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How to Report Pesticide Incidents Involving Wildlife or the Environment
Find ways to report wildlife and environmental incidents related to pesticides.
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How to Report a Pesticide Incident Involving Exposures to People
Pesticides incidents must be reported by pesticide registrants. Others, such as members of the public and environmental professionals, would like to report pesticide incidents. This website will facilitate such incident reporting.
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Common Causes of Pesticide Incidents
There are many types of pesticide incidents. EPA staff analyze pesticide incident reports involving people (including children and farm workers), pets, domestic animals, wildlife including bees and other pollinators, and the environment.
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About the Incident Data System (IDS)
When people report adverse effects from pesticides to EPA, these reports are stored in the Incident Data System (IDS). Pesticide incident reports tell EPA about adverse effects on people, domestic animals, wildlife, or the environment.
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How to Report Spills and Environmental Violations
Where to report spills of toxic materials and violations of environmental laws or regulations.
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List of Special Government Employees (SGEs)
SGE List. A SGE is an agency employee that performs temporary duties, with or without compensation, for not more than 130 days during any period of 365 consecutive days, as defined in 18 U.S.C § 202.
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Brownfields Reuse in Tribal Nations
Document providing examples of Brownfields projects in small, rural, and Tribal communities that received Brownfields funding.
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Do quantities in co-located vessels have to be aggregated for worst-case release scenarios?
Pursuant to the risk management program (RMP) regulations, a facility owner or operator must conduct an off-site consequence analysis that includes modeling of a worst-case release. If a single process is comprised of several co-located vessels, must the total quantity in all the vessels be aggregated to determine the worst-case…
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EPA RCRA ID: VAD089022685
RCRA Corrective Action Cleanup Site for VAD089022685 Voestalpine High Performance Metals Corporation - South Boston Plant (Formerly: Böhler-Uddeholm Specialty Metals Corporation) in South Boston, Virginia
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EPA Public Notices in Delaware
Listing of public notices with opportunity to comment for EPA activities in Delaware.
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Documents, Reports and Photographs for Voestalpine High Performance Metals Corporation - South Boston Plant (Formerly: Böhler-Uddeholm Specialty Metals Corporation) in South Boston, Virginia
RCRA Corrective Action Voestalpine High Performance Metals Corporation - South Boston Plant (Formerly: Böhler-Uddeholm Specialty Metals Corporation) in South Boston, Virginia, Documents and Reports
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Please clarify and resolve the significant digit differences existing between the standard and enforcement tolerance specified, i.e. 8.3 psi RVP with a 0.30 psi enforcement tolerance.
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The significant digit differences between the RVP standard and the enforcement tolerance arise from EPA's desire to resolve any questions about rounding of RVP measurements when an enforcement tolerance has been applied. Accordingly, for example, the 0.30 psi…
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Since other ASTM methods are being developed that would allow the use of one analyzer to obtain benzene, aromatics, and olefins, will EPA allow any of these new methods to be used for gasoline certification and/or a refiners’ defense?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . They are not allowed for the determination of properties of reformulated, or conventional gasoline at the refinery, but, as indicated above, they may be used downstream for quality assurance. In the future, EPA may consider amending the regulations…
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What options are available to pipelines for dealing with interface material, i.e., mixtures of two different types of product that result when the different products are adjacent during pipeline movement?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Interface Mixtures Involving RFG or RBOB First, the pipeline must minimize the instances of prohibited mixing, through the sequencing together of product types that may be legally mixed, to the greatest extent possible. Second, in those instances where…
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A tank truck common carrier picks up a load of ULSD at a Shell terminal and delivers it to a Flying J truck stop. The carrier only provides a transportation service, does that carrier have any registration or reporting duties?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No, the carrier does not have registration or reporting duties as long as taxes were assessed (in the case of highway fuel) or dye was added (in the case of NRLM) at the terminal. There are recordkeeping and…
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During tank transfers and other operations necessary to accommodate pipeline schedules, barrels of untested, uncertified reformulated gasoline may be mixed with barrels of previously certified product that have been included in the refiner's averaging calculations. If the total volume of mixed product is tested, certified, and booked, then double-accounting of the previously certified barrels will result. Can a procedure for unbooking of the quality and quantity of the previously certified product be used to avoid this double accounting problem?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . If, as discussed above, batch volumes are reported based on shipments out of the refinery or import facility (and averaging calculations are based on these volumes), a volume of previously tested reformulated gasoline remaining in a tank, which…
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The preamble to the final rule states that "oxygenate added to a refiner's or importer's gasoline or blendstock downstream of the refinery or import facility may be included in the refiner's or importer's compliance calculations only if the refiner or importer is able to demonstrate with certainty that the oxygenate has been added to that party's gasoline." The preamble further states that "as a result of the complexities inherent in tracking gasoline through the fungible distribution system, EPA believes in most cases it will be impracticable for refiners or importers to effectively monitor downstream oxygenate blending with gasoline that is shipped fungibly, and as a result the refiner or importer normally would be precluded from the oxygenate in compliance calculations".
The scenario in question is:
o a refiner ships conventional gasoline produced by the refiner through a common-carrier pipeline;
o batch shipments allow for tracking of the refiner's gasoline within the pipeline;
o shipments are received into the refiner's storage;
o these receipts might be commingled fungibly with conventional gasoline produced by another refiner;
o oxygenate is added at the rack into all of the fungible gasoline.
a) Can the refiner gain oxygen credits for anti-dumping compliance for a pro rata share of the oxygenate added to all gasoline, on the basis of the proportion of gasoline blended that was produced by the refiner?
b) Is the refiner's ability to gain oxygen credits impacted, in any way, by the configuration of the common-carrier pipeline (e.g. breakout tanks, batch versus open-stock system, etc.)?
c) Is the refiner's ability to gain oxygen credits impacted, in anyway by the configuration of the refiner's storage (e.g., dedicated versus community, etc.)?
d) Could the accounting be done on a monthly basis, or would the refiner have to track the ratio of gasoline produced by the refiner versus that produced by another refiner after each batch?See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . a) Yes, provided there is sufficient documentation to calculate the proportion of gasoline produced by the refiner, and, all other requirements of §80.101(d)(4)(ii) are met. b) The configuration would have to be such that the refiner could, indeed…
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December 2015 Community-Based Public-Private Partnership (CBP3) Sustainable Stormwater Infrastructure Summit
This page describes the topics and key messages of the December 2015 Community-Based Public-Private Partnership Stormwater Infrastructure Summit held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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What EPA is Doing to Protect Coral Reefs
Coral reefs are among the most biologically diverse and valuable ecosystems on Earth. This web site describes the importance of coral reefs, threats to them, and ongoing efforts to protect them.
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Effect of In-Home Educational Intervention on Children's Blood Lead Levels in Milwaukee, Technical Report, April, 1996
Presents the results of a study conducted in Milwaukee in 1991-1993 that investigated whether children's blood lead levels declined after in-home educational visits.