Metropolitan Water District of Southern California Environmental Defense Fund SOURCE REDUCTION AND RECYCLING OF HALOGENATED SOLVENTS IN PAINT STRIPPING

Research Partnership (SRRP) over the past five years. The report as a whole, entitled Potential for Source Reduction and Recycling of Halogenated Solvents, covers a wide range of industries. The Summary Report of this project, which is available separately, gives an overview and the results of the research as a whole. This is one of ten Technical Support Documents covering each of ten solvent-using industries and operations (listed below). The full report also includes a separate Lifecycle Inventory and Tradeoff Analysis, covering issues that arise in the comparison of existing halogenated solvent uses with potential alternatives. The ten categories of solvent-using industries and operations are:. The Source Reduction Research Partnership was formed and jointly managed by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Metropolitan) and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Metropolitan is a public agency, obtaining and supplying water for some 15 million consumers in Southern California. EDF is a national, not-for-profit, public interest organization with more than 200,000 members nationwide. The research leading to this 12-volume report took place in two phases. The first phase consisted of multi-year field research, primarily in the Southern California area, involving on-site visits, site-specific data gathering, and research into individual processes for all of the affected industries, using a full-time staff employed directly by SRRP. Dr. Kathleen Wolf served as Project Manager during this phase, and staff included The second phase involved development of a methodology to quantify potential reductions, additional research and data assessment, analysis of lifecycle and tradeoff issues, derivation of results, and preparation of all report documents. Jacobs Engineering Group performed the work of this phase as consultants under contract. Michael Callahan served as Principal Investigator and Hector Ortiz served as Project Manager for Jacobs during this phase, assisted of Metropolitan and David Roe of EDF served as co-administrators of the project throughout. A formal advisory committee, including over 40 representatives of solvent-using industries, industry associations, government agencies, and environmental groups, oversaw the design and development of the project. ii Acknowledgments Major funding for this project came from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the Switzer Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, CAL/EPA (formerly the California Department of Health Services), and the City of Los Angeles through its Department of Water and Power. Both Metropolitan and EDF also contributed in-kind professional services, and EDF provided administrative and financial services for the project. Additional funding to help set up the …