New developments coordinated management of toxics between legislative mandates

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As with the CWA and the SDWA, the USEPA s decision to register a pesticide is based in part on a risk assessment, using the test results supplied by the manufacturer, of adverse effects on human health and the environment. Registration therefore attempts to ensure that pesticides will be labeled properly and, if used in accordance with specifications, will not cause unreasonable harm to the environment. 

Copeland, C. (2002) Clean Water Act A Summary of the Law, RL 30030. Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, Washington, DC. 

and Norbert-King, T.J. (1996) United States Environmental Protection Agency s water-quality based approach to toxics control. In Toxic Impacts of Wastes on the Aquatic Environment, Tapp, J.F., Hunt, S.M. and Wharfe, J.R. (eds), pp. 175-187. Royal Society of Chemistry, London. 

Reed-Judkins, D.K. and Davies, T.T. (1996) USEPA s whole effluent toxicity testing program a national regulatory perspective. Discussion-Initiation Paper 2.1. In Whole Effluent Toxicity Testing an Evaluation of Methods and Prediction of Receiving Environment Impacts, Grothe, D.R., Dickson, K.L. and Reed-Judkins, D.K. (eds), pp. 9-15. SETAC, Pensacola, FL. 

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