Sec. 220-2.2. Definitions

(a) For the purpose of this Subpart, the definitions of Parts 200 and 201 of this Title apply.

(b) For the purpose of this Subpart, the following definitions also apply:

(1) Glass melting furnace. A refractory vessel in which raw materials are charged, melted at high temperature, refined, and conditioned to produce molten glass. The furnace includes foundations, superstructure and retaining walls, raw material charger systems, heat exchangers, melter cooling system, exhaust system, refractory brick work, fuel supply and electrical boosting equipment, integral control systems and instrumentation, and appendages for conditioning and distributing molten glass to forming apparatuses. The forming apparatuses, including the float bath used in flat glass manufacturing and flow channels in wool fiberglass and textile fiberglass manufacturing, are not considered part of the glass melting furnace.

(2) Glass plant. Any facility using a glass melting furnace to manufacture glass.

(3) Glass produced or glass production. The weight of glass removed from a glass melting furnace.