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u *; .X The Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. 605 14th Street, N.W. 7th Floor Washington, D.C. 20005 (202) 628*0270 April 11, 1985 BORDEN CHEMICAL APR 1 6 1965 LEOMINSTER Dear Member: Per your request, attached please find the initial response to a survey sent to major chemical manufacturing companies in the U.S. from Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA). Waxman had sent this questionnaire out shortly after the Bhopal tragedy. During a hearing held March 27, 1985, on chemical emissions from plants, Waxman said that this study indicated routine release rates showing extremely high levels of "chemicals such as xylene, or carcinogens such as butadiene and acrylonitrile." From this survey, Waxman's staff has compiled a list of 204 chemicals that industry now determines to be hazardous but, of that 204, only five are currently regulated by EPA. The compilation of the 204 chemicals is also attached. Sincerely Attachments Margaret Rita Federal Research . a tc v Tt-I LJ j ? BOR 014788 interim summary of responses to the WAXMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY INQUIkY THE SOCIETY Of THE PUSTICS INDUSTRY, INC Ths. Inquiry On January 31, Chairman Henry A. Waxman wrote to tne chier executive officers ot 86 of America's largest chemical companies requesting information on tne amount ot poison gases ana ther hazardous compounds being leaked or released into tne air from tneir plants. No government agency has previously attempted to gather this information. In fact EPA was unable to provide the Subcommittee with an up-to-date list ot where tne chemical plants in tms country are located. The inquiry focused on IS suDstances considered "extremely hazardous" in Union Carbide's chemical evaluation system, and 27 suostances listed as suspected hazards by the EPA. (EPA has been unable to decide vnich substances are dangerous -- only five compounas are now regulated as "hazardous" under tne Clean Air Act). Additionally tne chemical industry was asked to indicat other chemicals which they believed to be hazardous. The ReSBflnfifi As of March 22 (last Friday) the Subcommittee had received responses from 6/ companies or about 80% of tnose contacted. Some responses were tnorough, including detailed health studies and monitoring data. (Examples include Pittsburgh Paint and Glass (PPG),and Occidental Petroleum). * Some failed to give tne requested information on what chemicals are leaking from their plants. (Monsanto and Union Oil are examples.) As of last Friday, 19 companies had not responded, including Stauffer Chemical, Sherman Williams, and Phillips Petroleum. what Helve Leainad Some 2u4 chemicals were identified by industry experts as proven hazards. Almost very chemical plant tnat provided information on its leak rat 8 is releasing significant lev Is of comp unds proven or suspected of being hazardous to th public h alth. BOR 014789 Many 01 tne routine release rates wnicn were reported were extremely high. For example, in Decatur, Alaoama, Amo^u has a chemical plant tnat each day dumps 5000 pounds of a suspected neurotoxin. Xylene, into tne air. Borg Warner has a plant in Paikersourg, West Virginia, that releases 86U0 pounds each day or proven carcinogens (acryonitrile and butadiene) into tne community's air. It should be emphasized tnat tne information on tnese leaks was provided by companies responsible enough to respond to tne Suocommittee inquiry. How much of wnich poisons are coming from - companies such as Stauffer Chemical, wnich did not respond to our information request, is not yet known by the Subcoinmitt e or the public. A brier summary of the responses, indicating which companies responded, is attached. BOR 014790 P CHEMICAL COMPANY RESPONSES TO CONGRESSMAN WAXMANS