Table of Contents (TOC)

• Abstract
• Summary
• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Background
    • 1.1.1 Existing Reporting Requirements
    • 1.1.2 Development of Guidance Document for Reporting of Releases
  • 1.2 Sector Description
• 2. Monitoring/Direct Measurement of Releases
  • 2.1 Monitoring Air Releases
    • 2.1.1 Release Sources
    • 2.1.2 Recommendations for Air Sampling
    • 2.1.3 Continuous Emission Monitoring
    • 2.1.4 Ambient Air Quality Monitoring
  • 2.2 Monitoring Water Releases
    • 2.2.1 Release Sources
    • 2.2.2 Recommendations for Water Sampling
  • 2.3 Standard Reference Methods
    • 2.3.1 Air
    • 2.3.2 Water
• 3. Analytical Methods
  • 3.1 Parameters to be Analyzed
    • 3.1.1 Air
    • 3.1.2 Water
    • 3.1.3 Parameters Not Present
  • 3.2 Analytical Methods
  • 3.3 Laboratory Certification
  • 3.4 Detection Limit Issues
  • 3.5 Standard Reference Methods
    • 3.5.1 Air
    • 3.5.2 Water
• 4. Quality Assurance/Quality Control
  • 4.1 General
  • 4.2 Quality Control
  • 4.3 Reference Documents
• 5. Estimation of Releases
  • 5.1 Release Sources
  • 5.2 Emission Estimation
    • 5.2.1 Monitoring or Direct Measurement
      • 5.2.1.1 Example
    • 5.2.2 Mass Balance
      • 5.2.2.1 Example
    • 5.2.3 Emissions Factors
      • 5.2.3.1 Example
    • 5.2.4 Engineering Calculation
      • 5.2.4.1 Example
    • 5.2.5 Error Estimation
    • 5.2.6 Typical Process Flow Sheet and Release Estimation Techniques
• 6. Reporting
  • 6.1 Reporting Entity
  • 6.2 Data to be Reported
    • 6.2.1 General Information
    • 6.2.2 Release Data
      • 6.2.2.1 Reporting Units
      • 6.2.2.2 Example of Reporting Template
  • 6.3 Nomenclature
    • 6.3.1 Estimation Method
    • 6.3.2 Low-Level Releases
      • 6.3.2.1 Less Than Detection Limit
      • 6.3.2.2 Not Significant
• 7. Validation/Verification
  • 7.1 Third Party Verification
    • 7.1.1 Recommendations for Validation Verification
• Glossary of Terms and Acronyms
• References
• Bibliography
• Appendix A: Standardized Release Reporting Template
• Appendix B: Error Estimation
• Appendix C: US EPA AP-42 Emission Factors

List of Tables:

• Table S-1-1: Summary of Recommendations
• Table 5-1: Mass and Concentration of Sulphur in Each Stream - Mass Balance Example
• Table 5-2: Mass of Sulphur in Each Stream - Mass Balance Example
• Table 6-1: Example of Air Reporting Template

List of Figures

• Figure 1-1: Canadian Base Metals Smelting and Refining Sector
• Figure 5-1: Block Diagram for Mass Balance Example
• Figure 5-2: Typical Process Flow Sheet with Release Estimation Techniques

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