Download or read book Assessing Risks to Populations at Superfund and RCRA Sites written by Wayne R. Munns and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superfund written by Richard L. Hembra and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund Environmental evaluation manual written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superfund Risk Assessment in Soil Contamination Studies written by Keith B. Hoddinott and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1996 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dozen papers from a symposium in Phoenix, Arizona, January 1995 provide researchers and practitioners with the current modifications of the EPA's basic methodology for assessing the health risk of releasing chemicals into the environment. They cover determining background concentrations, collectin
Download or read book Superfund written by Peter F. Guerrero and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superfund written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ecological Risk Assessment for Contaminated Sites written by Glenn W. Suter II and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-04-21 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Canal. Exxon Valdez. Times Beach. Sacramento River Spill. Amoco Cadiz. Seveso. Every area of the world has been affected by improper waste disposal and chemical spills. Common hazardous waste sites include abandoned warehouses, manufacturing facilities, processing plants, and landfills. These sites poison the land and contaminate groundwater and drinking water. A sequel to the bestselling Ecological Risk Assessment, Ecological Risk Assessment for Contaminated Sites focuses on how to perform ecological risk assessments for Superfund sites and locations contaminated by improper disposal of wastes, or chemical spills. It integrates the authors' extensive experience in assessing ecological risks at U.S. government sites with techniques and examples from assessments performed by others. Conducting an ecological risk assessment on a contaminated site provides the information needed to make decisions concerning site remediation. The first rule of good risk assessment is "don't do anything stupid". With the practical preparation you get from Ecological Risk Assessment for Contaminated Sites you won't.
Download or read book Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund Environmental evaluation manual interim final written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superfund written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) risk assessment process for Superfund hazardous waste sites, focusing on: (1) whether these assessments adhere to EPA guidance or vary by region; and (2) how EPA monitors the quality and consistency of these risk assessments. GAO found that: (1) most of the 20 risk assessments reviewed generally adhered to EPA guidance, were prepared consistently among the 10 EPA regions, identified which contaminants were present, and used similar assumptions in measuring human exposure to hazardous contaminants; (2) some risk assessments were not completely accurate and did not follow EPA guidance for estimating contamination levels, adequately describe the assumptions' inherent weaknesses, or calculate the total risk of exposure; (3) EPA has used many different assumptions in estimating exposure, future site uses, residual contamination amounts, and the ways people absorb contaminants through their skin; (4) although EPA has conducted annual quality assurance reviews to monitor the quality and consistency of risk assessments, these reviews produce only summary descriptive information and do not analyze inconsistencies among risk assessments; (5) EPA could improve its risk assessments and better meet regional staff needs by analyzing assessment inconsistencies; and (6) identifying assessment inconsistencies would not require significant additional funding, since EPA already collects the necessary information in its annual reviews.
Download or read book Population Level Ecological Risk Assessment written by Lawrence W. Barnthouse and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-09-25 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most ecological risk assessments consider the risk to individual organisms or organism-level attributes. From a management perspective, however, risks to population-level attributes and processes are often more relevant. Despite many published calls for population risk assessment and the abundance of available scientific research and technical tool
Download or read book Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund pt A Human health evaluation manual written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superfund written by John A. Hird and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1994-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thorough, extensively documented, and well-written description of . . . the Superfund program and an astute appraisal of its many flaws . . . The book is a valuable contribution to the literature on Superfund policy and politics."--Policy Currents."Hir
Download or read book Hazardous Waste Sites written by John B. Stephenson (au) and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The EPA's Superfund & Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) programs were established to clean up hazardous waste sites. Because some sites cannot be cleaned up to allow unrestricted use, institutional controls -- legal or administrative restrictions on land or resource use to protect against exposure to the residual contamination -- are placed on them. This report reviews the extent to which: (1) institutional controls are used at Superfund & RCRA sites; & (2) EPA ensures that these controls are implemented, monitored, & enforced. Also reviews EPA's challenges in implementing control tracking systems. This report examined the use, implementation, monitoring, & enforcement of controls at a sample of 268 sites. Charts & tables.
Download or read book Risk Assessment and Remedial Technology Effectiveness at Superfund Sites written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the protection of public health is one of the primary goals of the Superfund program, the program's success in achieving risk reduction has been difficult to determine thus far. However, evidence to date suggests that risk reduction is not being effectively integrated into the remedial action decision process in spite of the change of program philosophy since the passage of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA) and the advances made in the field of risk assessment in recent years. Defining risk, using risk assessment as a priority-setting tool, and defining risk reduction within the confines of both the current state of technology and the resources available with which to address risk are essential components of the decision process. Although risk assessments are conducted at Superfund sites, risk assessment has not been used effectively as a priority-setting tool. Many decisions to remediate are made where no current exposure exists and potential risk is not well-defined. At the same time, the majority of remedial alternatives are selected without evidence of their effectiveness in meeting health-based cleanup goals, even at sites which pose a threat to human health. Recent analyses of the effectiveness of treatment remedies suggest that treating contaminated media to health-based cleanup goals is considerably more difficult than originally expected. Thus, Superfund policy-making should focus on determining when health-based cleanup goals are necessary and when attaining such standards is feasible. 12 refs., 1 fig., 1 tab.
Download or read book Risk assessment guidance for Superfund Environmental evaluation manual interim final written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
