Current Environmental Issues Affecting the Readiness of the Department of Defense: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection and the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, April 21, 2004 |
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Page 36 - President determines that there may be an imminent and substantial endangerment to the public health or welfare or the environment because of an actual or threatened release of a hazardous substance from a facility...
Page 95 - disposal" means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste or hazardous waste into or on any land or water so that such solid waste or hazardous waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including ground waters.
Page 101 - release" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing into the environment...
Page 35 - Administrator, upon receipt of information that a contaminant which is present in or is likely to enter a public water system may present an imminent and substantial endangerment to the health of persons, and that appropriate State and local authorities have not acted to protect the health of such persons, may take such actions as he may deem necessary in order to protect the health of such persons.
Page 116 - THE STATE AND TERRITORIAL AIR POLLUTION PROGRAM ADMINISTRATORS AND THE ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL AIR POLLUTION CONTROL OFFICIALS Good morning, Mr.
Page 99 - release,' as used in the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (42 US C.
Page 34 - Recovery, collection, and onrange destruction of unexploded ordnance and munitions fragments during range clearance activities at active or inactive ranges. However, "use for intended purpose" does not include the on-range disposal or burial of unexploded ordnance and contaminants when the burial is not a result of product use. (2) An unused munition, or component thereof, is being repaired, reused, recycled, reclaimed, disassembled, reconfigured, or otherwise subjected to materials recovery activities,...
Page 95 - range' means a designated land or water area set aside, managed, and used to conduct research, development, testing, and evaluation of military munitions, other ordnance, or weapon systems, or to train military personnel in their use and handling. Ranges include firing lines and positions, maneuver areas, firing lanes, test pads, detonation pads, impact areas, electronic scoring sites, buffer zones with restricted access and exclusionary areas, and airspace areas designated for military use according...
Page 91 - solid waste," as used in the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended (42 USC 6901 et seq.), includes explosives, unexploded ordnance, munitions, munition fragments, or constituents thereof that (i) are or have been deposited, incident to their normal and expected use, on an operational range, and (I) are removed from the operational range for reclamation, treatment, disposal, treatment prior...
Page 130 - Act (SWDA). the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), and the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA).