Managing Industrial Solid Wastes from Manufacturing, Mining, Oil and Gas Production and Utility Coal CombustionDIANE Publishing, 1995 - 130 pages Examines wastes generated by industrial activities that play a dominant role in our national economy -- oil and gas production, mining and mineral processing, coal combustion, and manufacturing. Photos, tables and figures. |
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Page 5 - solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under section 1342 of Title 33, or source, special nuclear, or byproduct material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954,
Page 116 - Statement of James Hughes, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Land and Minerals Management, United States Department of the Interior, Before the Subcommittee on Mining and Natural Resources, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States House of Representatives, on Regulation of Non-Coal Mining Wastes,
Page 69 - Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Michigan Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Mexico New York North Dakota . . . Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania . . . South Dakota . . . Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Washington — West Virginia . . . Wyoming TOTAL
Page 5 - 1004(5)) 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 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, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed. The
Page 4 - 1004(27)) as: ... any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or
Page 5 - gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic
Page 109 - to a reasonable degree of certainty, that there will be no migration of hazardous constituents from the disposal unit... for as long as the wastes remain hazardous.'
Page 3 - Congress first established a Federal role in solid waste issues in the Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1965, as amended by the Resource Recovery Act of 1970.
Page 99 - SOURCE: US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Report to Congress: Solid Waste Disposal in the United States, vols. 1-2,