Download or read book Hazardous Waste EPA Has Made Limited Progress in Determining the Wastes to be Regulated written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hazardous Waste written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) efforts to: (1) determine which wastes are hazardous; and (2) produce a biennial report on the types and amounts of hazardous wastes the United States generates, treats, stores, and disposes of nationwide. GAO found that: (1) EPA has met some of the deadlines Congress set for considering additional characteristics and reviewing specific wastes; (2) changing approaches or strategies have hampered EPA identification efforts; (3) since large numbers of hazardous wastes remain unidentified, EPA is considering refocusing its approach to develop characteristics through testing and refining the already-listed hazardous wastes; (4) EPA has made limited progress in completing five congressionally mandated studies of large-volume wastes; (5) although Congress required EPA to use more stringent criteria when reviewing petitions to delist wastes, EPA does not have the required information on state-authorized delistings; and (6) without proper controls, delisting can negate the efforts of the hazardous waste identification program by allowing facilities handling these wastes to escape regulation.
Download or read book Hazardous Waste written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hazardous Waste written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO discussed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) progress in implementing Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) provisions to determine whether EPA was: (1) identifying and regulating hazardous wastes; (2) ensuring RCRA facilities' compliance with regulatory controls; and (3) encouraging waste minimization. GAO found that: (1) EPA made limited progress in identifying and regulating hazardous wastes due to its changing approaches, inadequate resources, and absence of systematic implementation procedures; (2) Congress enacted prescriptive amendments to RCRA with numerous deadlines that imposed specific controls if EPA failed to meet them; (3) EPA completed action on less than half of the 76 specific deadlines Congress imposed, although it made some progress on the others; and (4) although EPA was developing a plan to specify waste identification tasks and identify needed resources, it had no timetable for completion or implementation. GAO also found that: (1) both private and government-owned facilities failed to comply with EPA regulations in the areas of groundwater monitoring, closure and post-closure, and financial assurance requirements; (2) although EPA developed a strategy requiring 90-percent compliance by 1989, it did not hold its regions or states accountable for meeting the goal; (3) although EPA was working to determine, by the end of 1990, the need for a mandatory waste minimization program, it had no set overall quantifiable goals for waste reduction due to its lack of data; and (4) EPA has been unable to develop comprehensive and reliable data to assess hazardous waste legislation, evaluate trends in regulatory compliance and waste minimization, and develop waste management priorities.
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Download or read book The Hazardous Waste Q A written by Travis P. Wagner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1992-11-11 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hazardous Waste Q & A An In-depth Guide to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and The Hazardous Materials Transportation Act Revised Edition Travis P. Wagner The "Answer Book" for all your compliance questions. How much of your company's waste is considered "hazardous" under current federal regulations? If the carrier you hire to remove waste is cited for a violation, can you also be held liable? Does your company's disposal program meet new EPA and DOT requirements? Now you can find the authoritative answers to these and hundreds of other critical waste management problems--in minutes--with the revised edition of this practical, quick-reference guide to RCRA and HMTA compliance. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act have spawned an enormous and complex body of regulations and requirements--among the most complicated laws in the land. Unfortunately, while ensuring compliance with these regulations is a top priority for both the EPA and DOT. helping businesses understand and comply with the regulations is not. Written by a former technical compliance specialist for EPA. The Hazardous Waste Q&A helps you make sure your waste management practices fully meet these tough regulations--and will help you reduce your liability, too. The Hazardous Waste Q&A simplifies hazardous waste management under RCRA and HMTA by presenting these highly technical and often difficult to interpret regulations in an easy-to-understand, easy-to-use question-and-answer format. This approach lets you go straight to the help you need without digging through pages and pages of dense, technical detail. You'll find EPA-approved procedures and solutions for virtually every practical aspect of hazardous waste management: * Identification and Classification Guidelines * Requirements for Medium-and Large-Quantity Generators * Transportation under RCRA and HMTA * Recycling, Storage, Treatment, and Disposal * Ground Water Monitoring * Closure and Post-Closure * Financial Requirements * Operating and Post-Closure Permits * Corrective Action * State Regulations and Enforcement Questions were developed from thousands of actual inquiries received at EPA and from the author's experience consulting on hazardous wastes for private industry. In preparing the answers and guidelines, Mr. Wagner went beyond the regulations themselves to gather additional facts and insights from source documents not readily available to the layman, including OSWER Directives, Regulatory Interpretation Letters, Program Implementation Guidance, EPA policy memos and guidance manuals, DOT guidance manuals, Federal Register preambles, and RCRA/Superfund Hotline Monthly Reports. Thus, users will find Q&A not just convenient but authoritative and in depth## For everyone concerned with hazardous## managers, health and safety managers, attor## Q&A is an unrivalled productivity resource. I## and classroom training that is required by law##
Download or read book Month in Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports Issued in written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resource Conservation and Recovery Act oversight written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Hazardous Wastes and Toxic Substances and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Protection written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Pollution to Prevention written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book GAO Documents written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of reports, decisions and opinions, testimonies and speeches.
Download or read book Environmental Protection Agency written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Status of Open Recommendations written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Identifying and Regulating Carcinogens written by Lewis Publishers and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent resource describes the various Federal agency programs, guidelines, laws, and requirements regarding potential exposure to carcinogens in the environment-ambient air, water, and soil-workplace environment-food and drugs and other consumer products. It covers 16 different programs, activities, and Federal agencies. The reader is provided insight into the background and rationale behind current Federal Policy and regulations relating to public health and potential carcinogenic hazards. Necessary differentiation among Hazard Identification, risk characterization, risk assessment, and risk management are clearly described. This guide should prove valuable to scientists, engineers, and managers-companies, governments, universities, and consultants.
Download or read book Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Reauthorization written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book EcoPopulism written by Andrew Szasz and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the popular politics of hazardous waste, Andrew Szasz finds an answer, a scenario for taking the most pressing environmental issues out of the academy and the boardroom and turning them into everyone's business. This work reconstructs the growth of a powerful movement around the question of toxic waste. Szasz follows the issue as it moves from the world of "official" policy-making, onto television and into popular consciousness, and then into neighbourhoods, spurring on the formation of thousands of local, community-based groups. He shows how, in less than a decade, a rich infrastructure of more permanent social organizations emerged from this movement, expanding its focus to include issues like municipal waste, military toxics, and pesticides. Szasz identifies the force that pushed environmental policy away from the traditional approach - pollution removal - toward the superior logic of pollution prevention. He discusses the conflicting official responses to the movement's evolution, revealing that, despite initial resistance, law-makers eventually sought to appease popular discontent by strengthening toxic waste laws. In its success, Szasz suggests, this movement may even prove to be the vehicle for reinvigorating progressive politics.