LETTER OF JANUARY 31, 1985 CQMEAKI - Air Products and Chemicals Allied Corporation AMAX Amerada Hess American Cvanamid American Roechst American Petrofina Amoco Chemicals Ashland Oil Atlantic Richfield BASF Wvandotte BF Goodrich Borden Chemical Bora-Warner Celanese Corporation Chevron Ciba Geiav Clark Chemical Corporation Coastal States Continental Chemical March 26, 1985 RESPQHBEB 2/20 3/14 3/5 2/27 2/25 3/22 3/5 3/5 3/21 3/22 2/25 3/21 2/21 2/22 3/1 INSUFFICIENT HQ BATA EMISSION cm 3/8 2/27 2/21 X X X BOR 014791 Crowlev Chemical Comoanv Crown Denka Diamond Shamrock Dow Chemical Du Pont Eastman Kodak Ethvl Corooration Exxon Farro Corporation First Chemical Corporation FMC Corporation GAF CorDoration General Electric Georoia-Pacific Goodvear H. Kohnstaram and Company Hanna Mining Hercules Hiah Point Chemical ICI Americas. Incorporated International Minerals & Chemicals Kalama Chemical Kerr-HcSee_________________________ RESPONDED 2/8 2/20 2/20 3/7 3/16 2/26 2/20 2/19 2/22 3/11 3/5 3/18 2/28 3/1 INSUFFICIENT NO DATA EMISSION DATA X 3/15 X 2/18 2/26 2/11 X XI 3/15 2/27 BOR 014792 Koppers Company-----------------------------LTV Steel MAK Chemical Corporation Merichem Company Mobav Chemical Corporation Mobil Oil Corporation Monsanto Neoera. Incorporated Northern Petrochemical Occidental Petroleum OH n Pennwalt Corporation Perstorp Phillips Plastics Enaineerina PPG Industries Procter and Gamble Publicker Industries Reichold Chemicals Reillv Tar and Chemical Rohm and Haas Shell Oil sherwin Williams Specialty Oraanics standard Chlorine -3RESPQHDED 3/7 2/21 3/25 3/6 3/21 2/21 2/20 2/19 2/20 2/28 3/5 2/20 2/19 3/7 INSUFFICIENT HQ DATA DHISSIQN DATA 2/26 3/12 X X X 2/25 2/15 2/25 X X X BOR 014793 Stauffer Steoan ComDanv Stimson Tenneco Texaco _ U.S. Steel Union Carbide Corporation Union Oil Union Pacific Uniroyal Upjohn Veliscol . Vulcan Chemicals W.R. Grace and Company Wright Chemical -4RESPONDED 2/26 2/19 2/9 3/22 2/27 2/21 3/8 2/22 3/5 INSUFFICIENT NO DATA EMISSION DATA X 3/4 2/19 3/1 3/7 X BOR 014794 UNREGULATED AIR TOXINS IDENTIFIED BY THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY The list which follows identifies substances leaked or vented int the air from chemicals plants and considered hazardous to humans by industry experts. It is a product of the January 31/ 1985 survey of the chemical industry by Congressman Henry Waxman (D. Ca.), Chairman o the House Health and Environment Subcommittee. Eighty-six of the nation's largest chemical companies were asked to submit information o the amount of poison gases and other hazardous compounds being leaked or vented into the air from their plants. Each company was asked to submit a list of air contaminants comin from their plants which they believe to be extremely hazardous. It wa requested that all substances be included which have health effects similar to those substances regarded as "extremely hazardous" under th chemical classification system used by Union Carbide Corporation. (Ar industry system was relied upon because EPA has never developed criteria for determining which chemicals are hazardous.) Under Union Carbide's system, extremely hazardous compounds include those which: 1.) Are known human carcinogens, or 2.) Result in Mutagenisis, teratogenisis, or fertility impairment, or 3.) Result in irreversible central nervous system disturbances, or 4.) Result in cumulating long term organ toxicity that is irreversible, or 5. ) Are predominantly fast acting and can produce major injury, or 6. ) Are covered by workplace standards (OSHA, UCC, or ACGI with permissable exposure limits of less than 5 parts per million or less than 0.1 milligrams grams per cubic meter a a time weighted average. The list which resulted includes 196 compounds not regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In the 15 years