Record Display for the EPA National Library Catalog
RECORD NUMBER: 508 OF 569| Main Title | Toxic Chemical Report, Ninth Annual: A Summary of Information Contained in the Toxic Chemical Report Forms for Calendar Year 1995. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CORP Author | Illinois State Environmental Protection Agency, Springfield. Office of Chemical Safety. | |||||||||||
| Publisher | Aug 97 | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 1997 | |||||||||||
| Report Number | IEPA/ENV/97-014; | |||||||||||
| Stock Number | PB98-113640 | |||||||||||
| Additional Subjects | Illinois ; Toxic substances ; Chemical compounds ; Release ; Hazardous materials ; Reporting ; Emissions ; Faciltities ; Industrial plants ; Storm water runoff ; Environmental transport ; Health effects ; Health hazards ; Risk assessment ; Land pollution ; Water pollution ; Air pollution ; Graphs(Charts) ; Tables(Data) ; | |||||||||||
| Holdings |
|
|||||||||||
| Collation | 92p | |||||||||||
| Abstract | For calendar year 1995, 1,185 facilities submitted 3,877 individual toxic chemical release reports totalling 139.3 million pounds of releases and transfers. This includes 18.7 million pounds from 31 chemical reportable for the first time in 1995. Zinc (fume or dust) and compounds had the highest reported releases and transfers, at 28.3 million pounds. The combined total of fugitive and stack air emissions topped all other environmental areas at 71.4 million pounds. Facilities in Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code 3312 (steel works, blast furnaces, coke ovens and rolling mills) exceeded all other industrial categories with reported releases and transfers of 34.6 million pounds. |