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COMPLIANCE &PREVENTIONquarterlyWinter 2010

A Publication of Ohio EPA, Office of Compliance Assistance and Pollution Prevention

In This IssueCompliance AssistanceAnnouncing Compliance Assistance Conference .......1Upcoming Reporting Deadlines .................................1

Pollution PreventionSix Receive Award for Outstanding Achievement inEnvironmental Stewardship ......................................2

Coming this Summer…

OCAPP is transitioning delivery of thisnewsletter to electronic format for asmany readers as possible.

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Compliance AssistanceConference coming in May

Ohio EPA will be hosting the fifth “Compli-ance Assistance Conference: SuccessfullyNavigating Permits, Reporting and Inspections,” at theCrowne Plaza Columbus North on May 5, 2010.

Mark your calendars and plan to attend to gain a betterunderstanding of the environmental requirements thatapply to your business. You can get more informationthrough our conference Web site at www.epa.ohio.gov/compliance_conference/home.aspx.

Upcoming Reporting Deadlines

March 1 - Emergency Planning and CommunityRight-to-Know (EPCRA) Annual Reports

You may be required to completereports under the EPCRA regulationsif your company is subject to OSHA'sHazard Communication Standard and you use, produceor store the following substances:

• 10,000 pounds or more of a hazardous chemical; or• the reportable threshold (one to 500 pounds, depending

on the substance) or more of an extremely hazardoussubstance.

A hazardous chemical is any chemical covered byOSHA's Hazard Communication Standard. While thereisn't a specific listing of hazardous chemicals, they

include any chemical or chemical mixture that exhibitshazardous characteristics. Hazardous characteristicsinclude health, fire, or reactivity hazards or the potentialfor a sudden release of pressure. Hazardous chemicalsinclude gasoline, diesel fuel, paints, solvents and otherchemicals.

An extremely hazardous substance is any one of 359chemicals on a specific list in U.S. EPA's regulations.Examples of extremely hazardous substances includechlorine, ammonia and nitric acid. View this list atwww.epa.ohio.gov/portals/27/serc/EHS.pdf. If yourcompany handles either hazardous chemicals or ex-tremely hazardous substances in greater than thresholdquantities, you must file a report to the State EmergencyResponse Commission (SERC), your county's localemergency planning committee and your local firedepartment by March 1.

For more information on this reporting requirement,contact Ohio EPA's Right-to-Know Office at (614) 644-2260, or visit SERC's Web page at www.epa.ohio.gov/dapc/serc/index.aspx.

April 15 - Non-Title V Air Emissions Report

If your facility received a blue 2008/2009 Non-Title V AirEmissions Report in the mail, your emission report is dueto Ohio EPA by April 15, 2010. This report requires you to

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self-report your total facility emissions from calendaryears 2008 and 2009.

You may submit the report in hard copy form or electroni-cally through Ohio EPA’s eBusiness Center Air Servicesapplication. To find instructions on how to complete thereport electronically, go to www.epa.ohio.gov, click onthe Answer Place link in the top banner, and enter 2118as the Keyword.

Do not send a check with the report. After receiving yourcompleted report, Ohio EPA will send you an invoicebased on your annual reported emissions level. If youneed assistance completing the report, contact the Officeof Compliance Assistance and Pollution Prevention(OCAPP) at (800) 329-7518 or visit www.epa.ohio.gov/dapc/nontvfee.aspx for more information on fees, helpfulresources and program background.

April 15 - Synthetic Minor Title V Fee Emission Report,Emissions Inventory and Emission Statement

April 15 is the deadline for submitting the annual FeeEmission Report (FER) and Emission Statement (ES) forall facilities having synthetic minor permits to avoid TitleV permitting requirements issued by Ohio EPA’s Divisionof Air Pollution Control (DAPC). This report coversemissions during the 2009 calendar year. Note that if youcompleted a Fee Emission Report last year, but did notfully develop your facility profile (i.e., a stack or fugitiverelease point (egress) for each emissions unit), you willneed to update the profile with egress information in orderto complete the Emissions Inventory report.

This report must be submitted electronically through OhioEPA’s eBusiness Center Air Services application. Formore information on completing the report, go towww.epa.ohio.gov, click on the Answer Place link inthe top banner, and enter 1640 as the Keyword to findinstructions on how to get started.

For more information on the synthetic minor fee program,visit www.epa.ohio.gov/dapc/synmin.aspx.

Six Receive Awardfor OutstandingAchievement inEnvironmentalStewardship

On Dec. 10, 2009, First LadyFrances Strickland and OhioEPA Director Chris Korleskipresented the Ohio Awards forOutstanding Achievement inEnvironmental Stewardship to six organizations.

The Ohio Awards honor Ohio companies and organiza-tions that are committed to environmental complianceand demonstrate outstanding achievements in reducingpollution. Those selected for this award demonstrate acommitment to environmental stewardship through:

a sound track record of environmental complianceand a commitment to go above and beyond regula-tions to improve environmental performance; a mature Environmental Management System (EMS)

and integration of the EMS into core businessfunctions; aggressive environmental performance goals; and a process for communicating with the local

community about program activities and progresstoward performance goals.

The awards program is open to any business, industry,trade association, professional organization or localgovernment of Ohio. Recipients were selected followingan evaluation of written nomination materials, compliancerecord review and a site visit by Ohio EPA.

