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Project
Name:
304m
Industry
Investigations:
Timber
Products
TELEPHONE
CALL
RECORD
Outgoing
Call
Date:
January
13,
2004
Time:
2
­
3
PM
Company
Name:
US
EPA,
Office
of
Env.
Information
OIAA,
TRI
Prorgram
Division
Contact
Name:
Velu
Senthil
Phone
No.:
(
202)
566­
0749
Name:
Betsy
Bicknell
&
Arash
Hooshangi
Eastern
Research
Group,
Inc.

GENERAL
SUBJECT
:
Wood
Treating
FacilitiesTRI
reporting
of
dioxins
and
PACS
TOPICS
DISCUSSED
AND
ACTION
TAKEN
Arash
and
I
called
Velu
Senthil,
TRI
Program
Division,
to
learn
more
about
the
TRI
Quality
Program
contacts
with
wood
treating
facilities.
Velu
had
previously
informed
us
that
the
TRI
program
had
contacted
the
following
wood
treating
facilities:

Koppers,
Montgomery,
AL,
for
dioxin
and
dioxin­
like
compounds;
Koppers,
IL,
for
dioxin
and
dioxin­
like
compounds;
Koppers,
PA,
for
dioxin
and
dioxin­
like
compounds;
Koppers,
VA,
for
mercury
compounds;
and
Taylor
Lumber,
OR
for
lead
compounds;
We
did
not
call
Koppers,
MS
for
dioxin
and
dioxin­
like
compounds;
and
Wheeler,
SD,
for
dioxin
and
dioxin­
like
compounds.

Velu
explained
that
either
he
or
a
regional
TRI
coordinator
will
call
the
5
to
10
facilities
that
have
the
highest
releases
of
each
chemical
in
an
SIC
code.
They
don't
focus
on
wastewater
releases,
but
look
at
the
total
releases.
Depending
on
the
experience
of
the
person
making
the
call,
they
don't
usually
ask
how
the
release
was
estimated,
but
just
give
the
reporter
a
chance
to
check
their
estimate
and
revise
it
if
necessary.
In
addition,
Velu
said
he
called
all
facilities
that
reported
releasing
more
than
100
lb/
yr
of
mercury
to
water.

In
our
category
review,
ERG
found
some
discrepancies
between
TRI
loads
in
OTIS
and
our
RSEIReleases2000
database.
Our
database
is
based
on
the
public
release
version
of
the
data.
Velu
said
that
the
public
release
version
is
"
frozen"
at
the
release
date.
It
is
that
version
to
which
TRI­
explorer
refers.
OTIS
looks
at
Envirofacts,
and
Envirofacts
will
be
updated
as
facilities
correct
their
reported
releases.
So
there
may
very
well
be
some
numbers
in
OTIS/
Envirofacts
that
don't
match
the
TRI­
Explorer/
public
release.
