Quiz 2 Flashcards
(29 cards)
What are the main components of municipal solid wastes?
1- paper and paper board 23%
2- food waste 21%
3- plastics 12%
Define an active site
Are actively being processed to non-haz
Inactive sites
Waste that was generated years ago and or illegally that have never been processed, pre-regulations
What acts deal with active sites?
RCRA and HSWA
Which acts deal with both inactive and active sites?
SARA
What is RCRA?
Resources Conservation and Recovery Act
intent : to track Hazardous Wastes from the cradle to grave
Generation
Transport
Storage
Disposal
Provisions:
-Define haz waste
-Set tech standards and rules for issuing permits for treatment, storage and disposal
-Defined an LGQ(large quantity generator)
Defines Haz waste
Haz waste characteristics
Flammable lightable based on flash point
What is a UST?
Underground Storage Tank
What is NPL?
National Priorities List
What is a PRP?
Potential Responsible Parties
What is HSWA?
Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments
Intent:
Protects HHE in regards to contamination of ground water by disposal of active solid and haz waste
Regulated new classes of facilities
-underground storage tanks
-small business generators
-Standards to limit the concentration of specific pollutants before disposal; of wastes on land
Provisions:
-creation of Land disposal restriction program (LDR)
- establishing of permitting deadlines for haz waste facilities
What is CERCLA?
Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act
“Superfund cleanup”
Intent: Protect human health and the envt in regard to inactive haz waste
Provisions:
-Identification of sites
-Create and maintain the national priorities lists (NPL)
-EPA authority to identify PRPs and force to clean up
What is SARA?
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act
( community right to know )
Intent:
Protect human health and the envt in regard to the community right to know their exposure to haz waste
Provisions:
-emiiters create a TRI and have it available to the public
-maintain and make available data about harmful chemicals used and stored and industrial sites
Report annual emissions of such chemicals- Toxic Release Inventory(TSI)
What is FIFRA?
Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act
Intent:
To federally give pesticide registration, distribution, sale, and use in the US
EPA assumed responsibility from USDA in 1970
Provisions:
-Requires registration of pesticides by Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP)
During registration; the agency is responsible
- Ensures pesticides don’t pose adverse effects
What is TRI?
Toxic Inventory release
What is TSCA?
Toxic Substances and Control Act
Intent:
Protect HHE in regard to toxic substances
characterize and understand the risks that a chemical poses before it is introduced into commercial use.
EPA must balance benefits against risks in regulatory decisions
Provision:
-gives EPA authority to collect data on chemical substances
-requieres industry to test chemicals for harmful effects- EPA assesses whether there is an “ unreasonable risk of injury to human”
(give PMN)
-EPA has the authority to regulate new chemicals (the manufacture, distribution, commerce, and disposal of chemical substances)
Catch-all act- also includes (Asbestos)
What are some similarities of TSCA to FIFRA?
Work directly with the EPA to evaluate chemicals before they enter commerce
Balance benefits against risks to the environment and human health in regulatory decisions
What is a PMN?
Pre- Manufacturing Notice
What is the PPA?
Pollution Prevention Act
Intent:
To protect human health and the environment from unnecessary pollution
to not create a pollutant in the first place then think of recycling or either of those, proper treatment and then proper disposal
source reduction
recycling
energy recovery
treatment
proper disposal
Top-Down- more preferable to least preferable
Provisions:
An example of a solid waste?
garbage
sludge from a wastewater treatment plant
LQG
Large quantity generator 1000 kg/ month rcra
what are haz waste?
flammable, corrosive reactive, toxic
LDR
Land disposal restrictions hswa
Legal knowledge 1
Increased reporting reqs
0 bc of envt acts increased reporting reqs for reg entities
benifits- more enforcement more data and helps you predict how much to pay in the future
cons- agencies don’t have resources to solve problems
Adversarial Legalism
most ent laws are “goal statues” - people deserve the right to clean air and water so they can sue the government for it to stay within EPA Regulations.
benifits- ppl of flint got money
-draws attention to envt misdeeds
-gives ent programs attention and resources needed
bad - envt groups threaten court battles
- dont know win case or not
- results can vary of court decisions, sometimes get reversed
