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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".31" citation="COMAR 26.11.19.31" title_num="26" subtitle_num="11" chapter_num="19" heading="Control of Volatile Organic Compounds from Medical Device Manufacturing.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Definitions. In this regulation, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Terms Defined.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>“Biopassive coating” means a coating applied to a product to reduce blood coagulation.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>“Fixed needle syringe process” means insulin syringe assembly process with silicone and glue application, barrel printing, and drying.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>“Hypodermic needle process” means a standard syringe assembly process with silicone and glue application, barrel printing, and drying.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>“Medical device” means a device intended for use:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>In the diagnosis of disease or other conditions; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>In the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>“Medical device manufacturing installation” means a process or operation that causes VOC emissions during the manufacture of medical devices.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Applicability.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>This regulation applies to a person who owns or operates a medical device manufacturing installation at a premises that emits, or has the potential to emit, 100 pounds or more per day of VOC emissions from all medical device manufacturing installations.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Except as provided in §C(3) of this regulation, a person that owns or operates an installation subject to the requirements of this regulation is not, for that installation, subject to any other provisions of this chapter.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>A person subject to the requirements of this regulation also is subject to Regulations .01, .02, and .16 of this chapter.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>VOC Control Requirements. A person who is subject to this regulation shall:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Do all of the following:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Provide and maintain appropriately designed VOC impermeable covers on dip pots used for manual bonding operations when not in use;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Upon request of the Department, participate in the evaluation of new or innovative designs or VOC material substitutions to minimize the use of solvent bonds for medical device manufacturing;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Use an enclosed system to apply biopassive coating to fully assembled medical devices;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Apply biopassive coating to individual medical device components only when it is not feasible to coat medical devices in assembled form; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>Use a solvent chiller system to chill solvent to 50F or less prior to use in steel cannula coating to minimize VOC emissions on the following:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Fixed needle syringe processes; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Hypodermic needle processes; or</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Use a Department approved alternative method of compliance or alternative control technology that achieves an equivalent or better level of VOC control.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>Before coating individual components under §D(1)(d) of this regulation, a person subject to this regulation shall submit to the Department for review and approval, a report documenting the technical and economic justification for coating components individually.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>Before using an alternative method of compliance or control technology, a person subject to this regulation shall submit a proposal to use such alternative method of compliance or control technology to the Department for review and approval.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>