The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing the addition of benzene and 2-ethoxyethanol to the list of solvents whose mixture with wastewaters are exempted from the definition of hazardous waste under the Resorce Conservation and Recovery Act. The scrubber waters derived-from the combustion of any of the exempted solvents also are included in the exemption. In addition the Agency is revising the rule by adding an option to allow generators to dirctly measure solvent chemical levels at the head works of the wastewater treatment system to determine whether the wastewater mixture is exempt from the definition of hazardous....
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