Hazardous Waste Disposal: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979 - Factory and trade waste |
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action ARMAGOST Attorney AXELROD Browning-Ferris Industries Chairman chemical waste chlorinated city of Niagara cleanup Colorado Commissioner committee contamination Control correct cost County cyanide dated DAVIS Denver Department of Environmental Department of Health Dichlorobenzene dioxin disposal sites drums dump ECKHARDT Environmental Protection Agency exposure facilities Federal Government fund gamma going GORE ground water hazardous waste Health Department Hooker Chemical Hyde Park incineration indicated industry investigation Jersey landfill leachate LENT located Love Canal MAGUIRE material MATTHEWS mercury mg/Kg Mirex monitoring MOORMAN Niagara County Niagara Falls Niagara River nitrobenzene OLOTKA operation organic PAIGEN PAULSON phosphate plant pollution present problem question radiation radioactive radium radon RCRA record regulations remedial residue Resources responsibility result RINALDO samples sediment situation slag sludge soil solid waste Spill subcommittee substances testimony tests Thank tion toxic trichloroethylene Tyler County waste disposal WASTE TYPE WILKENFELD York
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Page 725 - Agency the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, hereinafter referred to as the "Administrator.
Page 243 - Sampling and Analysis Procedures for Screening of Industrial Effluents for Priority Pollutants," US Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory, Cincinnati, Ohio 45268, March 1977, Revised April 1977.
Page 778 - processing site" means— (A) any site, including the mill, containing residual radioactive materials at which all or substantially all of the uranium was produced for sale to any Federal agency prior to January 1, 1971 under a contract with any Federal agency, except in the case of a site at or near Slick Rock, Colorado, unless...
Page 204 - ... 1967. This is an average of $11.30 per irrigated acre for the land and water charges. The Bureau of Reclamation has received from the permittees over a 4-year leasing period, 1965 through 1968, the sum of $311,591.80 for lease rentals and water charges from the permittees. At this time I would like to enter into the record a schedule showing the Bureau's leasing experience on third division lands for the years 1965, 1966, 1967, and 1968. This schedule shows the number of units leased, number...
Page 982 - water in the state" means groundwater, percolating or otherwise, lakes, bays, ponds, impounding reservoirs, springs, rivers, streams, creeks, estuaries, marshes, inlets, canals, the Gulf of Mexico inside the territorial limits of the state, and all other bodies of surface water, natural or artificial, inland or coastal, fresh or salt, navigable or nonnavigable, and including the beds and banks of all watercourses and bodies of surface water, that are wholly or partially inside or bordering the state...
Page 191 - To provide technical and financial assistance for the development of management Oct. 21, 1976 plans and facilities for the recovery of energy and other resources from dis- [5. 2150] carded materials and for the safe disposal of discarded materials, and to regulate the management of hazardous waste.
Page 58 - I will present information that leads me to conclude that toxic chemicals are presently migrating through the soil along the paths of old streambeds that once crisscrossed the neighborhood. Families whose homes border these old streambeds show an increase in several health problems including miscarriages, birth defects, nervous breakdowns, asthma, and diseases of the urinary system.
Page 310 - ... research project, shall not subject any person, hospital, sanitarium, rest home, nursing home or other person or agency furnishing such information, to any action for damages or other relief.
Page 86 - Probably the most difficult obstacle to relieving the problems at Love Canal has been "being the first". Neither the State nor the Federal agencies who could help were responsible for the situation. And neither wanted to take financial responsibility for cleaning it up. Arguing between State and Federal authorities over who should pay for what expenses has continued since the first discovery of contamination. In fact, the remedial work for the middle section of the canal which was supposed to start...
Page 728 - ... reached that it shall not be filed. Copies of the reports required by this section shall be provided to the Agency if requested. 9. If the Attorney General fails to file a complaint within 120 days of the referral of a request for litigation and a litigation report by the Agency to the Attorney General, then the Administrator may request the Attorney General to file a complaint within 30 days. Failure of the Attorney General to thereafter file a complaint within the said 30 days may be considered...