Sector Notebook Data Refresh - 1997Office of Compliance, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1998 - Factory and trade waste - 29 pages |
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1,2,4-trimethylbenzene 1995 Toxics Release 1995 TRI Releases 1995 TRI Transfers 2-ethoxyethanol Actions Actions carcinogens chemical reports Chlorodifluoromethane[O Chloromethane Chromium[M Compliance Summary Compounds[M Copper Compounds[M Copper[M definitions of carcinogens develop this table Dibutyl Phthalate Dichloromethane[C discussion of TRI Enforcement and Compliance Ethylbenzene Ethylene Glycol F G H facilities not chemical Facilities Reporting pounds/year Facilities SIC Five-Year Enforcement Fume or Dust)[M Glycol Ethers heading Ten Largest Hydrochloric Acid 1995 Hydrogen Fluoride industry sector Largest Volume TRI M-xylene methodology Methyl Isobutyl Ketone Molybdenum Trioxide Naphthalene Nickel[C Number of Facilities obtain this data ozone depleters production related wastes Recycling Activity Reduction and Recycling Refer to Section Release Inventory Database Releases Per Facility Reporting Chemical Name Reporting Only SIC reporting to TRI SIC Codes Sulfuric Acid suspect carcinogens Total number Total TRI Releases Toxics Release Inventory Transfers Per Facility Transfers Transfers Transfers TRI data TRI Releasing Facilities Triethylamine Volume TRI Releasing Xylene Mixed Isomers
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Page 13 - EPA has focused much of its attention on measuring compliance with specific environmental statutes. This approach allows the Agency to track compliance with the Clean Air Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Clean Water Act, and other environmental statutes. Within the last several years, the Agency has begun to supplement single-media compliance indicators with facility-specific, multimedia indicators of compliance. In doing so, EPA is in a better position...
Page vii - CAA Clean Air Act CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act...
Page 7 - ... 1 Within this industry sector, non-production related waste < 1% of production related wastes for 1993. b Total TRI transfers and releases as reported in Section 5 and 6 of Form R as a percentage of production related wastes. c Percentage of production related waste released to the environment and transferred off-site for disposal. IV. CHEMICAL RELEASE AND TRANSFER PROFILE This section is designed to provide background information on the pollutant releases that are reported by this industry.
Page 9 - Aerometric Information Retrieval System (AIRS) contains a wide range of information related to stationary sources of air pollution, including the emissions of a number of air pollutants which may...
Page 28 - The Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 (PPA) requires facilities to report information about the management of TRI chemicals in waste and efforts made to eliminate or reduce those quantities. These data have been collected annually in Section 8 of the TRI reporting Form R beginning with the 1991 reporting year.
Page 24 - Code - the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) is a statistical classification standard used for all establishment-based Federal economic statistics. The SIC codes facilitate comparisons between facility and industry data. TRI Facilities — are manufacturing facilities that have 10 or more fulltime employees and are above established chemical throughput thresholds. Manufacturing facilities are defined as facilities in Standard Industrial Classification primary codes 20-39. Facilities must submit...
Page 24 - Code — is the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) is a statistical classification standard used for all establishment-based Federal economic statistics. The SIC codes facilitate comparisons between facility and industry data. TRI Facilities — are manufacturing facilities that have 10 or more full-time employees and are above established pollutant release and transfer thresholds.