Wisconsin Legislature: NR 215.03(1)(g)

Chapter NR 215

LIST OF TOXIC, CONVENTIONAL, AND NONCONVENTIONAL POLLUTANTS

NR 215.01 Purpose and authority.

NR 215.02 Definitions.

NR 215.03 List of toxic pollutants.

NR 215.04 Provisions for revision of list.

NR 215.05 List of conventional pollutants.

NR 215.06 List of nonconventional pollutants.

Note: Corrections made under s. 13.93 (2m) (b) 1. and 7., Register, August, 1997, No. 500.

NR 215.01 Purpose and authority. Section 283.21, Stats., requires that the department promulgate a list of toxic pollutants. The discharge to surface or groundwaters of any pollutant included on this list is subject to the requirements of ss. 283.13 (2) (b) and (c) and 283.21 (1) (b) and (d), Stats. These sections require that by certain dates no discharge shall contain quantities of these pollutants greater than those which would remain after the discharge had received treatment by the best available technology economically achievable or greater than any lesser quantity necessary to provide an ample margin of safety.

History: Cr. Register, April, 1981, No. 304, eff. 5-1-81.

NR 215.02 Definitions. Terms used in this chapter are defined in s. NR 205.03. Abbreviations used in this chapter are defined in s. NR 205.04.

History: Cr. Register, April, 1981, No. 304, eff. 5-1-81.

NR 215.03 List of toxic pollutants. The following table contains a list of toxic pollutants categorized by chemical class, based upon analytical methodology:

(1) Volatile compounds.

(a) Acrolein

(b) Acrylonitrile

(d) Bromoform

(e) Carbon tetrachloride (tetrachloromethane)

(f) Chlorobenzene

(g) Chlorodibromomethane

(h) Chloroethane

(i) 2-Chloroethy vinyl ether (mixed)

(j) Chloroform (trichloromethane)

(k) Dichlorobromomethane

(L) 1,1-Dichloroethane

(m) 1,2-Dichloroethane

(n) 1,1-Dichloroethylene

(o) Trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene

(p) 1,2-Dichloropropane

(q) 1,3-Dichloropropylene (1,3-dichloropropene)

(r) Ethylbenzene

(s) Methyl bromide (bromomethane)

(t) Methyl chloride (chloromethane)

(u) Methylene chloride (dichloromethane)

(v) 1,1,2,2-Tetrachloroethane

(w) Tetrachloroethylene (perchloroethylene)

(x) Toluene

(y) 1,1,1-Trichloroethane

(z) 1,1,2-Trichloroethane

(za) Trichloroethylene

(zb) Vinyl chloride (chloroethylene)

(2) Acid extract compounds.

(a) Parachlorometa cresol

(b) 2-Chlorophenol

(d) 2,4-Dimethylphenol

(e) 4,6-Dinitro-o-cresol

(f) 2,4-Dinitrophenol

(g) 2-Nitrophenol

(h) 4-Nitrophenol

(i) Pentachlorophenol

(j) Phenol

(k) 2,4,6-Trichlorophenol

(3) Base/neutral compounds.

(a) Acenaphthene

(b) Acenaphthylene

(d) Benzidine

(e) Benzo(a)anthracene (1,2-benzanthracene)

(f) Benzo(a)pyrene (3,4-benzopyrene)

(g) 3,4-Benzofluoranthene (benzo(b)fluoranthene)

(h) Benzo(ghi)perylene (1,12-benzoperylene)

(i) Benzo(k)fluoranthene (11,12-benzofluoranthene)

(j) Bis (2-chlorethoxy) methane

(k) Bis (2-chloroethyl) ether

(L) Bis (2-chloroisopropyl) ether

(m) Bis (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate

(n) 4-Bromophenyl phenyl ether

(o) Butyl benzyl phthalate

(p) 2-Chloronapthalene

(q) 4-Chlorophenyl phenyl ether

(r) Chrysene

(s) Dibenzo(a,h)anthracene (1,2,5,6-dibenzanthracene)

(t) 1,2-Dichlorobenzene

(u) 1,3-Dichlorobenzene

(v) 1,4-Dichlorobenzene

(w) 3,3’-Dichlorobenzidine

(x) Diethyl phthalate

(y) Dimethyl phthalate