02 NCAC 48D .0102          MINIMUM SCREEN SIZES

To be eligible for sale in North Carolina:

(1)           All limestone sold, offered for sale, or distributed on or before June 1, 1981 must meet at least one of the fineness grinds shown as follows:

(a)           100 percent must pass through 10 mesh screen; 40 percent must pass through 100 mesh screen; and there shall be an investigational allowance of 5 percent; or

(b)           calcitic lime or marl must pass 90 percent through a 20 mesh screen and 25 percent through a 100 mesh screen and dolomite lime must pass 90 percent through a 20 mesh screen and 35 percent through a 100 mesh screen;

(2)           All limestone sold, offered for sale, or distributed after June 1, 1981 must meet at least the fineness grinds shown as follows:

(a)           calcitic lime or marl must pass 90 percent through a 20 mesh screen and 25 percent through a 100 mesh screen;

(b)           dolomite lime must pass 90 percent through a 20 mesh screen and 35 percent through a 100 mesh screen;

(c)           fine granular lime must pass 90 percent through a 20 mesh screen and 10 percent through a 100 mesh screen;

(d)           pelletized dolomitic lime must pass 90 percent through a 20 mesh screen and 35 percent through a 100 mesh screen before it is pelletized;

(e)           pelletized calcitic lime must pass 90 percent through a 20 mesh screen and 25 percent through a 100 mesh screen before it is pelletized; and

(f)            pelletized lime must be manufactured in a manner which will cause it to slake down when it comes into contact with moisture.

History Note:        Authority G.S. 106‑92.16(2);

Eff. July 1, 1980;

Amended Eff. September 1, 1984; December 3, 1980;

Transferred from T02.11D Eff. January 1, 1985;

Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. March 26, 2017.