Utah Air Pollution Control Regulations

The Utah Air Pollution Regulations can be found under the Utah Administrative Code R307-351: Graphic Arts.

The provisions of R307-351, Graphic Arts, applies to facilities located in  Box Elder, Cache, Davis, Salt Lake, Utah, Tooele and Weber counties that use a combined 450 gallons or more of all VOC-containing materials per year.  This rule does not apply to screen printing or digital printing operations.  The rule's requirements apply to facilities operating offset lithographic, letterpress, rotogravure, or flexographic printing process(es).

 A graphic arts printing operation may use up to 55 gallons of cleaning materials per year that do not comply with the VOC composite vapor pressure requirement or the VOC content requirement in R307-351-5(4).

The rule contains VOC content limits for inks  used for offset lithographic, heat-set web offset and letterpress operations.  There are fountain solution limits set for heatset web-fed, sheet fed, and non heatset web-fed operations.  

Records that demonstrate compliance with R307-351. Records must include, but are not limited to, inventory and product data sheets of all graphic arts materials and cleaning solutions subject to R307-351. If an add-on control device is used, records of key system parameters necessary to ensure compliance with R307-351-6. Key system parameters include, but are not limited to, temperature, pressure, flow rates, and an inspection schedule. Key inspection parameters shall be in accordance with the manufacturer's recommendations, and as required to demonstrate that operations provide continuous emission reduction from the source during all periods that the operations cause emissions from the source. All records shall be maintained for a minimum of 2 years. Records shall be made available to the director upon request.