Environmental Protection Agency responsibilities

Environmental Protection Agency, Response of Surface Water Chemistry to the Clean Air Act Ammendments of 1990 (EPA 620/R-03/001, Jan. 2003, p. 18). http //www.epa.gov/ord/htm/CAAA-2002-report-2col-rev-4.pdf... 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Response to 2005 hurricanes, summary of testing at Superfund national priority list sites, , 2008. 

EPA. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. agency responsible for many methods of analysis used by mass spectrometrists)... 

Franklin Associates, Characterisation of Municipal Solid Waste in the United States 1992 Update., Report EPA/530-R-92-019 (PB 92-207-166), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of SoHd Waste and Emergency Response, Washington, D.C., 1992. 

The two main federal agencies involved in the protection of human health and the environment are the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). EPA s principal concern is the protection of the environment, in most cases, the area outside of an industrial faciUty. There are 10 regional offices that carry out the regulatory functions of the agency (Table 1). Primary laws covered by EPA are the Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and LiabiUty Act (CERCLA), Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), and Eederal Insecticide, Eungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). 

Fig. 10-5. Comparison of for 0.1 ppm NO2 and Rayleigh scattering by air. The photopic eye response represents the range of wavelengths over which the eye detects light. Source Husar, R., White, W. H., Paterson, D. E., and Trijonis, J., "Visibility Impairment in the Atmosphere," Draft report prepared for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under Contract No. 68022515, Task Order No. 28.

Regulation of aircraft engine emissions has been made a national responsibility by law in the United States. The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is responsible for establishing emission limits of aircraft engines, and the Secretary of Transportation is required to prescribe regulations to ensure compliance with these limits. 

Anonymous, How to Prevent Runaway Reactions, EPA 550-F99-004, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, August 1999. In addition to the accidents mentioned in the reference, a significant number occurred prior to the 1989 time frame. Serious incidents arc recorded as early as 1957. Accident recording before 1957 was incomplete. 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the federal agency responsible for regulating air quality. See also EPA Web site. 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Case Studies No. 1-23 Remedial Response at Hazardous Waste Sites, EPAy540/2/84-002b, March, 1984. 

If the water quality of a water body is potentially affected by a proposed action (e.g., construction of a wastewater treatment plant), a NPDES permit may be required. The Environmental Protection Agency is responsible for this program however, in most cases, has turned this responsibility over to the states as long as the individual state program is acceptable. 

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) [42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.], as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) [Pub. L. 99 99], requires that the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) develop jointly with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in order of priority, a list of hazardous substances most commonly found at facilities on the CERCLA National Priorities List (NPL) prepare toxicological profiles for each substance included on the priority list of hazardous substances and assure the initiation of a research program to fill identified data needs associated with the substances. 

From October 1982 to October 1983, the Emergency Planning and Response Branch of Region 7 of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and its contractors collected approximately 8,000 environmental samples for analysis of 2, 3, 7, 8-tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin... 

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