Document ID: EPA-HQ-OW-2003-0074-0893
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2004-08-17T04:00Z

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Project
Name:
National
Strategy
TELEPHONE
CALL
RECORD
Incoming
Call
Date:
02/
03/
04
Time:
2:
00
Company
Name:
Stone
Container
Corp,
Florence,
SC
Contact
Name:
Bill
Heately,
Corporate
Environmental
Director
Phone
No.:
(
770)
621­
6732
Name:
Arash
Hooshangi
Eastern
Research
Group,
Inc.

GENERAL
SUBJECT
:
High
releases
of
PACs
from
Smurfit
facility
in
Florence
TOPICS
DISCUSSED
AND
ACTION
TAKEN
Mr.
Bill
Heately
called
me
on
Tuesday,
February
3,
2004
in
response
to
an
email
that
Betsy
Bicknell
sent
to
Curt
Barton.
Mr.
Heately,
Director
of
Environmental
Services
at
Smurfit­
Stone
Environmental
Affairs,
is
based
in
Tucker,
Georgia
where
the
corporate
environmental
headquarters
are
located.
He
can
be
reached
at
(
770)
621­
6732,
fax
(
770)
621­
6733
and
email:
bheately@
smurfit.
com
Mr.
Heately
requested
the
hardcopy
of
the
TRI
data
showing
their
discharged
pounds
of
PACs
and
grams
of
dioxin
for
2000
and
2001.
He
suspected
that
the
number
reported
in
2000
for
PACs
was
an
error.

Smurfit
reported
158
pounds
of
PACs
in
2000
and
8.1
pounds
in
2001.
He
explained
to
me
that
the
year
2000
was
the
first
year
that
the
Florence
facility
reported
PACs
discharges
and
their
personnel
were
not
trained
properly.
Therefore,
it
is
very
likely
that
the
reported
number
was
an
error.

I
asked
him
about
their
method
of
reporting
their
discharges
and
wether
they
measure
or
estimate
their
PACs
and
dioxin
discharges.
He
explained
that
they
use
an
estimate
from
National
Council
for
Air
and
Stream
Improvement
(
NCASI).
For
PACs
they
use
an
emission
factor
which
is
based
on
burning
of
No.
6
Oil,

because
PACs
come
from
oil.
For
dioxin,
they
use
an
emission
factor
based
on
combustion
of
wood.
He
further
explained
that
some
Smurfit
facilities
that
have
bleaching
operations
are
required
to
actually
measure
their
dioxin
releases
but
the
Florence
facility
is
not
a
bleaching
facility
and
so
they
only
estimate.
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Need
to
return
call
by
/
at/
between
and
.
Signature:
I
asked
him
whether
he
knew
what
PACs
the
Florence
facility
discharged.
He
explained
that
the
NCASI
document
is
referenced
to
EPA's
compilation
of
air
pollution
emission
facotors,
AP
42,
5th
Ed,
Vol
1
for
coal,
fuel,
gas
and
wood
combustion
and
a
list
of
individual
PACs
that
are
released
from
each
combustion
is
presented.
He
said
that
Benzo(
a)
pyrene
and
Benzo(
j,
k)
fluorene
are
the
highly
discharged
PACs.

Mr.
Heatley
told
me
that
he
will
be
heading
down
to
the
Florence
facility
within
the
next
two
weeks
and,
although
he
is
positive
that
a
reporting
error
occurred
in
2000,
he
will
investigate
the
matter
thoroughly
and
get
back
to
us
within
two
weeks.

Note:
Mr.
Heately
provided
revised
release
estimates
for
PACs
and
dioxin
and
dioxin­
like
compounds
(
DDLCs)

on
February
4,
2004.
(
Attached)