Status of US EPA's (Environmental Protection Agency's) sludge-incinerator regulations

Technical Report · Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:6519108

Crumpler, E P; Rubin, A B; Bostian, H E

This report describes a potential regulatory approach that the U.S. EPA could use for controlling sewage-sludge incinerators. The approach utilizes a most-exposed individual risk assessment to ensure that sludge-incineration air emissions will not cause an unacceptable health risk. An incinerator facility can demonstrate compliance using a three-tiered system which proceeds from a simple worst case calculation to a more resource intensive site-specific demonstration. A key part of the tiering system is development of an accurate and reliable emissions data base for U.S. sludge incinerators that can be used to develop reasonable worst case emission-control factors. The results of testing to date are discussed in the paper.

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH (USA). Risk Reduction Engineering Lab.
• OSTI ID: 6519108
• Report Number(s): PB-89-124366/XAB; EPA-600/D-88/231
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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