Regulations, Pollution Prevention Information, Tools and Resources - Federal Compliance Information

Offset Lithographic (Heatset, Non-Heatset, and Waterless) Technologies

Compliance Information

Code of Federal Regulations

State Regulations

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Air
• Understanding Air Pollution Permits (PNEAC Fact Sheet)
• What are VOCs and do Printing Related Materials Contain Them? (PNEAC Fact Sheet)

Land
• Waste Manifest Registry and Hazardous Waste Manifest Forms
• Basic RCRA Record Keeping Requirements for Printers
• Management of Solvents and Wipes in the Printing Industry (PNEAC Fact Sheet)
• Summary of EPA Regional Office and State Positions Concerning the Regulatory Status of Contaminated Shop Towels (PNEAC Fact Sheet)
• What is a Hazardous Waste? (PNEAC Fact Sheet)
• Universal Waste Rules and How They Affect a Printer (PNEAC Fact Sheet)

Toxic Release Inventory (TRI)
• Persistent Bioaccumulative and Toxic Chemicals: A Printers Roadmap (PNEAC Fact Sheet)

Water

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

Basic OSHA Recordkeeping & Training Requirements Affecting Printers (PNEAC Fact Sheet)

Department of Transportation (DOT)

Hazardous Material (Waste) Shipping
• U.S. DOT Registration Program and Printers (PNEAC Fact Sheet)

Hazardous Material (Waste) Storage
• U.S. DOT Site Security Plan and Training Requirements for Printers (PNEAC Fact Sheet)

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Propane Storage
Chemical Storage Reporting System

Training Tools and Resources

Air
• Alternative Control Techniques [ACT] Document: Offset Lithographic
• EPA's Design for the Environment (DfE) Program Assesses Litho Blanket Washes

Waste
• Waste Manifest Registry and Hazardous Waste Manifest Forms
• PNEAC Waste Manifest Training

Water

Multimedia and Other
• 1997 Videoconference: Green and Profitable Printing Lithographic Videoconference
• CD-ROM, Preventing Pollution: An Environmental Resource for Lithographic Printers
• MultimediaCompliance / Pollution Prevention Assessment Guidance for Lithographic Printing Facilities

Assistance Programs (State, Federal & Regional)

• See Contacts & Links

Articles and Other Reference (Pollution Prevention)

• Air Handling for Sheetfed Litho Performance, Safety
• Coatings for Litho Going Non-VOC
• Computer-to-Plate Transition
• Controlling Color on Press
• Controlling Vapors in a Litho Print Shop
• Digital Photography is Easily Affordable for Most Newspaper Work
• Doing More with Less
• Effects of Acetone on Lithographic Blankets
• Efficiencies in Two Sided Litho Presses
• EPA's Design for the Environment (DfE) Program Assesses Litho Blanket Washes
• Maintain Conductivity of Fountain Solution used in Offset Printing
• Newspaper Pressmen Clean Presses Faster with No Solvents and No Soap
• Paper and Other Web Coating Printing and Publishing Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACTs) May Apply to Litho Printing Operations
• Press Automation: Connecting the Pieces
• Proper Pressure Produces Pleasing Print
• Sheetfed Litho Press Technology Improvements Reduce Waste
• Substitution of Organic Solvent Cleaning Agents in the Lithographic Printing Industry
• Waterless Offset is Environmentally Responsible
• Waterless Lithography Especially Suited to Printing Environmental Report