Water Resources Research Activities of the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Ground Water Contamination Information Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Water Resources of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 791 ... July 8 and 23, 1987U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987 - 357 páginas |
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Página 137 - Act; the Safe Drinking Water Act; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; the Toxic Substances Control Act...
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Página 331 - Association is a non-profit trade association whose member companies represent more than 90 percent of the productive capacity for basic industrial chemicals in this country.
Página 34 - Vegas from January 1993 to March 1995. In that capacity, he served as Executive Director of Nevada Industry, Science Engineering & Technology, a public-private partnership which developed programs to enhance the scientific infrastructure of the state of Nevada. He was Assistant Administrator for Research and Development at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from March 1990 until January 1993.
Página 179 - Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, Toxic Substances Control Act, Atomic Energy Act, Coastal Zone Management Act, Federal Land Policy and Management Act, Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safely Act, Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act. Because of this...
Página 37 - It is not as easily accessible for monitoring as air and surface waters are. Taking a sample of ground water often involves drilling wells or using remote geophysical methods, and the information obtained may sometimes be meaningless a short distance away from the sampling point. Experts commonly disagree on the levels of contamination in ground water at many small sites.
Página 85 - ... any pollutant or contaminant which may present an imminent and substantial danger to the public health or welfare...
Página 79 - Act deficit reduction targets by decreasing many long-standing programs. The Department's position on this legislation is also based on the assessment that the past few years have already seen several major initiatives related to water resources enacted by the Congress. These initiatives include the Safe Drinking Water Act amendments of 1986 and the Superfund amendments and Reauthorizatlon Act of 1986.
Página 44 - EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) provides the operating programs with technical Information to support regulatory development (eg determining Best Available Technology) as well as tools for implementing the programs (eg models for predicting fate and transport of contaminants in the environment and monitoring methods for determining compliance).
Página 51 - Treatment Trains In most contaminated hydrogeologic systems, the remediation process may be so complex, in terms of contaminant behavior and site characteristics, that no single system or unit is capable of meeting all requirements. Consequently, several unit operations may be combined in series or in parallel to effectively restore groundwater quality to the required level. Barriers and hydrodynamic controls may serve as temporary plume control measures, however, hydrodynamic...