Category
Institutional BMPs –
Governmental Practices
Potential Activities
Take-back programs to accept PCB-containing waste
Targeted street sweeping
Strategy
Voluntary
- Incentivized
Regulatory
Purchasing standards/product testing
1. Voluntary
2. Regulatory
Implement controls on building remodeling or
demolition
Review/revise laws regulating waste disposal
Survey of the state’s utilities and other owners of
electrical equipment to confirm the presence of PCBs in
transformers
Regulatory
Regulatory
?
Institutional BMPs Educational
Survey PCB-containing lamp ballasts in schools/public
buildings.
Education about legacy sources (caulks, ballasts) of PCBs,
and how to manage/replace them.
Stormwater Treatment
Education about ongoing sources of PCBs, and safer
alternatives
Controls at pipe entrance
Voluntary
regulatory
Regulatory
Controls in the pipe system
Regulatory – Storm
water permit
Controls at end-of-pipe
Regulatory – Storm
water permit
PCB minimization in influent
Regulatory – NPDES
permit program
Treatment processes
NPDES permit
program
Identification and elimination of storage or use of PCBs
Voluntary
Wastewater Treatment
Site Remediation
action
Work through City/County waste disposal
Require in MS4 or individual NPDES
permits.
1. SRRTTF - letters to municipalities –
requesting adoption of purchasing
restrictions
2. Require purchase restrictions in MS4
and individual NPDES permits.
Building city and county code amendments
Propose legislation
Letters to utilities requesting information
of PCBs in system, explore state regulatory
or statutory changes that require
disclosure
Request from SRTTF to School Districts to
create and report Inventory
Outreach and education – print educational
materials to construction trades, school
districts.
Outreach and education – tabling/ print
and TV media plan
Develop enhanced and mandatory LID
requirements for new develop and
reconstruction (Code changes) – SRRTTF
Review and recommendation
Permit review and
Review/recommendation to Ecology/EPA
for permit conditions from SRRTTF
Permit review and
Review/recommendation to Ecology/EPA
for permit conditions from SRRTTF
Permit review and
Review/recommendation to Ecology/EPA
for permit conditions from SRRTTF
Permit review and
Review/recommendation to Ecology/EPA
for permit conditions from SRRTTF
Develop Programs like Enviro Stars
Comments
Could be sub-divided into
separate categories of:

Control Actions

Regulations
Identifying older buildings that may contain PCBs
Voluntary
Letters to Local governments, School
Districts