Virginia Administrative Code › Title 9 - ENVIRONMENT › Agency 5 - STATE AIR POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD › Chapter 40 - EXISTING STATIONARY SOURCES › Part II - Emission Standards › Article 57 - Emission Standards for Industrial Solvent Cleaning Operations in the Northern Virginia Volatile Organic Compound Emissions Control Area, 8-hour Ozone Standard (Rule 4-57) › Section 9VAC5-40-8510 - Applicability and designation of affected facility

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
A. Except as provided in subsections C and D
					 of this section, the affected facility to which the provisions of this article
					 apply is each facility that uses organic solvent for cleaning unit operations
					 such as mixing vessels (tanks), spray booths, and parts cleaners and that
					 emits, before consideration of controls, at least 6.8 kilograms per day (15
					 pounds per day) of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Such operations include,
					 but are not limited to, spray gun cleaning, spray booth cleaning, large
					 manufactured components cleaning, parts cleaning, equipment cleaning, line
					 cleaning, floor cleaning, tank cleaning, and small manufactured components
					 cleaning.
B. The provisions of this
					 article apply only to affected facilities located in the Northern Virginia VOC
					 Emissions Control Area designated in subdivision 1 a of
					 9VAC5-20-206.
C. Exempted from the provisions of this
					 article are solvent cleaning operations (i) for cleaning of electrical and
					 electronic components; (ii) for cleaning of high precision optics and cleaning
					 of cotton swabs to remove cottonseed oil before cleaning of high precision
					 optics; (iii) for cleaning of numismatic dies; (iv) for cleaning of resin,
					 coating, ink, and adhesive mixing, molding, and application equipment; (v) in
					 research and development laboratories; (vi) in manufacturing medical devices or
					 pharmaceutical products; (vii) related to performance or quality assurance
					 testing of coatings, inks, or adhesives.
D. The provisions of this article do not
					 apply to the following:
1. Surface preparation
					 and solvent cleaning operations associated with the surface coating,
					 application of adhesive, sealants and their primers or printing operations
					 subject to Article 26 (Large Appliance Coatings,
					 9VAC5-40-3560 et seq.), Article 28
					 (Automobile and Light Duty Truck Coating Applications,
					 9VAC5-40-3860 et seq.), Article 33
					 (Metal Furniture Coating Application Systems,
					 9VAC5-40-4610 et seq.), Article 34
					 (Miscellaneous Metal Parts/Products Coating Application,
					 9VAC5-40-4760 ), Article 35
					 (Flatwood Paneling Coating Application Systems,
					 9VAC5-40-4910 et seq.), Article 53
					 (Lithographic Printing Processes,
					 9VAC5-40-7800 et seq.), Article 56
					 (Letterpress Printing Operations, 9VAC5-40-8380 et seq.), Article 56.1
					 (Lithographic Printing Operations, 9VAC5-40-8420 et seq.), Article 58
					 (Miscellaneous Industrial Adhesive Application Processes, 9VAC5-40-8660 et
					 seq.), and Article 59 (Miscellaneous Metal Parts and Products Coating
					 Application Systems, 9VAC5-40-8810 et seq.) of 9VAC5-40 (Existing Stationary
					 Sources).
2. The use of janitorial
					 supplies used for cleaning offices, bathrooms, or other similar
					 areas.
3. Stripping of cured inks,
					 coatings, and adhesives.
4. Surface
					 preparation and solvent cleaning operations associated with the surface
					 coating, application of adhesive, sealants and their primers, or printing
					 operations of the following product categories or processes: aerospace
					 coatings, wood furniture coatings, shipbuilding and repair coatings, flexible
					 packaging printing materials, paper film and foil coating, plastic parts
					 coating, and fiberglass boat manufacturing materials.
5. Solvent metal cleaning operations subject
					 to Article 47 (Emission Standards for Solvent Metal Cleaning Operations in the
					 Northern Virginia Volatile Organic Compound Emissions Control Area,
					 9VAC5-40-6820 et seq.) of 9VAC5-40
					 (Existing Stationary Sources).
6.
					 The use of cleaning solvent in a digital printing operation in which an
					 electronic output device transfers variable data, in the form of an image, from
					 a computer to a substrate.