---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 60.371"
title: "40"
number: "60.371"
heading: "Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/60.371"
---

# §60.371. 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) Grid casting facility means the facility which includes all lead melting pots and machines used for casting the grid used in battery manufacturing.
- (b) Lead-acid battery manufacturing plant means any plant that produces a storage battery using lead and lead compounds for the plates and sulfuric acid for the electrolyte.
- (c) Lead oxide manufacturing facility means a facility that produces lead oxide from lead, including product recovery.
- (d) Lead reclamation facility means the facility that remelts lead scrap and casts it into lead ingots for use in the battery manufacturing process, and which is not a furnace affected under subpart L of this part.
- (e) Other lead-emitting operation means any lead-acid battery manufacturing plant operation from which lead emissions are collected and ducted to the atmosphere and which is not part of a grid casting, lead oxide manufacturing, lead reclamation, paste mixing, or three-process operation facility, or a furnace affected under subpart L of this part.
- (f) Paste mixing facility means the facility including lead oxide storage, conveying, weighing, metering, and charging operations; paste blending, handling, and cooling operations; and plate pasting, takeoff, cooling, and drying operations.
- (g) Three-process operation facility means the facility including those processes involved with plate stacking, burning or strap casting, and assembly of elements into the battery case.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 47 FR 16573, Apr. 16, 1982, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.

### Source

Source: 36 FR 24877, Dec. 23, 1971, unless otherwise noted.