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PLATING AND ANODIZING: NATIONAL POLLUTANT RELEASE INVENTORY

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www. ferred for recycling in a combined quantity and refining; aluminum production and pro-

cfcm.ca of greater than or equal to 50 kilograms. cessing; pulp and paper mills; bakeries;
The exception is for wood preservation painting operations; printers; waste treat-
facilities that use creosote; they have to ment; mines; pits and quarries; sawmills and
The CFCM Website report whether or not they reached the 50 kg wood products operations
Features: reporting threshold.
Examples of substances: phenanthrene, Part 5 - Speciated Volatile Organic
News, Back Issues, pyrene, chrysene, anthracene, quinoline Compounds (VOCs) - Additional
Buyers Guide, Examples of facility types: aluminum reporting requirements
production; steel manufacturers; pulp and You may need to report for Part 5 substances
Event Photos, paper mills; oil and gas extraction and refin- if they were released to the air in a quantity
People, ing; cement manufacturers; power stations; equal to or greater than 1 tonne and the 10
wood preservation tonne air release threshold for VOCs (under
New Products Part 4) was met.
Part 3 - Dioxins, Furans and
for Finishing
Hexachlorobenzene Conclusions
and Coatings You need to report for Part 3 substances if Canada is one of many countries with
any of the following activities took place at a PRTR. In Canada this is called the
Manufacturing. your facility: NPRI which is administered by Environ-
• incineration of hazardous or non- ment Canada.
Check it out Today hazardous waste, biomedical or The NPRI has been in existence for
hospital waste, or sewage sludge nearly 20 years and has expanded to include
and Every Day! • chlorinated solvent production additional substances in specific categories.
• metal smelting PRTR data from Environment Canada’s
• power generation using fossil fuels NPRI is used for many purposes, not only by
in a boiler unit the federal government but also by several
• iron and steel manufacturing other industrial sectors, other government
• pulp and paper manufacturing (federal, provincial and municipal) depart-
• titanium dioxide pigment ments, universities, and more, and is made
production available through the NPRI website.
• cement manufacturing For the chromium plating/anodizing
• magnesium production sector in Canada, reporting to the NPRI is
• wood preservation using now mandatory for all platers/anodizers
pentachlorophenol complying with the Environment Canada
“Chromium” regulations regardless of the
Part 4 - Criteria Air number of employees.
Contaminants (CACs) Companies are required to report their
All facilities must consider CACs released “release data” to NPRI for a given year by
from stationary combustion equipment re- June 1 of the following year. The reporting
gardless of the number of employees at the is done through the SWIM on the NPRI
facility. As well, facilities with equal to or website.
greater than 20,000 employee hours (in- For the 2019 NPRI reporting year, the
cluding contractors), or where an activity to reporting deadline was delayed to July 31,
Please send all your News, which the employee threshold does not 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This
New Products to Theresa Rogers apply took place, must consider all other was the first time a reporting date was
theresa.rogers@cfcm.ca
sources of CACs at the facility. You may need delayed. At the time of CFCM Magazine
For Advertising Please Contact to report for CACs if they were released to publication, NPRI had not announced
Gillian Thomas 1-416-277-1269 the air from your facility in quantities equal whether the 2021 reporting date would also
gillian.thomas@cfcm.ca to or greater than their release thresholds. be delayed due to the ongoing pandemic. n
Examples of substances: Nitrogen oxides,
particulate matter, sulphur dioxide, volatile Peter J. Paine is CEO/Owner of P. J. Paine &
organic compounds Associates. For more information on the
Examples of facility types: facilities with NPRI or for assistance completing your
boilers burning fuels or waste; electricity NPRI submission, he can be reached at
generating stations; oil and gas extraction pjpinc@rogers.com or (613) 884 – 9029.
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