EPA Office of Compliance Sector Notebook Project: Profile of the plastic resin and manmade fiber industriesOffice of Compliance, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1997 - Business & Economics - 178 pages |
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acetate acetonitrile ACID ACRYLATE AFMA air emissions carbon disulfide catalyst cellulosic fibers chemicals released CHLORIDE CHLORODIFLUOROMETHANE cleaning companies compliance COMPOUNDS condensers cont containing Database DIMETHYL SULFATE discharge disposal enforcement actions environmental EPCRA equipment ethylene glycol Facilities Reporting Facilities SIC 2821 Fiber Manufacturing Facilities filaments hazardous waste Kroschwitz leaks manmade fiber industries Manmade Fiber Manufacturing Manufacturing Facilities SIC melt spinning methanol METHYL million pounds monomer Number of Facilities nylon off-site operations Organic Chemicals P-XYLENE pellets percent plastic resin Plastic Resin Manufacturing Pollution Prevention polyester polyethylene polymer polypropylene POTW production raw materials rayon RCRA reactants reaction reactor recovery recycled reduce releases and transfers Reporting in pounds/year residual resin and manmade Resin Manufacturing Facilities SIC codes solvent sources spinneret standards storage Subpart suspension polymerization synthetic fiber Table tanks Toxic Release Inventory TRANSFERS TRANSFERS TRANSFERS TRI chemicals TRI Releases typically U.S. EPA volatile wastewater yarn
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Page 132 - State determines to contribute to a violation of a water quality standard or is a significant contributor of pollutants to waters of the United States. The term "storm water discharge associated with industrial activity" means a storm water discharge from one of 11 categories of industrial activity defined at 40 CFR 122.26.
Page 130 - 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 133 - 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 133 - SIC 21 -tobacco products; SIC 22-textile mill products; SIC 23-apparel related products; SIC 2434-wood kitchen cabinets manufacturing; SIC 25-furniture and fixtures; SIC 265-paperboard containers and boxes; SIC 267-converted paper and paperboard products; SIC 27-printing, publishing, and allied industries; SIC 283-drugs; SIC 285-paints, varnishes, lacquer, enamels, and allied products; SIC 30-rubber and plastics; SIC...
Page 135 - 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 water through the control of underground injection of liquid wastes.
Page 137 - ... criteria pollutants," including carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, ozone, and sulfur dioxide. Geographic areas that meet NAAQSs for a given pollutant are classified as attainment areas; those that do not meet NAAQSs are classified as non-attainment areas. Under...
Page 4 - And I have often thought, that probably there might be a way found out, to make an artificial glutinous composition, much resembling, if not full as good, nay better, than that Excrement, or whatever other substance it be out of which, the Silk- worm wire-draws his clew.
Page 127 - RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY ACT The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA...
Page 131 - Act, commonly referred to as the Clean Water Act (CWA), is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's surface waters. Pollutants regulated under the CWA include "priority" pollutants, including various toxic pollutants; "conventional...
Page 135 - EPA has developed primary and secondary drinking water standards under its SDWA authority. EPA and authorized States enforce the primary drinking water standards, which are, contaminant-specific concentration limits that apply to certain public drinking water supplies. Primary drinking water standards consist of maximum contaminant level goals (MCLGs), which are non-enforceable health-based goals, and maximum contaminant levels (MCLs), which are enforceable limits set as close to MCLGs as possible,...