Document ID: EPA-HQ-OW-2004-0032-0238
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2005-08-16T04:00Z

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TELEPHONE
CALL
RECORD
Outgoing
Call
Date:
6/
29/
05
Time:
12:
15
PM
EST
Company
Name:
Tesoro
Northwest
Co.
Anacortes,
WA
Contact
Name:
Rebecca
Spurling
Phone
No.:
(
360)
293­
1664
Name:
TJ
Finseth
Eastern
Research
Group
GENERAL
SUBJECT
:
Tesoro
Northwest
Dioxin
Discharges
in
TRI
2002.

TOPICS
DISCUSSED
AND
ACTION
TAKEN
On
Tuesday
May
31,
2005,
at
11:
30
AM
EST
I
called
Mr.
Tom
Hanich,
(
360)
293­
9126.
Mr.
Hanich's
voicemail
said
that
he
would
be
out
of
the
office
until
June
2,
2005.

On
Tuesday
May
31,
2005,
at
11:
45
AM
EST
I
left
a
message
for
Ms.
Rebecca
Spurling
asking
her
to
call
me.

On
Thursday
June
2,
2005,
at
12:
30
PM
EST
Ms.
Spurling
called
and
told
me
that
Tesoro
Northwest
collected
new
data
since
2000,
and
that
she
would
send
it
to
me.

On
Monday
June
6,
2005
at
4:
45
PM
EST
I
left
a
message
for
Ms.
Spurling
asking
if
she
had
found
the
information
yet.

On
Thursday
June
9,
2005
at
1:
45
PM
EST
Ms.
Spurling
called
to
tell
me
that
she
would
be
sending
me
the
information
either
that
day
or
the
next.

On
Monday
June
13,
2005
at
1:
00
PM
EST
Ms.
Spurling
called
to
tell
me
that
she
had
data
for
2001
but
not
from
2002.
She
said
that
the
data
for
2001
was
the
information
used
for
the
TRI
2002
reporting.
Ms.
Spurling
said
that
she
would
send
me
the
2001
data.

On
Monday
June
13,
2005
at
1:
15
PM
EST
Ms.
Spurling
faxed
me
the
2001
dioxin
data
collected
by
the
facility.
The
facility
collected
two
samples
during
2001,
March
and
October,
and
each
of
these
samples
was
analyzed
by
two
different
labs.
Therefore,
there
were
four
different
sets
of
data
provided
by
the
facility.
The
facility
also
had
four
different
sets
of
data
for
2000,
that
was
provided
during
the
2004
detailed
study.

On
Wednesday
June
29,
2005
at
12:
15
PM
EST
I
contacted
Ms.
Spurling
to
determine
how
the
dioxin
data
was
used
to
calculate
the
estimated
TRI
discharge.
Ms.
Spurling
told
me
that
for
any
congener
that
was
not
detected
by
any
of
the
sets
of
data
for
2000
and
2001,
the
non­
detects
were
treated
as
zero.
For
any
congener
that
was
detected
at
least
once
during
any
of
the
2000
and
2001
monitoring
data,
the
non­
detects
were
treated
as
½
the
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Need
to
return
call
by
/
at/
between
and
.
Signature:
detection
limit.
For
any
values
that
were
reported
as
present,
but
below
the
calibration
curve,
the
estimated
value
was
used.
Although
the
2000
and
2001
data
were
used
to
determine
how
to
treat
the
non­
detects,
only
the
2001
data
used
to
estimate
the
2002
discharges.

The
facility
calculated
its
reported
dioxin
mass
by
averaging
the
four
concentrations
for
the
2001
data
for
each
congener,
adding
the
average
concentrations
together,
and
multiplying
by
the
total
yearly
effluent
flow
rate.
Ms.
Spurling
told
me
that
the
total
effluent
flow
rate
for
2002
was
1,008,596,000
gallons/
yr.
Ms.
Spurling
also
told
me
that
the
dioxin
distribution
reported
for
the
TRI
2002
release
reflects
the
discharges
from
all
media,
not
just
wastewater.