SIMPLE FACTS ABOUT THE 503 SLUDGE/BIOSOLIDS RULE

Decoding the 503 sludge rule terms of art,   Simple facts about the pollutants in sludge/biosolids

About Air Toxics - What are toxic air pollutants?

Airborne aerosols: pathogens, Toxins, chemicals and metals (pollutants) in SLUDGE/BIOSOLIDS

Biological Contaminants - Tuberculosis, measles, staphylococcus infections, Legionella and influenza
                                are known to be transmitted by air

CERCLA Priority List of Hazardous Substances
                  Comprehensive Environmental Response and Liability Act exempts commercial fertilizer
                  which do not have all the hazardous priority pollutants in it.

Coliform are deadly pathogens

Pollutants Eligible for a Removal Credit when land applied

SLUDGE/BIOSOLIDS AS A HAZARDOUS WASTE
"if Congress gives EPA regulatory authority over hazardous wastes? Will we have one policy for hazardous
wastes which go through municipal treatment plants and a different policy if it goes through and industrial
treatment plant? if so, we will end up in court looking like fools."
WILLIAM SANJOUR, CHIEF, HAZARDOUS
WASTE IMPLEMENTATION BRANCH (1978 -1979 sludge wars)

TESTING FOR DISEASE CAUSING ORGANISMS IN SLUDGE/BIOSOLIDS
           Common sense vs. EPA Science

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