Abstract
Thousands of small chemical companies that are unlikely to ever see an environmental inspector will be able to get a confidential virtual inspection via the Internet beginning in October. The assumption behind the program, funded by the Environmental Protection Agency, that there are a lot of manufacturers out there who want to do the right thing but have a hard time understanding even where to begin, says Scott Butner, a senior research scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, Wash. If you don't know if you are in compliance, the last thing you really want to do is ask a regulator to 'come take a look and tell me if I am.' So names of web site users will not be shared with regulators. PNNL is one of three contractors setting up the EPA program, called ChemAlliance. The others are the National Center for Clean Industrial Treatment Technologies, a nonprofit research organization ...
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