Toxic Pollution in the Chesapeake Bay: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Water Resources of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, March 7, 1988 at Baltimore, MD. |
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Page 73 - Agriculture; the activities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the Department of Commerce...
Page 156 - These costs are for pollution control facilities that did not have to be built; for reduced pollution control operating costs; for reduced manufacturing costs; and for retained sales of products that might have been taken off the market as environmentally unacceptable...
Page 45 - CHARLES N. EHLER, DIRECTOR OFFICE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND MARINE ASSESSMENT NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION...
Page 75 - The recommendations that have been generated by our effort have been adopted by the Governors of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia, the Mayor of the District of Columbia, and the Administrator of the EPA and incorporated as part of the policy framework of the Congressionally created Chesapeake Bay Program.
Page 155 - There are five approaches that industry can take to reduce hazardous waste: (1) change the raw materials of production, (2) change production technology and equipment, (3) improve production operations and procedures, (4) recycle waste within the plant, and (5) redesign or reformulate end-products.
Page 155 - Although there are many environmental and economic benefits to waste reduction, over 99 percent of Federal and State environmental spending is devoted to controlling pollution after waste is generated. Less than 1 percent is spent to reduce the generation of waste.
Page 72 - ... to improve and protect the water quality and living resources of the Chesapeake Bay estuarine system.
Page 2 - Agreement along with the Governors of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, the Mayor of the District of Columbia, and the Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Page 173 - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits under the Clean Water Act.
Page 82 - OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE, COMPENSATION, AND LIABILITY ACT (CERCLA) AND THE SUPERFUND AMENDMENTS AND REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1986 (SARA) MAY BE INCREASING FASTER THAN THE FUNDING LEVEL REQUESTED BY THE DEPARTMENT.