PCB Use Guidance Issued by EPA
This page contains copies of PCB interpretive guidance issued by EPA pertaining to PCB use.
Note: If you need access to these resources due to a disability, please contact Robert Courtnage at courtnage.robert@epa.gov or 202-566-1081.
- Acquisition of a decommissioned naval vessel from MARAD of Guam (pdf)
- Answer to request for confirmation of understanding of the PCB regulations (pdf)
- Applicability of the "food and feed" requirements of the EPA's PCB regulations to the manufacture of teabags and other food-contact filter paper (pdf)
- Assistance in returning Hazardous Waste Shipment From Canada to U.S. (pdf)
- Request for Guidance on the Disposal of Cable Containing PCBs by Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (pdf)
- Requesting EPA assistance in returning hazardous waste shipments that was stranded in Canada (pdf)
- Confirmation regarding regulatory status of shunt and series reactors (pdf)
- Response letter to the request to have stay four provisions of the PCB Disposal Amendments published (pdf)
- Interpretive guidance from EPA concerning marking of vehicles that transport PCBs (pdf)
- Response to inquiry regarding EPA's PCB Disposal Amendments (pdf)
- Discharges of recycled PCBs to water (pdf)
- Questions about PCBs in x-ray tube heads and transformers and governing equipment (pdf)
- Interpretation of EPA's regulations concerning the use of large PCB capacitors in restricted access areas (pdf)
- Request for clarification of the terms commercial building and industrial building as they appear in the PCB transformer fires final rule (pdf)
- PCB transformer ownership (pdf)
- Definitions of network and radial transformers referenced in the 1985 PCB transformer fires rule (pdf)
- Request for information regarding the proper procedures for disposal of a transformer (pdf)
- Response to the EPA's interpretation of the scope of the PCB large capacitor phase-out requirements (pdf)
- EPA's interpretation of the scope of the PCB large capacitor phase-out requirements (pdf)
- Clarifications on the recent amendments to the "Uncontrolled Rule" (pdf)
- PCB large capacitors phase-out requirements (pdf)
- Brewery for tourists considered commercial building under 40 CFR Part 761 (pdf)
- Exemption to buy or sell PCB or PCB-contaminated transformers (pdf)
- Storage of combustibles within 5 meters of a PCB transformer (pdf)
- Response to request for interpretation of PCB regulations referring to the use of asphalt pavement (pdf)
- Export of small PCB Capacitors, General Motors (pdf)
- Response to a May 31, 1991 request for guidance on export for reuse of transformers <50ppm (pdf)
- Response to a June 3, 1991 request for guidance on the export for reuse of transformers <50ppm (pdf)
- Laws regarding export of transformers (pdf)
- Use of PCBs Removed from Capacitors as a laboratory analytical standards (pdf)
- Guidance of disposal of cable containing PCBs by Puget Sound Shipyard (pdf)
- Exporting Transformers to India/Pakistan (pdf)
- Proper labeling of bushings; In use and at the time of disposal (pdf)
- Import of Transformers for reuse (pdf)
- Request to return PCBs in Antarctica to the United States for disposal (pdf)
- Classification of a "Cincinnati" machine tool and insulated electric cable and wiring as excluded PCB products (pdf)
- Response to Letter Regarding Export of Untested Distribution of Transformers (pdf)
- Sale of National Defense Reserves Fleet ships for foreign disposal and recycling of vessels' materials (pdf)
- Request clarification of the status of bushings associated with oil filled circuit (pdf)
- Excluded PCB Products - painted machines (pdf)
- Response to request for permission to export used ballasts with PCB capacitors for resale and reuse purposes (pdf)
- Assumptions about a PCB-Contaminated Transformer (pdf)
- Status of DuPont as an End User of Natural Gas (pdf)
- Inquiry Regarding Electromechanical Impedance Relays (pdf)
- Response to inquiry regarding air transfer system employed by Minteq International Inc. (pdf)
- Regulatory status of electrical insulating compound, epoxy, used in small electrical equipment (pdf)
- Status of coal tar wrap greater that 50 ppm PCBs on external surfaces of some natural gas piping systems (pdf)
- Interpretation of the PCB regulations regarding management of wastes and products derived from an excluded manufacturing process (pdf)
- Request for EPA clarification of the definition of "excluded manufacturing process" for imported dielectric fluid (pdf)
- Comments on American Gas Association's summarization of EPA question and answer session (pdf)
- Response regarding 1999 PCB Questions and Answer manual (pdf)
- Import of metals contaminated with PCBs (pdf)
- Regulatory status of the electrical insulator, butyl rubber, used in smaller electrical equipment (pdf)
- Distribution in commerce of drained electrical equipment and parts (pdf)
- Response to correspondence that National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation sent to the EPA requesting an alternative sampling location (pdf)
- Regulatory status of certain cables containing PCBs that are present on two tug boats to be donated to Seattle Maritime (pdf)
- Intent to ship a PCB sample off-site (pdf)
- Agreement Between The Department of the Navy and The United States Environmental Protection Agency (pdf)