Paint Stripping Operations
Facilities must comply with this rule if they perform paint stripping operations to remove dried coatings with products containing methylene chloride (MeCl) on any part or product made of wood, metal, plastic or a combination of these materials and emit less than 10 tons per year.
The rule requires that all paint stripping operations facilities must:
- Submit an Initial Notification/Compliance Form to EPA and North Carolina Division of Air Quality.
- Use best practices to limit the emissions of MeCl.
- Consider alternatives to re-coating without using MeCl to remove dried coating.
- For all work, consider other ways to strip that do not use MeCl.
- Try to reduce MeCl emissions.
- Develop and implement a minimizing plan for MeCl, if you use more than 2,000 pounds per year.
RecordkeepingAdditionally, facilities must keep the following records on file for a period of at least five years after the date of each record:
- Paint stripping MeCl content information, (e.g. MSDS)
- MeCl Annual usage
- Copy of MeCl minimization plan
Compliance Dates
- Existing Sources: January 10, 2011
- New Sources: Upon startup after January 9, 2008
An affected source is a new source if construction commenced after September 17, 2007, or if new surface coating equipment was installed at a source not actively engaged in miscellaneous surface coating prior to September 17, 2007
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