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TITLE 30ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
PART 1TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
CHAPTER 115CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION FROM VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
SUBCHAPTER ESOLVENT-USING PROCESSES
DIVISION 2SURFACE COATING PROCESSES
RULE §115.429Counties and Compliance Schedules

(a) In Brazoria, Chambers, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, El Paso, Fort Bend, Galveston, Gregg, Hardin, Harris, Jefferson, Johnson, Kaufman, Liberty, Montgomery, Nueces, Orange, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant, Victoria, and Waller Counties, the compliance date has passed and the owner or operator of a surface coating process shall continue to comply with this division.

(b) In Hardin, Jefferson, and Orange Counties the compliance date has passed and the owner or operator of each shipbuilding and ship repair operation that, when uncontrolled, emits a combined weight of volatile organic compounds from ship and offshore oil or gas drilling platform surface coating operations equal to or greater than 50 tons per year and less than 100 tons per year shall continue to comply with this division.

(c) The owner or operator of a paper surface coating process located in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, except Wise County, and Houston-Galveston-Brazoria area, as defined in §115.10 of this title (relating to Definitions), shall comply with the requirements in §115.422(7) of this title (relating to Control Requirements), no later than March 1, 2013.

(d) The owner or operator of a surface coating process in Wise County shall comply with the requirements in this division as soon as practicable, but no later than January 1, 2017.

(e) The owner or operator of a surface coating process in Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Johnson, Kaufman, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant, and Wise Counties that becomes subject to this division on or after the applicable compliance date in this section shall comply with the requirements in this division as soon as practicable, but no later than 60 days after becoming subject.

(f) The owner or operator of a surface coating process in the Bexar County area subject to the requirements of this division shall comply with the requirements of this division no later than January 1, 2025. All affected persons of a surface coating process in the Bexar County area that becomes subject to this division on or after the applicable compliance date in this subsection shall comply with the requirements of this division as soon as practicable, but no later than 60 days after becoming subject.


Source Note: The provisions of this §115.429 adopted to be effective February 19, 1990, 15 TexReg 5491; amended to be effective July 23, 1990, 15 TexReg 3857; amended to be effective July 17, 1991, 16 TexReg 3726; amended to be effective November 1, 1991, 16 TexReg 5839; amended to be effective August 1, 1992, 17 TexReg 4683; amended to be effective November 16, 1992, 17 TexReg 7782; amended to be effective December 3, 1993, 18 TexReg 8538; amended to be effective May 27, 1994, 19 TexReg 3703; amended to be effective March 7, 1996, 21 TexReg 1548; amended to be effective April7,1998, 23 TexReg 3503; amended to be effective July 20, 2000, 25 TexReg 6752; amended to be effective January 17, 2003, 28 TexReg 113; amended to be effective May 5, 2005, 30 TexReg 2522; amended to be effective October 20, 2005, 30 TexReg 6738; amended to be effective December 29, 2011, 36 TexReg 8897; amended to be effective June 25, 2015, 40 TexReg 3907; amended to be effective May 16, 2024, 49 TexReg 3292

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