PRINTER'S NO. 966
No. 827 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY DINNIMAN, MAY 3, 2007
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, MAY 3, 2007
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of January 8, 1960 (1959 P.L.2119, No.787),
2 entitled, as amended, "An act to provide for the better
3 protection of the health, general welfare and property of the
4 people of the Commonwealth by the control, abatement,
5 reduction and prevention of the pollution of the air by
6 smokes, dusts, fumes, gases, odors, mists, vapors, pollens
7 and similar matter, or any combination thereof; imposing
8 certain powers and duties on the Department of Environmental
9 Resources, the Environmental Quality Board and the
10 Environmental Hearing Board; establishing procedures for the
11 protection of health and public safety during emergency
12 conditions; creating a stationary air contamination source
13 permit system; providing additional remedies for abating air
14 pollution; reserving powers to local political subdivisions,
15 and defining the relationship between this act and the
16 ordinances, resolutions and regulations of counties, cities,
17 boroughs, towns and townships; imposing penalties for
18 violation of this act; and providing for the power to enjoin
19 violations of this act; and conferring upon persons aggrieved
20 certain rights and remedies," further providing for
21 environmental quality board and for control of emissions from
22 halogenated solvent cleaning facilities.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. Section 5(a) of the act of January 8, 1960 (1959
26 P.L.2119, No.787), known as the Air Pollution Control Act, is
27 amended by adding a clause to read:
1 Section 5. Environmental Quality Board.--(a) The board
2 shall have the power and its duty shall be to--
3 * * *
4 (14) Adopt by regulation emission limitations for
5 trichloroethylene from the use of solvent cleaning machines,
6 that use only trichloroethylene, in facilities that manufacture
7 narrow tubing, that meet the emission limitation standards for a
8 halogenated hazardous air pollutant solvent as contained in 40
9 CFR Part 63 (relating to national air emission standards for
10 hazardous air pollutants; halogenated solvent cleaning) as
11 published in the , 200 Federal Register, notwithstanding
12 the Federal regulatory exclusion for such facilities.
13 * * *
14 Section 2. The act is amended by adding a section to read:
15 Section 6.8. Control of Emissions from Halogenated Solvent
16 Cleaning Facilities.--(a) Notwithstanding section 6.6 or any
17 other provision of law to the contrary, a facility for the
18 manufacture of narrow tubing that utilizes a solvent cleaning
19 machine, that uses only trichloroethylene as a halogenated
20 hazardous air pollutant solvent, shall comply with the emission
21 limitation standards for a trichloroethylene only halogenated
22 hazardous air pollutant solvent as contained in 40 CFR Part 63
23 (relating to national air emission standards for hazardous air
24 pollutants: halogenated solvent cleaning) as published in the
25 , 200 Federal Register, notwithstanding the Federal
26 regulatory exclusion for such facilities.
27 (b) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
28 words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
29 subsection:
30 "Facility." A facility for the manufacture of narrow tubing.
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1 "Halogenated hazardous air pollutant solvent." This term
2 shall have the meaning given to it in 40 CFR Part 63 (relating
3 to national air emission standards for hazardous air pollutants:
4 halogenated solvent cleaning).
5 "Narrow tubing." Small diameter (mechanical and hypodermic
6 size) cold drawn metallic, seamless tubing that is manufactured
7 from stainless steel, nickel alloys, titanium and its alloys or
8 alloys of zirconium and that has a portion of the outside
9 diameter of .25 inches or less.
10 "Solvent cleaning machine." This term shall have the same
11 meaning given to it in 40 CFR Part 63.
12 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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