Public Inventory

For plasticizer production, we refer to publicized inventory data [13] prepared based on 1995 Input-Output Tables. Economic value of plasticizer is based on 1995 Input-Output Tables [14]. 

TSCA places requirement that manufacturers perform various kinds of health and environmental testing, use quality control in their production processes, and notify EPA of information they gain on possible adverse health effects from use of their products. Under TSCA, manufacturing is defined to include importing, and thus all requirements applicable to manufacturers apply to importers as well. Under TSCA, EPA classifies chemical substances as either existing chemicals or new chemicals. Searches of the nonconfidential, public Inventory, are available. 

The Inventory was established in two versions, a public Inventory available and searchable by the public, and a confidential Inventory. The initial public Inventory was published in 1979 and has been continually supplemented. TSCA 14 allows the submission of information imder a claim of confidentiality. Manufacturers and processors were allowed in making initial submissions to the Inventory, and are allowed in submitting PMNs, to claim as confidential certain business information, including specific chemical identity, composition, and process details. If the chemical identity is claimed as confidential, a generic name is used for fifing the Notice of Commencement (NOC). A NOC must be filed after the first manufacture or import of the substance after the PMN process is complete, in order to put the substance on the Inventory. Only the name on the NOC goes on the public Inventory. 

The official version is available for purchase at http //www.ntis.gov. Use the product search function to locate the Inventory. The public Inventory can be partially accessed without charge at the EPA s Substance Registry Service at http //iaspub.epa.gov/sorjnternet/registry/ substreg/home/overview/home.do. Commercial services also sell the Inventory, such as that maintained by the Chemical Abstract Service at http //www.cas.org. 

The public Inventory can be partially accessed without charge at the EPAs Substance Registry Service at http //iaspub.epa.gov/sor internet/ registry/substreg/home/overview/home.do... 

Step 4. The MRC shall determine based on the chemistry of the substance whether the substance is subject to a publicly available SNUR (possible only if the substance is on the public Inventory) or whether the substance may be subject to a confidential SNUR. If it may be subject to a confidential SNUR, the MRC shall confer with the requester and decide if it is appropriate to submit a bona fide letter to request confirmation from the EPA about the SNUR status of the substance. If the substance is or maybe subject to a SNUR, see Procedure Number Reg. Aflf. 8, Significant New Use Rules. 

Under the EU requirements, second or subsequent importers or manufacturers of a new substance must also notify a new substance, whereas under the United States regulations this obligation does not apply once the substance has been added to the TSCA inventory. If the identity of an Inventory substance is confidential, it will be listed in the public Inventory by a generic name. There is a procedure (CER 720.25) under which the ERA will inform whether a substance is on the confidential Inventory provided a bona fide intent to manufacture or import is established. 

Toxic Substances Control Act, Public Law No. 469, 94th U.S. Congress Chemical Substance Inventory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Toxic Substances, Wasliiagton, D.C., 1975. 

Submission of EPA Form R. the Toxic Chemical Release Inventory Reporting Form, Is required by section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community RIght-to-Know Act (Title III of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthoiizatlon Act of 1986), Public Law 99-499. The Information contained in Form R constitutes a report, and the submission of a report to the appropriate authorities constitutes reporting. ... 

Public sector employers receive the Right to Know Survey from the NJ Department of Health (NJDOH). It combines the hazardous substances inventory reporting requirements of both NJDEP and NJDOH. 

Appropriate spacing of unit operations within a process and appropriate spacing of a process from other processes, from employees nonessential to day-to-day process operation, and from the public is inherently safer. A definition of appropriate spacing would assist in evaluating the process location alternatives. This definition may take the form of a table of distances as a function of the type of hazard, inventory quantity and other factors. 

Under EPCRA, the ERA established an inventory of routine toxic chemicals that require emissions reporting. Eacilities subject to Section 313 are required to submit a toxic chemical release inventory form or Eorm R for specified chemicals, which is completed on an annual basis and is submitted by July 1 of every year. Eorm R notifies public and governmental agencies about routine releases (releases that occur as a result of daily production use). Eorm R applies to facilities of ten or more employees in businesses (with standard industrial classification (SIC) codes 20 through 39) that manufacture or use certain toxic chemicals in excess of certain amounts. 

Even, limited PSAs use and contain much information. This information may come as memos and process reports and flow sheets, equipment layout, system descriptions, toxic inventory, hazardous chemical reactions, test, maintenance and operating descriptions. From this, data and analyses are prepared regarding release quantities, doses, equipment reliability, probability of exposure, and the risk to workers, public, and environment. An executive summary analysis is detailed, and recommendations made for risk reduction. Thus the information will be text, calculations of envelope fracture stresses, temperatures, fire propagation, air dispersion, doses, and failure probabilities - primarily in tabular form. 

A reactor core s fission product inventory is the primary source of radioactivity from which the public is protected by the following independent barriers ... 

The advantages to using MSDSs for chemical inventories are that MSDSs are publicly available and required by law. There is no extra cost or labour needed to supply them. The limitations to using MSDSs as a source of inventory data are that currently, in the United States, a standardized reporting format is not mandatory. MSDSs are not verified or audited and MSDS information can be incomplete and/or inaccurate. In addition, OSHA s definition of hazard does not include the broader scope of hazard used in green chemistry. Therefore, chemicals that are potential hazards from the green chemistry perspective but are not defined by OSHA as hazards, are not required to be identified on a MSDS. 

In this chapter we describe strategies, tools and metrics that are currently and publicly available for advancing green chemical inventories in products and processes. The science of green chemistry will continue to advance as will the frameworks, strategies, tools and metrics that support understanding, implementation and reporting. 

Miller WR, Tonigan JS, Longabaugh R. The Drinker Inventory of Consequences (Drlnc) an instrument for assessing adverse consequences of alcohol abuse. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Project MATCH Monograph Series, Vol. 4. Rockville, MD National Institutes of Health (Publication No. 95-3911), 1995. 

Although this section does not present historical information regarding TRI chemical releases over time, note that, in general, toxic chemical releases have been declining.13 Although onsite releases have decreased, the total amount of reported toxic waste has not declined because the amount of toxic chemicals transferred offsite has increased. Better management practices have led to increases in offsite transfers of toxic chemicals for recycling. More detailed information can be obtained from U.S. EPA s annual Toxics Release Inventory Public Data Release book, or directly from the Toxic Release Inventory System database. 

PEL Pg pmol PHS PMR ppb ppm ppt REL RfD RTECS sec SCE SIC SIR SMR STEL STORET TLV TSCA TRI TRS TWA u.s. UF yr WHO wk permissible exposure limit picogram picomole Public Health Service proportionate mortality ratio parts per billion parts per million parts per trillion recommended exposure limit Reference Dose Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances second sister chromatid exchange Standard Industrial Classification Standardized incidence ratio standard mortality ratio short term exposure limit STORAGE and RETRIEVAL threshold limit value Toxic Substances Control Act Toxics Release Inventory total reduced sulfur time-weighted average United States uncertainty factor year World Health Organization week... 

IPCC. Guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventories. Available from www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl [Accessed 2015-10-10]. 

According to the Toxics Release Inventory, in 1996, atotal of 16,938,957 pounds (7,683,382 kg) of lead was released to the environment from 1,494 large processing facilities (TRI96 1998). Table 5-1 lists amounts released from these facilities. In addition, an estimated 47,886 pounds (21,721 kg) were released by manufacturing and processing facilities to publicly owned treatment works (POTWs), and an estimated 350,783,734 pounds (159,112,825 kg) were transferred offsite (TRI96 1998). The TRI data should be used with caution because only certain types of facilities are required to report. This is not an exhaustive list. 

Throughout history civilization has treasured the rarity and beauty of fancy colored diamonds. The stunning diamond from India known as the Hope Diamond, once a part of many royal inventories, is now the premier attraction of the Smithsonian Institution (see color Fig. 4.3.1). While the size of the diamond at 45.52 carats has certainly contributed to the public s interest in the gem, the intense blue-violet color of the stone is generally considered to be its most captivating feature. First described in the mid 1600s by the French merchant traveller Jean Baptiste Tavernier as un beau violet (a beautiful violet), the gem also acquired the title Blue Diamond of the Crown or the Royal French Blue when in possession of King Louis XIV of France. The blue color is attributed to trace amounts of boron in the carbon matrix of the stone. Substitution of carbon atoms by nitrogen leads to yellow diamonds, such as the famous canary yellow 128.51-carat Tiffany diamond. 

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