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Quiz 2 Flashcards

1
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What are the main components of municipal solid wastes?

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1- paper and paper board 23%
2- food waste 21%
3- plastics 12%

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Define an active site

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Are actively being processed to non-haz

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Inactive sites

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Waste that was generated years ago and or illegally that have never been processed, pre-regulations

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4
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What acts deal with active sites?

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RCRA and HSWA

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Which acts deal with both inactive and active sites?

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SARA

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What is RCRA?

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Resources Conservation and Recovery Act

intent : to track Hazardous Wastes from the cradle to grave

Generation
Transport
Storage
Disposal

Provisions:
-Define haz waste
-Set tech standards and rules for issuing permits for treatment, storage and disposal
-Defined an LGQ(large quantity generator)

Defines Haz waste
Haz waste characteristics
Flammable lightable based on flash point

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What is a UST?

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Underground Storage Tank

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What is NPL?

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National Priorities List

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What is a PRP?

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Potential Responsible Parties

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What is HSWA?

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Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments

Intent:
Protects HHE in regards to contamination of ground water by disposal of active solid and haz waste

Regulated new classes of facilities

-underground storage tanks
-small business generators
-Standards to limit the concentration of specific pollutants before disposal; of wastes on land

Provisions:
-creation of Land disposal restriction program (LDR)
- establishing of permitting deadlines for haz waste facilities

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What is CERCLA?

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Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act

“Superfund cleanup”

Intent: Protect human health and the envt in regard to inactive haz waste

Provisions:

-Identification of sites
-Create and maintain the national priorities lists (NPL)
-EPA authority to identify PRPs and force to clean up

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What is SARA?

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Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act

( community right to know )

Intent:

Protect human health and the envt in regard to the community right to know their exposure to haz waste

Provisions:

-emiiters create a TRI and have it available to the public
-maintain and make available data about harmful chemicals used and stored and industrial sites
Report annual emissions of such chemicals- Toxic Release Inventory(TSI)

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What is FIFRA?

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Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act

Intent:
To federally give pesticide registration, distribution, sale, and use in the US

EPA assumed responsibility from USDA in 1970

Provisions:
-Requires registration of pesticides by Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP)
During registration; the agency is responsible
- Ensures pesticides don’t pose adverse effects

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What is TRI?

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Toxic Inventory release

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What is TSCA?

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Toxic Substances and Control Act

Intent:

Protect HHE in regard to toxic substances
characterize and understand the risks that a chemical poses before it is introduced into commercial use.

EPA must balance benefits against risks in regulatory decisions

Provision:
-gives EPA authority to collect data on chemical substances
-requieres industry to test chemicals for harmful effects- EPA assesses whether there is an “ unreasonable risk of injury to human”
(give PMN)
-EPA has the authority to regulate new chemicals (the manufacture, distribution, commerce, and disposal of chemical substances)
Catch-all act- also includes (Asbestos)

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What are some similarities of TSCA to FIFRA?

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Work directly with the EPA to evaluate chemicals before they enter commerce

Balance benefits against risks to the environment and human health in regulatory decisions

17
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What is a PMN?

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Pre- Manufacturing Notice

18
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What is the PPA?

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Pollution Prevention Act

Intent:
To protect human health and the environment from unnecessary pollution

to not create a pollutant in the first place then think of recycling or either of those, proper treatment and then proper disposal

source reduction
recycling
energy recovery
treatment
proper disposal

Top-Down- more preferable to least preferable

Provisions:

19
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An example of a solid waste?

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garbage
sludge from a wastewater treatment plant

20
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LQG

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Large quantity generator 1000 kg/ month rcra

21
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what are haz waste?

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flammable, corrosive reactive, toxic

22
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LDR

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Land disposal restrictions hswa

23
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Legal knowledge 1

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Increased reporting reqs
0 bc of envt acts increased reporting reqs for reg entities
benifits- more enforcement more data and helps you predict how much to pay in the future

cons- agencies don’t have resources to solve problems

24
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Adversarial Legalism

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most ent laws are “goal statues” - people deserve the right to clean air and water so they can sue the government for it to stay within EPA Regulations.

benifits- ppl of flint got money
-draws attention to envt misdeeds
-gives ent programs attention and resources needed

bad - envt groups threaten court battles
- dont know win case or not
- results can vary of court decisions, sometimes get reversed

25
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Type of waste addressed by RCRA

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Active waste

26
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WHat were the two new classes(types) of facilities that were covered by the HSWA?

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Underground storage tanks, small business generators

27
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SARA is known as the “community-right-to-know” Act, what is the name of the database that EPA maintains that identifies harmful chemicals at facility sites?

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Toxic Release Inventory(TRI)

28
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How does FIFRA relate to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act?

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They both set standards for pesticide residues on food.

29
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What is one advantage to the trend related to reporting requirements?

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More enforcement can be put on corporations reported for being out of compliance or committing environmental misdeeds.

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