Upcoming Events

This annual observance recognizes the contributions of public health and highlights the importance of improving the nation's health.

This month-long event highlights the dangers of trenches and excavations.

This annual observance focuses on keeping the public safe at work and at home.

This event focuses on forklift safety with an emphasis on operator training and safe work practices.

This event emphasizes safe work practices around jobsite trenches and excavations.

Each owner or operator of a facility, other than a commercial storer or a disposer of PCB waste, using or storing at any one time at least 45 kilograms (99.4 pounds) of PCBs contained in PCB Container(s), or one or more PCB Transformers, or 50 or more PCB Large High or Low Voltage Capacitors must develop and maintain at the facility, or a central facility provided they are maintained at that facility, all annual records and the written annual document log of the disposition of PCBs and PCB Items. The written annual document log must be prepared for each facility by July 1 covering the previous calendar year (January through December).

Each owner or operator of a facility (including high efficiency boiler operations) used for the commercial storage or disposal of PCBs and PCB Items must maintain annual records on the disposition of all PCBs and PCB items at the facility and prepare and maintain a written annual document log that includes the information required by 40 CFR 761.180(b)(2) for PCBs and PCB Items that were handled as PCB waste at the facility. The written annual document log must be prepared by July 1 for the previous calendar year (January through December).

EPA requires community water systems to deliver a Consumer Confidence Report, also known as an annual drinking water quality report, to their customers. These reports provide Americans information about their local drinking water quality.

"Each year, certain industrial facilities submit Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data to EPA. The data are due by July 1 and cover waste management activities that occurred during the previous calendar year. A facility is required to report if it meets chemical activity thresholds AND

• is either in a covered industry sector and exceeds the employee threshold, OR
• is specifically required to report based a determination by the Administrator under EPCRA 313(b)(2)."

This month-long observance focuses on conserving the nation's natural water sources.