Risk assessment draft gives WTI incinerator clean slate

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A comprehensive risk assessment of the hazardous waste incinerator of Waste Technologies Industries in East Liverpool, OH, cleared it of any damaging human health risk. The EPA assessment said the facility's human health risk is within an acceptable range, with noncancer risk acceptable and cancer risk less than one in one million for a resident living nearby and consuming local food and drinking water. The assessment, which cost over $1 million, was sparked by community protests due to the incinerator's emissions and its location near residences, a drinking water source and an elementary school.

Refuse Incinerators, Industrial Process Furnace and Oven Manufacturing, Incinerator Emissions, Industrial furnaces and ovens, Air pollution control, Hazardous waste management industry, Hazardous substances, Hazardous substances risk assessment, Inspection, Waste Technologies Industries

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Hazardous waste incinerator rule delayed by EPA for more than a year

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will not give a final ruling on hazardous waste incinerators until March 1998 or later. The regulations, which should have been finalized on December 16, 1996, would have penalized facilities that annually burn approximately 3 million tons of hazardous wastes. The facilities, which endanger the health of an estimated 53 million people living near them, either have adequate and state of the art incinerators or none at all.

Air, water, & solid waste management, Environmental Protection Agency, Blowers and fans, Air Purification Equipment Manufacturing, Gas Emissions Control Eqp, Toxic Substances Regulation, Industry regulations, Pollution control equipment, Hazardous wastes, Emissions (Pollution)

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