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Column Name: TOTAL_OFF_SITE_RELEASE
Description: The total amount of the toxic chemical that is transferred from a facility site to another site and then released to the environment via water,land or underground injection wells during the reporting year (January 1 - December 31). Release amounts are reported in grams for Dioxin and Dioxin like compounds and in pounds for all other chemicals. Release amounts may be reported as specific numbers or as ranges (TRANSFER_RANGE_CODE). In the case of range codes, the mid-point of the range is used as the estimated release. The estimates of 5, 250 and 750 pounds are used to represent the ranges of 1 to 10 pounds, 11 to 499 pounds and 500 to 999 pounds respectively. Range codes cannot be used to represent persistent bioaccumulative toxics (PBTs) PBTs are chemicals that remain in the environment for long periods of time, are not readily destroyed, and build up or accumulate in body tissue.
Listed below are descriptions of the off-site transfer types that are added together to formulate the Total Off-site Release.
POTW Release
M10 - Storage Only
M41 - Solidification/Stabilization - Metals and Metal Category Compounds only
M62 - Wastewater Treatment (Excluding POTW) - Metals and Metal Category Compounds only
M40_Metal - Solidification/Stabilization - Metals and Metal Category Compounds only
M61_Metal - Wastewater Treatment (Excluding POTW) - Metals and Metal Category Compounds only
M63 - Surface Impoundment
M64 - Other Landfills
M65 - RCRA Subtitle C Landfills
M66 - Subtitle C Surface Impoundment
M67 - Other Surface Impoundments
M71 - Underground Injection
M72 - Landfill/Surface Impoundment
M73 - Land Treatment
M79 - Other Land Disposal
M81 - Underground Injection to Class I Wells
M82 - Underground Injection to Class II-V Wells
M90 - Other Off-Site Management
M94 - Transfer to Waste Broker - Disposal
m99 - unknown
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