Purpose
Purpose

This ENVIRONMENTAL section updates NST Center users about regulatory surface coating and other shipyard-related environmental issues. The monthly commentary about VOC regulatory actions, as well as the trend analysis, keeps you abreast of changing environmental requirements.

This is a work product of the Environmental Section, Kelley Drye Collier Shannon on behalf of the National Surface Treatment Center. For further information, please contact: Environmental@NSTCenter.com

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EPA Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances

EPA Profile of Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Industry

EPA Rule and Implementation Information for Shipbuilding and Repair (Surface Coating)

EPA Small Business Assistance Program

EPA Technology Transfer Network

EPA Toxic Release Inventory

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Current Report

Surface Coating and Other Shipyard-Related Environmental Issues
- July 2010 -

Lead Paint Standards
EPA has reopened the comment period on a proposed rule to add requirements to ensure that lead-renovated areas are suitable for reoccupation, as well as an advance notice of proposed rulemaking covering requirements for renovations on exteriors of commercial and public buildings. On July 8 a coalition of home builder groups filed a petition for review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit challenging the July 2009 rule in which EPA removed a previously existing provision in the lead-based paint renovation rule that allowed contractors to opt-out of the rule in situations where no pregnant women or children under 6 years of age reside.

Southern California Solvent Regulation
On July 9, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) reinstated regulations governing paint thinners and solvents that a state court had rescinded in December because the agency had failed to adequately address fire hazards associated with acetone-based products. The SCAQMD subsequently commissioned an environmental assessment addressing the fire hazard issue. The rule sets a volatile organic compound (VOC) limit of 25 grams per liter effective January 1, 2011.

Lead Paint Litigation
Sherwin-Williams has appealed to the Mississippi Supreme Court a June 2009 jury award of $7 million for a child's brain damages blamed on ingested leaded paint chips.

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