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Title: Update On Pcb Laws And Regulations
Author: Jeffrey J. Davidson, Kenneth R. Meade
Source: American Gas Association 1992
Year Published: 1992
Abstract: Compliance with PCB regulations and remediation of PCB releases to the environment combine to present the gas industry with one of its largest environment challenges. EPAs Office of Civil Enforcement has begun an enforcement initiative that is focused on noncompliance with the TSCA PCB regulations. EPA officials have acknowledged that cleaning up PCBs in natural gas pipeline is the intended goal of this initiative, and that significant civil penalties may likely be issued before the end of 1992. EPA has been developing and issuing technical guidances regarding pipeline PCB compliance over the past several years. These guidances, most of which are not yet in final form, are critically important, as they represent EPAs attempt to adapt the rigid provisions of the PCB regulatory scheme, which was developed to address primarily PCBs in electrical equipment, to the natural gas industry. EPA has announced that over the next 18 months it will revisit the entire TSCA PCB regulatory scheme in a formal rulemaking proceeding EPA is actively seeking comments and input from regulated industries (such as the gas industry) on issues such as to how to develop alternative disposal options for PCBs and PCB Items and how to modify the regulations to address articles and equipment not previously thought to be contaminated with PCBs. Due to declining budget allocations to the TSCA office, EPA is not expected to revisit these issues after this rulemaking effort.

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