Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, March 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
KRS
224.20-100,
224.20-110,
224.20-120,
42 U.S.C.
7401 et seq., 7407, 7408, 7410
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
KRS
224.10-100 requires the Environmental and
Public Protection Cabinet to prescribe administrative regulations for the
prevention, abatement and control of air pollution.
42
USC 7410 likewise requires the state to
implement standards for national primary and secondary ambient air quality.
This administrative regulation provides for the control of volatile organic
compound emissions from existing perchloroethylene dry cleaning systems.
Section 1. Definitions. As used in this
administrative regulation, all terms not defined in this section shall have the
meaning given to them in
401 KAR
61:001.
(1) "Affected
facility" means dry cleaning systems which use perchloroethylene.
(2) "Dry cleaning system" means a series of
equipment or operations which includes, but is not limited to washer, dryer,
filter and purification systems, waste disposal systems, holding tanks, pumps,
and attendant piping and valves used for the purpose of commercial cleaning of
fabrics.
(3) "Classification date"
means February 4, 1981.
Section
2. Applicability. This administrative regulation shall apply to
each affected facility commenced before the classification date defined in
Section 1 of this administrative regulation which is located in a county or
portion of a county which is designated ozone nonattainment, for any
nonattainment classification except marginal, under
401 KAR
51:010.
Section
3. Standard for VOCs. The owner or operator of an affected
facility shall install, maintain and operate the control equipment such that
the following requirements are met:
(1) There
shall be no liquid leakage of organic solvents from the system.
(2) The entire dryer exhaust shall be vented
through a properly functioning carbon adsorber or equally effective control
device.
(3) The maximum organic
solvent concentration in the vent from the dryer control device shall not
exceed 100 ppm before dilution.
(4)
Filter and distillation wastes.
(a) The
residue from a diatomaceous earth filter shall be cooked or treated so that
wastes shall not contain more than twenty-five (25) kg of solvent per 100 kg of
wet waste material.
(b) The residue
from a solvent still shall not contain more than sixty (60) kg of solvent per
100 kg of wet waste material.
(c)
Filtration cartridges shall be drained in the filter housing for at least
twenty-four (24) hours before being discarded. The drained cartridges shall be
dried in the dryer tumbler after draining.
(d) Any other filtration or distillation
system may be used if equivalency to these requirements is demonstrated. A
system reducing waste losses below one (1) kg solvent per 100 kg clothes
cleaned shall be considered equivalent.
Section 4. Compliance.
(1) Liquid leakage shall be determined by
visual inspection of the following sources:
(a) Hose connections, unions, couplings and
valves;
(b) Machine door gasket and
seating;
(c) Filter head gasket and
seating;
(d) Pumps;
(e) Base tanks and storage
containers;
(f) Water
separators;
(g) Filter sludge
recovery operations;
(h)
Distillation units;
(i) Diverter
valves;
(j) Saturated lint from
lint basket; and
(k) Cartridge
filters.
(2) Dryer
exhaust concentration shall be determined by the proper installation,
operation, and maintenance of approved equipment as determined by the cabinet
or by performance tests specified by the cabinet.
(3) The amount of solvent in filter and
distillation wastes shall be determined by ASTM D 322-67(77), and substituting
collector C from ASTM E 123-78. ASTM Methods have been incorporated by
reference in
401 KAR
50:015.
Section 5. Compliance Timetable.
(1) Affected facilities which were subject to
this administrative regulation as in effect on February 4, 1981, shall have
achieved final compliance by December 31, 1982.
(2) The owner or operator of an affected
facility that becomes subject to this administrative regulation on or after
June 24, 1992 shall be required to complete the following:
(a) Submit a final control plan for achieving
compliance with this administrative regulation no later than three (3) months
after the date the affected facility becomes subject to this administrative
regulation.
(b) Award the control
system contract no later than five (5) months after the date the affected
facility becomes subject to this administrative regulation.
(c) Initiate on-site construction or
installation of emission control equipment no later than seven (7) months after
the date the affected facility becomes subject to this administrative
regulation.
(d) On-site
construction or installation of emission control equipment shall be completed
no later than eleven (11) months after the date the affected facility becomes
subject to this administrative regulation.
(e) Final compliance shall be achieved no
later than twelve (12) months after the date the affected facility becomes
subject to this administrative regulation.
(f) If an affected facility becomes subject
to this administrative regulation because it is located in a county previously
designated nonurban nonattainment or redesignated in
401 KAR
51:010 after November 15, 1990, final compliance may
be extended to May 31, 1995, and the schedule in paragraphs (a) through (d) of
this subsection adjusted by the cabinet.
Section 6. Exemptions. Perchloroethylene dry
cleaning facilities which are coin-operated shall be exempt from this
administrative regulation.
Section
7. Variances. Variation with the standards and limitations
contained in this administrative regulation, if supported by adequate technical
information, may be considered by the cabinet on a case-by-case basis to allow
for technological or economic circumstances which are unique to a source.
Case-by-case alternatives approved by the cabinet, but not previously
authorized by the U.S. EPA, shall be submitted to the U.S. EPA as a SIP
revision.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY:
KRS
224.10-100