Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Amendments of 1991: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Environmental Protection of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, on S. 976 ... June 5, 6, 18; July 24 and 25, 1991U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991 - 3 pages |
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... goals ; we recognize that . They are goals but , nonetheless , I think we ought to strive to achieve them . And the Federal Government has an impor- tant role to play in this because the Federal Government is a major purchaser of goods ...
... goals ; we recognize that . They are goals but , nonetheless , I think we ought to strive to achieve them . And the Federal Government has an impor- tant role to play in this because the Federal Government is a major purchaser of goods ...
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... goal for a national recycling effort . Our goal has been a 50 percent reduction to be achieved by waste reduc- tion as ... goals must , in fact , take into account - as Senator Durenberger referred to it - dif- ferent areas across the ...
... goal for a national recycling effort . Our goal has been a 50 percent reduction to be achieved by waste reduc- tion as ... goals must , in fact , take into account - as Senator Durenberger referred to it - dif- ferent areas across the ...
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... Goals not grounded in sound economics will ultimately inhibit not encourage recycling . And if there are to be Federal percentage goals , they should be for the sole purpose of providing critically necessary Federal activity in market ...
... Goals not grounded in sound economics will ultimately inhibit not encourage recycling . And if there are to be Federal percentage goals , they should be for the sole purpose of providing critically necessary Federal activity in market ...
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... goals . I believe aggressive goals are in the National interest . However , I think that a 50 per- cent goal for the Nation by 2000 cannot be achieved with the exist- ing bill . You need to have a stronger commitment to marketing You ...
... goals . I believe aggressive goals are in the National interest . However , I think that a 50 per- cent goal for the Nation by 2000 cannot be achieved with the exist- ing bill . You need to have a stronger commitment to marketing You ...
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... goals to reduce waste in the Nation . We applaud the concept of goals to increase recycling and to reduce waste . We would like to suggest that you include in the goals a measurement that would track the amount of reduction in waste ...
... goals to reduce waste in the Nation . We applaud the concept of goals to increase recycling and to reduce waste . We would like to suggest that you include in the goals a measurement that would track the amount of reduction in waste ...
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Page 359 - Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and West Virginia.
Page 715 - States have, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law, the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.
Page 83 - ... treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in...
Page 682 - Parties may enter into bilateral, multilateral or regional agreements or arrangements regarding transboundary movement of hazardous wastes or other wastes with Parties or non-Parties provided that such agreements or arrangements do not derogate from the environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes and other wastes as required by this Convention.
Page 83 - Solid waste" means 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 contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from community activities.
Page 720 - Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo...
Page 7 - need to produce goods" and the "need to protect the environment" by modifying the materials system so that all resources, including environmental, are paid for by users.
Page 612 - To report promptly to officials, employees, customers, and the public, information on chemical-related health or environmental hazards and to recommend protective measures.
Page 411 - All of those will be included in the record. (The statements referred to follow:) STATEMENT BY WILLIAM A.
Page 95 - Congress1 intent that protection of human health and the environment be subordinated to the continuation of used oil recycling activities. The Agency can and should prohibit or control used oil recycling practices that it determines will pose a potential hazard to human health and the environment even though such regulations would impede recycling. The intent of the provision is to make it clear that Congress ' paramount interest in regulating used oil is to assure protection of human health and...