national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants miscellaneous coating manufacturing 3 pages in english . on 11 december 2003 epa promulgated national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants neshap for miscellaneous coating manufacturing. this action proposes amending the neshap by providing additional compliance options and clarifications. specifically this action proposes an option to demonstrate compliance with a percent reduction emission limit by measuring total organic compounds toc an option to demonstrate compliance with the weight percent hazardous air pollutant hap limit in coatings products based on formulation data and a change to the process vessel standards to allow the cover or lid on a process vessel to be opened for material additions and sampling. other proposed amendments are clarifications of the requirements for cleaning operations the compliance date for equipment that is added to an existing source the conditions under which you must determine whether an emission stream is a halogenated vent stream and the terminology used to describe the emission limits for process vessels. this action also proposes a revised definition of grou 2 transfer operations to clarify that all product loading operations are part of the miscellaneous coating manufacturing affected source and thus are not subject to the organic liquid distribution old neshap. in the rules and regulations section of this federal register we are taking direct final action on the proposed amendments because we view the amendments as noncontroversial and anticipate no adverse comments. we have explained our reasons for the amendments in the preamble to the direct final rule. if we receive no adverse comments we will take no further action on the proposed amendments. if we receive adverse comments we will withdraw only those provisions on which we received adverse comments. we will publish a timely withdrawal in the federal register indicating which provisions will become effective and which provisions are being withdrawn. if part or all of the direct final rule in the rules and regulations section of todays federal register is withdrawn all comments pertaining to the withdrawn provisions will be addressed in a subsequent final rule based on the proposed amendments. we will not institute a second comment period before taking the subsequent final action. any parties interested in commenting must do so at this time