EPA Office of Compliance Sector Notebook Project: Profile of the fossil fuel electric power generation industryOffice of Compliance, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1997 - Business & Economics - 152 pages |
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Page 111 - The purposes of this title are "(1) to protect and enhance the quality of the Nation's air resources so as to promote the public health and welfare and the productive capacity of its population...
Page 104 - extremely hazardous substance" (the list of such substances is in 40 CFR Part 355, Appendices A and B) if it has such substance in excess of the substance's threshold planning quantity, and directs the facility to appoint an emergency response coordinator. • EPCRA...
Page 109 - Water publications which can be accessed through the Ground Water and Drinking Water resource center, at (202) 260-7786. Safe Drinking Water Act The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) mandates that EPA establish regulations to protect human health from contaminants in drinking water. The law authorizes EPA to develop national drinking water standards and to create a joint Federal-State system to ensure compliance with these standards. The SDWA also directs EPA to protect underground sources of drinking...
Page 16 - Lumber and wood products, except furniture Furniture and fixtures Paper and allied products Printing, publishing and allied industries Chemicals and allied products Petroleum refining and related industries Rubber and miscellaneous plastics products...
Page 104 - Reportable quantities are defined and listed in 40 CFR §302.4. A release report may trigger a response by EPA, or by one or more Federal or State emergency response authorities. EPA implements hazardous substance responses according to procedures outlined in the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP) (40 CFR Part 300). The NCP includes provisions for permanent cleanups, known as remedial actions, and other cleanups referred to as "removals.
Page 11 - Combined Cycle: An electric generating technology in which electricity is produced from otherwise lost waste heat exiting from one or more gas (combustion) turbines. The exiting heat is routed to a conventional boiler or to a heat recovery steam generator for utilization by a steam turbine in the production of electricity. Such designs increase the efficiency of the electric generating unit. Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Plant: A facility that generates power via combined cycle technology.
Page ix - OECA - Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance OPA - Oil Pollution Act OPPTS - Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances OSHA - Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSW - Office of Solid Waste OSWER - Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response OW - Office of Water P2 - Pollution Prevention...
Page 107 - SIC 5171-petroleum bulk storage stations and terminals. Category ix: Sewage treatment works. Category x: Construction activities except operations that result in the disturbance of less than five acres of total land area. Category xi: Facilities classified as SIC 20-food and kindred products; SIC...
Page 108 - industrial users." Facilities regulated under §307(b) must meet certain pretreatment standards. The goal of the pretreatment program is to protect municipal wastewater treatment plants from damage that may occur when hazardous, toxic, or other wastes are discharged into a sewer system and to protect the toxicity characteristics of sludge generated by these plants. Discharges to a POTW are regulated primarily by the POTW itself, rather than the State or EPA. EPA has developed general pretreatment...