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 78 - 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 35 - CHARLES N. EHLER, DIRECTOR OFFICE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND MARINE ASSESSMENT NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION...
Page 77 - 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 77 - 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 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 48 - By December 1988, to develop, adopt, and begin implementation of a basin-wide strategy to achieve a reduction of toxics consistent with the Water Quality Act of 1987 which will ensure protection of human health and living resources. The strategy will cover both point and nonpoint sources, monitoring protocols, enforcement of pretreatment regulations and methods for dealing with in-place toxic sediments where necessary.
Page 46 - Act, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, and the Toxic Substances Control Act — prior to manufacture, sale and distribution of these products.
Page 13 - ... HRUSKA ON S. 948 MR. CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE: It is a special pleasure for me to appear once again in a session of hearings of a Committee on which I had the good fortune to serve as a Member for two decades. I express to each of you my greetings and my warm regards. Also my appreciation for the opportunity to share with you some of my thoughts on the Bill 948, which provides for the division of the present boundaries of the Ninth Circuit Court, and for the creation of a new Circuit....
Page 2 - This new Agreement contains Goals and Priority Commitments for Living Resources; Water Quality; Population Growth and Development; Public Information, Education and Participation; Public Access; and Governance. The parties to this 1987 Agreement...
Page 100 - Son-profit, tax-exempt organization which provides environmental information to individuals and groups, and encourages them to act in their communities. Publishes concise community action guide books which define key environmental issues and contain suggestions for individual and group action.