RCRA in Focus: Photo ProcessingU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Solid Waste and Emergency Response, 1999 - Photographic industry - 16 pages |
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Page 15 - Water Pollution Control Act, commonly known as the Clean Water Act (CWA), is the Federal program designed to restore and maintain the integrity of the nation's surface waters.
Page 15 - Act (CERCLA), a 1980 law commonly known as Superfund, authorizes EPA to respond to releases, or threatened releases, of hazardous substances that may endanger public health, welfare, or the environment. CERCLA also enables EPA to force parties responsible for environmental contamination to clean it up or to reimburse the Superfund for response costs incurred by EPA.
Page 15 - Part 260, Hazardous Waste Management System: General; Part 261, Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste; Part 262, Standards Applicable to Generators of Hazardous Waste; Part 263, Standards Applicable to Transporters of Hazardous Waste; Part 264, Standards for Owners and Operators of Hazardous Waste Treatment. Storage, and Disposal Facilities; Part 265, Interim Status Standards for Owners and Operators of Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities; and Part 270, EPA Administered...
Page 11 - ... fixer from several process lines in a plant. Multiple-stream systems are more typical in large facilities. Sometimes a separate fixer system is used for specialty processing to reduce the possibility of inter-process contamination, which can occur when desilvered fixer is recycled to the photo process. Metallic Replacement: Metallic replacement occurs when an active solid metal, such as iron, contacts a solution containing dissolved ions of a less active metal, such as silver. The more active...
Page 15 - EST, excluding Federal holidays. Emergency Planning And Community Right-To-Know Act The Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) of 1986 created the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA, also known as SARA Title...
Page 4 - Toxic wastes are harmful or fatal when ingested or absorbed. When toxic wastes are disposed of on land, contaminated liquid may drain (leach) from the waste and pollute ground water.
Page 7 - accumulated speculatively" if it is accumulated before being recycled. A material is not accumulated speculatively, however, if the person accumulating it can show that the material is potentially recyclable and has a feasible means of being recycled; and that...
Page 6 - Congress concerning those substances identified or listed under section 3001 which are not regulated under this subtitle by reason of the exclusion for mixtures of domestic sewage and other wastes that pass through a sewer system to a publicly owned treatment works. Such report shall include the types, size and number of generators which dispose of such substances in this manner, the types and quantities disposed of in this manner, and the identification of significant generators, wastes, and waste...
Page 16 - Part 270 — EPA-administered permit programs: the Hazardous Waste Permit Program • Part 271 — Requirements for authorization of state hazardous waste programs • Part 272 — Approved state hazardous waste management programs • Part 273 — Standards for universal waste management • Part 279 — Standards for the management of used oil • Part 280 — Technical standards and corrective action requirements for owners and operators of Underground Storage Tanks (USTs) • Part 281— Approval...
Page 10 - ... information next to the telephone: (A) The name and telephone number of the emergency coordinator; (B) Location of fire extinguishers and spill control material, and, if present, fire alarm; and (C) The telephone number of the fire department, unless the facility has a direct alarm.