Virginia Administrative Code › Title 9 - ENVIRONMENT › Agency 5 - STATE AIR POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD › Chapter 40 - EXISTING STATIONARY SOURCES › Part II - Emission Standards › Article 28 - Emission Standards for Automobile and Light Duty Truck Coating ApplicationSystems (Rule 4-28) › Section 9VAC5-40-3870 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
A. For the purpose
					 of these regulations and subsequent amendments or any orders issued by the
					 board, the words or terms shall have the meanings given them in subsection C of
					 this section.
B. As used in this
					 article, all terms not defined here shall have the meanings given them in 9VAC5
					 Chapter 10 (9VAC5-10-10 et seq.), unless
					 otherwise required by context.
C.
					 Terms defined.
"Anti-chip coating" means a resilient coating applied
						over the prime coat and beneath the topcoat to body parts prone to chip damage
						for the purpose of protecting the topcoat from chipping.
"Application area" means the area where the coating is
						applied by spraying, dipping or flow coating techniques.
"Automobile" means any passenger car or passenger car
						derivative capable of seating 12 or fewer passengers.
"Carbon adsorption system" means a device containing
						activated carbon as the adsorbent material, an inlet and outlet for exhaust
						gases, and a system to regenerate the saturated adsorbent. The carbon
						adsorption system must provide for the proper disposal or reuse of all volatile
						organic compounds in the adsorbate.
"Clear coating" means a coating which lacks color and
						opacity or is transparent and uses the undercoat or basecoat as a reflectant
						base or undertone color.
"Coating applicator" means an apparatus used to apply a
						surface coating.
"Coating application system" means any operation or
						system in which a surface coating of one type or function is applied, dried or
						cured and which is subject to the same emission standard. May include any
						equipment which applies, conveys, dries or cures a surface coating, including,
						but not limited to, spray booths, flow coaters, flashoff areas, air dryers,
						drying areas and ovens. It is not necessary for a coating application system to
						have an oven, flashoff area or drying area to be included in this
						definition.
"Electrocoat primer" means the initial coating on
						components of automobile or light-duty truck bodies that is applied by
						electrode position.
"Extreme environmental conditions" means exposure to any
						one of the following: weather all of the time, temperatures consistently above
						95°C, detergents, scouring, solvents, corrosive atmospheres or similar
						environmental conditions.
"Extreme performance coatings" means coatings which are
						required to be used by design specification on products designed for harsh
						exposure or extreme environmental conditions.
"Flashoff area" means the space between the application
						area and the oven.
"Guidecoat" means the surface coating applied over the
						electrocoat primer and beneath the topcoat.
"Light-duty truck" means any motor vehicle rated at
						8,500 pounds gross vehicle weight or less which is designed primarily for
						purposes of transportation of property or is a derivative of such a vehicle;
						includes pickups, vans and window vans.
"Oven" means a chamber within which heat is used to
						bake, cure, polymerize or dry a surface coating or any combination of
						these.
"Topcoat" means the final coating applied to components
						of automobile or light-duty truck bodies.
Statutory Authority
§§ 10.1-1307 and 10.1-1308 of the Code of
						  Virginia.