Technical Matters

Assists state and local air pollution control agencies and EPA regional offices with technical matters pertaining to health, exposure, and risk assessment of air pollutants. Services are also extended to the general public, small businesses and international agencies. Thursday 8 00 a.m. to 5 00p.m., EST Friday 8 00 a.m. to 4p.m., EST. 

In our experience it is not the target or the motive for innovation that contributes fundamentally to the flexibility or inertia of innovative systems, but rather the level of innovation. In accordance with our experience, hazardous substance substitution does not differ from other innovation processes that are driven by more economic or technical factors. Even comparatively simple substance-related innovations are not undertaken just to reduce risk. It is usually a technical matter of formula optimisation or a substitution of raw materials that has become too expen-... 

A number of Expert Advisory Groups (EAGs) that will advise the Commission, ABRH, HMAC and BPC on certain specific and technical matters. 

Having noted these technical matters, it should, however, also be observed that the operational flexibility of available processing equipment usually quite subordinates them to coal costs (which represent between 25 and kO per cent of the plant gate costs of the product). Most future conversion plants are therefore likely to use lignites and subbituminous coals which, in Canada as in many other countries, are abundantly available at low cost through surface-mining. 

Military explosives safety is a complex technical matter and, of course, we need to understand it. However, technical understanding is not enough and the world will no longer simply accept the experts view without logic. We need to assess the risks and quantify the benefits more clearly than perhaps we did in the past. 

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