Shipment of waste

Although the general composition of each shipment of wastes to an injection well may be known, a number of factors makes it difficult to characterize fully the overall composition of industrial wastewaters at any one well. These factors include the following15 ... 

Obtain a manifest for a shipment of waste destined for disposal in a State (note this specific State s manifest form with a preprinted State document number is required) and Ship the plant s waste in accordance with federal transportation regulations (CFR Title 49, Part 100-177). 

Waste Generation Shipments of waste must be accompanied by a manifest. DHS... 

Regulations Administer scheme for transfrontier shipments of wastes... 

Council Regulation (EEC) No. 259/93 on the supervision and control of shipments of waste within, into and out of the European Community [11]... 

Some Federal/Stale issues (eg, shipment of waste) Maastricht — subsidiarity ... 

Waste importers and exporters must follow the system of control set out in the Transfrontier Shipment of Waste Regulations 1994 which directly implemented the EC Waste Shipment Regulation 259/93/EEC . It establishes a complex system of control on waste shipments, with detailed provisions varying according to the country of destination and means of transit, the intended purpose of the waste shipment, whether for disposal or recovery, and the type of waste involved. Anyone intending to ship waste across the frontier of a member state for disposal, where this is... 

Information about each off-site shipment of waste, including the type and quantity of waste, the type of packaging and the destination ... 

Coastwise Marine s triumph was short-lived. Five days after the court s dedsion, an explosion occurred at the company s plant. The AEC -and the dty conducted investigations and found that it did not involve radioactive materials. But AEC inspectors concluded that Boswell "committed several falsehoods" when questioned about the inddent. Boswell compounded his problems a short time later by accepting a shipment of wastes that included some drums with radiation levels that exceeded the limits authorized in his AEC license. Boswell s actions, along with the unsatisfactory explanations he offered for the earlier infractions, persuaded the AEC staff that he could not "be trusted to handle dangerous radioactive materials." In January 1961 the Commission revoked Coastwise Marine s license. The entire episode generated considerable media interest, though the seriousness of the matter was partially obscured by its comic-opera overtones. ... 

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