Small Business Clean Air Assistance Program

Industry Specific Regulations

Important note! The Small Business Clean Air Assistance Program is moving. Beginning July 1, 2011, the SBCAAP will be located in Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources. For the new address and phone numbers, see the Contact Information at the bottom of our program home page.

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
• Biofuels
• Chrome Electroplating
• Construction/Demolition
• Dry Cleaning
• Fiberglass Reinforced Plastics
• Gasoline Dispensing
• Printing
• Rock Crushing
• Secondary Aluminum Production
• Wood Furniture
• Other Industry Sector Resources

  AUTOMOTIVE

• Initial Notification Report RACT
• Motor Vehicle Refinishing RACT
• Air Permit Exemption for Auto Body Refinishers
• Autobody repair emissions calculation worksheet (MS Excel)
• On-line Auto Refinish Shop *

• EPA Area Source Rule for Paint Stripping and Miscellaneous Surface Coating - including Autobody Refinishing
• Overall Rule Information
• Appendix A: Requirements for Paint Stripping
• Appendix B: Requirements for Motor Vehicle and Mobile Equipment Surface Coating
• For forms and additional information on the rule, go to the SBCAAP Air Toxics page, scroll to 1/9/08 under Area Source Standards
• Watch the EPA training video (Windows Media file, 59 MB) to learn more about the rule and satisfy one of the training elements required in the rule.
• Compliance Information and Training for Autobody Shops in WI, IL, IN, MI, MN and OH.

  BIOFUELS

• Wisconsin Small-Scale Biofuels Producer Program - there are a number of regulations that impact biofuels operations. To learn more about them, you can obtain assistance from a variety of state programs through the Small Scale Biofuels Producer Program. Read more about the program and find out how to contact them by clicking HERE.
• Wisconsin's Guide to Building Biofuels Facilities - The guide is designed to provide emerging biodiesel and ethanol industry entrepreneurs with valuable tools and resources to assist them through the regulatory and permitting process.  

  CHROME ELECTROPLATING

• Chromium Electroplating MACT
• Recent Amendments (September 2004) to rule (link takes you to Chrome MACT page - scroll down to Implementation Documents and download PDF to right of the title)
• Guidebook on How to Comply with Cr NESHAP (EPA-453/B-95-001)
• Initial Notification Report
• Notice of Compliance Status
• Ongoing Monitoring Records
• Ongoing Compliance Status Report
• Notification of Performance Test
• Work Practice Standards

  CONSTRUCTION/DEMOLITION

• Asbestos — Renovation or Demolition Requirements (Air only)
• Pre-demolition Environmental Checklist * (DNR)
• Wisconsin’s Lead-Safe Renovation Rule
  Beginning April 22, 2010, renovation work will be regulated when performed
  for compensation in a dwelling or child-occupied facility built before 1978 and it
  disturbs 6 sq. ft. or more of paint per room, 20 sq. ft. or more of exterior paint, or
  involves windows.
• For training opportunities visit the Milwaukee Lead/Asbestos Information Center, Inc.

• Managing Your Environmental Responsibilities (MYER): A Planning Guide for Construction and Development

  DRY CLEANING

• Dry Cleaner Compliance Calendar for 2010 and 2011
  Includes:
• Korean translation of basic environmental monitoring requirements and instructions
• Form for reporting annual Perc usage for 2009
• annual Perc solvent purchase summary for 2010
• annual Perc solvent purchase summary for 2011
• Halogenated Hydrocarbon Detector Options

• Fact sheet on the Dry Cleaning MACT
• Initial Notification Report
• Compliance Status Report

• Plain English Guide for Dry Cleaners
• Guidebook for Perc Dry Cleaners (EPA-305/B-96-002)
• Strategies for Perc Dry Cleaners (University of Tennessee)
• State Coalition for Remediation of Dry Cleaners
• Webcast of Compliance with Air Regulations for Wisconsin Drycleaners

  FIBERGLASS REINFORCED PLASTICS

• Reducing Volatile Emissions in the Fiber Reinforced Plastics Industry (FRP) *
• An alternative for some resin applications may be a product called NOVOC. Check out their web site * for potential uses of the product and test results that show minimal levels of VOC and HAP emissions. We have not evaluated any claims so be sure and ask questions about their product.

  GASOLINE DISPENSING

• Gasoline Dispensing Facilities

New federal regulation, "National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants from Gasoline Dispensing Facilities" — The compliance deadline for the EPA rule affecting gasoline dispensing facilities was January 10, 2011. For facilities that are required to submit a Notification of Compliance Status form to EPA (monthly gasoline throughput 10,000 gallons/month or more), the deadline for submitting the NOCS was March 11, 2011. An electronic copy of the form is available here:

• Notification of compliance status form
• EPA fact sheet summarizing regulations for controlling air emissions from gasoline dispensing facilities

2011 Compliance Calendar for Gasoline Dispensing Facilities — On January 24, 2011 — after our calendar was printed — EPA published numerous amendments to the federal rule. We enclosed information about those amendments with the calendar mailing. Thank you for your patience while we worked to provide these last-minute updates.

Electronic versions of the calendar and all the new information are also available here:

• The cover letter for the 2011 calendar summarizes the important deadlines that are approaching soon and the new features that we added to this year's calendar.
  
• This fact sheet on changes to the federal rule summarizes EPA's amendments that were published on January 24, 2011.
  
• 2011 Compliance Calendar for Gasoline Dispensing Facilities — This PDF file contains the entire 2011 calendar.
  

Logs and worksheet pages from the calendar are also available separately here, in case you want extra copies:

• New for 2011! Training log for keeping records of operator designations and training required by Wisconsin's tanks rule (Comm 10). This log can also be used by facilities in the Stage II vapor recovery counties to keep records of employee training required by Wisconsin's gasoline emissions rule (NR 420).
• Monthly inspection checklist for underground storage tanks and gasoline dispensing equipment
• Weekly inspection checklist for facilities in the Stage II vapor recovery areas (9 counties)
• Inventory tracking and verification worksheet

• Gasoline Distribution Bulk Terminals, Bulk Plants, and Pipeline Facilities

• Initial notification/notification of compliance status form and cover letter
• EPA fact sheet summarizing regulations for controlling air emissions from bulk gasoline facilities
• US EPA rule for gasoline facilities

  PRINTING

• Printing Industry page

  ROCK CRUSHING

• Nonmetallic Mining Emission Calculations Based on 1998 Nonmetallic Mining Agreement
  

  SECONDARY ALUMINUM PRODUCTION

• 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.
• Notice of Compliance Status form
• Compliance Checklist for area sources

• Other USEPA implementation tools are available at http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/alum2nd/alum2pg.html.

Unit Specific Requirements:

• Thermal chip dryers — a device that uses heat to evaporate water, oil or oil/water mixtures from unpainted/uncoated aluminum chips.

• 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.)

• USEPA Prepared Secondary Aluminum Sweat Furnace Workbook to walk owners through all the requirements in the rule and provides a checklist.

Information for Major Sources:

• Scrap dryers/delacquering kilns/decoating kilns
• Group 1 furnaces

  WOOD FURNITURE

• Wood Furniture Manufacturing RACT
• Initial Notification and Compliance Report (RACT)
• Emissions Averaging Notification (RACT)
• Wood Furniture Manufacturing Operations MACT
• Initial Notification Report (MACT)
• Clean Air Compliance for Wood Furniture Manufacturers (University of Tennessee)

  Other National Industry Sector-Based Resources

EPA's Sector Strategies Program site has assistance and resources for the following sectors:

EPA's Design for the Environment site has publications for a variety of industries for which it has undertaken Partnership Projects: