United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Office of Air Quality
Planning and Standards
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
EPA453/N-94-009
October 1994
4>EPA Control Technology Center
NEWS
Volume 6, No. 4
A JOINT EPA / STAPPA / MAP CO PROJECT
October 1994
REGULATION DATA
BASE COMING TO
RBLC BBS
By Jo Ann Kerrick
VfGYAN
Coming November 1, 1994, the
RACT/BACT/LAER Clearinghouse
(RBLC) is adding a data base for federal
and state regulations. The initial release
contains summaries of federal regula-
tions enacted in response to the Clean
Air Actand Amendments. This includes
National Emission Standards for Haz-
ardous Air Pollutant (NESHAP), New
Source Performance Standards
(NSPS), and Maximum Achievable Con-
trol Technology (MACT) standards. In
January 1995, state and local agencies
will be able to add summaries of the rules
they would like to share with others. As
statesentertheirown information on key
rules, both federal and state rules will be
available - all in a single data base. The
regulation data base offers on-line input-
ting and editing of regulations by respon-
sible agencies through its data entry
module. A query module brings the
power of user-defined queries to the
complex details of air pollutant
emissions regulations.
Using the same menu-
driven system that you
know from the RBLC's
control technology de-
termination data base,
you can build a query
to locate pertinent
regulations for a par-
ticular pollutant orpro-
cess or for a broad ar-
ray of other criteria.
The organization
of the regulation data
base is similarto that of
the RBLC's control technol-
ogy determination data base. Each
entry, or rule, in the regulation data base
consists of regulation-, process-, and
pollutant-level data. A rule is associated
with the type of facility that is the source
of pollutants governed by the regulation.
The type of facility might be a particular
plant, such as a coke oven or vinyl chlo-
ride manufacturing, or a generic opera-
tion such as waste transfer. This source
is referred to as the affected facility.
Each rule is also assigned an 8-
character rule ID
when it is first
added to the
data base.
You can use
the affected
facility or rule
ID to quickly
find the rules
of interest to
you. The rule
number as-
signed by the
responsible
agency (the
Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) num-
ber for federal rules) is just one of the
pieces of information available at the
regulation/affected facility level. Others
include rule status, statutory basis for
emission limits (e.g., NESHAP, NSPS,
or MACT), proposed and effective dates,
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AIRWA VES
By Bob Blaszczak
CTC Co-Chair, OAQPS
I bet you didn't expect to see another copy of the CTC
NEWS this soon. No, we haven't gone to a monthly format or
gone off the deep end. Ourfiscal yearends September 30 and
so does our printing budget which included funds to print this
edition of the CTC NEWS. So we had to get this one out on time
or there wouldn't be an October edition. Its not easy, but even
us old bureaucrats can get it moving when push comes to
shove.
The times (and the CTC) are a changin'! Streamlining,
reorganization, and disinvestment are beginning to impact the
CTC, including the RACT/BACT/LAER Clearinghouse
(RBLC) and the Federal Small Business Assistance Program
(SBAP).
On September 1, the Office of Air Quality Planning and
Standards (OAQPS) submitted a proposed reorganization to
EPA headquarters. Theproposal would move the OAQPS part
of the CTC, and the RBLC and SBAP out of the Director's
Office, Emission Standards Division (ESD), to a brand new
group and division, the Information Transfer Group in the
Information Transfer and Program Integration Division. This
change will unite the CTC with staff from the Technology
Transfer Network (TTN) electronic bulletin board system
(BBS) and the Aerometric Information Retrieval System
(AIRS). We are looking forward to joining an organizational
unit with the primary goal of providing you with the information
you need to doyour job, but will have to work hard to assure that
we retain the support and cooperation of the ESD technical
experts who have done a great job over the years responding
to your requests for assistance.
The Air and Energy Engineering Laboratory (AEERL) part
of the CTC is also involved in reorganization. The Office of
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REGULATION DATA
BASE
(continued from page 1)
references to supporting technical docu-
mentation (Background Information
Documents or "BID" for federal rules),
and explanatory notes. Each rule in-
cludes a telephone number for a knowl-
edgeable contact at the responsible
agency. (See Figure 1).
Each affected facility consists of one
or more different processes that are
regulated by the rule. Regulations can
specify different emission standards for
new and existing sources or for different
size sources. Therefore, a rule may
contain the same general process but
different emission limits for sources with
different capacities or construction
dates. Data attheprocess level includes
process type, SCC code, and additional
notes for details about the process itself.
Each process, in turn, consists of infor-
mation on one or more pollutants and the
emission limits required by the regula-
tion. Pollutant-level information also in-
cludes details about add-on equipment
and pollution prevention. For federal
regulations in particular, the Clearing-
house staff has made a special effort to
collect accurate cost information from
the background and supporting techni-
cal documents. The cost data in the data
base includes capital cost of add-on
equipment, operation and maintenance
cost of this equipment, and cost effec-
tiveness in dollars per ton.
The regulation data base is ac-
cessed directly from the BUS BBS Main
menu. The system is available any time
the TTN is up and running. After an
introductory screen, the first regulation
data base menu gives you a choice be-
tween the edit and query modules. The
edit module is password-protected. If
you would like to input regulations for
your agency, contact the BUS System
Administrator at (919) 541-2736. When
you select the query module, thesystem
brings you directly to the query menu. All
rules are stored in one data base. The
query menu offers both standard (menu-
driven) and advanced search options.
Thesearchablefields are thesame ones
used in the determination data base,
except for a few fields that do not apply to
regulations (e.g., AIRS ID). Context-
sensitive on-line help is available from all
of the menus and prompts. After you
have successfully completed a search,
choose from the view, download, or re-
activate options. The system supports
three download options:
an ASCII text file with summary
information, grouped by process type,
for selected rules.
* an ASCII text file with detailed
information about selected rules.
* a dBASE III+format file of se-
lected information about each rulefound
in the query.
The RBLC works hard to give you
accurate and timely information about air
pollutant emissions. We're excited
about the new federal and state regula-
tion data base and hope you will be too.
El
Figure 1 - Regulation Level Data
REGS QUERY Subset: 1
VIEW REGULATION
DATE: 08/31/94
RUS-0089 810:7216 BASIS: NESHAP/MACT
AFFECTED FACILITY: DRY CLEANING FACILITIES, PERCHLOROETHYLENE (PCE)
STATE: US REGION: 0
STATUS: IN EFFECT
ENTERED: 08/23/94
UPDATED: 08/23/94
AGENCY CODE: OT002 AGENCY NAME: U.S. EPA
CONTACT: CONTROL TECHNOLOGY CENTER
RULE NUMBER: 40 CFR PART 63
BID: EPA-450/3-91-020A.B & -021 ,B TITLE: DRY CLEANING FAC.- BKGD INFO
PHONE: (919) 541-0800
TECH. SUPPORT DOC.:
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS:
RISK ANALYSIS:
PUBLIC NOTICE:
PUBLIC HEARING:
Date
01/11/91
Y
Date Legal Ref.
RULEPROPOSED:12/09/91 56FR64382
PROMULGATION: 09/22/93 58 FR 49354
RULE EFFECTIVE: 12/09/91 56 FR 64382
SEE NOTES FOR MORE INFORMATION
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AIRWA VES
(continued from page 1)
Research and Development is contem-
plating a restructuring of EPA's research
program. The proposal would combine
all research laboratory functions into four
megalabs. It's not clearhowtheAEERL
part of the CTC will fair in this new
structure orwhere it may eventually land
(Research Triangle Park, NC or Cincin-
nati, OH?).
With the start of the new fiscal year,
let me just remind you to get any project
proposals you may have to the CTC. It's
usually first come, first serve, so getyour
request in ASAP.
As a result of the reorganization, the
CTC, RBLC and SBAP are initiating a
process to reevaluate their mission, re-
sources, and abilityto continue services
at past levels. We hope to work closely
with STAPPA/ALAPCO in this effort and
tap into their unique ability to assess and
reflectyourneeds. We would appreciate
your cooperation and input. So, please
be responsive to this effort when asked
and help us and STAPPA/ALAPCO de-
termine the future of these programs.
Don't forget to send in your ideas on
a new name for the CTC. As noted here
last month, the CTC is being encouraged
to change its name to better reflect its
pollution prevention (P2) role. In current
jargon, theterm "control technology" has
become synonymous with add-on con-
trols and not con-
sistent with the
Agency's /&\ do you
pollution 7,-tA \think?J
PROBLEMS
SOLUTIONS
prevention thrust. We would appreciate
your thoughts on a name that would be
more indicative of the CTC's role in both
preventing and controlling air pollution.
Enjoy this edition of the CTC NEWS
and best wishes in the upcoming Holiday
season. Will be back to you in January
1995!
CTC News page 2
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MACT, CTG, A/SPS, ACT AND TITLE I RULE SCHEDULES**
MACT STANDARD
Aerospace (coatings)
Asbestos MACT/GACT
Asbestos Litigation
Benzene Waste NESHAP Lit.
Chromium Electroplating
Coke Ovens
Commercial Sterilizers
Degreasing (Hal. Sol. Clean.)
Dry Cleaning
Haz. Organic NESHAP (HON)
Haz. Waste TSDF Phase II
Haz. Waste TSDF Phase II!
Ind. Cooling Towers
Magnetic Tape Coating
Marine Vessel (load/unload)
Mun. Waste Comb. II & III
Off-site Waste Operations
Petroleum Refineries
Polymers & Resins I
Polymers & Resins II
Polymers & Resins III
Polymers & Resins IV
Pulp & Paper (combustion)
Pulp & Paper (non-comb.)
Secondary Lead Smelters
Shipbuilding (coatings)
Stage I Gasoline Distr.
Wood Furniture Coating
CTG""
Aerospace Coatings
Industrial Wastewater
Offset Lithography
Plastic Parts Coating
Shipbuilding (coating)
Batch Processes
SOCMI Dist. & Reactors
VOL Storage
Wood Furniture Coating
Proposal
"7/31/94
1/95
"1/01/93
*3/05/92
* 12/16/93
* 12/04/92
"2/28/94
*11/29/93
*12/09/91
"12/31/92
"7/22/91
Final
7/31/95
11/96
* 1/07/93
11/23/94
* 10/27/93
11/23/94
11/09/94
"9/22/93
"2/28/94
9/15/94
Schedule under revision
*8/12/93 "7/22/94
"2/28/94 11/23/94
"4/30/94 4/30/95
9/01/94 9/01/95
12/1/94 3/3/96
*6/30/94 6/30/95
Schedule under revision
*5/16/94 2/28/95
Schedule under revision
3/15/95 3/15/96
2/27/95 4/29/95
*10/29/93 9/30/95
"5/31/94 5/31/95
1/15/95 11/15/95
*2/08/94 11/23/94
11/21/94 11/15/95
Proposal Final
11/15/94 7/31/95
"12/29/93 on Hold
*11/08/93 on Hold
"1/31/94 on Hold
Schedule Under Review
"12/27/93 on Hold
*12/12/91 *8/15/93
"12/02/93 on Hold
Under Regulatory Neg.
ACT Final
Bakeries (VOC/O-HAPS) *12/31/92
Carbon Regeneration (VOC/O-H APS) *12/18/92
Gas Turbines (NOx) *11/20/92
Cement Manufacturing (NOx) "1/28/94
Glass Manufacturing (NOx) *4/29//94
1C Engines (NOx) "7/28/93
Industrial Boilers (NOx) *3/30/94
Industrial Clean-up Solvents "2/22/94
Iron & Steel (NOx) 9/94
Nitric/Adipic Acid (NOx) *11/18/91
Pesticide Application "3/30/93
Plywood/Particle Board (PM10) Schedule Under
Development
Process Heaters (NOx) "2/26/93
Utility Boilers (NOx) "3/25/94
NSPS
DegreaserNSPS
Elec. Utility Gen. Rev. (NOx)
Landfill NSPS &111(d)
Med. Waste Inc. NSPS & 111 (d)
NOx NSPS Revision (407(c))
SO2 NSPS Revision
SOCMI Reactor NSPS
SOCMI Sec. Sources NSPS
Starch Mfg. Industry NSPS
Proposal Final
"8/31/94 8/31/95
"5/30/94 9/15/95
"5/30/91 12/31/94
2/01/95 4/15/96
"8/30/94 on Hold
Canceled
"6/29/90 "8/31/93
"8/31/94 8/31/95
"8/31/94 8/31/95
Title I Rules fSec. 183(e))
Arch./lnd. Coatings
Auto Refinishing
Consumer Products List
Proposal Final
Under regulatory Neg.
Schedule under
Development
11/30/94 9/30/95
NOTE:
* Indicates date completed
** All schedules are tentative and subject to change without
notice.
*** Schedule to be determined by litigation/negotiation.
**** ACT's will be issued for most CTG categories by April
1994.
CONTROL OF AIR
EMISSIONS FROM
SUPERFUND SITES
By Justice Manning
CERI/ORD
A hypertext format (electronic ver-
sion) of the "Control of Air Emissions
from Superfund Sites" has been placed
on the Office of Research and Develop-
ment (ORD) Bulletin Board System
(BBS). You may access the ORD BBS
by setting the following parameters into
your communication soft-
ware: Telephone Number
(513)569-7610;
8 data bits; N parity; and 1
stop bit. The voice help line
fortheORDBBSis513/569-
7272. The document is
available electronically so
that users may review the
contents of the handbookbe-
fore ordering a hard copy, oraccess only
certain parts of the document without
having to order a hard copy. It is
available in printed form from
CERI's publication office. Call
(513) 569-7562 and ask for EPA-
625/R-92-012. A review of the
handbook via the BBS may help
users determine whether they
would rather have a hard copy of the
document or would be able to get by
with the information in the electronic
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CTC News page 3
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SMALL BUSINESS UPDATE
Deborah Elmore, Federal SBAP Coordinator, CTC/OAQPS
WE NEED YOUR PROJECT IDEAS NOW!
It's time to start thinking about what types of assistance you would like to see from the Federal SBAP in 1995
(ourfiscal year begins on October 1). If you have any ideas forprojects, especially thosenot related to afederal
regulatory effort, please let us know soon, so we can plan our activities early. Co-sponsored projects that share
responsibility and resources are also quite "popular" in this era of streamlining government (and budgets too!)
If you would like to discuss a possible project, please contact Deborah Elmore at (919)541-5437.
EPA ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE POLICY FOR CLEAN AIR ACT SMALL
BUSINESS COMPLIANCE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
EPA's Office of Enforcement and
Compliance Assurance has recently is-
sued a new Enforcement Response
Policy (ERP) designed to encourage
small businesses to call on State Small
Business Assistance Programs
(SBAPs) established underSection 507
of the Clean Air Act (CAA) to find practi-
cal ways to comply with the Act.
The policy provides states with two
options for providing compliance assis-
tance as required by section 507 of the
Clean Air Act. It offers states the flexibil-
ity to use innovative approaches for pro-
viding compliance assistance to small
businesses, while at the same time en-
abling states to continue to use enforce-
ment actions to ensure strict compliance
with the Clean Air Act.
"This new approach demonstrates
EPA's commitmentto using both compli-
ance assistance and traditional enforce-
ment to make sure industry complies
with our environmental laws," said
Steven A. Herman, Assistant Adminis-
trator for Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance. "We also recognize that
small businesses have a special need
for help to comply with our laws because
they generally lack the resources that
are available to larger companies. The
EPA expects thepolicy to usherin a new
era of trust between small businesses
andgovernmentagencies
and to change the way
small businesses view en-
vironmental require-
ments. The result will be
more compliance and
cleaner air for the public."
The EPA developed this new policy
at the request of and in consultation with
the States. The States were concerned
that many small businesses would not
seek compliance assistance from the
government if violations identified during
compliance assistance resulted in en-
forcement actions.
To address this concern, the policy
allows Small Business Assistance Pro-
grams to operate in one of two ways.
States can eitheroffersmallbusinesses
a limited correction period for violations
detected during compliance assistance;
or, a guarantee that information identify-
ing specific small businesses that have
violations detected through compliance
assistance would be kept confidential.
However, the new policy does not
weaken clean air standards; in either
case, all small businesses are uncondi-
tionally responsible for full compliance
with the applicable requirements of the
Clean Air Act.
Under the correction-period option,
assistance programs may allow small
businesses that receive compliance as-
sistance up to 90 days, with the possibil-
ity of an additional 90-day extension, to
correct any violations discovered under
the program. Any violations remaining at
the end of that period are subject to
existing enforcement response policies,
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which may include discretion not to take
enforcement action in appropriate
cases. To ensure that the state has the
ability to take enforcement actions for
any violations that remain uncorrected,
programs offering the grace period can
not give guarantees that they will keep
information on violations confidential.
Under the confidentiality option, the
Small Business Assistant Programs
may offer compliance assistance on a
confidential basis, subject to two impor-
tant limitations. First, the state must
retain the ability to investigate and/or
take enforcement action at any time for
any violation discovered independently
from the Section 507 program. Second,
confidential compliance assistance can
only be offered through programs that
operate independently of the State's del-
egated regulatory enforcement pro-
gram.
The correction-period option is
EPA's preferred approach because it
provides for greater openness between
Small Business Assistance Programs
and specific facilities, thesmall business
community in general, and other state
officials. As a result, the States and EPA
will be better able to focus enforcement
resources on the worst violators.
For more information, please con-
tact Lynn Vendinello of EPA's Office of
Enforcement and Com-
pliance Assurance at
(202) 260-2842, or
Geoff Garver at (202)
260-3914.
CTC News page 4
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S B A P FORUM
Welcome to the SBAP Forum. For each issue, we will invite one or more of our State Small Business Assistance Programs
to discuss successful and innovative activities that may be of interest to their colleagues across the country. If you would like
to be one of our "guest writers", please contact Deborah Elmore at (919)541-5437.
WOOD FURNITURE: A SMALL BUSINESS CONCERN
Do you ever wishyou could do three
things at once? I had a chance to learn
more about current and future air quality
rules, to develop a closer working rela-
tionship with several trade associations
and to represent small business inter-
ests simultaneously. These and other
benefits can come from participating in a
regulatory negotiation (reg neg) process
to develop proposed rules that will affect
small business. _
For the past year and a half,
have had the opportunity to ._|
participate in the regulatory |]|]
negotiation process to de-
velop a National Emission
Standard for Hazardous Air Pol-
lutants (NESHAPs) and a
Control Techniques Guide-
line (CTG) for the Wood
Furniture Industry. The reg
neg process brought to-
gether representatives of
industry, including furni-
ture, kitchen cabinet and
coatings manufacturers,
the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), State air quality and pollution
prevention officials, and environmental
and health interests to develop proposed
rules to reduce air emissions for surface
coatings used by the wood furniture in-
dustry. Wood Furniture Coatings was
one of the source categories identified
by the EPA to develop a Maximum
Available Control Technology (MACT)
rule to reduce the 189 Hazardous Air
Pollutants (H APs) specified in the Clean
Air Act Amendments. The model CTG is
to assist States in developing programs
to reduce Volatile Organic Compounds
(VOCs) in ozone nonattainment areas.
The reg neg process is an effort to
expedite rulemaking through the direct
participation of all interested and af-
By Edythe McKinney
North Carolina Small Business Omsbudsman
fected parties. The diverse experience
of the negotiating committeeshould pro-
duce a more pragmatic rule that is re-
sponsive to the needs and restrictions of
EPA and the industry. While total con-
sensus was not possible in all areas, the
draft rule is expected to result in fewer
substantive changes. Significant
progress has been made to develop a
rule that allows industry flexibility to re-
duces emissions of HAP and VOC in a
timely and cost effective manner.
This issue is important to small busi-
nesses. Nationally, about 86% of
the more than 10,000 wood furni-
ture facilities are small businesses
with less than 50 employees. In
North Carolina it is also a significant
contributor to our economy. Michi-
gan, Minnesota, New York, Penn-
sylvania, California and otherstates also
have a large number of small businesses
which will be affected by these new air
quality rules.
This rule will affect new and existing
wood furniture finishing operations.
Cabinet shops, case goods, residential
and industrial furniture makers and oth-
ers who surface coat wood
products will be required to re-
duce their air emissions. The
proposed rule is expected to re-
duce and limit the amount of
HAPs used in finishing, gluing
and cleanup operations. It will en-
courage pollution prevention such as
improved housekeeping practices and
employee training. The use of more effi-
cient equipment and high solids/low
VOC coatings will be a viable compli-
ance option for many businesses.
During the reg neg process, a work
group was organized to consider the
special needs of small business. I am
pleased to report that in June, EPA is-
sued a draft model rule in lieu of a CTG
that incorporated a number of recom-
mendations of this work group. The
model rule encourages the use of gen-
eral permits, recommends simplified
record keeping and provides an ex-
tended compliance period for small busi-
ness. EPA is expected to issue a draft
MACT rule in November, 1994. This
date is court ordered, but the proposal
will be based on the framework devel-
oped by the Regulatory Negotiation
Committee. This rule is also expected to
incorporatesimilarprovisionsto address
small business concerns.
We will work cooperatively, with the
industry, EPA, State pollution preven-
tion experts and others to produce an
information packet on the wood furniture
rule. Our goal is to develop an easy to
read summary of the rule and compli-
ance tips for small business. Hopefully,
we can provide this information to you at
the time the proposed rule is published.
This will allow you to make timely con-
tacts with the small businesses in your
State.
If you have a chance to get involved
in the rulemaking process, I
recommend it. Caution—it
takes lots of time! Your ideas
and experience in developing
regulatory guidance materials
for the wood furniture industry
or other models are welcome
and encouraged. Working together, I
hope we can help small businesses find
cost effective ways to reduce their emis-
sions.
For more information or to share
your ideas, contact Edythe McKinney,
North Carolina Small Business Om-
budsman, 1 -800-829-4841.
CTC News page 5
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BUS STANDARDIZED
UNITS LET YOU
RANK EMISSIONS
By Jo Ann Kerrick
Vi'GYAN
Standardized unitsforemission lim-
its are being established in the RACT/
BACT/LAER Clearinghouse (RBLC) to
allow meaningful comparisons among
diverse control technology determina-
tions. Because state and local regula-
tions may specify emission limits in dif-
ferent units, the RBLC lets you enter
these permitted values in the primary
emission limit fields. The RBLC also
contains fields for the standard emis-
sion limit. The RBLC uses the standard
emission limits in the Ranking report,
which presents a rank order listing of
determinations based on pollutant emis-
sion limits from most to least stringent.
The RBLC staff has established
standardized units based on a review of
applicable federal regulations. Figure 1
contains the current list of standardized
units. When you are adding a determina-
tion, only use the standard emission limit
fields if standardized units have been
established for that particular process.
Incorrect standard units exclude deter-
minations from the Ranking report.
Missing standard emissions make the
Ranking report less complete. We've
recently enhanced the on-line help in the
edit module to display the valid standard-
ized emission units. Be
sure to use the help func-
tion to see the latest list of
standardized units when
you are adding or updating
pollutant data for control
technology determina-
tions. As more standard-
ized units are established,
we'll add them to the on-
line help.
The Query module of
the RBLC Information
System (BLIS) lets you
search the database for a
representative sample of
determinations, and then
viewordownload the data.
The Ranking download
format was especially de-
REPOHT DATE: 08/31/83 RANKING BY STANDARD EMISSION LIMIT
Process Typa:
Process name:
Pollutant
Standard Unit:
11.004
BOILER
NOX
LB/MMBTU
Multiple Fuels Combustion
Processes/Pollutants Meeting Criteria:
Processes/Pollutants Not Included: (see Note)
Average for Processes/Pollutants:
Minimum for Processes/Pollutants:
MaximumforProcesses/Pollutants:
36
11
0.1759
0.0500
0.6000
Permit
Date
Facility / Process
Emission
Limit
WI-0065 01/12/93 APPLETON PAPER, INC.
BOILER. NATURAL GAS FUEL 0.0500
WA-0109 11/04/92' BOEING AEROSPACE (PLT 2)
BOILER, STEAM (2) - AIRPLANE MANUFACTURING 0.0900
WA-0272 09/06/91 BOEING DEFENSES SPACE GROUP - PLANT II
BOILERS (2) 0.0900
WA-0050 04/02/92 BOEINGCOMMERCIALAIRPLANE-FREDERKSN
BOILERS (2) 0.1000
Figure 2 - Sample of Ranking Report
signed to present data on emissions in a
useful format. As with all of the Down-
load formats, you must first build the
selection criteria and then search the
database for matching facilities, pro-
cesses and pollutants. You can com-
bine any of 23 searchable fields in your
criteria. As long as there is at least one
matching record, you can choose from
any of the standard download formats.
The Ranking report, however, is different
in that it can only be used forsubsets that
meet several specific requirements.
Records in your subset should have the
same standard emission unit. Although
the standard emission unit is not one of
the searchable fields in BLIS, you can
build a query for the Ranking report by
describing the process and pollutant in
Figure 1 - Standardized Units for Emission Limits
Clearinghouse
ProcessCode
/ Name or Description
11.001 Electric Utility Steam Generators
11.999 Fossil Fuel-fired Steam Generators
15.001 I. C. Engines
15.999 Stationary Gas Turbines
21.001 MunicipalWastelncinerators
30.002 Kraft Pulp Mills - Recovery Furnace
Kraft Pulp Mills - Lime Kiln
Kraft Pulp Mills - Smelt DissolvingTanks
61.009 Phosphate FertilizersPdtn.
62.014 Nitric Acid Plants
62.015 Sulfuric Acid Plants
70.007 Grain Elevators
81.006 Steel Plants - Electric Arc
82.006 PrimaryCopperSmeltlng
82.007 Primary Lead Smelting
82.009 Primary Zinc Smelting
82.011 Sec. Brass & Brass Ingot Pdtn.
82.013 Secondary Lead Smelting
80.011 Coal Hand./Proc./Prep./Cleaning
90.016 Glass Mfg.
80.028 PortlandCement Plants
Pollutant Suggested Emission Untts
All
All
All
All
All
Paniculate
Paniculate
Paniculate
TotalFluoride
NOX
SO, & Acid Mist
Paniculate
Paniculate
Paniculate
Paniculate
Paniculate
Paniculate
Paniculate
Paniculate
Paniculate
Paniculate
Lb/MMBTU
Lb/MMBTU
G/B-HP-H
ppm® 15%O,
gr/dscf corr to 12% CO,
gr/dscfcorrto8%O,
gr/dscf corr to 10% O,
Lb/Ton BLS
Lb/Ton
Lb/Ton
Lb/Ton
gr/dscf
gr/dscf
gr/dscf
gr/dscf
gr/dscf
gr/dscl
gr/dscf
Lb/Ton
Lb/Ton
Note: For these processes, percent (%) has been established as the unit for reporting standardized
emission limits for opacity.
which you're interested. Usually this
search criteria can be specified using a
single subset. Youmustspecifyasingle
process code and pollutant name in the
query. You probably will want to refine
this further by using the word search
capability for the process name (e.g.
boiler). After you have successfully
searched the database, select the Rank-
ing report from the menu of download
formats. (Foryourconvenience, ranking
reports for several representative pro-
cesses are available directly from the
BLIS BBS in the Downloading section).
Figure 2 shows a sample of the
Ranking report. At the top, it recaps
information on your query and presents
statistics based on the standard emis-
sion limits. Next is the detailed section
which lists information about each facil-
ity/process and the standard emission
limit for the selected pollutant. The re-
port is sorted by emission limit. Afacility
that has several selected processes
may appear in two different places in the
report, depending on the emission limits.
Some facilities and processes in the
subset may not have a value for the
standard emission limit. These facilities/
processes are not included. However,
because they are in thesubset, they may
contain useful information. The second
part of the Statistical Ranking report (not
shown here) lists these facilities/pro-
cesses along with theirprimary emission
limits and units. Records are grouped by
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BUS STANDARDIZED
UNITS
(continued from page 6)
unit to facilitate comparison of the emis-
sion limits. Both parts of the report
contain a BLIS ID numberfor reference
to the complete determination for more
detailed information.
The standardized emission limits
make the BLIS Ranking report a valu-
able reference for users making RACT,
BACT, or LAER determinations. Take
advantage of this significant capability if
standardized units have been estab-
lished for processes of interest to you.
And, be sure to watch the alerts on the
BLIS BBS for information on new stan-
dardized units as they are established.
CONTROL OF AIR
EMISSIONS
(continued from page 3)
format shown on the BBS. It is available
either way.
To download the handbookfrom the
BBS, access the ORD BBS by calling
the above number, follow download in-
structions, and access"AIRHT.EXE"on
the BBS. After downloading, create a
subdirectory called "AIRHT" (or some
other subdirectory of your choosing) on
your hard drive and copy the down-
loaded file into it. Run this file by typing
"install" and it will self-extract all the
necessary files to your hard drive. The
program has a good "Help" system and is
userfriendly. Read the "Readme.txffile
before trying to read the hypertext ver-
sion of the document. If you want a
bound hard copy of the document, an
order form is available at the end of the
BBS copy (or you may order by calling
the above listed number). Of course, you
may print any section from your com-
puter, except the tables orfigures will not
print.
