Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations for 2001: Environmental Protection AgencyU.S. Government Printing Office, 2000 |
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Page 365 - General notice of proposed rule making shall be published in the Federal Register, unless persons subject thereto are named and either personally served or otherwise have actual notice thereof in accordance with law.
Page 1163 - A few products are used in such a manner as to make them subject to both the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
Page 465 - EPA's purpose is to ensure that: • All Americans are protected from significant risks to human health and the environment where they live, learn, and work. • National efforts to reduce environmental risk are based on the best available scientific information. • Federal laws protecting human health and the environment are enforced fairly and effectively.
Page 152 - EPA plans to use the toxicity data to produce plain English chemical information profiles, Chemical Advisory notices, website enhancements, and other information tools as appropriate on individual chemicals of concern. EPA will work with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and other agencies to distribute this information to workers, consumers, parents, teachers, community leaders, public interest groups, companies, and others. EPA intends to...
Page 264 - The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to this Protocol shall, at its first session or as soon as practicable thereafter, decide upon modalities, rules and guidelines as to how, and which, additional...
Page 1080 - EPA laws such as the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) have the clear potential in certain circumstances to ban substances that are of particular danger.
Page 467 - Expansion of Americans' Right to Know About Their Environment: Easy access to a wealth of information about the state of their local environment will expand citizen involvement and give people tools to protect their families and their communities as they see fit. Increased information exchange between scientists, public health officials, businesses, citizens, and all levels of government will foster greater knowledge about the environment and what can be done to protect it.
Page 440 - The term does not include non-point source Silvicultural activities such as nursery operations, site preparation, reforestation and subsequent cultural treatment, thinning, prescribed burning, pest and fire control, harvesting operations, surface drainage, or road construction and maintenance from which there is natural runoff.
Page 467 - EPA will develop and apply the best available science for addressing current and future environmental hazards, as well as new approaches toward improving environmental protection.
Page 439 - Silvicultural point source" means any discernible, confined 'and discrete conveyance related to rock crushing, gravel washing, log sorting, or log storage facilities which are operated in connection with silvicultural activities and from which pollutants are discharged into waters of the United States.