Fiscal Year 1999 EPA R&D Budget Authorization: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, Volume 2, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998 |
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Page 1594 - Implementation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA ) and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) or "Superfund" at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Page 1864 - Reduces the amount of any hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant entering any waste stream or otherwise released into the environment (including fugitive emissions) prior to recycling, treatment, or disposal; and 2. Reduces the hazards to public health and the environment associated with the release of such substances, pollutants, or contaminants.
Page 1119 - Agency's peer and administrative review, and it has been approved for publication as an EPA document. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use.
Page 1133 - For the purposes of this subsection, the term "feasible" means feasible with the use of the best technology, treatment techniques and other means which the Administrator finds, after examination for efficacy under field conditions and not solely under laboratory conditions, are available (taking cost into consideration).
Page 1864 - States that pollution should be prevented or reduced at the source whenever feasible; pollution that cannot be prevented should be recycled in an environmentally safe manner...
Page 1372 - environmental endocrine disrupter* was broadly defined as 'an exogenous agent that interferes with the production, release, transport, metabolism, binding, action, or elimination of natural hormones in the body responsible for the maintenance of homeostasis and the regulation of developmental processes.
Page 1864 - source reduction" and other practices that reduce or eliminate the creation of pollutants through: • increased efficiency in the use of raw materials, energy, water, or other resources, or • protection of natural resources by conservation.
Page 2161 - Four federal agencies operate or fund such models: the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Page 1864 - source reduction" to mean any practice which. - reduces the amount of any hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant entering any waste stream or otherwise released into the environment (including fugitive emissions) prior to recycling. treatment or disposal, and - reduced the hazards to public health and the environment associated with the release of such substances, pollutants, or contaminants...
Page 1713 - Methods and technologies to detect hazardous substances in the environment and basic biological, chemical, and physical methods to reduce the amount and toxicity of hazardous substances.