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Both sorbic acid and potassium sorbate may be used under U.S. Department of Treasury, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms regulations as sterilizing and preservative agents for treatment of wine and juice at up to 300 ppm/L (158). 

SOURCE How to Depreciate Property, Publication 946, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Treasury, Washington, 1999. 

SOURCE Office of Technology Assessment, 1983. Based on Statistics of Income Division, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Treasury, Source Books, Statistics of Income, 1984-1967, Corporate Tax Returns (Washington, DC U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984-87). 

The U.S. government is promoting poUution prevention at feder2d facilities. Cooperating with the EPA are the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs. The U.S. Postal Service has also committed to an extensive pollution prevention program. 

U.S. Department of the Treasury (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services (investigations)... 

Sources Figures prior to 1965 compiled by Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics from issues of Wine Institutes Annual Wine Industry Statistical Survey, Part IV. Figures beginning in 1965 compiled by Wine Institute from reports of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, U.S. Treasury Department, and Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce. 

CERCLA The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, also known as Superfund. Enacted December 11, 1980, and amended thereafter, CERCLA provides for identification and cleanup of hazardous materials released over the land and into the air, waterways, and groundwater. It covers areas affected by newly released materials and older leaking or abandoned dump sites. CERCLA established the Superfund, a trust fund, to help pay for cleanup of hazardous materials sites. The EPA has the authority to collect cleanup costs from those who release the waste material. Cleanup funds come from fines and penalties, from taxes on chemical/petrochemical feedstocks, and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. A separate fund collects taxes on active disposal sites to finance monitoring after they close. 

Safety professionals should be aware that COBRA is administered by several federal agencies. The U.S. Department of Labor and Internal Revenue Service-Treasury Department have jurisdiction over private sector group health plans, and the Department of Health and Human Services governs public sector health plans. Safety professionals should be aware that the U.S. Department of Labor provides the regulations and interpretations addressing disclosure and notification requirements. 

Another area that may impact the safety function within the Social Security Act is unemployment insurance. This nationwide joint federal and state system provides unemployment benefits to protect individuals and families against the loss of income due to unemployment. This complex system is encompassed within the Social Security Act as well as the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, requiring employers to provide an unemployment tax to the state at varying rates for employees, and the state to provide the funds to the U.S. Treasury Department. The secretary of the treasury is responsible for investing the funds, and the U.S. Department of Labor is responsible for certifying the unemployment payments to the state agencies. Each state has individual unemployment compensation laws that incorporate various provisions of the Social Security Act and Federal Unemployment Tax Act. 

A substantial amount of laboratory research involves materials considered, in the legal sense of the term, as explosives rather than simply chemicals which can explode under appropriate conditions. The term explosive in this relatively rrarrow sense is defined as any material determined to be within the scope of Title 18, United States Code, Chapter 40, Importation Manufacture, Distribution and Storage of Explosive Materials, and any material classified as an erqrlosive by the Department of Transportation in the Hazardous Material regulations (Title 49 CFR, Parts 100-199). A list of the materials that are within the scope of Title 18, United States Code, Chapter 40 is published periodically by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, U.S. Department of the Treasury. 

The data in Table 4.1 were obtained using a calibrated balance, certified by the manufacturer to have a tolerance of less than 0.002 g. Suppose the Treasury Department reports that the mass of a 1998 U.S. penny is approximately 2.5 g. Since the mass of every penny in Table 4.1 exceeds the reported mass by an amount significantly greater than the balance s tolerance, we can safely conclude that the error in this analysis is not due to equipment error. The actual source of the error is revealed later in this chapter. 

A Special agency now called the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) within the U.S. Treasury Department was empowered to regulate the alcohoHc beverage industries. Although less adversarial, but strictly enforced even today (ca 1997), the regulations and their appHcation remain voluminous and detailed. They specify not only label compliance and matters relating to taxation that are of direct interest to consumers, but contain all the details of permitted processes for and additions to wines. 

Much work has been reported and summarized ia the Hterature on the matufing of various whiskeys ia charred or uncharred white-oak barrels (4—7). The early Hterature iadicates that total acids, aldehydes, esters, soHds, and color iacreased with aging time and that their concentrations were iaversely proportional to proof. Thus aging at higher proofs (over 127°) yields less color and flavor. The maximum allowable entry proof for straight whiskeys was iacreased from 110° to 125° by the U.S. Treasury Department ia 1962. 

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