LYNDON COX
SENIOR
ENVIRONMENTAL
EMPLOYEE AND
CTC'S "EXPERTAT
FINDING EXPERTS"
By Janet Erwin
Acurex Environmental Corporation
and Pat Meredith
Senior Environmental Employee
AEERL/OCB/CTC
If you have heard the stereotypical
stories of retired life, you will be pleas-
antly surprised to hear about Lyn Cox.
Lynisaseniorenvironmental employee
whospends his retired life contributing to
the CTC HOTLINE and other
related technical issues in
AEERL's Organics Control
Branch. Lyn's work uses the
broad spectrum of his life ex-
periences as he handles
questions from callers world-
wide.
Lyn and his wife, Robbie,
chose the Durham area for
retirement to be near
Robbie's mother. After settling here, he
noticed a classified ad for a program
seeking qualified workers over age 55,
and through EPA's Senior Environmen-
tal Employees Program was hired to
work at the CTC in the Organics Control
Branch.
One needs to spend little time with
Lyn to be impressed by his knowledge
and background. Originally from subur-
ban Ohio, he joined the Navy during the
Korean War and was stationed in Wash-
ington, D.C. He attended the University
of Maryland to study applied mechanics
and graduated with adegree in mechani-
cal engineering in 1957. From there, he
launched a career which can be literally
described as explosive. Following sev-
eral years at the Naval Gun Factory in
Washington, D.C., he accepted a posi-
tion at the Army's Harry Diamond Labo-
ratories analyzing the effects of nuclear
explosions on electronics. (With a
twinkle in his eye, Lyn assures us that
these experiments were simulated!!)
These results were published in classi-
fied literature. Lyn's interest in firearms
for personal protection and a career in
armament development were "trig-
gered" by an unpleasant experience with
street crime. He later worked in the office
of the Secretary of Defense as an ana-
lyst, and in 1988 was awarded the posi-
tion of Chief of Programs and Plans
Branch of the Harry Diamond Laborato-
ries.
His extensive experience has made
him vastly knowledgeable in fluidics, ra-
dar electronics, mechanical instrumen-
tation and design, and fuze technology.
During his career, he contributed to the
success of the M609 antitank mine fuze
project, troubleshot Mark XII aircraft
machine guns, and sold the program that
funded the anti-missile capability in the
Patriot missile.
Of the five patents held by
Lyn, one has an especially
personal story. During a visit
to his mother in the hospital,
Lyn was inspired to develop
an oxygen-driven fluidic res-
pirator. His works have been
marketed by Monahan Medi-
cal Products and Ohio Medi-
cal Products, among others.
Lyn's retirement from DoD resulted
from heart problems which required
triple bypass surgery. After retirement,
he was awarded a US Army Medal for
Meritorious Civilian Service.
We have come to know Lyn Cox as
a CTC expert in computer software, in-
cluding such programs as SAGE and
HAP-PRO. In addition, working with the
HOTLINE has increased his interest and
knowledge in areas of air filtration and
ozone generation. He is confident in his
ability to handle calls in multiple areas of
environmental concern and when he
cannot, or if a call relates to EPA policy,
he is a self-described "expert at finding
experts!" Lyn upholds the CTC philoso-
phy of making sure all callers are well-
served.
One of Lyn's contributions to the
CTC, aside from tackling HOTLINE con-
cerns, is the ability to spot room for
improvement. Being knowledgeable in
expert systems, he introduced to the
HAP-PRO software an Expert Reviewto
the carbon adsorber module. The Ex-
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LYNDON COX
(continued from page 7)
pert Review is an improvement in the
software that allows the user to enter
certain parameters and obtain an analy-
sis of the results of these changes. Sub-
sequently, the Expert Review has been
added to the thermal incinerator and
catalytic incinerator modules. Lyn is
happy with this accomplishment. Expert
Review incorporates the knowledge of
EPA control technology experts in the
software. Lyn says, with a smile, "It is
important to feel that you can keep con-
tributing."
Lyn may be retired, but he certainly
keeps contributing. He sings in the
church choir, and finds time to assist
community service projects with the
church, as well as with Habitat for Hu-
manity. In addition, he and Robbie enjoy
traveling and fishing. Lyn is also an avid
gardener as evidenced by his half-acre
of grass, trees, and flowers.
Lyn takes great pride in his three
children and five grandchildren who rep-
resent a very important part of his won-
derful legacy.
BB
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