Document ID: EPA-HQ-OW-2003-0074-1228
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2004-08-17T04:00Z

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Need
to
return
call
by
/
at/
between
and
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Signature:
Project
No.:
0172.01.005.061
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Project
Name:
304(
m)
CFPR
Detailed
Study
TELEPHONE
CALL
RECORD
Outgoing
Call
Date:
05/
14/
04
Time:
11:
15
a.
m.

Company
Name:
Ondeo
Nalco
Garyville,
LA
985­
535­
2221
Contact
Name:
Meghan
Kandle
Phone
No.:
703­
633­
1684
Name:
Rodney
Bourgeois
Eastern
Research
Group,
Inc.

GENERAL
SUBJECT
:
TRI
2000
report
regarding
PACs
TOPICS
DISCUSSED
AND
ACTION
TAKEN
I
called
the
Ondeo
Nalco
facility
on
05/
04/
04,
05/
06/
04,
and
05/
14/
04
to
verify
reported
discharges
of
polycyclic
aromatic
compounds
to
PCS,
and
ask
why
PACs
are
not
also
reported
to
TRI.
The
receptionist
identified
Mr.
Donald
Duga
as
the
appropriate
contact
for
my
question
and
transferred
my
call
to
his
assistant.
Mr.
Duga
was
not
available
to
take
my
call
on
any
of
these
occasions,
so
I
left
a
message
with
his
assistant
explaining
that
I
was
calling
to
ask
a
question
about
the
TRI
report
for
2000.
My
message
from
5/
14/
04
was
transferred
to
Rodney
Bourgeois,
the
appropriate
TRI
technical
contact.

Mr.
Bourgeois
returned
my
call
at
11:
15
am
on
5/
14/
04.
I
asked
him
why
monitoring
data
for
benzo(
a)
pyrene,
benzo(
a)
anthracene,
benzo(
k)
fluoranthene,
and
fluoranthene
were
reported
to
PCS,
but
no
PACs
are
reported
to
TRI.
Mr.
Bourgeois
explained
that
Nalco
is
required
by
their
permit
to
conduct
an
annual
screening
of
their
wastewater
for
all
priority
pollutants.
When
pollutants
are
not
detected,
he
reports
them
at
½
the
detection
limit,
thus
overestimating
the
priority
pollutant
loads
reported
to
PCS.
The
PACs,
therefore,
are
not
reported
to
TRI
because
they
are
not
actually
present
in
the
wastewater.
Furthermore,
Mr.
Bourgeois
mentioned
that
he
rarely
detects
any
of
the
other
priority
pollutants
during
the
annual
screening.
Mr.
Bourgeois
offered
to
provide
ERG
with
monitoring
data
to
demonstrate
this.