A) cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness; or, B) pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated,... National Initiatives in Green Technologies: Hearings Before the Subcommittee ... - Page 130by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Technology, Environment, and Aviation - 1994 - 343 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States - 1989 - 1212 pages
...Printing Office. (5) The term "hazardous waste" means a solid waste, or combination of solid wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may — (A) cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible,... | |
| 1980 - 174 pages
...Conservation Act of 1976 (PI 94-580) defines hazardous waste as solid waste or a combination of solid wastes which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may cause or contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating... | |
| John J. McKetta Jr - 1983 - 486 pages
...millions of tons of hazardous wastes defined as: . . .a solid waste, or combination of solid wastes which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics maycause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible,... | |
| United States - 1977 - 968 pages
...Printing Office. "(5) The term 'hazardous waste' means a solid waste, or combination of solid wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may — "(A) cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversable,... | |
| United States - 1977 - 402 pages
...Printing Office. (5) The term "hazardous waste" means a solid waste, or combination of solid wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may — (A) cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible,... | |
| United States. Environmental Protection Agency - 1977 - 116 pages
...Waste, means any waste or combination of wastes of a solid, liquid, contained gaseous, or semisolid form which because of its .quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics, in the judgment of the Department may (1) cause, or significantly contribute to, an increase in mortality... | |
| United States. General Accounting Office - 1977 - 48 pages
...wastes under Federal-State regulatory control. A hazardous waste is defined in the act as any waste that "because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics" may seriously threaten public health or the environment. EPA is required to identify these wastes, set... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee - 1978 - 586 pages
...(68 Stat. 923)." Hazardous waste is defined as: "... a solid waste, or combination of solid wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical , or infectious characteristics may — "(A) cause, or significantly contribute to an Increase In mortality or an Increase 1n serious Irreversible,... | |
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