Printing, coating, and dyeing of fabrics and other textiles MACT

4. What sources are not subject to this rule?

Sources that are not subject to this rule include the following:

• Those sources that only use coatings, printing, slashing, dyeing, thinning, and cleaning materials containing no organic HAP.
• Any surface coating subject to any other NESHAP in Part 63 as of May 29, 2003.
• All research and laboratory facilities as well as janitorial or building and facility maintenance operations.
• Coating and printing operations where the coating and printing material is being dried and cured at ambient conditions.
• Coating, Printing, Slashing, Dyeing or Finishing operations used by a facility and not for commerce, unless organic HAP emissions from the coating, printing, slashing, dyeing or finishing operations are at the same level as a major source HAP emissions.
• Coating, Printing, Slashing, Dyeing or Finishing operations performed on-site at facilities owned and operated by the Armed Forces of the United States.
• Coating, Printing, Slashing, Dyeing or Finishing operations at a synthetic fiber manufacturing facility where the fibers are the final products of the facility.

Additionally, the following web coating lines are not subject to this rule:

• Any web coating line that coats both a paper and other web substrate and a fabric or other textile substrate for use in flexible packaging, pressure sensitive tape and abrasive materials, a line that is laminating a fabric substrate to paper.
• Any web coating operation that applies coatings to both tire cord and to textile cord used in the production of belts and hoses.
• Any web coating line that coats or prints fabrics or other textiles for use in flexible packaging and that is included in an affected source under subpart KK of this part (National Emission Standards for Printing and Publishing Industry).
• A web coating line that coats 90 percent or more of paper substrate, and 10 percent or less of a fabric or other textile substrate are subject to part 63 NESHAP for that substrate.