Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
Department of Environmental Quality’s Mission
Virginia’s diverse geography and abundant natural resources benefit agriculture, industry and commerce and provide a rich environment for people, plants and wildlife. To ensure the continued vitality of what the Commonwealth has to offer, the mission of the Department of Environmental Quality is to protect and improve the environment for the well-being of all Virginians. Virginia Air Pollution Control Board has enacted regulations restricting VOC emissions and content.
Virginia Administrative Code
Agency 5 – STATE AIR POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD Chapter 40 EXISTING STATIONARY SOURCES There is a long list of sections for Agency 5 Chapter 40 which are not organized by product of process type. Most of the references to VOC standards are to manufacturing processes. However, buried deep in the list are several sections each of which contains a single regulation for a coating application limiting the VOC content to between 1.2 and 4.3 lbs/gal. :
Section 3580 Coating application system
Section 3730 Coating application system
Section 3880 Coating application system
Section 4030 Coating application system
Section 4180 Coating application system
Section 4330 Coating application system
Section 4480 Coating application system
Section 4630 Coating application system
Section 4780 Coating application system
A. Printed interior panels made of hardwood plywood and thin particleboard B. Natural finish hardwood plywood panels. C. Class II hardboard paneling finishes.
Section 5080 Packaging rotogravure, publication rotogravure or flexographic printing line
Section 6990 Any automotive pre-treatment, automotive primer-surface, automotive primer-sealer, automotive topcoat, or automotive specialty coatings.
Table 4-48A. Allowable Content of VOCs in Mobile Equipment Repair and Refinishing Coatings (as applied) specifies VOC content limits for these applications.
Chapter 45 CONSUMER AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS This chapter includes 3 tables which specify VOC content limits for a wide variety of products.
Section 310 TABLE 45-3A
Section 430 TABLE 45-4A
Section 650 Table 45-6A. VOC Content Limits for Adhesives, Sealants, Adhesive Primers, Sealant Primers and Adhesives Applied to Particular Substrates.