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Catching Our Breath. Next Steps forKeducing Urban O ne, U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, Washington, D.C., 1989, pp. 101—102. 

Waste Reduction The term has been used by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and INFORM to mean source reduction. On the other hand, many different groups have used the term to refer to waste minimization. Therefore, care must be employed in determining which of these different concepts is implied when the term "waste reduction" is encountered. 

Hazards Ahead Managing Cleanup Worker Health and Safety at the Nuclear Weapons Complex. U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment. Washington, DC U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993, pp. 3, 13. 

Office of Technology Assessment. Pharmaceutical R D costs, risks, and rewards, OTA-H-522 (February 1993). 

Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), Pesticide Residues in Food Technologies for Detection, US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Washington, DC (1988). 

Jellinek, S. D. Paper presented at Fuji Techno Systems Seminar on the Impact of Regulatory Requirements on Chemical Substances, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 30, 1980, cited in U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, "Assessment of Technologies for Determining Cancer Risks from the Environment " 1981, p. 148. 

In addition to statistics developed for USTs, in 1984 the EPA Office of Technology Assessment also reported that 16,000 spills occur annually during transport, while the DOT reported that of the 4112 accidents that occurred between 1968 and 1981, 1372 were associated with corrosion and 1101 with pipeline ruptures. Prior to the DOT regulating transport of liquids by pipeline in 1971,308 interstate pipeline accidents were documented resulting in a loss of about 245,000 barrels of liquid. Increasing DOT involvement may have been the reason for a decline in incidents to 275 in 1980, and 198 in 1981. 

OTA. 1990. Neurotoxicity Identifying and controlling poisons of the nervous system. Washington, DC Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress. OTA-BA-438. April 1990. 

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