Hurricane Katrina: assessing the present environmental status : hearing before the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, September 29, 2005, Volume 4 |
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Page 226 - Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, upon receipt ofevidence that the past or present handling, storage, treatment, transportation or disposal of any solid waste or hazardous waste may present an imminent and substantial endangerment to health or the environment...
Page 226 - The action which the Administrator may take may include (but shall not be limited to) (1) issuing such orders as may be necessary...
Page 107 - Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act...
Page 226 - ... against any person, including the United States and any other governmental instrumentality or agency, to the extent permitted by the eleventh amendment to the Constitution, and including any past or present generator, past or present transporter, or past or present owner or operator of a treatment, storage, or disposal facility, who has contributed or who is...
Page 226 - Administrator, upon receipt of information that a contaminant which is present in or is likely to enter a public water system or an underground source of drinking water may present an imminent and substantial endangerment to the health of persons...
Page 226 - President may also, after notice to the affected State, take other action under this section including, but not limited to, issuing such orders as may be necessary to protect public health and welfare and the environment.
Page 91 - Upon receipt of information that there is hazardous waste at any site which has presented an imminent and substantial endangerment to human health or the environment, the Administrator shall provide immediate notice to the appropriate local government agencies.
Page 117 - Spring of 1982 before the Subcommittee on Water Resources of the House Committee on Public Works and Transportation, the bill received no further attention during the remaining months of the 97th Congress.
Page 226 - Sec. 303. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Administrator, upon receipt of evidence that a pollution source or combination of sources (including moving sources) is presenting an imminent and substantial endangerment to the health of persons...