{"id":515,"date":"2012-10-02T09:31:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T13:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ehscsi.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2017-12-10T23:20:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T04:20:55","slug":"polychlorinated-biphenyls-pbcs-regulatory-changes-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ehscsi.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/02\/polychlorinated-biphenyls-pbcs-regulatory-changes-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PBCs) Regulatory Changes Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"PCB<\/a>
PCB Chemical Structure<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a class of man-made organic materials that\u00a0are desirable because of\u00a0 the following characteristics: non-flammable, chemically stable, have a\u00a0high boiling point and electrical insulation properties.\u00a0 Unfortunately the same characteristics cause them to persist and bioaccumulate in the environment.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In addition, PCBs have been implicated as cancer\u00a0causing and in a number of other\u00a0effects\u00a0on the immune, reproductive, endocrine and nervous systems.\u00a0\u00a0Polychlorinated biphenyls can no longer be legally manufactured in the US since a ban 1979 ban, however this class of chemicals can still be found most commonly in transformers and\u00a0fluorescent light bulb ballasts.\u00a0 Regulations require companies engaged in any of the following five (5) PCB activities to register with EPA<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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  1. Generation with on site storage<\/li>\n
  2. Commercial storage<\/li>\n
  3. Research & development<\/li>\n
  4. Transportation<\/li>\n
  5. Disposition<\/li>\n
  6. Operation of\u00a0 a scrap metal recovery oven.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In addition, PCB containing transformers must be registered with EPA<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This information is made available publically through EPA\u2019s Transformer Registration and PCB Activity Databases<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0As of late 2011, there were over 3500 registrations of PCB Transformers; indicating that PCB issue is far from over although the ban has been in place for over 30 years.<\/p>\n

    On September 6 of this year, EPA proposed changes<\/a> to the PCB manifest requirements; these changes are open for public comment until November 5, 2012. \u00a0\u00a0The focus of the proposal is to align the PCB manifest requirements found in 40 CFR 761<\/a> with the RCRA requirements found in parts 262,<\/a> 263<\/a> and 264<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Need more information on PCBs, registration, or disposal requirements?\u00a0 Visit EPA’s PCB website <\/a>which has a wealth of\u00a0information on the subject.<\/p>\n

    Do you have other helpful PCB resources?\u00a0 If so please add a comment below.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a class of man-made organic materials that\u00a0are desirable because of\u00a0 the following characteristics: non-flammable, chemically stable, have a\u00a0high boiling point and electrical insulation properties.\u00a0 Unfortunately the same characteristics cause them to persist and bioaccumulate in the environment.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In addition, PCBs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[132,63,130,129,131],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ehs-compliance","tag-ballasts","tag-ehs-compliance-2","tag-pcbs","tag-polychlorinated-biphenyls","tag-transformers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ehscsi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ehscsi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ehscsi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehscsi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehscsi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehscsi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehscsi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ehscsi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehscsi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehscsi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}