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actions activities Agency-wide Agency’s aquatic benthic bioaccumulation tests bioassays bioavailability biological CERCLA chemicals clean-up Contaminated Sediment Management contamination of sediments Coordination discharges dredged material management effects EMAP environment environmental EPA intends EPA program offices EPA Regional evaluate exposure facilities Harbor human health risks implementation industrial intends to develop Lakes levels National Sediment Quality natural attenuation nonpoint source pollution NPDES permits NSQS OECA ORD intends outreach PCBs permit limits pesticides point and nonpoint point source pollution prevention polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons pose potential protect sediment quality Quincy Bay RCRA reduce regulatory Report to Congress Risk Assessment Section sediment contamination sediment criteria Sediment Management Strategy sediment quality criteria Sediment Quality Survey sediment toxicity tests severity of sediment source control Source Inventory sources of sediment specific Superfund surface water Technology Tiered Testing Committee TMDLs TSCA U.S. EPA water quality water quality standards waterbodies watersheds
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Page 11 - Program Office shall carry out a five-year study and demonstration projects relating to the control and removal of toxic pollutants in the Great Lakes, with emphasis on the removal of toxic pollutants from bottom sediments.
Page 58 - Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate Requirements (ARARs); 3. Long-term Effectiveness and Permanence; 4. Reduction of Toxicity, Mobility, or Volume Through Treatment; 5.
Page 61 - Act, upon receipt of evidence 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 104 - Van Veld, PA, DJ Westbrook, BR Woodin, RC Hale, CL Smith, RJ Huggett, and JJ Stegeman. 1990. Induced cytochrome P-450 in intestine and liver of spot (Leiostomus xanthurus) from a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon contaminated environment. Aquatic Toxicology 17:119-132.
Page 45 - GUIDELINES.— (1) PUBLICATION.— Within 12 months after the date of the enactment of the Water Quality Act of 1987, and biennially thereafter, the Administrator shall publish in the Federal Register a plan which shall — (A) establish a schedule for the annual review and revision of promulgated effluent guidelines, in accordance with subsection (b) of this section; (B) identify categories of sources discharging toxic or nonconventional pollutants for which guidelines under subsection (b)(2) of...
Page iv - EPA regulates 2-acetylaminofluorene under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA).
Page 11 - ECWA requests that both the House Committee on Public Works and Transportation and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works...
Page 103 - Methods for measuring the toxicity and bioaccumulation of sediment-associated contaminants with freshwater invertebrates, 2nd ed.
Page 6 - ... clean up existing sediment contamination that adversely affects the Nation's waterbodies or their uses, or that causes other significant effects on human health or the environment; 3...
Page 63 - ... discharge occurs or which caused the discharge, pursuant to the regulations promulgated under this section, the President, if appropriate, shall remove or arrange for the removal thereof in accordance with such regulations. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to restrict the authority of the President to act to remove or arrange for the removal of such hazardous substance at any time. "(e...