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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" citation="COMAR 26.11.10.01" title_num="26" subtitle_num="11" chapter_num="10" heading="Definitions.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>In this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Terms Defined.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>“Cold rolling operation” means an installation that rolls steel that is not preheated.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>“Continuous casting” means a method of pouring liquid steel into semifinished shapes.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>“Good management practices” means operating and maintenance practices for controlling processes within design conditions and minimizing air pollution to the extent practicable with existing equipment.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>“Hot dip coating” means a molten inorganic formulation used for coating on strip steel.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>“Hot rolling operation” means an installation that rolls preheated steel.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Iron and Steel Production Installations.</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>“Iron and steel production installations” means those installations and buildings used in the production of iron and steel.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>As used in this chapter, the term “installation” means an iron and steel production installation.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>“Iron and steel production installations” include the following:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Materials-handling systems, including systems for iron ore, ore pellets, coal, limestone, fluxes, sinter, coke, steel-alloying ingredients, slag, and dust handling;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Blast furnace iron making;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>Sintering plants;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iv)">
          <text>Basic oxygen furnace, open hearth furnace, and electric furnace steel-making equipment;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(v)">
          <text>Coke ovens;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(vi)">
          <text>Molten material transfer and process operations, including teeming, tapping, reladling, and casting;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(vii)">
          <text>Continuous casting equipment;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(viii)">
          <text>Scarfing and other surface defect removal equipment;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ix)">
          <text>Blast furnace pig-casting equipment;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(x)">
          <text>Scrap preparation equipment, including scrap melting and burning equipment;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(xi)">
          <text>Molten metal desulfurization equipment;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(xii)">
          <text>Raw material drying system;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(xiii)">
          <text>Steel-cleaning equipment, including pickling; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(xiv)">
          <text>Steel-coating equipment.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>“Opacity record” means the highest average of any 6 consecutive minutes of readings measured and calculated in the manner described in the Department's Technical Memorandum (TM) 91-01 Method 1004I.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>“Tons of sinter produced” means the weight of sinter that is transferred to the blast furnace stockhouse during a calendar day.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>“Venturi scrubber flow rate” means the water flow rate through the venturi scrubber.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(10)">
      <text>“Venturi scrubber pressure drop” means the arithmetic difference between the static pressures of the gas stream at the inlet and the outlet of the venturi scrubber.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>