UPDATE: DNREC Workshop on Amendments to Section 33.0 "Solvent Cleaning and Drying" of 7 DE Admin. Code 1124
Delaware has scheduled two workshops in late January to review their draft amendments to Section 33.0 “Solvent Cleaning and Drying” of 7 DE Admin. Code 1124 Control of Volatile Organic Compound Emissions.
Each workshop will cover the same information, so feel free to attend whichever is more convenient for you.
Workshop #1
Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Time: 1:30 PM
Location: DNREC conference room
Address: 391 Lukens Drive, Riveredge Industrial Park, New Castle, DE
Workshop #2
Date: Thursday, January 30, 2020
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Richardson and Robbins Building Auditorium
Address: 89 Kings Highway, Dover, DE
Certain areas of Delaware have been designated in non-attainment of the federal standard for ground-level ozone (formed by the reaction of VOC and other compounds in ambient air in the presence of sunlight). By reducing VOC emissions, these amendments will reduce ground-level ozone. Only cold cleaning machines will be affected. They do not plan any substantive revisions to vapor phase cleaning machines.
Amendments include:
Eliminating the exemption for cold cleaning machines containing less than one liter of solvent.
Allowing cold cleaning machines to be heated to below boiling.
Reducing the solvent VOC concentration from 100% to 25 grams VOC per liter of non-VOC solution for most applications.
Allowing higher VOC concentrations with use of a Department approved VOC capture and control device.
The rule draft language and other documents are now on DNREC’s website.
Comments may be presented orally and/or in writing at the workshops. You do not have to attend to submit comments, they may be submitted, postmarked (or emailed), no later than Thursday, February 14, 2020, unless a longer period is designated by DNREC staff at the workshops. These comments should be sent to renae.held@delaware.gov or by USPS to Division of Air Quality, 100 West Water Street, Suite 6A, Dover, DE 19904.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Kierstin Turnock at kierstin_turnock@americanchemistry.com or 202-249-6226.