"If the public becomes more aware of the environmental dangers of
lead wheel weights and is given alternative wheel balancing choices then
there will be a decrease in lead entering the environment." TEAM DEAD WEIGHT
On July 30, 2009 Jathan Kron of Science Research Team
"Dead Weight"
submitted the top of 93 lead wheel weight comments to the EPA concerning the
successfully granted request petition to ban the use of all lead wheel
balancing weights.
Please scroll down this page to read the award winning
comments to the EPA.
EPA
2009 Public Comments on TSCA Petition
Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
Section 21 Petition, Lead Wheel Weights,
The Ecology Center of Ann Arbor, MI,
Petitioner
July
15, 2009 - EPA has published a Federal Register Notice acknowledging receipt of our petition to ban lead wheel
weights and has opened a 15 day comments period. Comments are due by July 30,
2009. During this comment period anyone can submit comments in support of
the lead wheel weight ban. In addition, EPA has
requested additional information on several specific subjects(see below).
To
file electronic comments go to:
http://www.regulations.gov
Then enter EPA
Docket Number: EPA-HQ-OPPT-2009-0467 in the search box.
Follow directions for
submitting comments or documents into the official docket.
Comments
by mail:
Document
Control Office (7407M)
Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics
(OPPT)
Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Ave.,
NW.
Washington, DC 20460-0001
Download
complete Federal Register Notice
PUBLIC EPA
SUBMISSION As of: January 07, 2010
Tracking No. 809fe361
Comments Due:
July 30, 2009
Docket: EPA-HQ-OPPT-2009-0467
Toxic Substances Control
Act (TSCA) Section 21 Petition, Lead Wheel Weights,
The Ecology Center of
Ann Arbor, MI, Petitioner
Comment On: EPA-HQ-OPPT-2009-0467-0001
Lead
Wheel Balancing Weights; TSCA Section 21 Petition; Notice of Receipt and Request
for Comment
Document: EPA-HQ-OPPT-2009-0467-0052
Comment submitted by
Science Research Team Dead Weight
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Submitter
Information
Science Research Team "Dead Weight" General Comment to the
EPA concerning
Lead wheel balancing
weights.
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The
following lead wheel weight environmental research project won
the 2009
National Grand Prize
for sustainable environmental research sponsored by the
Siemens Foundation.
http://www.siemens-foundation.org/en/
http://siemens.discoveryeducation.com/
Recently,
the University of Iowa Hygienic Lab testing of lead wheel weights
has
produced credible, astonishing
and eye opening results concerning the major
hazards of lead wheel weights.
Our UIHL testing of lead wheel weights
used strict EPA laboratory guidelines
involving an EPA environmental testing
procedure sanctioned by the EPA and
described as TCLP (Toxic Characteristic
Leaching Protocol) because our
research team wanted to show the EPA lead
wheel weight test report results
that the EPA could not easily ignore or
discredit.
One test, in particular, involving the testing of a single one
ounce lead
wheel weight exposed to EPA mandated TCLP (Toxic Characteristic
Leaching
Protocol) landfill simulated conditions, resulted in credible
evidence of
significant potential lead wheel weight pollution. The sample
was exposed to
EPA landfill simulated conditions for 18 hours and produced an
astonishing
385,000 PPB toxic lead concentration per liter of solution.
Just as astonishing, our lead weight measurments showed that this amount of
pollution occurred from only three tenths of one gram of lead that dissolved
into solution during the 18 hour University of Iowa Hygienics Lab EPA TCLP test.
15 PPB lead concentration per liter of water is the widely accepted
EPA
"safe" limit for lead pollution of a water source.
After only 18 hours of
exposure to EPA landfill simulated conditions,
the amount of toxic lead
compounds produced could potentially contaminate
over 25,000 liters of
water.
http://www.smartenergy4kids.org/images/dilute.vinegar.leadww.1-10.html
The
UIHL report results and photos of the entire Lead Wheel Weight
research
project study involving lead wheel weights when exposed to roadway
(rain, salt, sand, etc.) and landfill simulated conditions all produced
University of Iowa Lab tested and verified toxic lead compounds and are
located
at
http://www.smartenergy4kids.org/images/uihl.lead.test.photos.09-0202.html
BREAKING NEWS REPORTED BY JEFF GEARHART AT THE ECOLOGY
CENTER AUGUST 26, 2009: Environmental Protection Agency Moves to Ban Sale of
Toxic Lead Tire Balancing Weights for Cars Washington, DC - In a decision issued
today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reversed its 2005 decision and
accepted a petition from a dozen environmental and public health organizations
to immediately begin rulemaking to ban lead wheel balancing weights and a Middle
School science research team from West Branch Iowa was given part of the
credit.
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