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 Title 40 - Protection of Environment
 Chapter I - Environmental Protection Agency
 SubChapter C - Air Programs
 Part 60 - Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources
 Subpart A - General Provisions

  § 60.16 - Priority list.  

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  • § 60.16 Priority list.

    Prioritized Major Source Categories

    Priority Number1 Source Category
    1. Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing Industry (SOCMI) and Volatile Organic Liquid Storage Vessels and Handling Equipment
    (a) SOCMI unit processes
    (b) Volatile organic liquid (VOL) storage vessels and handling equipment
    (c) SOCMI fugitive sources
    (d) SOCMI secondary sources
    2. Industrial Surface Coating: Cans
    3. Petroleum Refineries: Fugitive Sources
    4. Industrial Surface Coating: Paper
    5. Dry Cleaning
    (a) Perchloroethylene
    (b) Petroleum solvent
    6. Graphic Arts
    7. Polymers and Resins: Acrylic Resins
    8. Mineral Wool (Deleted)
    9. Stationary Internal Combustion Engines
    10. Industrial Surface Coating: Fabric
    11. Industrial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating Units.
    12. Incineration: Non-Municipal (Deleted)
    13. Non-Metallic Mineral Processing
    14. Metallic Mineral Processing
    15. Secondary Copper (Deleted)
    16. Phosphate Rock Preparation
    17. Foundries: Steel and Gray Iron
    18. Polymers and Resins: Polyethylene
    19. Charcoal Production
    20. Synthetic Rubber
    (a) Tire manufacture
    (b) SBR production
    21. Vegetable Oil
    22. Industrial Surface Coating: Metal Coil
    23. Petroleum Transportation and Marketing
    24. By-Product Coke Ovens
    25. Synthetic Fibers
    26. Plywood Manufacture
    27. Industrial Surface Coating: Automobiles
    28. Industrial Surface Coating: Large Appliances
    29. Crude Oil and Natural Gas Production
    30. Secondary Aluminum
    31. Potash (Deleted)
    32. Lightweight Aggregate Industry: Clay, Shale, and Slate2
    33. Glass
    34. Gypsum
    35. Sodium Carbonate
    36. Secondary Zinc (Deleted)
    37. Polymers and Resins: Phenolic
    38. Polymers and Resins: Urea-Melamine
    39. Ammonia (Deleted)
    40. Polymers and Resins: Polystyrene
    41. Polymers and Resins: ABS-SAN Resins
    42. Fiberglass
    43. Polymers and Resins: Polypropylene
    44. Textile Processing
    45. Asphalt Processing and Asphalt Roofing Manufacture
    46. Brick and Related Clay Products
    47. Ceramic Clay Manufacturing (Deleted)
    48. Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer
    49. Castable Refractories (Deleted)
    50. Borax and Boric Acid (Deleted)
    51. Polymers and Resins: Polyester Resins
    52. Ammonium Sulfate
    53. Starch
    54. Perlite
    55. Phosphoric Acid: Thermal Process (Deleted)
    56. Uranium Refining
    57. Animal Feed Defluorination (Deleted)
    58. Urea (for fertilizer and polymers)
    59. Detergent (Deleted)
    Other Source Categories
    Lead acid battery manufacture3
    Organic solvent cleaning3
    Industrial surface coating: metal furniture3
    Stationary gas turbines4
    Municipal solid waste landfills4

    1 Low numbers have highest priority, e.g., No. 1 is high priority, No. 59 is low priority.

    2 Formerly titled “Sintering: Clay and Fly Ash”.

    3 Minor source category, but included on list since an NSPS is being developed for that source category.

    4 Not prioritized, since an NSPS for this major source category has already been promulgated.

    [47 FR 951, Jan. 8, 1982, as amended at 47 FR 31876, July 23, 1982; 51 FR 42796, Nov. 25, 1986; 52 FR 11428, Apr. 8, 1987; 61 FR 9919, Mar. 12, 1996]