and components of a
				  pleasure craft.
68. "Pressure
				  sensitive adhesive" means adhesive that forms a bond when pressure is applied,
				  without activation via solvent, water or heat.
69. "Pressure sensitive tape and label
				  coating" means the application of a pressure sensitive adhesive to a paper,
				  film or foil substrate.
70.
				  "Pretreatment coating" means a coating, containing no more than twelve percent
				  (12%) solids by weight and at least one-half percent (0.5%) acid by weight,
				  applied directly to metal surfaces to provide surface etching, adhesion and
				  ease when stripping.
71.
				  "Pretreatment wash primer" means a coating, containing at least 0.1 percent
				  acid by weight and no more than twenty-five percent (25%) solids by weight,
				  that is used to provide surface etching and is applied directly to fiberglass
				  and metal surfaces to provide corrosion resistance and adhesion of subsequent
				  coatings.
72. "Prime coat" means
				  the first of two or more coatings applied to a surface.
73. "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.
74. "Refinishing" means the repainting of
				  used equipment.
75. "Related
				  cleaning" means the removal of uncured coatings, coating residue, and
				  contaminants from:
a. Miscellaneous metal and
				  plastic parts prior to the application of coatings,
b. Miscellaneous metal and plastic parts
				  between coating applications, or
c.
				  Transfer lines, storage tanks, spray booths, and coating application
				  equipment.
76. "Repair
				  coating" means a coating used to recoat portions of a product that has
				  sustained mechanical damage to the coating following normal painting
				  operations.
77. "Resist coat" means
				  a coating that is applied to a plastic part before metallic plating to prevent
				  deposits of metal on portions of the plastic part.
78. "Roll coating" means a coating method
				  using a machine that applies coating to a substrate by continuously
				  transferring coating through a set of oppositely rotating rollers.
79. "Safety-indicating coating" means a
				  coating that changes in a physical characteristic, such as color, to indicate
				  unsafe conditions.
80. "Shock-free
				  coating" means a coating applied to electrical components to protect the user
				  from electric shock. The coating has characteristics of being of low
				  capacitance and high resistance and having resistance to breaking down under
				  high voltage.
81. "Silicone-release
				  coating" means any coating which contains silicone resin and is intended to
				  prevent food from sticking to metal surfaces such as baking pans.
82. "Solar-absorbent coating" means a coating
				  that has as its prime purpose the absorption of solar radiation.
83. "Solid-film lubricant" means a very thin
				  coating consisting of a binder system containing as its chief pigment material
				  one or more of molybdenum disulfide, graphite, polytetrafluoroethylene or other
				  solids that act as a dry lubricant between faying surfaces.
84. "Stencil coating" means a coating that is
				  applied over a stencil to a plastic part at a thickness of one (1) mil or less
				  of coating solids. Stencil coats are most frequently letters, numbers, or
				  decorative designs.
85. "Texture
				  coat" means a coating that is applied to a plastic part which, in its finished
				  form, consists of discrete raised spots of the coating.
86. "Thin particleboard" means a manufactured
				  board that is 0.25 inch or less in thickness made of individual wood particles
				  that have been coated with a binder and formed into flat sheets by
				  pressure.
87. "Tile board" means
				  paneling that has a colored, waterproof coating.
88. "Topcoat" means the final film or series
				  of films of coating applied to a surface;
89. "Transfer efficiency" means the portion
				  of coating solids that adheres to the pleasure craft surface during the
				  application process, expressed as a percentage of the total volume of coating
				  solids delivered by the applicator.
90. "Translucent coating" means a coating
				  which contains binders and pigment and is formulated to form a colored, but not
				  opaque, film;
91. "Two-component
				  coating" means a coating requiring the addition of a separate reactive resin,
				  commonly known as a catalyst, before application to form an acceptable dry
				  film.
92. "Vacuum-metalizing
				  coating" means the undercoat applied to a substrate on which the metal is
				  deposited prior to a vacuum-metalizing process or the overcoat applied directly
				  to the metal film after a vacuum-metalizing process;
93. "Vacuum metalizing process" means the
				  process of evaporating metals inside a vacuum chamber and depositing them on a
				  substrate to achieve a uniform metalized layer;
94. "Vinyl coating" means the application of
				  a coating or coatings on a vinyl coated paper, vinyl coated fabric, or vinyl
				  substrate or printing on vinyl-coated fabric or vinyl sheets.
95. "Volatile Organic Compound" or "VOC"
				  means Volatile Organic Compound and Halogenated Organic Compound or VOC and
				  HOC.