Love Canal Study and Habitability Statement: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation, and Tourism of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session, August 9, 1982 |
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Page 208 - Given the existance of certain climate and weather-related conditions and the gentle slopes of the three creekbeds, local and temporary reversals of water flow direction are known to occur in Cayuga, Bergholtz, and Black Creek".
Page 162 - EPA draft report, it could not comment on the significance of those deficiencies to the conclusions of the EPA report because such an evaluation would require knowledge of health effects and mechanisms of chemical migration and degradation in addition to knowledge of chemical analysis, in this case, NBS is knowledgeable of chemical analysis only.
Page 129 - II error) or, equivalently, as the probability of rejecting a null hypothesis when it is false and should be rejected.
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Page 5 - A review of all the monitoring data revealed that there was no compelling evidence that the environmental quality of the declaration area was significantly different from control sites or other areas throughout the United States for which monitoring data is available.