2009 Award Recipients

Dull Homestead, Inc.,BrookvilleDull Homestead is anincorporated family farmoperation, with a large-scale swine and seed grainoperation on more than 2,800 acres. More than 1,100acres of the land owned by the company is under eitherconservation or agriculture easements. Dull Homesteaduses all of its swine manure from holding pits belowanimal buildings to fertilize cropland.

The farm raises much of its own corn to use for feeding,and supplements feed with dried distiller’s grain from anethanol plant nearby in Greenville. A corn dryer is fueledby out-of-date seed corn, saving about 50,000 gallons ofpropane per year. With careful management and reuse ofcorn cobs, corn shucks, dust left over from seed cornprocessing and undesirable dried corn, there is almost nowaste from the seed corn operation. Ohio EPA alsorecognizes the farm’s use of wind turbines and thedevelopment of a future energy center.

GM Powertrain Toledo PlantOperating since 1916, GMPowertrain has been in itscurrent location on AlexisRoad since 1956. Theplant has produced morethan 63 million transmis-sions for a variety ofvehicles. In 2008, GMToledo changed the plant’sproduct to a 6-speed rear

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wheel drive automatic transmission and is adding a 6-speed transmission for front wheel drive vehicles begin-ning in 2010. Operations have been simplified for machin-ing, assembly, wastewater pretreatment and powerhouseactivities.

The site has implemented a drive-to-zero program with along-term goal of no negative environmental impacts tothe community. The drive-to-zero program includes: zerolandfill, zero non-recycled waste, and zero air and wateremissions. Key components include a comprehensivewaste program, evaluating each waste beginning witheliminating or minimizing materials used and graduatingto reusing, recycling or the next most effective disposalmethod.

Using energy conservation methods, the company earnedthe maximum energy star rating for equipment shut-downs. A design for the environment program was used toevaluate transmission designs, components, chemicalmaterials, equipment and building designs to determinebest environmental practices. GM Toledo also createsnative plant habitats on-site including a bio-infiltrationswale and wildflower meadow which has been used bylocal students for field study.

Honda – Marysville, EastLiberty, Anna, andRussells PointHonda consists of facilitiesin Marysville, East Liberty,Anna and Russells Pointproduce Honda motorvehicles, engines and drivetrain components.

Honda has reduced waste sent for disposal in landfills by34 percent; reduced electricity use by 62.5 millionkilowatt hours or enough to supply more than 5,500typical households in one year; reduced natural gasusage by more than 417 million cubic feet in one year;and reduced ground water use by 43 million gallons peryear. By using two ponds covering seven acres to capturerain water, the company avoided using more than 95million gallons of ground water over two years.

At the company’s East Liberty facility, a spinning opera-tion was added to remove oil and solvents from usedrags. The rags are then remanufactured into auto parts.At the Anna Engine Plant, the company reused 7.7million pounds of sand castings in soil and mulch prod-ucts.

Huron Hospital, East ClevelandHuron Hospital is a 189-bed community-based teachinghospital. The hospital was built in 1931 on the formerestate of John D. Rockefeller and continues to providequality health care services to an underserved populationin Cleveland, Cleveland Heights and South Euclid.

Huron Hospital began asignificant waste reductioneffort in 2005. The organi-zation made asustainability pledge topromote a healthierfootprint in the communityby integrating sustainablepractices. The facility

reduced solid waste, regulated medical waste andhazardous waste and implemented policies to becomemercury-free. In addition, the hospital implemented waterand energy conservation measures and created ahealthier environment overall.

The hospital improved indoor air quality, reduced chemi-cals and added green processes. The facility achieved a30.4 percent solid waste recycling rate. In 2007, thehospital established a policy for the virtual elimination ofmercury was established that includes safe handling ofmercury, spill clean-up procedures, employee educationand training, and a mercury-free purchasing policy. Theprogram also includes fluorescent lamp recycling, abattery recycling program, and an inventory of all poten-tial areas with mercury.

Marathon PetroleumCompany, FindlayMarathon PetroleumCompany’s Findlay officecomplex is the company’scorporate headquarters,consisting of three multi-story office buildings, aservice building and a1,750 KW electricalcapacity utility building. The complex operates andhouses the Marathon Pipe Line operation center for about8,400 miles of petroleum pipeline.

Marathon began an extensive recycling program in 2005to divert large volumes of office waste from landfills. Thewaste reduction initiative expanded into a comprehensiverecycling program and energy and water reductioninitiative. In 2008, total material recycled was 317,685pounds, or 46 percent of the company’s total waste. Inaddition, the company added a chemical-free pre-pressoperation that eliminated 1,000 pounds of aluminumwaste, 1,200 pounds of silver and 758 chemicals peryear.

Masco Retail CabinetGroup, Middlefield andOrwellMasco Retail CabinetGroup has two manufac-turing facilities inMiddlefield and one inOrwell where it produces

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Office of Compliance Assistance and Pollution PreventionLaurie Stevenson, Chief

Dave Foulkes, Editor

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semi-custom cabinetry. At all process stages includingsourcing, manufacturing, finishing and shipping, thecompany focuses on reducing, reusing and recycling.Environmental impacts are reduced by carefully orderingmaterials and applying sophisticated technology to cutwood for the highest possible yield, reducing waste.

Cabinetry is made from environmentally preferred particleboard with a percentage of recycled material. Mascoreuses sawdust as fuel and recycles or reuses finishmaterials whenever possible. For delivery, the companyoptimizes loading and routes to reduce truck milesdriven, burning less fuel. Company practices includeconsidering environmental impacts for every new productdecision.

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