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Article: Nitrate toxic release reporting.(EH&S CLINIC)
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- Products Finishing
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- May 1, 2008
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Q. In your September 2007 article, "Nitrite Violation," you mentioned the potential nitrate reporting for SARA 313 toxic release. This got me to think about our particular situation. I just joined my present employer late last year, and we have a captive plating and metal finishing operation.
Although my main responsibility is to manage these operations, I also have environmental responsibilities for the entire facility, since the vast majority of these involve the plating and metal finishing operations.
We use a significant amount of nitric acid, and I know nitric acid contains the nitrate ion. I checked past Form R reports, and we have been reporting ...