On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:14:42 -0700, Califbill billnews wrote:

Friends of ours had last US rebar manufacturing plant. The slag has an
arsenic component. They paid huge fees to a Federally licensed dump
facility. Later, after their business had petty much been undercut by
China and they closed the facilities. (Huge shopping center now), the EPA
came after them to pay for cleanup at the EPA super fund site where the
slag had ended up. EPA ended up sucking eggs as the rebar company had
followed all the rules. EPA and government needs to also consider
financial cost as required. Black GM cars used to come from Mexico plant
as the Black paint could not be used in the US even with spray booths.

There was a problem with rebar herein the 80s. They were importing it
from Mexico and it was made from radioactive scrap.