United States            Solid Waste and
                   Environmental Protection     Emergency Response          EPA530-F-92-028
                   Agency               (OS-305)                 October 1992

                   Office of Solid Waste
&EPA        Environmental
                   Fact  Sheet
                   WASTES GENERATED DURING THE
                   MANUFACTURE OF CHLORINATED
                   TOLUENES LISTED AS HAZARDOUS

       BACKGROUND
       The Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA) of 1984
       mandated the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to determine
       whether or not wastes generated during the manufacture of chlorinated
       aromatics should be listed as hazardous. With the promulgation of this
       rule, the requirement mandated by HSWA for the chlorinated aromatic
       industry is completed.

       ACTION
       This rulemaking lists as hazardous three waste streams generated from
       the production of chlorinated toluenes. The wastes contain hazardous
       constituents which are chronic systemic toxicants and/or carcinogenic
       and mutagenic. They also are typically present in high concentrations,
       and are mobile and persistent. This proposal sets the reportable
       quantity (RQ) at 10 pounds, and adds the following wastes to the
       hazardous substances list under the Comprehensive Environmental
       Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA).

         K149   Distillation or fractionation bottoms from the production
                of alpha- (or methyl-) chlorinated toluenes, ring-
                chlorinated toluenes, benzyl chlorides, and compounds
                with mixtures of these functional groups. (Still bottoms
                from the distillation of benzyl chloride are not included.)

         K150   Organic residuals from the spent chlorine gas and hydro-
                chloric acid recovery processes associated with the
                production of alpha (or methyl-) chlorinated toluenes,
                ring-chlorinated toluenes, benzyl chlorides, and com-
                pounds with mixtures of these functional groups. (Spent
                carbon adsorbent is not included.)

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                   United States            Solid Waste and
                   Environmental Protection     Emergency Response          EPA530-F-92-028
                   Agency               (OS-305)                 October 1992

                   Office of Solid Waste
SEPA        Environmental
                   Fact  Sheet
                   WASTES GENERATED DURING THE
                   MANUFACTURE OF CHLORINATED
                   TOLUENES LISTED AS HAZARDOUS

       BACKGROUND
       The Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA) of 1984
       mandated the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to determine
       whether or not wastes generated during the manufacture of chlorinated
       aromatics should be listed as hazardous. With the promulgation of this
       rule, the requirement mandated by HSWA for the chlorinated aromatic
       industry is completed.

       ACTION
       This rulemaking lists as hazardous three waste streams generated from
       the production of chlorinated toluenes. The wastes contain hazardous
       constituents which are chronic systemic toxicants and/or carcinogenic
       and mutagenic. They also are typically present in high concentrations,
       and are mobile and persistent. This proposal sets the reportable
       quantity (RQ) at 10 pounds, and adds the following wastes to the
       hazardous substances list under the Comprehensive Environmental
       Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA).

         K149   Distillation or fractionation bottoms from the production
                of alpha- (or methyl-) chlorinated toluenes, ring-
                chlorinated toluenes, benzyl chlorides, and compounds
                with mixtures of these functional groups. (Still bottoms
                from the distillation of benzyl chloride are not included.)

         K150   Organic residuals from the spent chlorine gas and hydro-
                chloric acid recovery processes associated with the
                production of alpha (or methyl-) chlorinated toluenes,
                ring-chlorinated toluenes, benzyl chlorides, and com-
                pounds with mixtures of these functional groups. (Spent
                carbon adsorbent is not included.)

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