Technical Background Document for the Report to Congress on Remaining Wastes from Fossil Fuel Combustion: Industry Statistics and Waste Management Practices

摘要

This document describes and presents some of the data sources and analyses supporting the Report to Congress on Remaining Wastes from Fossil Fuel Combustion. Specifically, it includes detailed data and supplemental information supporting the sections of the Report to Congress that: Provide an overview of each industry sector; Describe the population of potentially affected facilities; Provide statistics on technologies and fuels used in each sector; and Characterize the waste management practices applied in each sector. The industry sectors discussed in the Report to Congress are listed below: Coal-fired utilities that comanage large-volume and low-volume wastes; Coal-fired non-utilities; Fluidized bed combustion facilities, both utility and non-utility; Oil-fired facilities, both utility and non-utility; and Natural gas-fired facilities, both utility and non-utility.