S.C. Code Regs. § § 61-62.5.5.I
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 10, October 25, 2024
Section 61-62.5.5.I - GENERAL PROVISIONSPart 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. Part B. General Applicability 1. This Standard will apply to existing processes statewide except in the following six counties: Anderson, Bamberg, Barnwell, Chesterfield, Darlington, and Hampton.2. This Standard will apply to plants described under one of the Parts of Section II below when such a plant has total potential emissions of VOC more than 550 pounds (250 kilograms (kg)) in any one day (nominal size--100 tons per year (tpy)) or more than 150 pounds (68 kg) in any one hour. This Paragraph does not apply to Section II Part N.3. A plant having an existing process which was not required to be regulated due to plant size will be subject to this Regulation when that plant increases emissions sufficiently to meet the applicability requirements regardless of the time frame. Conversely, a source which is subject to the requirements of this Regulation, but which decreases emissions sufficiently so that their total potential emissions are below the applicability requirements, may petition the Department for relief from the emission limits of this Regulation. Approval of the petition will be based, in part, on a showing that the reductions are not temporary and a consent to be permitted at the reduced level.4. Further applicability requirements or limitations may be listed under the individual Parts of Section II below. Part C. Alternatives and Exceptions to Control Requirements 1. Alternative Controls a. If the owner or operator of a source of VOC regulated by this Standard can demonstrate that compliance with Section II below would not be feasible, he may petition the Department to allow the use of alternative operational and/or equipment controls for the reduction of VOC emissions of such source. Petition must be made for each source within a given plant and nothing herein should be interpreted as permitting a source regulated by this Standard to exceed emission limits for that source as given in Section II below. The petition must be submitted in writing to the Department and must contain: (i) The name and address of the company and the name, address, and telephone number of a company officer over whose signature the petition is submitted; and(ii) A description of all operations conducted at the location to which the petition applies and the purpose that the VOC emitting equipment serves within the operations; and(iii) Reference to the specific operational and/or equipment controls under Section II below for which alternative operational and/or equipment controls are proposed; and(iv) A detailed description of the proposed alternative operational and/or equipment controls, the magnitude of VOC emission reduction which will be achieved, and the quantity and composition of VOC which will be emitted if the alternative operational and/or equipment controls are instituted; and(v) A schedule for the installation and/or institution of the alternative operational and/or equipment controls in conformance with Section II below.b. The Department may approve a Petition for Alternative Control if: (i) The petition is submitted in accordance with Paragraph (1)(a) above; and(ii) The Department determines that the petitioner cannot comply with Section II below because of technological infeasibility (considering costs); and(iii) The petition contains a schedule for achieving and maintaining reduction of VOC emissions to the maximum extent feasible and as expeditiously as practicable; and(iv) A nuisance condition will not result from operation of the source as proposed in the Petition; and(v) The alternative control approach must assure control levels at least as stringent as those listed in the appropriate Part of Section II below.(vi) The petition is approved by the United State Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a source-specific State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision.2. Alternative Emission Limitations a. If the owner or operator of a source of VOC regulated by this standard can demonstrate that compliance with applicable portions of Section II below would not be economically feasible, the Department may, on a case-by-case basis, allow emission limitations less stringent than those required by applicable parts of Section II below.b. All data pertinent to the showing of economic infeasibility must accompany a petition for this relief, and shall include a present value analysis showing economic infeasibility.c. Exceptions granted under this Part are not effective until submitted to and approved by the Administrator of the EPA as a revision of the SIP pursuant to Section110(a)(3)(A)(a)(3)(A) of the Clean Air Act as amended November 1990. Part D. Compliance Schedules The following schedules of compliance apply to the individual Parts of Section II below as indicated by the references given in these individual Parts. The "date of notification" refers to the date that a plant or source is notified in writing that it is subject to one of the VOC regulations.
1. Schedule No. 1 a. Submit construction permit applications and final plans for the emission control system and/or new process equipment and/or modification of existing process equipment within two (2) months from date of notification.b. Issue purchase orders and contracts for the emission control systems and/or process equipment and/or modification of existing process equipment to accomplish emission control within five (5) months from date of notification.c. Initiate on-site construction or installation of the emission control and/or process equipment and/or modification of existing process equipment within eight (8) months from date of notification.d. Complete on-site construction or installation of the emission control and/or process equipment and/or modification of existing process equipment within sixteen (16) months from the date of notification.e. Achieve final compliance within eighteen (18) months from date of notification.2. Schedule No. 2 a. Submit construction permit applications and final plans for the application of low solvent technology within two (2) months from date of notification.b. Complete evaluation of product quality and commercial acceptance within seven (7) months from date of notification.c. Issue purchase orders and contracts for low solvent technology and process modifications within nine (9) months from date of notification.d. Begin process modifications within eleven (11) months from date of notification.e. Complete process modifications and begin use of low solvent technology within seventeen (17) months from date of notification.f. Achieve final compliance within eighteen (18) months from date of notification.3. Schedule No. 3 a. Submit construction permit applications and final plans for the application of low solvent content coating technology within two (2) months from date of notification.b. Complete research and development of low solvent content coating within eight (8) months from date of notification.c. Complete evaluation of product quality and commercial acceptance within fourteen (14) months from date of notification.d. Issue purchase orders and contracts for low solvent content coatings and process modifications within sixteen (16) months from date of notification.e. Begin process modifications within eighteen (18) months from date of notification.f. Complete process modifications and begin use of low solvent content coatings within twenty-three (23) months from date of notification.g. Achieve final compliance within twenty-four (24) months from the date of notification. Part E. Volatile Organic Compound Compliance Testing The owner or operator of any VOC source required to comply with Section II below shall, at his own expense, conduct source tests in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 61-Regulation 62.1, Section IV, Source Tests, to demonstrate compliance unless the Department determines that the compliance status of the source can be monitored as described in Part F below. If tests are required, the following conditions shall apply:
