Chemical industry production facilities

The incident related in sidebar 1.1 points to the purpose of this text—namely, to emphasize the importance of chemical industry production facilities (yes, sugar is a chemical, an organic chemical sugar production qualifies as a chemical production process) being ready for any contingency— any being the key word. 

Releases to air, land, and water occur primarily through its use as a restricted-use insecticide. The media of most importance for human exposure are contaminated air and soil. According to the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. Section 11023, industries are required to submit chemical release and ofif-site transfer information to the EPA. The Toxic Release Inventory (TRI), which contains this information for 1987, became available in May of 1988. This database is updated yearly and provides a list of industrial production facilities and emissions. 

Because of the physical properties and chemical behavior concerning corrosiveness and toxicity, it may be used in existing high-pressure plants and facilities at fine chemical industry production sites. This allows a fast and easy change to an environmentally benign solvent. 

Section 11023, industries are required to submit chemical release and off-site transfer information to the EPA. The Toxic Release Inventory, which contains this information for 1987, became available in May of 1989. This database will be updated yearly and should provide a list of industrial production facilities and emissions. 

A chemical research laboratory is different from an industrial production facility for many reasons. First of all, only much smaller quantities of energetic materials are handled in a chemical research laboratory and secondly, during research, the properties of new, energetic materials are not known and therefore particular care must be taken. One of the most important safety rules can be worked out from the rule of thumb , which relates the distance D (in m), which offers a chance of survival, to the mass w (in kg) of the explosive. For a typical secondary explosive at large distances, the proportionality constant is approximately 2 ... 

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), which contains information for 1994, became available in May of 1996. This database will be updated yearly and should provide a list of industrial production facilities and emissions. Currently, no information is available in the TRI database for 2-butoxyethanol because the database contains such information only for the general toxic chemical category of glycol ethers and not for specific glycol ethers (EPA 1995). No information is available in the TRI database for 2-butoxy-ethanol acetate because this chemical is not included under SARA, Title III, and therefore is not among the chemicals that facilities are required to report (EPA 1995). There is a need for such information in order to assess the potential for human exposure to these chemicals from their release from industrial production facilities. Limited or no information was found in the available literature on current disposal methods (including efficiencies, the need for improvement, and the amount disposed of) for 2-butoxyethanol no information in these areas was found for 2-butoxyethanol acetate. Additional information on disposal methods and the amounts of 2-butoxyethanol and 2-butoxyethanol acetate disposed of by each method is needed. 

The chemical weapons production facility shall be converted in such a manner that the converted facility is not more capable of being reconverted into a chemical weapons production facility than any other facility used for industrial, agricultural, research, medical, pharmaceutical or other peaceful purposes not involving chemicals listed in Schedule 1. 

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