Among the proposed changes was a program that would require every refinery to monitor the benzene concentrations at their fenceline. These amendments will be finalized this fall, and the clock will begin ticking towards the compliance date. For fenceline monitoring, this compliance date is expected ...
EPA and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are touting a proposed settlement requiring Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP to monitor for benzyne and other hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) around three Texas petrochemical facilities, underscoring EPA plans to impose such mandates more broadly as a way...
"Now that EPA has new information on precisely where the worst health threats are, the agency must use its full authority to ... require fenceline monitoring at these facilities (and) issue a strong new rule,'' he said. "No one should get cancer from facilities that are used to sterilize...
“Now that EPA has new information on precisely where the worst health threats are, the agency must use its full authority to … require fenceline monitoring at these facilities (and) issue a strong new rule,″ he said. “No one should get cancer from facilities that are used to sterilize ...
s the agency’s support for a tough 2016 cancer risk value for ethylene oxide (EtO), which is expected to drive stricter limits in several sectors, but the decision leaves unresolved environmentalists’ calls to end regulatory “loopholes” for malfunction events and require fenceline monitoring....
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EPA Issues Final Rule Requiring Enhanced Emission Controls and Fenceline Monitoring for Petroleum RefineriesJon N. Reidy
80%.The rule also reduces additional air emissions such as benzene,1,3-butadiene,ethylene dichloride and vinyl chloride.In addition,the rule includes a requirement for the chemical facilities to conduct fenceline monitoring for key toxic chemicals,and EPA will make the data available to the public...
As refineries prepare to implement the fenceline monitoring work practice required in the updated Refinery Risk and Technology Rule1, sample handling procedures are being developed and implemented for pre-compliance monitoring trials. With the goal of generating accurate and reliable measurements, stringe...
Refinery fenceline ruleSample integrity evaluationCarbopack X sorbent tubesA sample integrity evaluation and an interlaboratory comparison were conducted in application of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Methods 325A and 325B for diffusively monitoring benzene and other selected volatile organic ...