Note to File - November 22, 2004 Telephone Conversations with Dennis J.
Karl, Manager, Regulatory Policy, Environmental Quality Office, Ford
Motor Corporation and W. Charles Moeser, Senior Manager, DaimlerChrysler
Corporation

On November 22, 2004, I participated in two separate telephone
conversation with Dennis Karl, Ford Motor Corporation and Charles
Moeser, DaimlerChrysler Corporation.  These telephone calls were
initiated as a follow up to the November 9, 2004 meeting between the
Office of Solid Waste and the AutoAlliance.  The purpose of these calls
was to confirm the status of the respective company’s facilities with
respect to those using aluminum in the automobile assembly process and
the current status of delisting petitions.

Below is a summary of these calls:

Ford Motor Corporation: Mr Karl indicated to me that Dearborn Assembly,
Dearborn, MI recently change model production from Mustang’s to F-150
trucks.  This model change resulted in the use of aluminum in the
automobile assembly process and the facility now generates a F019
wastewater treatment sludge.  A petition was submitted to Region 5 to
delist the wastewater treatment sludges.      

     

DaimlerChrysler Corporation: Mr. Moeser indicated to me that there is no
change in the current status of DaimlerChrysler facilities in that there
are no new generators of F019 wastewater treatment sludges.  However, he
did indicate that two facilities Belvidere Assembly Plant, Belvidere, IL
and Toledo Assembly-Parkway, Toledo, OH may submit delisting petitions
in 2006 if they decide to add aluminum to the vehicles assembled at
these two plants. 

James Michael

Generator and Characteristics Branch

Hazardous Waste Identification Division (MC-5304W)

Office of Solid Waste, USEPA

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C.  20460

11/23/2004  

