Amending and Extending the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund): Hearings Before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, April 11, 25; May 16, 23, 24; June 25; and July 31, 1984; June 4, 1984--Trenton, NJ. |
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Page 301 - of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action ■ore probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence. Exception 803(4) covers statements for purposes of medical diagnosis or treatment; (8) concerns public records and reports; (18) involves information published in reliable treatises, periodicals or pamphlets; and (24) involves other circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness.
Page 307 - Each department, agency, or instrumentality of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the Federal Government shall be subject to and comply with this Act in the same manner and to the same extent, both procedurally and substantively, as any nongovernmental entity, including liability under this section.
Page 347 - Fortuna. STATEMENT OF RICHARD C. FORTUNA, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT COUNCIL Mr. Fortuna. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My name is Richard Fortuna. I am executive director of the Hazardous Waste Treatment Council. The Treatment Council is a national association of firms with a common commitment to the primary
Page 576 - The Administrator shall promulgate and revise as may be appropriate, regulations designating as hazardous substances, in addition to those referred to in section 101(14) of this title, such elements, compounds, mixtures, solutions, and substances which, when released into the environment may present substantial danger to the public health or welfare or the environment, and shall promulgate regulations establishing that quantity of any hazardous
Page 1071 - agency, to the extent permitted by the eleventh amendment to the Constitution, and including any past or present generator, past or present transporter, or
Page 1071 - may, in an action brought in the appropriate United States District Court to enforce such order, be fined not more than $5,000 for each day in which such violation occurs or such failure to comply continues.".
Page 1033 - 11 permit issued to the treatment works under section 402 of 12 this Act by the Administrator or a State, shall be punished by 13 a fine of not less than $2,500 nor more than $25,000 per day
Page 470 - who otherwise knowingly fails or refuses to comply with any requirement in effect under this Section, shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine of not more than $50,000, or to
Page 281 - of any hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant "which may present an imminent and substantial danger to the public health or welfare.* The
Page 1073 - if the Administrator or a State has commenced and is diligently prosecuting a civil or criminal action in a court of the United States or a State to require compliance