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United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
May 2008
EPA530-F-08-012
www.epa.gov/osw
Listing Amendment for F019
Wastewater Treatment Sludges
                EPA is amending the F019 Hazardous Waste Listing in order to encourage the use
             of aluminum in motor vehicles, which will increase gas mileage and decrease exhaust
             air emissions. EPA has determined that these changes to the F019 listing are protective
             of human health and the environment.

         Action
            EPA is amending the F019 hazardous waste listing to facilitate the use of
         aluminum in automobiles, light trucks and utility vehicles. Using aluminum parts
         produces lighter vehicles capable of increased gas mileage and decreased exhaust air
         emissions, including a reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases.
            Aluminum automotive parts must go through a metal finishing or conversion
         coating process before being used in motor vehicle manufacturing. This process
         generates F019, an F-code listed waste, which must be managed and disposed of as a
         hazardous waste. F019 is one of the F-code hazardous waste listings generated from
         common industrial and manufacturing processes.
            This amendment exempts F019 waste from being considered a hazardous waste
         on condition that the waste is not placed outside on the land prior to shipment to an
         appropriately lined landfill. This approach encourages the use of lighter aluminum
         parts in motor vehicle manufacturing, while protecting human health and the
         environment.
            The motor vehicle industry has incorporated aluminum into motor vehicle parts
         and bodies since the 1970s. Between 1997 and 2007, EPA granted 19 petitions for
         individual U.S. plants to exempt F019 from regulation through a rulemaking process
         called "delisting." This rule responds to the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers
         and the Aluminum Association, which petitioned EPA to standardize the F019 listing
         for all motor vehicle manufacturing plants and remove the barriers to using aluminum
         in automotive manufacturing.
         For More Information
            Please visit us on the web at:
          http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/id/fO 19/fO 19.htm.

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