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Determinations Specific to Metal Finishing
2004
- Frequently Asked Questions about Satellite Accumulation Areas
- Applicability of the F006 classification to wastes from the chemical etching of magnesium.
1999
1998
- Preval Spray Units Applicability to the Aerospace NESHAP
- CARB Method for Chrome NESHAP
- Determination of Sampling Time for Affected and Nonaffected Sources at Large Hard Chromium Electroplating Facilities
- Approval of an Alternative Test Method to Demonstrate Compliance With Chrome Plating NESHAP
- Review of Performance Data Demonstrating Compliance With the Chrome Plating NESHAP
- Alternative to Method 306B (40 CFR 63, Appendix A) for Measuring Surface Tension in a Chrome Plating Tank
- Clarification of Chrome Plating NESHAP 40 C.F.R. ยง 63.343(c)(5)
- Halogenated Solvent Cleaning Machine NESHAP
- Source Testing Requirements for Some Hard Chrome Platers That Use Fume Suppressants
1997
- Are chrome strip tanks subject to the chromium electroplating and anodizing rule?
- Comment on Section 6.0 of Method 306A
- Surface Tension Limit, Clarification of Chrome Plating NESHAP
- Proposed Relocation of Equipment Subject to Chromium NESHAP
- Tank Applicability to Chromium Electroplating and Anodizing NESHAP
- Classification of Two Chrome Strip Tanks Under Chromium NESHAP
- Initial Performance Testing Required Under Chromium NESHAP
- Various Issues Concerning Testing Under the Chromium Neshap
- Compliance Status Reports for the Chromium Electroplating MACT
- Issues Regarding Shutdown Units Under the Chromium Electroplating MACT Standard
1996
- Interpretation Regarding Printed Wiring Board Silk Screening
- Trigger processes for determining rule applicability
- Use of Wetting Agents in Trivalent Chromium Baths
- Approval of Compliance Monitoring and Work Practice Standards for a Non-Listed Air Pollution Device Under Chrome Plating NESHAP.
- Applicability Determination Request for Chromium Electroplating Standard, LTV Steel
- Applicability Determination Request for Chromium Electroplating Standard, National Steel
- Applicability Determination Request Chromium Electroplating Standard for U.S. Steels Gary, Indiana facility
- Chromium Electroplating Emission Standard Compliance Extension Request, Hastings Manufacturing Corp.
- Chromium MACT Compliance Extension Moyno Industrial Products, Springfield, Ohio
- Chromium Electroplating Emission Standard: Compliance Extension Request, SPX Corp.
- Is a Chromating or Chromate Conversion Coating Process Subject to the Chrome Plating NESHAP?
- Is a Passivation Process Subject to the Chrome Plating NESHAP?
- Merlin Control Device and the Chrome Plating NESHAP
1995
- Definitions Related to Implementation of 40 CFR 433
- Applicability of 40 CFR 433 to Federal Contractors
- Classification of Engraving Process
- Applicability of 40 CFR 433 when Core Operation is Closed-Loop
- Applicability of 40 CFR 413 and 433 to Bench-Scale Etching of Metallographic Samples
- Chromium Electroplating Emission Standard: Compliance Extension Request
- Chromium emissions from tanks with Merlin devices
- Chromium emissions from tanks with Merlin devices (2)
- Chromium conversion coating of <=1 micron in PWB operation
- Applicability of 40 CFR, Subpart N, to a specific steel coil Cr plating operation
- General applicability of 40 CFR, Subpart N to continuous steel coil plating operations
- Is a specific potassium dichromate plating operation covered by the new Cr regulation?
- NSPS Subpart EE determination concerning organic coating of steel furniture
1994
- Industrial Wipers and Shop Towels
- Definition of Spent Material
- Clarification of the RCRA regulations as they apply to certain secondary materials
- Classification of Sludge from the Revised "Zinc Cobalt Alloy Plating on Carbon Steel" Process
- Photoresist solids ("skins") generated in the printed circuit board manufacturing industry
- Applicability of F006 Code to Nickel Reclamation Process for Electroless Nickel Spent Solutions
- Waste in Satellite Accumulation Areas
- Elementary Neutralization Units Generating and Storing Non-Corrosive Hazardous Wastes
- LASER EX chemical polishing system
1993
- Closed-Loop Recycling Exclusion
- Cr reoxidation, TCLP, and CN Analytical Methods
- Clarification of the term "aqueous"
- Definition and Recycling of Non-Listed Commercial Chemical Products
- EPA Determination: Recycling Regulations Under RCRA
- Solder Dross and Solder Pot Dumps
- Revisions to the Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (TCLP)
- Solder Dross and Solder Pot Dumps defined as Scrap Metal
- Metal Particles from Buffing Operation
1990
- Does the replacement of the water quench system and the prime oven constitute reconstruction?
- How is reconstruction defined?
- Is a facility that coats refrigerator panels, but doesnt assemble them, subject to NSPS Subpart SS?
1989
1988
- Are contact adhesives subject to Subpart EE?
- Are rinsewaters generated by electroplating operations regulated as hazardous wastes under RCRA?
- Recycling of nickel, copper, and chromium-containing electroplating sludges
- Bronze plating process which plates a copper-tin alloy
- Certain hazardous waste definitions
- Subpart TT regulate VOCs emitted or applied?
1986
- Interpretation of the electroplating listings (EPA Hazardous Waste Nos. F006 and F019)
- Classification of sludge generated from treatment of cleaner solutions
- Mechanical plating system is not an electroplating operation
- Repromulgation of the F006 hazardous waste
- Interpretation of the hazardous waste listing for F006 wastes
- Spent pickle liquor final rule correction
1985
- Does lime-stabilized waste pickle liquor sludge (LSWPLS) qualify for exclusion
- Spent pickle liquor as a hazardous waste
- Use/reuse exclusion as it relates to spent pickle liquor that is used as a wastewater conditioner
- Is an Iron/manganese/phosphate operation to provide lubrication an electroplating process?
1984
- Inquiry regarding the status of supernatant from lime treatment of spent pickle liquor
- Clarification of K062 - spent pickle liquor listing
- Regulatory status of spent acid from electropolishing of stainless steel
- Status of wastewater treatment sludges generated from zinc plating on carbon steel
- Clarification of lime-stabilized waste pickle liquor sludge (LSWPLS) from the iron and steel industry
- Etching silicon wafers in operation not associated with PWB manufacture
- Zinc plating (segregated basis) on carbon steel, phosphating