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| At a professional conference
Internally within your company
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Oriented Strand Board (OSB)
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Hanceville OSB Facility Implemented their EMS in 1998, and has focused on continuous improvement since that time. A recent accomplishment at the site relates to significant waste reductions through improving materials handling practices and management related to the log yard. Hanceville OSB received internal recognition and the top award for Waste Reduction and Recycling in 2003 for a manufacturing facility at LP. The award was for for reduction in disposal to landfill - with an 80% reduction or a reduction of 2,558 tons in disposal to landfill. Part of this was due to Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO) related waste disposal, but even with those volumes removed, the reduction remained at 31%- well above the corporate-wide goal of 5% reduction . This accomplishment sets a high standard for our other operations and is a great contribution to LP's overall performance as part of the US EPA WasteWise program.
Additional information about LP's EMS and environmental program:
LP began developing its environmental management system (EMS) in 1994, beginning with the Policy on Protection of the Environment and a Corporate-wide Waste Reduction and Recycling Program. Over the course of two years, a cross functional team of environmental professionals developed the framework for LP’s EMS and implemented it at one of our Oriented Strand Board (OSB) facilities.
The first EMS implementation was completed in 1996 and was followed over the next few years by implementation in all facilities in the OSB product-line, engineered wood facilities, and engineered wood siding facilities. Most of these operations have had functioning EMS programs following a Plan-Do-Check-Act continuous improvement approach since the late 1990’s. Some of LP’s more recent acquisitions have successfully implemented programs in more recent years.
Implementation is generally a year long process that takes a cross functional team from the facility that identifies aspects and impacts, develops standard operating procedures, and implements checks and corrective actions to ensure continuous improvement.
As EMS matures it becomes integrated into the daily operation and planning for each of our facilities. EMS and the environmental component of management has also been integrated into corporate planning, capital projects and manager and employee performance reviews.
LP has participated in many voluntary programs at the local, state and federal level and has received recognition for our participation and performance in these programs. LP has participated in the EPA WasteWise program on a corporate-wide basis since 1994 and has received three recognitions form the program related to our performance as well as had our EMS and sustainable office interiors featured in program publications.
LP had produced several environmental reports over the years, the first in 1996. LP’s most recent Sustainability Report “Build With Us” was released in September 2005 and discusses many of the different initiatives and accomplishments around the company. This report can be viewed or downloaded at www.Lpcorp.com/sustainabilityreport.
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| NEPT Independent Assessment Protocol
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| March 05
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| Mark Strohbeck, Southern Region Environmental Project Manager
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| | Material Use |
| | Materials used |
| All measurements should represent the performance level for the indicator across the entire facility. For many indicators, however, you may choose to focus your commitment on a specific subset of the indicator, e.g. a specific material, a specific group of toxic air emissions, a particular waste component, a specific VOC, etc. | Specific |
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Reduce quantity of raw logs and wood required to make OSB |
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Saw Trim Recovery - Install equipment to process saw trim into material more suitable for introduction into the OSB core layer. This raw material recovery project includes a separator cyclone to classify the saw trim into both fuel and raw furnish (raw product). This project will allow Hanceville to produce the same quantity of OSB with less logs or more OSB with the same quantity of purchased logs. |
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| | Materials used |
| All measurements should represent the performance level for the indicator across the entire facility. For many indicators, however, you may choose to focus your commitment on a specific subset of the indicator, e.g. a specific material, a specific group of toxic air emissions, a particular waste component, a specific VOC, etc. |
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Paint used |
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Install a new robotic OSB painting system for the paint application of edge sealant to the panels. This robotic painting system will replace the current manual painting system. This will significantly reduce quantity of paint used for this operation.