1. Test frequencies for VOC abatement equipment will be as follows: a. Every four (4) years for sources utilizing solvent recovery emission control devices (for example, carbon adsorption, refrigeration).b. Every two (2) years for sources utilizing catalytic incineration/destruction.c. Every four (4) years for sources utilizing flame incineration provided the source operates, calibrates, and maintains a recorder for each incinerator which continuously records the combustion zone temperature and such temperature is maintained at a value no less than that recorded during the last stack test during which compliance was verified.2. Testing of VOC capture systems will be performed annually. However, only an initial test will be required provided: a. Capture system flow rate indicators (for example, magnehelic gauges, manometers) are operated, calibrated, and maintained, andb. The indicated values are maintained at a level no less than that recorded during the last source test during which compliance was verified, andc. The type and location of the flow rate indicators are approved by this Department, andd. No process, capture system, nor VOC abatement equipment modifications have been made.3. Other sources will be placed on a two (2) year test cycle.4. An owner or operator of a source shall ensure that source tests are conducted in accordance with Regulation Regulation 61-62.1, Section IV, Source Tests. 5 to 12. [Deleted]
Part F. Recordkeeping, Reporting, Monitoring 1. The owner or operator of any VOC emission source or control equipment shall maintain, as a minimum: records detailing all activities relating to any compliance schedule under Part D above, records of all compliance testing conducted under Part E above, and records of all monitoring as required by the Department and conducted under Paragraphs (4)(a) and (4)(b) below.2. The owner or operator of any applicable VOC emission source or control equipment shall, on request make available to the Department, or the EPA, reports detailing the nature, specific sources, and total monthly quantities of all VOC emissions.3. If the applicable VOC emission source or control equipment is located in an ozone nonattainment area (as designated by the EPA) the owner or operator shall maintain daily records of operations. If the applicable VOC emission source is determined to be in noncompliance with an applicable emission standard, the Department reserves the right to require the owner or operator to maintain daily records of operations. The records, or summaries, shall be made available to the Department or the EPA upon request. The records shall include, but not be limited to, the following: a. The standard number and part applicable to the operation for which the records are being maintained.b. The application method and substrate type (metal, plastic, paper, etc.).c. The amount and type of adhesive, coatings (including catalyst and reducer for multicomponent coatings), solvent, and/or graphic arts material used at each point of application, including exempt compounds.d. The VOC content as applied in each adhesive coating, solvent, and/or graphic arts material.e. The date for each application of adhesive coating, solvent, and/or graphic arts material.f. The amount of surface preparation, clean-up, or wash-up solvent (including exempt compounds) used and the VOC content of each.g. Oven temperature (where applicable).h. Line number (where applicable).i. For control equipment: (i). Thermal incinerator--Combustion temperature, inlet and outlet VOC concentration from emission tests, how and when these concentrations were determined, destruction or removal efficiency, and manufacturer data.(ii). Catalytic incinerator--Exhaust temperature, change in temperature across catalyst bed, date of last change of catalyst bed, inlet and outlet VOC concentration from emission tests, how and when these concentrations were determined, destruction or removal efficiency, and manufacturer data.(iii). Condenser--Inlet temperature of cooling medium, outlet temperature of cooling medium, inlet and outlet VOC concentrations from emission tests, how and when these concentrations were determined, removal efficiency, and manufacturer data.j. VOC content shall be calculated using a percent solids basis (less water and exempt solvents) for adhesives, coatings, and inks; using EPA Reference Method 24, July 1, 1989. VOC content and density of rotogravure publication inks shall be determined by EPA Reference Method 24A, July 1, 1989. Once initial VOC content calculations have been made for existing adhesives, coatings, and inks, only new or modified adhesives, coatings, and inks must be tested for VOC content. Records must be kept in units necessary to verify compliance, that is, pound of VOC per gal (lb VOC/gal) of coating less water and exempt solvents for surface coating.k. Copies of all records and reports required under this Part shall be available for inspection during normal working hours and furthermore, copies of the required records and reports shall be furnished within ten (10) working days after receipt of a written request from the Department.4. The owner or operator of any VOC emission source or control equipment shall: a. Install, operate, calibrate, and maintain process and/or control equipment, monitoring instruments, or procedures as required by the Department and as necessary to comply with Paragraphs 1 and 2 above; andb. Maintain, in writing, data and/or reports relating to monitoring instruments or procedures which will, upon review, document the compliance status of the VOC emission source control equipment to the satisfaction of the Department.5. Copies of all records and reports under Paragraphs 1, 2, 3, and 4, above, shall be retained by the owner or operator for two (2) years after the date on which the record was made or the reports submitted.Part G. Equivalency Calculations In determining the amount of reduction required within coating/printing industries from a non-complying application, equivalency calculations must be made on a mass of VOC per volume of solids basis in accordance with Department policy and methodology. These determinations must be made when compliance demonstrations are based on reformulation, alternative emission limitation option (bubbles), or add-on control.
S.C. Code Regs. § 61-62.5.5.I
Amended by State Register Volume 37, Issue No. 4, eff April 26, 2013.