NSPS Notebook
Lead-Acid Battery Manufacturing Plants -  Subpart KK

Applicability: eCFR Subpart KK [ecfr.gov]

This subpart applies to:
  1. Affected facilities at lead-acid battery manufacturing plants that can produce at least 6.5 tons of lead in a 24-hour period (i.e., enough batteries to produce at least 6.5 tons of lead), and that commence construction or modification after Jan 14, 1980.
Affected facilities:
  1. Grid casting facilities;
  2. Paste mixing facilities;
  3. Three-process operation facilities;
  4. Lead oxide manufacturing facilities;
  5. Lead reclamation facilities;
  6. Other lead-emitting operations.
Known Sources in NDEE Jurisdiction:
Date of Original Final Rule: 4/16/82
Amendments Dates: 02/07/2023 Final Rule
02/23/2022 Proposed Rule
10/17/2000 (65 FR 61744)
02/14/1989 (54 FR 6675)
State Regulations: Title 129, Chapter 12, Section 001.40

Previously: Chapter 18, Section 001.25 (as amended as of 7/1/2009)
Federal Regulations: 40 CFR 60.370
Related Rules:

NSPS - 40 CFR Part 60

Subpart L - Secondary lead smelters

NESHAP - 40 CFR Part 63
Subpart PPPPPP - Lead-acid battery mfg.
Regulations and Federal Registers: eCFR Subpart KK [ecfr.gov]

(See attached file: NSPS Subpart KK - 2023-02-07 Final Rule.pdf)

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