---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 60.492"
title: "40"
number: "60.492"
heading: "Standards for volatile organic compounds."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/60.492"
---

# §60.492. Standards for volatile organic compounds.


On or after the date on which the initial performance test required by [§ 60.8(a)](/cfr/40/60.8.md?p=a) is completed, no owner or operator subject to the provisions of this subpart shall discharge or cause the discharge of VOC emissions to the atmoshpere that exceed the following volume-weighted calendar-month average emissions:

- (a) 0.29 kilogram of VOC per litre of coating solids from each two-piece can exterior base coating operation, except clear base coat;
- (b) 0.46 kilogram of VOC per litre of coating solids from each two-piece can clear base coating operation and from each overvarnish coating operation; and
- (c) 0.89 kilogram of VOC per litre of coating solids from each two-piece can inside spray coating operation.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 48 FR 38737, Aug. 25, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

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

### Source

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