Objective regulations

Also important is the interplay between different sensors, controllers, automation equipment, and objects regulated by the control equipment. The requirements of pumps, fans, batteries, heat exchanger, valves, motors, etc. in standard sizes may greatly differ from the theoretical calculations. Because of this fact, the control equipment, in addition to satisfactory control, must be capable of correcting the differences between the calculated and delivered subproducts. 

Eleetrospinning provides an important step in producing basic construction elements for the scaffolds. It also provides the preferred way of achieving two specific objectives regulating the rate of biodegradation of the scaffolds and producing scaffolds... 

Objective regulations. Safety is achieved by stipulating the top-level objectives which a system needs to accomplish, whilst leading the methodology (i.e. system architecture and process) up to the applicant. These regulations are often based on past experience (i.e. lessons learned). It is a straightforward and familiar concept. 

Examples can be found in many military enviromnents, such as the Military Standards and Defence Standards (see Chapter 3). This approach has similar advantages to the objective regulations , and is furthermore favoured by many insurance providers. However, its key weaknesses are that ... 

In the early 1990s, the US military acquisition process was subject to more that 1,700 different prescriptive Military Standards/Specifications. In 1994 the (then) US Secretary of Defence, William J. Perry, issued a directive Instead of using Military Specification and Standards the policy was changed to procure against performance specification (or objective regulation, see Section 3.1 above) as the new norm (i.e. what the product is to do, not how it should be made). The idea was to cut costs, and increase innovation by the use of commercial equipment and standards. The use of Military Standards is authorised only as a last resort. 

While these different pohcies vaiy broadly in form, their objective is essentially the same to substitute flexible economic-incentive systems for the current rigid, technology-based regulations that specify exactly how companies must comply. These market mechanisms have made regiilating easier for EPA and less burdensome and costly for industiy. 

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 1976 RCRA is the primaiy statute governing the regulation of solid and hazardous waste. It completely replaced the Sohd Waste Disposal Act of 1965 and supplemented the Resource Recoveiy Act of 1970 RCRA itself was substantiaUy amended by the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 (HSWA). The principal objectives of RCRA as amended are to ... 

To achieve these objectives, RCRA authorized EPA to regulate the generation, treatment, storage, transportation, and dispos of hazardous wastes. The structure of the national hazardous waste regula-toiy program envisioned by Congress is laid out in Subtitle C of RCRA (Sections 3001 through 3019), vdiich authorized EPA to ... 

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