EPA MACT Rules for Surface Coating Operations

The US Environmental Protection Agency has initiated the development of several new air pollution emission standards to limit the emissions of hazardous air pollutants (HAP) from industrial surface coating operations. These rules will require the application of Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) to reduce HAP emissions from new and existing surface coating operations. The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 mandated the development of these new rules and EPA intends to promulgate the surface coating MACT rules by November of 2000.