OFFICE OF SOLID WASTE
AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE

Verde Environmental, Inc.
7309 Schneider Street
Houston, Texas  77093

Thank you for providing the additional technical product data required by the revised National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP), 40 CFR Part 300, on the Bioremediation Agent "Micro-Blaze." Your data submission satisfies the requirements contained in Title 40 of the CFR section 300.915 of the NCP. "Micro-Blaze" will remain on the NCP Product Schedule under Bioremediation Agents and may be authorized for use by Federal On-Scene Coordinators in accordance with 40 CFR section 300.910. The technical data for this product will be kept on file by the Oil Program Center pursuant to 40 CFR section 300.920

Enclosed are some of the relevant provisions in the NCP on restrictions regarding the listing of your product. Please note, you are required to notify the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of any changes in composition, formulation, handling procedures, or application of your product. Based on this notice, EPA may require retesting of the product. Also, note that the listing of "Micro-Blaze" on the NCP Product Schedule does not constitute approval, certification, authorization, licensing or promotion of the product; nor does it imply compliance with any criteria or minimum standards for such agents. Failure to comply with these restrictions or the making of any improper reference to EPA in an attempt to demonstrate approval or acceptance of the product will constitute grounds for removal of the product from the schedule.

If you have questions, please contact Ms. Gail Thomas in the Oil Program Center at (703) 603-8736.

Note: As required by EPA  regulations:

Disclaimer: "Micro-Blaze Emergency Liquid Spill Control is on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's NCP Product Schedule as a bioremediation agent. This listing does not mean the EPA approves, recommends, licenses, certifies, or authorizes the use of Micro-Blaze Emergency Liquid Spill Control on an oil discharge. This listing means only that data have been submitted to EPA as required by subpart J of the National Contingency Plan § 300.915."

[Please Note: If you are using any EPA-NCP listed product, make sure the product is listed for the requirement you need.- Verde.]

DEFINITIONS FROM THE U.S. EPA

BIOREMEDIATION AGENT: Microbiological cultures, enzyme additives, or nutrient additives that are deliberately introduced into an oil discharge and that will significantly increase the rate of biodegradation to mitigate the effects of the discharge.

DISPERSANTS: Those chemical agents that emulsify, disperse, or solubilize oil into the water column or promote the surface spreading of oil slicks to facilitate dispersal of the oil into the water column.

MISCELLANEOUS OIL SPILL CONTROL AGENT: Any product, other than a dispersant, sinking agent, surface washing agent, surface collecting agent, bioremediation agent, burning agent, or sorbent that can be used to enhance oil spill clean-up, removal, treatment or mitigation.

SURFACE COLLECTING AGENTS: Those chemical agents that form a surface film to control the layer thickness of oil.

SURFACE WASHING AGENT: Any product that removes oil from solid surfaces, such as beaches and rocks through a detergency mechanism and does not involve dispersing or solubilizing the oil into the water columns.

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