Review of Hazardous Waste Cleanup and Disposal Efforts at Tinker Air Force Base: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, December 13, 1984 |
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Page 122 - DIVISION •, before the Subcommittee on Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources of the House Government Operations Committee...
Page 123 - ... (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 175 - I can assure you that there is no intent on the part of the Department of Defense or portion thereof to leave anybody out.
Page 59 - Senator, before I read a message from Governor Agnew and the prepared statement that I have, I would like to bring you up to date on some of the questions that you have asked, and that Mr. McKee has answered. Mr. McKee, like most of the administrators, has not yet had an opportunity to absorb everything our past legislature has done, and as a result of that, some of the answers he gave you are not up to date. Mr. McKee is correct when he...
Page 7 - TO THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY, AND NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SUBJECT: Hazardous Waste, Tinker AFB, Oklahoma STATEMENT OF: Mr.
Page 53 - Reconnaissance of the water resources of the Oklahoma City Quadrangle, central Oklahoma: Oklahoma Geological Survey Hydrologic Atlas 4, 4 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
Page 4 - ... the right program can prevent a great deal of venereal disease. It is a continuous thing. You can't give one lecture when one conies into the service and then forget it. It is a continuous program. I think it will have to be a continuous program regarding drugs. I would like to see such a program. As a member of the Armed Services Committee, I am very much interested in the services. I have tried to do all I could to promote the services and help them in every way I could.
Page 61 - Figure 4.7 shows a typical deep-well injection of liquid waste. Normally, such wells are designed to have pressure gages and monitoring wells to detect any leak or fracture problems with the injection. Injection wells are now regulated under the Underground Injection Control Program of the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the 1984 RCRA amendments prohibit the underground injection of certain hazardous wastes.
Page 208 - I want to thank both of you for appearing, and this hearing is adjourned. [Whereupon, at 2:50 pm, the subcommittee adjourned, to reconvene subject to the call of the Chair.] APPENDIX MATERIAL SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD TL PFTfRSON.
Page 46 - ... layers range in thickness from a few inches to as much as 20 feet and are most abundant in upper 200 feet of formation.