Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 39, September 26, 2024
(a) The provisions
of this regulation shall apply to all packaging rotogravure, publication
rotogravure and flexographic printing facilities with potential contaminant
emission rate of volatile organic compounds (VOC) equal to or more than 100
tons per year. The potential contaminant emission rate calculations may include
federally enforceable permit restrictions.
(b) An owner or operator of an affected
facility may not operate, cause, allow or permit the operation of the facility
unless:
(1) the ink, as it is applied to the
substrate, contains:
(A) for a water borne
ink, a volatile content of 25.0 percent or less by volumeVOC and 75 percent or
more by volume water; and
(B) for
a high solids, solvent borne ink, less water, 60.0 percent or more by volume
solid fraction; or
(2)
the owner or operator installs and operates a vapor processing system which
uses a carbon adsorber or an incinerator as a VOC emissions control device or
other types of VOC emissions control devices may be used upon department
approval. A vapor collection system, the design and operation of which shall be
consistent with good engineering practice, shall be used with any vapor
processing system. The vapor processing system shall provide, as demonstrated
to the satisfaction of the department, an overall emissions reduction of at
least:
(A) 75.0 percent where a publication
rotogravure process is employed;
(B) 65.0 percent where a packaging
rotogravure process is employed; or
(C) 60.0 percent where a flexographic
printing process is employed.
(c) The owner or operator of an affected
facility not in compliance with subsection (b) after the facility becomes
subject to the provisions of this regulation shall meet the increments of
progress to achieve compliance in the following schedules.
(1) For process equipment alterations and
add-on vapor processing systems requiring purchase orders:
(A) Submit final plans for the vapor
processing system or process alterations, or both, within 75 days after the
facility becomes subject to the provisions of this regulation;
(B) award contracts or purchase orders for
the vapor processing system or process alterations, or both, within 135 days
after the facility becomes subject to the provisions of this regulation;
(C) initiate onsite construction
or installation of the vapor processing system or process alterations, or both,
within 200 days after the facility becomes subject to the provisions of this
regulation;
(D) complete onsite
construction or installation of the vapor processing system or process
alterations, within 300 days after the facility becomes subject to the
provisions of the regulation; and
(E) achieve final compliance within 365 days
after the facility becomes subject to the provisions of this regulation.
(2) for process
equipment alterations and vapor processing systems not requiring purchase
orders:
(A) submit final plans for the vapor
processing system or process alterations, or both, within 45 days after the
facility becomes subject to the provisions of this regulation;
(B) award contracts for process alterations
or for the vapor processing system, or both, within 90 days after the facility
becomes subject to the provisions of this regulation;
(C) initiate onsite construction or
installation of process alterations or vapor processing system, or both, within
120 days after the facility becomes subject to the provisions of this
regulation;
(D) complete onsite
construction or installation of process alterations or vapor processing system,
or both, within 180 days after the facility becomes subject to the provisions
of this regulation; and
(E)
achieve final compliance within 200 days after the facility becomes subject to
the provisions of this regulation.
(d) The owner or operator of an affected
facility not in compliance with subsection (b) after the facility becomes
subject to the provisions of this regulation may submit to the department, and
the department may approve, a proposed alternate compliance schedule to those
outlined in subsection (c), provided the following requirements are met:
(1) the proposed alternate compliance
schedule shall be submitted within 45 days after the facility becomes subject
to the provisions of this regulation;
(2) the owner or operator shall demonstrate
to the satisfaction of the department the need for an alternate schedule;
(3) the alternate compliance
schedule shall contain increments of progress.
(4) Sufficient documentation and
certification from appropriate suppliers, contractors, manufacturers, or
fabricators shall be submitted to the department by the owner or operator of
the affected facility to justify the dates proposed for the increments of
progress;
(5) the owner or
operator shall certify in writing to the department, within five days after the
deadline for each increment of progress, that the required increment of
progress has been met; and
(6)
final compliance shall be achieved within 365 days after the facility becomes
subject to the provisions of this regulation.
(e)
(1) The
owner or operator of an affected facility shall, within 365 days after the
facility becomes subject to the provisions of this regulation and at other
times considered necessary by the department to determine compliance with this
regulation and at the owner or operator's expense, demonstrate compliance to
the satisfaction of the department with subsection (b) by the test methods
outlined in the following documents or alternate methods demonstrated to the
satisfaction of the department to be equivalent:
(A) appropriate reference methods in 40 CFR
Part 60, appendix A, as in effect July 1, 1986; and
(B) U.S. environmental protection agency
guideline series document "Procedures for Certifying Quantity of Volatile
Organic Compounds Emitted by Paint, Ink and Other Coatings", EPA-450/3-84-011,
as in effect December, 1984.
(2) The owner or operator shall notify the
department of the intent to test not less than 30 days before the proposed
initiation of any tests, and the notification shall contain the information
required by, and be in a format approved by, the department.
(f) Subsequent to the initial
performance test required in subsection (e), the owner or operator shall
monitor compliance with subsection (b) by maintaining and analyzing the daily
records required by subsection (h) using composition of the ink as applied to
the substrate determined by:
(1) ink analysis
conducted by the owner or operator in accordance with 40 CFR Part 60, appendix
A, reference method 24A, as in effect July, 1986; or
(2) formulation data supplied by the ink
manufacturer plus VOC added to alter ink viscosity before application to the
substrate. The department may require the manufacturer's data be verified, at
the expense of the owner or operator, by method 24A referenced in subsection
(f)(1), if the department has reason to believe compliance with subsection (b)
is not being achieved.
(g) Use of vapor processing systems shall
require that continuous monitors be installed, calibrated, operated and
maintained. The continuous monitors shall continuously measure and record the
following parameters:
(1) with an accuracy of
the greater of +0.75 percent of the temperature being
measured, expressed in degrees celsius, of 2.5 degrees celsius, the exhaust gas
temperature of all VOC destruction devices and the gas temperature immediately
upstream and downstream of any catalyst bed; and
(2) with an accuracy of
+2.00 percent of the amount being monitored, the
cumulative amount of VOC recovered during a calendar month for all VOC recovery
equipment; and
(3) any other
parameters considered necessary by the department.
(h) The owner or operator of an affected
facility shall keep and maintain at the facility, and make available for
inspection by a department representative, records for each emission unit
demonstrating continuous compliance with this regulation. The records shall
include daily records of the following information and shall be kept at the
facility for two years following the date of record:
(1) properties of inks as supplied: density
in pounds per gallon, total volatile content in weight percent, total VOC
content in pounds per gallon minus water, water content in weight percent, and
nonvolatiles content in weight percent;
(2) properties of dilution solvents: chemical
name and density in pounds per gallon;
(3) properties of inks as applied to
substrate: weighted average density in pounds per gallon and ink dilution ratio
in gallons of solvent to gallons of ink as supplied;
(4) quantity of individual inks as applied to
substrate;
(5) results of any
testing conducted on an emissions unit at an affected facility; and
(6) maintenance records of the vapor
processing systems.
(i)
The provisions of this regulation shall be applicable only to the printing
operations located within areas which were identified as not meeting the
national primary ambient air quality standard for ozone in the manner
prescribed by the provisions of the federal clean air act, 42 U.S.C. 7407, as
promulgated at 40 CFR Part 81 as in effect July 1, 1986 and amended at 51 Fed.
Reg. 25,200 July 11, 1986.
