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CERCLA Flashcards

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What is CERCLA?

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Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act

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What is SARA?

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Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act

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What deals with abandoned hazardous waste sites?

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CERCLA

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Brownfields

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Deals with less contaminated, underused sites where the potential liability for haz waste issues has hindered redevelopment on site.

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Only sites that are listed under the ________ using specific criteria may be addressed under Superfund.

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National Priorities List (NPL)

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What does CERCLA do?

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-establish prohibitions and requirements concerning closed and abandoned hazardous waste sites
-provides for liability of persons responsible for releases of haz waste at these sites
-establish a trust fund to provide cleanup when no responsible party could be identified

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What is NCP?

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National Contingency Plan

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What is the NCP?

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-The federal government’s blueprint for responding to both oil spills and hazardous substance releases
-describes steps to be taken in reporting and responding to releases

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CERCLA provides authority for the following types of responses:

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  1. CERCLA established a program to report spills of Hazardous substances
  2. CERCLA created an emergency response program to cleanup releases
  3. CERCLA established a remediable program for the permanent cleanup of uncontrolled releases from inactive or abandoned haz waste disposal sites
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Any time a hazardous substance is released to the environment and it exceeds its reportable quantity within 24hour period, the release must be reported to ____

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National Response Center

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Superfund Remedial Process

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A. Preliminary Site Assessment
B. NPL Site Listing
C. Remedial Investigation (Site Characterization)
D. Records of Decision
E. Remedial Design/Action
F. Construction Completion
G. Post Construction Completion
H. National Priorities List Deletion
I. Site Reuse/Redevelopment

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What is the National Priorities List (NPL)?

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-A list of the worst hazardous waste sites identified by the Superfund, based on the score a site receives from the Hazard Ranking System
-required to be revised at least annually

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Hazard Ranking System (HRS)

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A screening tool used to evaluate the risks to public health and the environment associated with a hazardous waste site.

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What is the Data Quality Objective (DQO) Process?

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Legally defensible data collection planning process for environmental decision making

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Steps of DQO Process

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  1. State the problem
  2. Identify the decision
  3. Identify inputs to the decision
  4. Define the study boundaries
  5. Develop a decision rule
  6. Specify limits on decision errors
  7. Optimize the design for obtaining data
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Initial reportable quantity (RQ) under CERCLA?

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1 pound

17
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Reportable quantity adjustments under CERCLA?

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Five RQ Levels:

1, 10, 100, 1000, 5000 pounds

18
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Reportable quantity under EPCRA?

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-360 extremely hazardous substances designated by Congress
-RQ based on substance’s acute lethal toxicity

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What is Brownfields?

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Real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance contamination

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What is a Phase 1 ESA?

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-all appropriate inquiry of the previous ownership
-gold standard for evaluating the environmental liability associated with a real estate asset

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What is the All Appropriate Inquiries (AAI) Rule?

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-performance based
-assessment or evaluation of a property to identify potential environmental contamination and assess potential liability for any contamination present at the property

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What are the 4 documentation required for an AAI?

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  1. Opinion
  2. Identification of data gaps
  3. Qualifications and signatures
  4. Opinion regarding additional appropriate investigation
23
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What is the baseline standard for a Phase 1 ESAs?

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ASTM E1527-13

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