EPA offers RMP guidance

Article Abstract:

The EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response released the document with the title 'General Guidance for Risk Management Programs' to help chemical facilities comply with requirements under Part 68 of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The document will help facilities determine if Part 68 applies to them; ascertain the level of requirements applicable to covered processes; understand the specific risk management plan (RMP) activities that must be conducted; and select an RMP strategy.

Industrial Chemicals

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EPA announces Industrial Organic Chemical Sector Program

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The EPA has launched the Industrial Organic Chemical Sector Program to help chemical facilities determine if they comply with federal requirements and resolve any violations. The chemical facilities have been given until Jan 31, 1999, to conduct voluntary environmental audits of their operations and disclose to the EPA possible areas of non-compliance uncovered by the audits. Thereafter, the agency will increase regulatory inspection in the industrial organic chemical sector.

Organic Chemicals, Organic compounds

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Preparing an air emissions inventory

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A facility keeps track of it's emissions and compliance status efficiently in a changing work environment, by performing a thorough technical emissions inventory that is, by developing process specific factors to determine air emissions, linked to easy-to-obtain production data. Common methods for estimating emissions are emission factors, material balance, direct measurement, and engineering equations.

Air Pollution Control, Waste Management and Remediation Services, Air Pollution Control Programs, Measurement, Air quality management, Emissions (Pollution), Automotive emissions

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