D•BASF 

The Chemical Company 

NOV 0 8 2012 2012 OCT 31 Pt112: 42 

October 31,2012 

DOES NOT CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS INFORMATION 

OPPT Document Control Office (DCO) 

Attention: Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-OPPT-2006-0621 

1201 Constitution Avenue NW 

EPA East Building, Room 6428 

Washington, DC 20004 

RE: 2010115 PFOA Stewardship Program 

BASF Corporation's CY 2011 Progress Report 

Dear Sir/Madam: 

Enclosed is BASF Corporation's sanitized version of our 2010/2015 PFOA Product Stewardship 

progress report presenting CY 2011 data. 

Please call me at 734-324-6210 or send an email to patrick.meyer@basf.com with any questions. 

Very truly yours, 

Patrick C. Meyer, CIH 

Product Stewardship 

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Table of Contents 

Introduction 1 

Emission Summary 2-3 

Basic Nomenclature and Structure 

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[BALANCE OF REPORT IS REDACTED] 

2 
Reported Emissions and Product Content for 2011 Company Progress Reports 

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PFOAand 

Higher 

Homologues 

Precursors 

0 0 

0 0 

Note: No production of Telomer based products in the U.S. in 2011 

NA NA 

NA NA 

Table 2. Reported Emissions and Product Content of PFOA, Precursors, and Higher Homologues from Non-U.S. 

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Table 3. Reported Percent Reductions in Emissions and Product Content of PFOA, Precursors, and Higher Homologues 

from U.S. 0 erations (cumulative ercent reductions from baseline ear throu h end of2011) 

BASF 2011 

PFOA and 

Higher 

Homologues 

Precursors 

io/olteductions intotal 

fi q~~f&tity of ch~J!lfcal(s) •r~fea$ed from ba'seline year 

100 

100 

Note: No production of Telomer based products in the U.S. in 2011 

100 

100 

100 NA 

100 NA 
Precursors NA NA NA (54%)" 

a In 2011 the ratio of products changed such that those products containing lower concentrations of Precursors 

were produced at a proportionately lower rate. This caused the overall % of precursors in product content to 

actually increase, even though production of all products in total continued to decrease. 
Accomplishments Table: BASF- 2011 

Please enter a % number for each of the fields in the table below. 

When necessary, please combine PFOA, precursors, and higher homologues into one PFOA-equivalent 

number. 

In addition, please combine U.S. and non-U.S. reductions into a global reduction, if possible. 

Company Reductions 

Facilities Emissions Product Content 

U.S. 100% 100% 

Non-U.S. 68% 64 %a 

Global >68 %b > 64 o/ob 

a Product content is calculated based on the average concentration of all reported fluorochemistry 

substances. 

b Data on 2002 baseline values was reported as combined emissions and product content; The full 

baseline report is not available to BASF, therefore with only partial information it's not possible to 

calculate exact %s for the global values, but given 100% reduction in the U.S., values are higher than the 

Non-U.S. alone . 
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