Meeting Summary: Meeting with the Auto Alliance and Industry
Representatives

	December 17, 2007;  11:00 – 12 noon at EPA’s Office of Solid Waste

Representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of
Solid Waste (OSW) and the Office of General Counsel (OGC) met with
representatives of the motor vehicle manufacturing companies and the
Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (AAM) at their request.  The
meeting concerned the final rule for an amendment to Hazardous Waste
Code F019 and other related issues.  The list of meeting attendees is
shown below.  The industry representatives asked about the status of the
final rule.  EPA staff stated that the rule was on schedule and briefly
described the process for publishing the rule.  Industry representatives
also discussed a new conversion coating process that some automobile
manufacturers planned to adopt and how the F019 exemption might be
expanded in the future to include this new process.  Industry did not
provide any details of the process at the meeting, but indicated that
they planned to gather data from one facility currently using this
process.  EPA representatives stated that the Agency would consider
possible future action after sufficient data are provided.  

				Attendees

Name

Affiliation

James Michael

OSW/EPA

Betsy Devlin

OSW/.EPA

Robert Kayser

OSW/EPA

Greg Helms

OSW/EPA

John Michaud

OGC/EPA

Susan Conti

AAM

Mitch Bernstein

AAM

Lenora Strohm (by telephone)

General Motors

James Wallie (by telephone)

General Motors

Todd Williams (by telephone)

General Motors

Michael Curry (by telephone)

Daimler Chrysler





