part_subject: "STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR NEW STATIONARY SOURCES"
subpart_code: "A"
subpart_subject: "Aa—Standards of Performance for Steel Plants: Electric Arc Furnaces and Argon-Oxygen Decarburization Vessels Constructed After August 17, 1983"
section_number: "60.272a"
section_subject: "Standard for particulate matter."
cfr_reference: "40 CFR 60.272a"
title_name: "Title 40"
title_subject: "Protection of Environment"
parts_covered: "Part 60 (§§ 60.1 to 60.499)"
revised_date: "Revised as of July 1, 2019"
publication_date: "As of July 1, 2019"
contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"
publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"
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(a)On and after the date of which the performance test required to be conducted by § 60.8 is completed, no owner or operator subject to the provisions of this subpart shall cause to be discharged into the atmosphere from an EAF or an AOD vessel any gases which:
(1)Exit from a control device and contain particulate matter in excess of 12 mg/dscm (0.0052 gr/dscf);
(2)Exit from a control device and exhibit 3 percent opacity or greater; and
(3)Exit from a shop and, due solely to the operations of any affected EAF(s) or AOD vessel(s), exhibit 6 percent opacity or greater.
(b)On and after the date on which the performance test required to be conducted by § 60.8 is completed, no owner or operator subject to the provisions of this subpart shall cause to be discharged into the atmosphere from the dust-handling system any gases that exhibit 10 percent opacity or greater.