since the passage of the Clean Air Act, EPA has issued regulations for five hazardous air pollutants: benzene, vinyl chloride, asbestos, mercury, and beryllium. UNREGULATED AIR TOXINS acetaldehyde acrolein acrylonitrile allyl chloride aldicarb oxime aniline ammonia arsenic trioxide alkyl chlorosilane aryl chlorosilane acetyl chloride acetic anhydride allyl alcohol 2-acetylaminoflourene bor 014795 4-aminodiphenyl acrylamide allyl glycidyl ether N(2 amino)-3-aminopropyl-trimethozysila 2 benzyl chloride boron trifloucide bromine bime thy1formamide b nzyl chloroformate sec-butyl chloroformate 1.2- butylene oxide bromotriflouroethylene butyl -isocyanate benzidine b nzotrichloride cadmium carbon tetrachloride chlorobenzene chloroform chloroprene coke oven emissions chlorine chloromethyl ether chlorosulfonic acid crotonaldehyde chloracetyl chloride m-chloroaniline chloropropham carbon disulfide carbonyl flouride chrysene cupferron chloracetaldehyde 0-,M-,P-Cresol p-dichlorobenzene dimethyl nitrosamine dioxin disulfur dichloride diketene dimethyl sulfate diethylene triamine dimethyl amine diethylamine divinyl benzene dimethyl formamide dibutyl amine dicyclohexylmethane 4,4-diisocyanate diethylene glycol bis chloroformate diisopropylaraine 1.2- dibromo-3-chloropropane 3.3- dichlorobenzidine 4-dimethylamino azobenzene diazomethane dimethyl carbamyl chloride dinitrotoluene bor 014796 diglycidyl ether epichlorohydrin ethylene dichloride ethylene oxide ethylene diamine ethyl mercaptan ethylene dibromlde 2-ethyl hexyl acrylate ethyl acrylate B-ethoxy propionitrile ethyl chloroformate ethylhexyl chloroformate ethylhexyl percarbonate ethyl thio chloroformate ethyleneimine formaldehyde flourine fluosulfonic acid furfural glutaraldehyde glycerol polyglycidyl ether glycidol (epoxypropanol) hexachloro cyclopentadiene hydrogen flouride (anhydrous) hydroflouric acid (anhydrous) hydrogen peroxide hydrogen cyanide hydrazene hydrogen bromide hydrogen sulfide hexane hydrogen chloride hexafluoroacetone hexachlorobutadiene hexamethyl phosphor amide hexamethyl disilazane isobutylaldehyde isopropylamine isobutyl chloroformate isopropyl chloroformate isopropyl percarbonate maleic anhydride manganese methyl chloroform methylen chloride m thorny1 methorny1 oxime methyl isocyanate 3 014797 I 4 methylamine methyl Iodide methyl bromide methallyl chloride methylene diphenyl diisocyanate methyl chloroformate m thyl mercaptan methyl chloromethyl ether methyl auramine 4,4'-methylene bis (2-chloroaniline) methylene bis (N,N-diethyl) benzenamine m thyl hydrazine 4.4-methylene dianiline 4.4-methyl carbamate metronidazole nickel nitrobenzene nitrosomorpholine nitric acid nitro methane naphthylamine (alpha and beta) 4-nitrobiphenyl N-nitrosodimethylamine 2-nitropropane oleum perchloroethylene phenol phosgene polychlorobipbenyl propylene oxide phosphorous oxychloride phosphorous phosphorous trichloride propylene oxide propionaldehyde pyridine phosporous pentasulfide n-propyl chloroformate pentaflouropropionyl peroxide perflouroisobutylene z-phenol (4-dime thyl amino-3,5-xylenol) beta-propiolactone N-phenyl-beta-naphthylam ine phenyl glycidyl ether propane sultone propylene imine res rpine rh damine styrene t BOR 014798 5 sulfuryl flouride silicone tetrachloride sodium azide sulfur monochloride sulfuryl chloride sodium hydrasulfide sulfur triozide toluene -- trichloroethylene toluene diisocyanate titanium tetrachloride thionyl chloride 1.1.1-trichloroethane tollcne diamine tri-N-butyl amine triflouropropene sym-tetrachloroethane unsym-tetrachloroethane 1.1.2-trichloroethane trimethylphenyl methylcarbamate thiourea o-toluidine 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene uranium uranium hexaflouride vinylidine chloride vinyl bromide vanadium pentoxide vinyl cyclohexene dioxide xylene (o-,m,-p) BOR 014799