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Webinar: Sustainability Strategies for Third-Party Logistics Webinar
This EPA presentation provides information from the North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE), a SmartWay Affiliate, sharing results from their Regional Run on Less real-time demonstration.
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Webinar: Strategies for Saving Fuel, Money and the Environment
This EPA presentation provides information from the North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE), a SmartWay Affiliate, sharing results from their Regional Run on Less real-time demonstration.
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Webinar: SmartWay New and Prospective Partner Orientation: Tips for a Rewarding Partnership Experience!
This EPA presentation provides information on successful strategies that EPA regional representatives and state trucking associations work together to improve efficiency in supply chain freight logistics.
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Webinar: SmartWay Designated Specification for Day Cabs
This EPA presentation provides information on the SmartWay Logistics Carrier Tool: its background and development, participation in the program, application process, emission metrics, tool demonstration, data collection, and schedule for 2018.
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Freight Matters Webinar:The “Green Supply Chain”: A critical assessment of a multimodal, multinational freight supply chain of a Fortune 50 retailer
This EPA presentation provides information on the the ICCT green supply chain study with The Home Depot
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Using the “Shipper Strategies” Tab in the SmartWay Shipper Tool
This EPA presentation provides information on the Shipper Strategies tab in the SmartWay Shipper Tool for complete carbon accounting of the supply chain.
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Webinar: SmartDriver Eco-Driver Training - Boost Your Bottom Line While Reducing Emissions AND Improving Safety
This EPA presentation provides information on SmartDriver Eco-Driver Training - Boost Your Bottom Line While Reducing Emissions AND Improving Safety
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What is in Disaster Debris
An overview of the Environmental Protection Agency's four-tiered waste management hierarchy.
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Mobile Source Pollution and Related Health Effects
This site provides information on the health effects of air toxics from vehicles to both groups and individuals looking to further their subject knowledge, learn about EPA’s role in reducing air toxics, and find out how individuals can play a role.
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State and Local Transportation Resources
This web area is designed to provide resources to state and local governments and their citizens about transportation and air quality.
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Are valves in piping considered administrative controls?
No, administrative controls are written procedures that limit the quantity stored or flowing through the pipes. Valves are considered active mitigation systems.
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What measures qualify as "passive mitigation"?
Passive mitigation is defined in § 68.3 as "equipment, devices, or technologies that function without human, mechanical, or other energy input." Passive mitigation systems include building enclosures, dikes, and containment walls. Measures such as fire sprinkler systems, water curtains, valves, scrubbers, or flares would not be considered passive mitigation because…
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Inclusion of accidents under different ownership in the accident history
If a facility has recently changed ownership, is the new facility owner required to include accidents which occurred prior to the transfer of ownership in the accident history portion of the RMP submitted for the facility? Yes, accidents involving covered processes that occurred prior to the transfer of ownership should…
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Are areas occupied solely by employees considered public receptors?
When analyzing off-site consequences for the purpose of a worst-case or alternative release scenario under the risk management program regulations (40 CFR Part 68), are areas occupied solely by employees at the source considered to be public receptors? No. Such areas at the stationary source are not to be included…
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Is the off-site death of livestock considered environmental damage?
Under the hazard assessment requirements of 40 CFR Part 68, Subpart B, an owner or operator must document a five-year accident history including all accidental releases from covered processes that resulted in deaths, injuries, or significant property damage on site, or known offsite deaths, injuries, evacuations, sheltering in place, property…
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Can positive buoyancy models be used?
Yes, provided there is a basis for use and the owner or operator explains the rationale for use of positive buoyancy models.
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Are on-site areas with unrestricted access considered public receptors?
A process covered under 40 CFR Part 68 is eligible for Program 1 requirements if it meets all of the criteria listed at 40 CFR §68.10(b). One of those criteria is that the distance to a toxic or flammable endpoint for a worst-case release assessment is less than the distance…
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Who is responsible for preparing and submitting an RMP for leased propane tanks?
If an owner of a stationary source leases propane tanks from a gas supplier, who is responsible for preparing and submitting the risk management plan (RMP) addressing the propane tanks? The owner of the stationary source is responsible for preparing and submitting the RMP. The risk management program regulations apply…
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Acid aerosol reducing additive as passive mitigation
A refinery uses a special proprietary additive to their hydrofluoric acid (HF) alkylation process. This HF additive has shown in tests to significantly reduce aerosol forms of HF during accidental releases, and therefore reduce the distance traveled by HF releases. The additive is present at all times during the alkylation…
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Do Program Level 1 processes need to do five-year accident histories?
What is the relationship between the accident history criteria for Program 1 and the five-year accident history? If my process is eligible for Program 1, do I still need to do a five-year accident history? The five-year accident history is an information collection requirement that is designed to provide data…
