Cleaning Up Hazardous Wastes: An Overview of Superfund Reauthorization Issues : Report to the Congress |
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Page 62 - The identification, investigation, research and development, and cleanup of contamination from hazardous substances, pollutants, and contaminants. "(2) Correction of other environmental damage (such as detection and disposal of unexploded ordnance) which creates an imminent and substantial endangerment to the public health or welfare or to the environment.
Page 56 - release" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing into the environment...
Page 27 - remedy" or "remedial action" means those actions consistent with permanent remedy taken instead of or in addition to removal actions in the event of a release or threatened release of a hazardous substance into the environment, to prevent or minimize the release of hazardous substances so that they do not migrate to cause substantial danger to present or future public health or welfare or the environment.
Page 38 - An assessment of the extent to which the alternative is expected to effectively prevent, mitigate, or minimize threats to, and provide adequate protection of public health and welfare and the environment.
Page 53 - The Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, and the...
Page 67 - Status of Civilian Federal Agencies' Efforts to Address Hazardous Waste Problems on their Lands"?
Page 39 - NCP amendments which will require that: (1) Relevant quantitative health and environmental standards and criteria developed by EPA under other programs be used in determining the extent of remedy and (2) if such standards or criteria are substantially adjusted (eg , for risk level or exposure factors), then the lead agency must explain the basis for this adjustment.
Page 65 - EPA limits removal actions to preventing or mitigating immediate and significant risk to humans or the environment so that an inordinate share of the Superfund budget would not be used on less significant sites. This policy, however, inhibits EPA in the permanent, long-term cleanup of waste sites. It has resulted in the worst hazardous waste sites receiving only stopgap cleanups, leaving hazardous substances on the surface and requiring repeated stopgap actions at additional cost.
Page 14 - Under Superfund legislation the Department of Health and Human Services was required to undertake health studies, laboratory projects, and chemical testing to determine relationships between exposure to toxic substances and illness. Except for one health study at Love Canal begun before the Superfund Act was passed, no health studies or laboratory projects had been completed as of December 31, 1984. Eight health studies and six laboratory projects were underway, however, and 6 other health studies...
Page 66 - ... detailed Superfund enforcement information in individual files and has developed information systems for reporting various categories of Superfund enforcement data. However, according to EPA enforcement officials, if the number of Superfund enforcement cases continues to rise as projected, it will become increasingly beneficial for EPA program managers to maintain more comprehensive tracking information to help answer questions such as How long are different steps in the enforcement process taking...