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,... National Initiatives in Green Technologies: Hearings Before the Subcommittee ... - Page 130by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Technology, Environment, and Aviation - 1994 - 343 pagesFull view - About this book
| Dade W. Moeller - 2005 - 632 pages
...defined what is classified as hazardous waste. This is any "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,... | |
| Dr. S. Amal Raj - 2005 - 156 pages
...waste as follows: The term ‘hazardous waste' means a solid waste or combination of solid wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may: (i) cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality, or an increase in serious, reversible,... | |
| James F. McKenzie, R. R. Pinger, Jerome Edward Kotecki - 2005 - 644 pages
...According to this act: the term "hazardous waste" 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,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources - 2005 - 580 pages
...degree. Hazardous waste is currently defined by statute as solid waste, or a 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... | |
| Tarek A. Kassim - 2005 - 268 pages
...hand, RCRA defines "hazardous waste" as a solid waste or combination of solid wastes [1, 18, 20, 22], 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 Chemical... | |
| Michael Taylor - 2006
...1976 (US) Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), "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,... | |
| A.M.O. Mohamed - 2006 - 636 pages
...(RCRA) of 1976. US Congress defined the term hazardous waste as: "a waste or combination of wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may cause, or significantly contribute to, and increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible... | |
| Frank M. Dunnivant, Elliot Anders - 2006 - 504 pages
...Energy Act of 1954. Hazardous waste, in turn, "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,... | |
| Leonora G. Mason - 2007 - 248 pages
...In the RCRA hazardous solid waste has been defined as a solid waste, or combination of solid wastes which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may i) cause, or significantly contribute to, an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible... | |
| Hugh B. Wellons - 2007 - 1016 pages
...constitutes "hazardous waste": "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,... | |
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