What Industries Are Subject to New Source Performance Standards (NSPS)?
New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) are issued periodically. Following is a partial list of industries for which an New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) has been developed.
- Ammonium sulfate manufacturers;
- Asphalt processing and asphalt roofing
- manufacturing;
- Bulk gasoline terminals;
- Calciners and dryers at mineral
- processing plants;
- Coal preparation plants;
- Electric utility steam generating units;
- Equipment leaks of VOCs in the synthetic organic chemicals manufacturing industry;
- Ferroalloy production;
- Fossil fuel-fired steam generators of more than 250 million BTU heat input;
- Glass manufacturing plants;
- Grain terminal elevators;
- Graphic arts industry: publication rotogravure printing;
- Hot mix asphalt plants;
- Incinerators of more than 50 tons per day charging rate;
- Industrial surface coating operations for
- (a) metal furniture,
- (b) automobile and light duty trucks at assembly plants,
- (c) pressure sensitive tape and label
- (d) large appliances,
- (e) metal coil,
- (f) beverage can, and
- (g) plastic parts for business machines.
- Industrial-commercial-institutional steam generating units with a heat input capacity from fuels combusted in the steam generating unit of greater than 29 MW (100 million Btu/hr);
- Industrial-commercial-institutional steam generating units with a maximum design heat input capacity of 29 megawatts (100 million Btu/hr) or less, but greater than or equal to 2.9 megawatts (10 million Btu/hr);
- Iron and steel plants;
- Iron and steel plants: secondary emissions;
- Kraft pulp mills;
- Lead-acid battery manufacturing plants;
- Lime manufacturing plants;
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- Magnetic tape coating facilities;
- Metallic mineral processing plants;
- Municipal solid waste landfills;
- Municipal waste combustors;
- Nitric acid plants;
- Nonmetallic mineral processing plants;
- Petroleum dry cleaners;
- Petroleum refineries;
- Petroleum storage vessels;
- Phosphate rock plants;
- Polymeric coating of supporting substrates;
- Portland cement plants;
- Primary copper smelters;
- Primary zinc smelters;
- Primary lead smelters;
- Primary aluminum reduction plants;
- Rotogravure printing lines used to print or coat flexible vinyl and urethane products;
- Rubber tire manufacturing plants;
- Secondary lead smelters;
- Secondary brass and bronze ingot production plants;
- Sewage treatment plants;
- Solvent-spun synthetic fiber production facilities;
- Stationary gas turbines;
- Steel plants: electric arc furnaces and argon-oxygen decarburization vessels;
- Sulfuric acid plants;
- Sulfuric acid production units;
- VOC emissions from petroleum refinery wastewater systems;
- VOC emissions from the polymer manufacturing industry;
- VOC emissions from synthetic organic chemical manufacturing industry air oxidation unit processes;
- VOC emissions from synthetic organic chemical manufacturing industry distillation;
- VOC emissions from synthetic organic chemical manufacturing industry reactor processes;
- VOC emissions from synthetic organic chemical manufacturing industry reactor processes; and
- Wool fiberglass insulation manufacturing plants.
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