EHS COMMITTEE CHANGES FREE FORUM F-05 TO PROPOSED EPA MP&M Regulations Will Close PWB Facilities! The IPC Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Committee announces that it will sponsor a free forum focusing on EPA's proposed Metal Products and Machinery Effluent Guidelines on Tuesday, April 3 from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. This forum will be held instead of the previously announced session F-05 "Lead Free: Avoiding Unanticipated Environmental Compliance Consequences." In making this change, the committee hopes to present information to the membership on what it believes to be the most pressing environmental regulation currently effecting the industry. EPA has estimated that 7 PWB Facilities will be forced to close under proposed EPA Effluent Guidelines for Metal Products and Machinery (MP&M). An additional 301 facilities are expected to have difficulty financing compliance investments or on-going business investments as a result of the rule. EPA has estimated the total annualized cost (in 1996 dollars) of the recently proposed effluent guidelines for PWB facilities to be $147.1 million for the PWB industry or slightly over a quarter million per-facility. Come hear our expert panel talk about flaws in the proposed rule, how it could affect your facility, and what you can do to stop the rule. For further inforation, contact: Fern Abrams Director of Environmental Policy IPC - The Association Connecting Electronic Industries 1400 Eye Street NW, Suite 54 Washington, DC 20005 202-638-6219 fax 202-638-0145 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send the following message: SET Technet NOMAIL Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------