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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" citation="COMAR 26.11.19.01" title_num="26" subtitle_num="11" chapter_num="19" 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>“Adhesive” means an organic, inorganic, natural, or synthetic substance that is used primarily for laminating, attaching, or bonding two or more components.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(1-1)">
      <text>“Annual”, when used in the context of emissions, production, throughput, or total weight or volume, means a “calendar year”, unless otherwise specified.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>“Coating” means a liquid, liquefiable, or mastic composition which is converted into a solid protective, decorative, or adherent film after application as a thin layer. This includes paints, varnishes, lacquers, stains, shellacs, film-forming polymers, waxes, and oils which are applied to metal, paper, fabric, wood, glass, stone, concrete, plastic, and other types of surfaces.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>“Exempt solvent” means any organic compound that is not a VOC as defined under COMAR 26.11.01.01.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>“Major stationary source of VOC” means any stationary source which has the potential to emit, including fugitive emissions:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>25 tons or more per year of VOC and is located in Baltimore City or Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Frederick, Harford, Howard, Montgomery, or Prince George's counties;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>50 tons or more per year of VOC and is located in Allegany, Caroline, Dorchester, Garrett, Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset, St. Mary's, Talbot, Washington, Wicomico, or Worcester counties.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>“Oven” means a chamber within which heat is used to bake, cure, polymerize, or dry a surface coating.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>“Prime coat” means the initial layer of coating applied in a multicoat application.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>“Transfer efficiency” means the ratio of the amount of coating solids deposited onto the surface of a coated part to the total amount of coating solids used.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>“Web printing” means using lithographic, letterpress, flexographic, or rotogravure methods to deposit ink on paper or similar products that are fed continuously from a web.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>