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Small Business
Clean Air Assistance
Program
Industry Specific Regulations
A
wide
range of industrial categories have regulations written specific to
their operations, and we have summarized information on rules affecting
those here. These industry specific rules are set based on
the emissions reductions achieved by a certain level of technology,
either through equipment or materials available for purchase.
These technology based rules go by the abbreviations of RACT
or MACT, which are defined below.
RACT
regulations
(Reasonable
Available
Control
Technology) are state air pollution rules controlling the release of
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in Wisconsin's nonattainment area.
Businesses in Kenosha, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine,
Sheboygan, Washington and Waukesha counties may be affected by these
regulations.
MACT standards (Maximum
Achievable
Control
Technology)
are federal air pollution rules intended to protect the public from
hazardous air pollutants. MACT standards affect source categories under
section 112 of the Clean Air Act Amendments.
Industry Sectors Included:
AUTOMOTIVE
CHROME ELECTROPLATING
CONSTRUCTION/DEMOLITION
DRY CLEANING
FIBERGLASS REINFORCED
PLASTICS
PRINTING
ROCK CRUSHING
SECONDARY ALUMINUM
PRODUCTION
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Area
sources (having less emissions of hazardous air pollutants
than major source
levels) do have to meet Dioxin/Furan limits
in the MACT standard for certain processing units.
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Notice
of Compliance Status Form
Unit Specific Requirements:
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Thermal
chip dryers — a
device that uses heat to evaporate water, oil or
oil/water mixtures from unpainted/uncoated aluminum chips.
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Scrap
dryers/
delacquering kilns/ decoating kilns — refers
to
a unit that is primarily used to remove
various
organic contaminants such as oil, paint, lacquer, ink, plastic, and/or
rubber from aluminum scrap—including
used beverage containers—prior
to melting. -
Group
1 furnaces
(or a secondary aluminum production unit [SAPU] with one or
more Group 1 furnaces) — these
are furnaces of any design that melt,
hold or process aluminum that contains paint, lubricants, coatings, or
other foreign materials with or without reactive fluxing, or process
clean charge with reactive fluxing. -
Sweat
furnaces — a
unit that is specifically designed to reclaim
aluminum
from scrap that also contains large quantities of iron. The aluminum
has a lower boiling point than iron and will melt off in the furnace at
the right temperature while the iron remains solid. (Scrap yards might
use a sweat furnace to reclaim aluminum from items like sheet and cast
aluminum, while automotive salvage operations can reclaim aluminum from
unusable auto parts like transmissions.)
Major sources:
WOOD FURNITURE
Other National Industry Sector-Based Resources
EPA's Sector
Strategies
site has assistance and resources for
the following sectors:
EPA's Design
for the
Environment site has publications for a
variety of industries or partners
that they've worked with.
Send an email to COMCleanAir@Wisconsin.gov
with questions or comments about the SBCAAP web pages.
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