EPA Grants Hazardous Waste Exclusion For Underflow Water at ExxonMobil Refinery

摘要

The Environmental Protection Agency will exclude from hazardous waste regulation up to 7,427 cubic yards per year of underflow water from an ExxonMobil refinery in Texas, according to a final rule being published Sept. 20. ExxonMobil can either accumulate the underflow water, an aqueous solution that seeps through soil where other wastes have been disposed of in an area of the refinery site, in a holding tank or route the waste-water to a collection system that leads to the company's sewer system under the rule, which takes effect immediately.