Clean Drinking Water Act

There is probably little need for additional primary regulation in either Europe or the United States. However, it is likely that the existing legal instruments such as the Clean Drinking Water Act in the United States and the Water Framework... 

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)1-3 and the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA)1 2 4 protect the public from the risks created by past and recent chemical disposal practices. Cleanup of contaminated sites is needed in order to protect human and natural resources, as defined by the Clean Air Act,5 the Clean Water Act,6 the Safe Drinking Water Act,7 and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)89... 

Personnel. More than any other area, we are often asked "How many people has your corporation added due to TSCA " I don t know of anyone who has a concise answer to this question. Complicating the situation is the fact that the 1960 s and 1970 s saw a number of environmental and health laws go into effect the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Occupational Safety and Health Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Federal Water Pollution Control Act, TSCA, Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, to mention the major ones. This mixture of acts, with some similarities of purpose, developing within a time span of 10-15 years, has made a variety of similar demands. It is not easy at this point to attribute the addition of staff support personnel to an individual law such as TSCA. The same observation is applicable to all corporate resources which have felt the effects of TSCA however, in order to... 

Colin Houston Associates has recently reported(35) that "Such legislation as the Toxic Substances Control Act, the 1977 amendments to the Clean Water Act, and the Safe Drinking Water Act cloud the future of the more environmentally persistent surfactants containing cyclic rings in their structure, - - - - Depending on the EPA s implementation of its mandates, the industrial use of surfactants could be altered toward the linear surfactants synthesized from paraffins and alcohols". 

Water B. Safe Drinking Water Act C. Clean Water Act... 

An outline of the major environmental laws in the United States follows. These laws provide a framework for the basic standards used in the governance of environmental matters. The most important laws are the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA—now more often referred to as Superfund, a name derived from the passage of a later supplement to CERCLA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Clean Air Act (CAA), the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), and the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). A brief description of these acts follows ... 

The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) is designed to ensure that public water systems provide water meeting the minimum national standards for protection of public health. The act mandates establishment of uniform federal standards for drinking water quality, and sets up a system to regulate underground injection of wastes and other substances that could contaminate groundwater sources. (Surface water is protected under the Clean Water Act.)... 

The steady interest in the effects of the chemistry and physics of the carbon surface on pollutant removal from waters has been ignited by the U.S. Clean Water Act (enacted in 1972, amended as the Water Quality Act in 1987). The most recent interest stems from the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendment of 1996. Activated carbon adsorption has been cited by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (www.epa.gov) as one of the best available control technologies. Furthermore, the most recent efforts to understand the adsorption of the same pollutants by soils [7,8] can benefit from comparisons of similarities and differences with respect to the behavior of activated carbons. 

See also Clean Air Act (CAA), US Clean Water Act (CWA), US Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenti-cide Act, US Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, US Risk Assessment, Ecological Risk Assessment, Human Health Risk Characterization Risk Management Safe Drinking Water Act, US Toxic Substances Control Act, US. 

In accordance with the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), EPA has established a safe drinking water standard for mercury at 2 g/L (FSTRAC 1995). Under the Clean Water Act (CWA) EPA provides criterion concentrations for mercury as a priority toxic pollutant (EPA 1992). 

US water regulation is mainly based on three laws, respectively the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act. The Clean Water Act which is the most important (CWA, 2002) will be the... 

States, commercial laboratories, individual dischargers, or permittees in States that do not have the authority to administer Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act monitoring programs... 

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