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| | Total water used |
| All measurements should represent the performance level for the indicator across the entire facility. For many indicators, however, you may choose to focus your commitment on a specific subset of the indicator, e.g. a specific material, a specific group of toxic air emissions, a particular waste component, a specific VOC, etc. | All |
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Improvements to energy system will reduce fine particulate carryover, therefore less blow down and make-up water will need to be utilized in the WESP pollution control system. This energy system is the major utilizer of water in the facility. |
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| | Non-hazardous waste generation |
| All measurements should represent the performance level for the indicator across the entire facility. For many indicators, however, you may choose to focus your commitment on a specific subset of the indicator, e.g. a specific material, a specific group of toxic air emissions, a particular waste component, a specific VOC, etc. | Specific |
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Wet Electrostatic Precipitator (WESP) sludge. |
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Improved mill combustion methods will be utilized such that less WESP sludge is generated and therefore taken to the local landfill. This sludge will be reduced by 15% and will be quantified by direct measurement of WESP sludge loads to landfill. |
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Hanceville has received few communications with community concerns. Of course, when aspects and impacts are periodically renewed, these should take into account all stakeholders including the surrounding community. When communications with concerns from the community are received, they are addressed immediately by communicating directly with the source of the concern. If the issue is of a more serious environmental nature, the corporate SOP to address these issues is utilized as outlined below:
1. Issues are recorded and assigned a unique ID number which identifies the date, facility, and the issues involved.
2. The issue is discussed with the plant manager.
3. A Corporate Environmental Affairs Standard Operating Procedure #101 (CEA-101) forms are completed and signed by both the Environmental Manager and the Plant Manager. This briefly describes the issue, and gives corporate environmental affairs knowledge of the issue.
4. A phone call is made to the Business Team Environmental Manager informing him / her of the details of the issue and that a CEA-101 will be forthcoming within 24 hours.
5. A Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is developed to ensure that proper corrective action is developed.
6. If the issue cannot be resolved within 30 days, a Corrective Action Plan (CAP) is developed to resolve the issue.
7. The CAP and progress towards resolution is reviewed by corporate environmental affairs every 30 days until the issue is resolved.
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Any permit modifications are posted in the local newspaper for public comment. A public meeting is held if there are any questions or issues that arise. Additional external communication occurs through employee involvement in outside civic organizations, and corporate-wide communication initiatives led by the corporate affairs group. LP Maintains a public website fpr external communications. Facility performance and company performance is also communicated in the company’s sustainability report, and through involvement in voluntary initiatives such as EPA WasteWise, Climate Wise, OSHA VPP, EPA Performance Track, and Performance Track Participants association.
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| URL: http://www.lpcorp.com |
| Please Specify Other:
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| Representative of a Community/ Citizen Group |
|    | Cullman County People Against a Littered State (PALS) |
|    | Gaynor St. John |
|    | 256-734-3542 |
| State/tribal/local regulator |
|    | ADEM - Air Division |
|    | Jeff Strickland |
|    | 334-270-5668 |
| Other community/local reference (e.g., emergency management official or business associate) |
|    | Mayor - City of Hanceville, Alabama |
|    | Ms. Katie Whitley |
|    | 256-352-9830 |
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Facility Identification Information
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1. | (A RCRA number is used in the RCRA Info for Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) programs). |
| Yes |
| ALR000003954
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2. | (A TRI number is used in the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) for Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act). |
| Yes |
| 35077-LSNPC-902MA
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3. | (An AFS number is used in the AIRS Facility Subsystem of the Aerometric Information Retrieval System (AIRS) for Clean Air Act programs). |
| Yes |
| 0104300027
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4. | (A PCS/NPDES number is used in the Permit Compliance System (PCS) for Clean Water Act programs monitoring National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits). |
| Yes |
| ALG060125
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5. | (A FIFRA number is given to facilities regulated by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)). |
| No |
Air Characteristics
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| Subpart D(c)
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| Yes
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| Boiler MACT, PCWP MACT
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| CO, NOX, VOC and Particulates
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Water Characteristics
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| Yes
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Hazardous Waste Characteristics
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| No
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| Yes
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| No
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| No
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Environmental Clean-Up, Restoration, and Corrective Action Characteristics
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| No |
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| No |
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| No
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| No
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Other Environmental Characteristics
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| Yes
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| No
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| No
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| No
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| Yes
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| Yes
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