Indiana Administrative Code
Title 326 - AIR POLLUTION CONTROL DIVISION
Article 8 - VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND RULES
Rule 2 - Surface Coating Emission Limitations
Section 2-5 - Paper coating operations
Current through March 20, 2024
Authority: IC 13-14-8; IC 13-17-3-4; IC 13-17-3-11
Affected: IC 13-12-3-1; IC 13-14-8-3; IC 13-14-8-7; IC 13-17-1-1
Sec. 5.
(a) This section establishes emission limitations for web coating or saturation processes of paper, plastic, metal foil, and pressure sensitive tapes and labels regardless of substrate. Excluded from this category are single pieces of equipment that meet the emission limitations contained in 326 IAC 8-5-5 that conduct packaging rotogravure printing, publication rotogravure printing, or flexographic printing operations in line with surface coating lines.
(b) No owner or operator of a coating line subject to this section may cause, allow, or permit the discharge into the atmosphere of any VOC in excess of thirty-five hundredths (0.35) kilogram per liter of coating (two and nine-tenths (2.9) pounds per gallon) excluding water, delivered to the coating applicator from a paper, plastic, metal foil, or pressure sensitive tape/labels coating line.
(c) On and after April 1, 2011, the owner or operator of a coating line in which the total actual VOC emissions from all paper coating operations, including related cleaning activities, are equal to or exceed fifteen (15) pounds per day located in Lake County or Porter County, before add-on controls, shall comply with the following: