Definition of the source category.

(a) A soda ash manufacturing facility is any facility with a manufacturing line that produces soda ash by one of the methods in paragraphs (a)(1) through (3) of this section: (1) Calcining trona. (2) Calcining sodium sesquicarbonate. (3) Using a liquid alkaline feedstock process that directly produces CO 2 . (b) In the context of the soda ash manufacturing sector, “calcining” means the thermal/chemical conversion of the bicarbonate fraction of the feedstock to sodium carbonate.