Preliminary Data Summary for the Solvent Recycling Industry

摘要

The summaries contain engineering, economic and environmental data about industrial facilities in various industries discharging pollutants in their wastewaters and considers whether the EPA should pursue regulations to control such discharges. The summaries were prepared in order to allow EPA to respond to the mandate of Section 304(m) of the Clean Water Act. Summaries for categories already subject to rulemaking were developed for comparison purposes, and contain only the minimum amount of data needed to provide some perspective on the relative magnitude of the pollution problems created across the categories. The purpose of this ongoing work is to develop information to characterize the solvent recycling industry as to the scope of the industry, its operations, and its discharges to the nation's waters, and to identify and quantity the pollutants discharged.