Indiana Administrative Code
Title 326 - AIR POLLUTION CONTROL DIVISION
Article 8 - VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND RULES
Rule 2 - Surface Coating Emission Limitations
Section 2-7 - Large appliance 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. 7.
(a) This section is applicable to the surface coating of doors, cases, lids, panels, and interior support parts of the following residential and commercial products:
(b) No owner or operator of a large appliance coating line subject to this section may cause, allow, or permit the discharge into the atmosphere of any VOC in excess of thirty-four hundredths (0.34) kilogram per liter of coating (two and eight-tenths (2.8) pounds per gallon) excluding water, delivered to the coating applicator from prime, single, or topcoat coating operations.
(c) On and after April 1, 2011, the owner or operator of a large appliance coating line in which the total actual VOC emissions from all large appliance coating operations, including related cleaning activities, are equal to or exceed fifteen (15) pounds per day, before add-on controls, located in Lake County or Porter County, shall comply with the following:
Coating Type | Maximum VOC Content | |
Baked | Air Dried | |
Kilograms/liter (pounds/gallon) of coating, excluding water, as applied | Kilograms/liter (pounds/gallon) of coating, excluding water, as applied | |
General, one component | 0.275 (2.3) | 0.275 (2.3) |
General, multicomponent | 0.275 (2.3) | 0.340 (2.8) |
Extreme high gloss | 0.360 (3.0) | 0.340 (2.8) |
Extreme performance | 0.360 (3.0) | 0.420 (3.5) |
Heat resistant | 0.360 (3.0) | 0.420 (3.5) |
Metallic | 0.420 (3.5) | 0.420 (3.5) |
Pretreatment coatings | 0.420 (3.5) | 0.420 (3.5) |
Solar absorbent | 0.360 (3.0) | 0.420 (3.5) |
Coating Type | Maximum VOC Content | |
Baked | Air Dried | |
Kilograms/liter (pounds/gallon) of coating solids, as applied | Kilograms/liter (pounds/gallon) of coating solids, as applied | |
General, one component | 0.40 (3.3) | 0.40 (3.3) |
General, multicomponent | 0.40 (3.3) | 0.55 (4.5) |
Extreme high gloss | 0.61 (5.1) | 0.55 (4.5) |
Extreme performance | 0.61 (5.1) | 0.80 (6.7) |
Heat resistant | 0.61 (5.1) | 0.80 (6.7) |
Metallic | 0.80 (6.7) | 0.80 (6.7) |
Pretreatment coatings | 0.80 (6.7) | 0.80 (6.7) |
Solar absorbent | 0.61 (5.1) | 0.80 (6.7) |
(d) The following exemptions apply in this section: