Pennsylvania Code › Title 25 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part I - Department of Environmental Protection › Subpart C - Protection of Natural Resources › Article III - Air Resources › Chapter 129 - STANDARDS FOR SOURCES › SOURCES OF VOCs › Section 129.63a - Control of VOC emissions from industrial cleaning solvents

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(a)
Applicability.
This
						section applies to the owner and the operator of a facility at which an
						industrial cleaning solvent is used or applied in a cleaning activity at a
						cleaning unit operation, a work production-related work area or a part,
						product, tool, machinery, equipment, vessel, floor or wall.
(b)
Definitions.
The
						following words and terms, when used in this section, have the following
						meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
Cleaning
						activity
-The use or application of an industrial cleaning solvent to
						remove a contaminant, such as an adhesive, ink, paint, dirt, soil, oil or
						grease, by wiping, flushing, brushing, soaking, dipping, spraying or a similar
						effort.
Cleaning unit operation
-
(i) An operation at a facility that is a
						source of VOC emissions from a cleaning activity.
(ii) The term includes the following cleaning
						activities:
(A) Spray gun cleaning, including
						the spray gun, attached paint lines and other spray gun equipment used to apply
						a coating.
(B) Spray booth
						cleaning, including the interior surfaces of the booth and the equipment
						contained within the booth.
(C)
						Manufactured components cleaning as a step in a manufacturing process,
						including automobile bodies, furniture, sheet metal, glass windows, engine
						components, subassemblies, sheet metal panels, molded parts, electrical
						contacts, steel and copper components, tin-plated or silver-plated terminals,
						plastic parts, upholstered parts, circuit breaker cases, switch covers, threads
						and bolts.
(D) Parts cleaning,
						including applicator tips, brushes, machine parts, pumps, circuit boards, truck
						parts, engine blocks, gauges, cutoff steel, machined parts, tool dies, motors
						and assemblies, screws, oil guns, welded parts, bearings and filters.
(E) Equipment cleaning of a piece of
						production equipment in place to prevent cross-contamination or for maintenance
						purposes, including punch presses, electrical contacts on equipment, pump
						parts, packaging equipment, rollers, ink pans, carts, press frames and table
						tops.
(F) Line cleaning, including
						a pipe, hose or other line that conveys material like paint or resin, that is
						cleaned separately from a spray gun, tank or other process equipment.
(G) Floor cleaning in a production area of
						the facility.
(H) Tank cleaning,
						including a tank, mixing pot or process vessel and the attached
						lines.
(iii) The term
						does not include VOC emissions from the use or application of consumer products
						subject to Chapter 130, Subchapter B (relating to consumer products), including
						an institutional product or industrial and institutional product as defined in
						§
													130.202 (relating to definitions)
						for cleaning offices, bathrooms or other areas that are not part of a cleaning
						unit operation or work production-related work area.
Industrial cleaning solvent
-A product
						  formulated with one or more regulated VOCs that is used in a cleaning activity
						  for a cleaning unit operation.
Regulated VOC
-An organic compound
						  which participates in atmospheric photochemical reactions, that is, an organic
						  compound other than those which the Administrator of the EPA designates in
						  40 CFR
						  51.100 (relating to definitions) as having
						  negligible photochemical reactivity.