June 1, 2005—The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued four direct final amendments to the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPs) for the following facilities:
- Iron and Steel Foundries (clarifying existing work practice standards for scrap certification and scrap inspection/selection plans)
- Pharmaceutical Production Facilities (including provisions for planned routine maintenance of wastewater tanks, and alternative monitoring for condensers and scrubbers)
- Asphalt Processing and Asphalt Roofing Manufacturing Facilities (correcting minor errors and adding an exemption, inadvertently omitted in the promulgated rule, that would ensure that emissions from certain processes are not considered “fuel gas” under the petroleum refinery new source performance standard)
- Miscellaneous Coating Manufacturing Facilities: (providing additional options for compliance, clarifying sections of the August 2003 rule, and revising the definition of transfer operations to clarify that all product loading operations are part of the facility and, thus, are not subject to EPA’s National Emissions Standards for organic liquid distribution)
The files for the direct final rules, parallel proposals, and fact sheets for the four technical amendments are posted on the EPA Web site.
