Hazardous Waste Control and Enforcement Act of 1983: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation, and Tourism of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, March 22 and 24, 1983

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Page 271 - State agencies, the Administrator shall promulgate regulations establishing such performance standards, applicable to owners and operators of facilities for the treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste identified or listed under this subtitle, as may be necessary to protect human health and the environment.
Page 451 - RCRA for cases brought by EPA to enforce permits and regulations. The right also exists in enforcement cases under the Toxic Substances Control Act. the Clean Water Act. the Safe Drinking Water Act. the Clean Air Act. and probably many other laws in other fields which we did not attempt to locate. In fact, as a condition for a state to have an authorized RCRA program, either Intervention as a matter of right or assurances by the State it will not oppose applications for intervention is required by...
Page 522 - Ledennan, president of the League of Women Voters of the United States. I am pleased to be here today to express the League's deep concern about the campaign finance system.
Page 695 - The society is the major national trade association of the plastics industry, its membership being responsible for an estimated 85 to 90 percent of the total dollar volume of sales of plastics in this country.
Page 484 - ... unduly delay or prejudice the adjudication of the rights of the original parties.
Page 318 - If there is no further business to come before the committee, the committee stands adjourned. [Whereupon, at...
Page 655 - Involving the design, operation, and maintenance of solid waste disposal systems; "(3) prohibiting future open dumping on the land and requiring the conversion of existing open dumps to facilities which do not pose a danger to the environment or to health; "(4) regulating the treatment, storage, transportation, and disposal of hazardous wastes which have adverse effects on health and the environment...
Page 266 - Is a cyanide- or sulfide-bearing waste which, when exposed to pH conditions between 2 and 12.5, can generate toxic gases, vapors, or fumes in a quantity large enough to pose a threat to humans or the environment 6.
Page 12 - ... be unlimited. If the federal government posits that it is in the national interest to limit the liability of those who cause the spills, then the full risk should be shared on a national level, with insurance to cover the difference between what the oil company pays and what a state is forced to absorb.
Page 623 - ... however, that this Society can call the attention of the entire wood-using industry to this problem, and recommend that the Trade Associations of those industries particularly involved cooperate to a common end and under a coordinated plan in order to produce the requisite data. In such an activity, the National Association of Furniture Manufacturers and the Southern Furniture Manufacturers...

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