The Comprehensive Oil Pollution Liability and Compensation Act, and the Hazardous Waste Containment Act: Hearing Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 85 and H.R. 7020 ... June 2, 1980U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - 276 pages |
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1979 Effective Date Administrator AL ULLMAN amendments appropriations assessed authority Bill Number HB Black Lung Chairman chemical industry Clean Water Act cleanup Committee companies CONABLE costs created damage DANNEMEYER Date of Enactment degree of hazard Department of Environmental Department of Health discharge disposal facility disposal of hazardous DOWNEY dumping Effective Date July emergency response Environmental Protection established fee system FLORIO FRENZEL hazardous materials hazardous substance spills hazardous waste disposal hazardous waste facilities hazardous waste management hazardous waste sites Hooker Chemical identified impose industry fees Jersey legislation liability LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Love Canal manifest system MICHIGAN million Natural Resources NORTH CAROLINA oil spills percent petrochemical feedstocks pollution problem proposed public health RCRA reclamation requirements revenue Scope of Law Solid Waste Management spill fund storage superfund TENNESSEE Title/Chapter Number Act Title/Chapter Number Chapter Title/Chapter Number Date toxic substances Trust Fund waste disposal sites York State Assembly
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Page 82 - The legislation defines hazardous waste "as a solid waste, or combination of solid wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics, may cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness...
Page 82 - 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, 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.
Page 99 - 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 74 - disposal' means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste or hazardous waste into or on any land or water so that such solid waste or hazardous waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including ground waters. "(4) The term 'Federal agency...
Page 158 - hazardous waste"31 means a solid waste, or combination of solid wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may: 1. Cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible illness; or 2. Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed.
Page 44 - ON BEHALF OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I am John F. Collins, Mayor of the city of Boston and past president of the National League of Cities (formerly the American Municipal Association).
Page 253 - STATEMENT OF HON. MATTHEW J. RINALDO, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY Mr. Chairman, I want to commend you for holding these hearings on HR 4089 and HR 3445.
Page 257 - Congress on methods, mechanisms, and procedures to create incentives to achieve a higher standard of care in all aspects of the management and movement of hazardous substances on the part of owners, operators, or persons in charge of onshore facilities, offshore facilities, or vessels. The Administrator shall include in such study (1) limits of liability, (2) liability for third party damages, (3) penalties and fees...
Page 192 - The provision is not only retroactive in that it resurrects for new burdens transactions long since past and closed ; but as to some of the railroad companies it constitutes a naked appropriation of private property upon the basis of transactions with which the owners of the property were never connected. Thus the Act denies due process of law by taking the property of one and bestowing it upon another.
Page 112 - Discharge: means any intentional or unintentional action or omission resulting in the releasing, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, or dumping of hazardous substance into the waters of the State, or onto lands from which it might flow or drain into said waters, or into waters outside the jurisdiction of the State when damage may result to the lands, waters or natural resources within the jurisdiction of the State.