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Learn more about Official State Greenhouse Gas Inventories
Learn more about Official State Greenhouse Gas Inventories
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The WaterSense Current: Winter 2020
The WaterSense Current is a quarterly update dedicated to news and events related to WaterSense.
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Widgets for Cleanup Programs
This page lists the CIMC-related widgets that can be added to HTML pages. A widgets is IFrame code that can be inserted into a web page that will display a graphic and have an interactive capability.
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PCB Fact Sheets, Guidance Documents, Policies, and Papers
This is a collection of papers, studies, and otherwise scientific papers/documents related to EPA's work with PCBs
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Contract Documents related to Gold King and Red and Bonita Mines
This pages contains documents related to mine work sites across the country, regional contingency plans for downstream notifications, and the plan for Gold King Mine Stakeholders Alerts
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WaterSense Labeled Homes-Hot Water
WaterSense labeled homes feature efficient designs for hot water distribution systems. Learn more about design options to get hot water to the tap faster.
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Community Advisory Group 2010-2012
DuPont/Pompton Lakes Community Advisory Group
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Release notification requirements for an EHS generated as by-product
Pursuant to Section 304(a)(2), the owner or operator of a facility must report to the State Emergency Response Commission (SERC) and the Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) any releases of extremely hazardous substances (EHSs) or CERCLA hazardous substances which equal or exceed established reportable quantities (RQs). This requirement only applies…
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Definition of hazardous chemical and OSHA's MSDS requirement for determining applicability of EPCRA 311/312
The requirements of 40 CFR Part 370, promulgated pursuant to EPCRA Sections 311 and 312, apply to facilities that have certain quantities of hazardous chemicals for which they are required, under the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), to prepare or have available Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs). How should…
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Federal or state UST requirements for gasoline and diesel thresholds
Do facilities have to comply with the federal UST requirements or with state UST requirements to be eligible to use the §§311/312 gasoline and diesel fuel thresholds? Facilities must comply with either federal UST requirements ( 40 CFR Part 280) or, if applicable, the requirements of the state UST program…
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Would pesticide sprayed on ground count towards §302 threshold?
Section 302 requires owners and operators of facilities that have extremely hazardous substances (EHSs) present above the threshold planning quantity (TPQ) to participate in emergency planning ( 40 CFR §355.20). If a facility has a pesticide sprayed on its grounds without first being stored at the facility, must the amount…
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Consumer product exemption and products that require licensing
Pennsylvania restricts the use of a product that is packaged for distribution and use by the general public by requiring users within the State to obtain a license. This product requires a material safety data sheet under OSHA, and thus may be subject to the reporting requirements of EPCRA Sections…
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Threshold planning quantity for extremely hazardous substances in solid form
Extremely hazardous substances (EHSs) that are in solid form are subject to one of two different threshold planning quantities (TPQs), a lower level or 10,000 pounds ( 40 CFR 355.15). Why does the list of EHSs only have one TPQ for certain solids, such as sodium cyanide? If a facility…
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Reportable quantity calculations for chemicals in abandoned containers
Must any amount of a listed chemical contained within abandoned or discarded barrels, containers, or other receptacles be considered to determine if a specific reportable quantity has been exceeded under EPCRA Section 304 notification requirements? 40 CFR §355.61 (April 22, 1987, 52 FR 13395) defines a release as "any spilling…
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Spills onto concrete floors inside a building
A facility has a spill of an extremely hazardous substance in an amount greater than its reportable quantity. The spill occurs on a concrete floor that is inside a facility building. Before the spill can be cleaned up, a portion (less than RQ) of the EHS enters the outside atmosphere…
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Releases of wastes not individually listed as CERCLA hazardous substances
Can releases of wastes that are not individually listed as CERCLA hazardous substances still be subject to CERCLA reporting requirements? Yes. CERCLA reporting requirements apply not only to all of the substances individually listed in 40 CFR 302.4, but also to wastes or waste streams exhibiting the characteristics of ignitability…
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Releases from animal waste to non-air environmental media
On June 13, 2019, EPA published a Final Rule adding an exemption to the release reporting requirements of EPCRA Section 304 ( 40 CFR Part 355) for substances from animal waste being emitted into the air ( 84 FR 27533). Does this exemption also apply to substances from animal waste…
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Reporting by mixture or components for a mixture with unknown chemicals
A facility is storing a product mixture on-site. Under OSHA regulations, the facility is required to retain a material safety data sheet (MSDS) for the mixture. According to the MSDS, the mixture contains a zinc compound, but no specific chemical identity or concentration information is provided. OSHA regulations allow chemical…
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What facilities are exempt from Section 304 notification requirements?
A facility itself can only be exempted if there are no hazardous chemicals present at the facility. The term "hazardous chemical," as defined under Section 311 of Title III, includes any substance which constitutes a physical or health hazard. This broad definition is borrowed from the Occupational Safety Health Act…
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Chemours Pompton Lakes Works Site Additional Documents
This page contains DuPont/Pompton Lakes Documents.