EPA penalty ups the ante for PCB violations

✍ Scribed by Sullivan, Mary Anne

• Book ID: 102220069
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Weight: 262 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0743-5665
• DOI: 10.1002/gas.3410070311

✦ Synopsis

The natural gas industry, along with electric utilities and others, continues to struggle with containing and disposing of polychlorinated biphenyls (Pas). The EPA has now come forward with its final PCBs penalty policy that is designed to keep at a maximum the incentives of affected companies to comply with the applicable restrictions, to voluntarily disclose known problems, and to act promptly to minimize the hann arising from violations.

The PCB Ban

The Toxic Substances Control Act was passed in 1976 and banned the use of FCBs in all but a few limited applications. The regulations implementing the statute impose abanonthemanufacture,processinganddistribution of PCBs. The regulations also regulate the use, storage and disposal of the substance. Finally, they impose detailed recordkeeping and labeling requirements.

Regulated materials includePCBantamhated solvents, waste oils, hydraulic fluids, paints, sludges, slurries, soils, and dredge spoils, as well as containers, equipment, and other articles that have come in direct contact with XBs.