---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 60.390a"
title: "40"
number: "60.390a"
heading: "Applicability and designation of affected facility."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/60.390a"
---

# §60.390a. Applicability and designation of affected facility.

- (a) The provisions of this subpart apply to the following affected facilities in an automobile or light-duty truck assembly plant specified in [paragraphs (a)(1) through (4)](#a-1..a-4) of this section:
  - (1) **Each prime coat operation, each guide coat operation, and each topcoat operation.**
  - (2) All storage containers and mixing vessels in which coatings, thinners, and cleaning materials are stored or mixed.
  - (3) All manual and automated equipment and containers used for conveying coatings, thinners, and cleaning materials.
  - (4) All storage containers and all manual and automated equipment and containers used for conveying waste materials generated by a coating operation.
- (b) Exempted from the provisions of this subpart are operations used to coat plastic body components on separate coating lines. The attachment of plastic body parts to a metal body before the body is coated does not cause the metal body coating operation to be exempted.
- (c) The provisions of this subpart apply to any affected facility identified in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section that begins construction, reconstruction, or modification after May 18, 2022.
- (d) The following physical or operational changes are not, by themselves, considered modifications of existing facilities:
  - (1) **Changes as a result of model year changeovers or switches to larger vehicles.**
  - (2) **Changes in the application of the coatings to increase coating film thickness.**

## Notes

### Source

Source: 88 FR 30002, May 9, 2023, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

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

### Source

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