[Title 40 CFR 60.301]
[Code of Federal Regulations (annual edition) - July 1, 2009 Edition]
[Title 40 - PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT]
[Chapter I - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)]
[Subchapter C - AIR PROGRAMS (CONTINUED)]
[Part 60 - STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR NEW STATIONARY SOURCES--]
[Subpart Dd - Standards of Performance for Grain Elevators]
[Sec. 60.301 - Definitions.]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]


40PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT62009-07-012009-07-01false60.301Sec. 60.301PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENTENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)AIR PROGRAMS (CONTINUED)STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR NEW STATIONARY SOURCES--Standards of Performance for Grain Elevators
Sec. 60.301  Definitions.

    As used in this subpart, all terms not defined herein shall have the 
meaning given them in the Act and in subpart A of this part.
    (a) Grain means corn, wheat, sorghum, rice, rye, oats, barley, and 
soybeans.
    (b) Grain elevator means any plant or installation at which grain is 
unloaded, handled, cleaned, dried, stored, or loaded.
    (c) Grain terminal elevator means any grain elevator which has a 
permanent storage capacity of more than 88,100 m\3\

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(ca. 2.5 million U.S. bushels), except those located at animal food 
manufacturers, pet food manufacturers, cereal manufacturers, breweries, 
and livestock feedlots.
    (d) Permanent storage capacity means grain storage capacity which is 
inside a building, bin, or silo.
    (e) Railcar means railroad hopper car or boxcar.
    (f) Grain storage elevator means any grain elevator located at any 
wheat flour mill, wet corn mill, dry corn mill (human consumption), rice 
mill, or soybean oil extraction plant which has a permanent grain 
storage capacity of 35,200 m\3\ (ca. 1 million bushels).
    (g) Process emission means the particulate matter which is collected 
by a capture system.
    (h) Fugitive emission means the particulate matter which is not 
collected by a capture system and is released directly into the 
atmosphere from an affected facility at a grain elevator.
    (i) Capture system means the equipment such as sheds, hoods, ducts, 
fans, dampers, etc. used to collect particulate matter generated by an 
affected facility at a grain elevator.
    (j) Grain unloading station means that portion of a grain elevator 
where the grain is transferred from a truck, railcar, barge, or ship to 
a receiving hopper.
    (k) Grain loading station means that portion of a grain elevator 
where the grain is transferred from the elevator to a truck, railcar, 
barge, or ship.
    (l) Grain handling operations include bucket elevators or legs 
(excluding legs used to unload barges or ships), scale hoppers and surge 
bins (garners), turn heads, scalpers, cleaners, trippers, and the 
headhouse and other such structures.
    (m) Column dryer means any equipment used to reduce the moisture 
content of grain in which the grain flows from the top to the bottom in 
one or more continuous packed columns between two perforated metal 
sheets.
    (n) Rack dryer means any equipment used to reduce the moisture 
content of grain in which the grain flows from the top to the bottom in 
a cascading flow around rows of baffles (racks).
    (o) Unloading leg means a device which includes a bucket-type 
elevator which is used to remove grain from a barge or ship.

[43 FR 34347, Aug. 3, 1978, as amended at 65 FR 61759, Oct. 17, 2000]