Seven Products Are Left on the Spill Schedule
A routine EPA paperwork renewal published Thursday counts the NCP Product Schedule as of September, three months newer than the last schedule EPA posted: seven products from seven manufacturers, against seventy-eight listings last December. Also on the file, Utah asks to become the eighth state that can issue its own carbon sequestration permit, AkzoNobel sells Southeast Asian decorative paints for $1.35 billion at 21 times EBITDA, Hexcel is hiring ahead of its own order book, and H.B. Fuller's $917 million bridge died without a draw.
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EPA renewed the paperwork behind Subpart J of the National Contingency Plan on Thursday, and buried in the abstract is a September tally of the oil spill product schedule, three months newer than the last schedule EPA posted.
Seven manufacturers. Seven products.
Four working days of filings produced no US chemical closure, no curtailment and no force majeure in writing. They produced a count.
"If the rule took the list from seventy-eight to five, who is left to call at three in the morning?"
Seven Products Are Left on the Spill Schedule
The notice is a three-year renewal of ICR 1664.15, published October 22 and open for comment until December 21.
Verbatim: "As of September 2026, the NCP Product Schedule included seven manufacturers and seven products (four dispersants and three surface washing agents). There are currently 12 sorbents listed on the Sorbent Product List."
Compare the schedule EPA published last December: 74 conditionally listed products, being 62 surface washing agents, 10 solidifiers and 2 surface collecting agents, plus 4 dispersants already through the new criteria (chart below).
78 listings on December 12. 5 on June 11. A 93.6 percent cut, executed by a date rather than by a decision.
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