Environmental assessment of proposed effluent limitations guidelines and standards for the transportation equipment cleaning category: Volume 1. Final report

Technical Report · Fri May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1998

OSTI ID:658726

This environmental assessment quantifies the water quality-related benefits for Transportation Equipment Cleaning (TEC) facilities based on site-specific analyses of current conditions and the conditions that would be achieved by process changes under proposed BAT (Best Available Technology) and PSES (Pretreatment Standards for Existing Sources) controls. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated instream pollutant concentrations for 157 priority and nonconventional pollutants from three subcategories (barge-chemical and petroleum, rail-chemical, and truck-chemical) of direct and indirect discharges using stream dilution modeling. The potential impacts and benefits to aquatic life are projected by comparing the modeled instream pollutant concentrations to published EPA aquatic life criteria guidance or to toxic effect levels.

• Research Organization: Versar, Inc., Springfield, VA (United States); Environmental Protection Agency, Standards and Applied Science Div., Washington, DC (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 658726
• Report Number(s): PB--98-161243/XAB; CNN: Contract EPA-68-W6-0023
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
BARGES
CLEANING
ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
MAINTENANCE FACILITIES
RAILROAD CARS
TRUCKS
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL
WATER QUALITY