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 pneumatic rubber tire manufacturing
plants.
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 undertread cementers, tread end cementers, bead dip tanks, and
green tire spray booths associated with the manufacture of pneumatic
tires.
(2) "Manufacture of
pneumatic rubber tires" means the mass production of pneumatic rubber
tires.
(3) "Pneumatic rubber tires"
means agricultural, airplane, industrial, mobile home, light and medium duty
truck, and passenger vehicle tires of bead diameter up to.51 m (twenty (20)
in.) and cross-sectional dimension up to.33 m (twelve and eight-tenths (12.8)
in.).
(4) "Classification date"
means February 4, 1981.
(5) "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.
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 capture and control equipment to
achieve the following:
(1) Emissions from
undertread cementers, tread end cementers and bead dip tanks shall be reduced
by at least seventy-six (76) percent; and
(2) Emissions from green tire spray booths
shall be reduced by at least eighty-one (81) percent. This requirement shall
not apply to green tire spray booths using water based
sprays.
Section 4.
Compliance. Compliance shall be determined based upon an engineering analysis
by the
cabinet of the control system design, control device efficiency, control
system capture efficiency, and any other factors that may influence the
performance of the system. If requested by the
cabinet, performance tests
specified by the
cabinet shall be conducted to determine the efficiency of the
control device. Capture efficiency shall be determined by procedures specified
in
401 KAR
50:047.
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) A final control plan for achieving
compliance with this administrative regulation shall be submitted no later than
three (3) months after the date the affected facility becomes subject to this
administrative regulation.
(b) The
control system contract shall be awarded no later than five (5) months after
the date the affected facility becomes subject to this administrative
regulation.
(c) On-site
construction or installation of emission control equipment shall be initiated
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.