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TITLE 30ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
PART 1TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
CHAPTER 115CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION FROM VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
SUBCHAPTER BGENERAL VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND SOURCES
DIVISION 6BATCH PROCESSES
RULE §115.161Applicability

(a) The provisions of §§115.162 - 115.167 of this title (relating to Control Requirements; Alternate Control Requirements; Determination of Emissions and Flow Rates; Approved Test Methods and Testing Requirements; Monitoring and Recordkeeping Requirements; and Exemptions) apply to vent gas streams at batch process operations in the Beaumont/Port Arthur and Houston/Galveston areas, as defined in §115.10 of this title (relating to Definitions), under the following Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes:

  (1) 2821 (plastic resins and materials);

  (2) 2833 (medicinals and botanicals);

  (3) 2834 (pharmaceutical preparations);

  (4) 2861 (gum and wood chemicals);

  (5) 2865 (cyclic crudes and intermediates);

  (6) 2869 (industrial organic chemicals, not elsewhere classified); and

  (7) 2879 (agricultural chemicals, not elsewhere classified).

(b) Any batch process operation that is exempt under §115.167(1) or (2)(A) of this title is subject to the requirements of Division 2 of this subchapter (relating to Vent Gas Control).

(c) Any batch process in the Houston/Galveston area in which a highly-reactive volatile organic compound, as defined in §115.10 of this title, is a raw material, intermediate, final product, or in a waste stream is subject to the requirements of Subchapter H of this chapter (relating to Highly-Reactive Volatile Organic Compounds) in addition to the applicable requirements of either this division (relating to Batch Processes) or Division 2 of this subchapter, whichever of these two divisions applies.


Source Note: The provisions of this §115.161 adopted to be effective November 18, 1999, 24 TexReg 10095; amended to be effective January 18, 2001, 26 TexReg 493; amended to be effective May 16, 2002, 27 TexReg 4113; amended to be effective January 17, 2003, 28 TexReg 113

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