Ship Scrapping Activities of the United States Government: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, March 18 and June 4, 1998 |
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Page 221 - Convention: 1 . wastes are substances or objects which are disposed of or are intended to be disposed of or are required to be disposed of by the provisions of national law; 2. management means the collection, transport and disposal of hazardous wastes or other wastes, including after-care of disposal sites; 3.
Page 245 - The Council, Having regard to Article 5 (b) of the Convention on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development of 14th December, 1960; Having regard to the...
Page 226 - Environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes or other wastes" means taking all practicable steps to ensure that hazardous wastes or other wastes are managed in a manner which will protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects which may result from such wastes; 9. "Area under the national jurisdiction of a State...
Page 245 - December 1984 on the Supervision and Control within the European Community of the Transfrontier Shipment of Hazardous Waste...
Page 158 - Data Tables General Definitions SIC Code • is the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) is a statistical classification standard used for all establishment-based Federal economic statistics. The SIC codes facilitate comparisons between facility and industry data. TRI Facilities — are manufacturing facilities that have 10 or more full-time employees and are above established chemical throughput thresholds. Manufacturing facilities are defined as facilities in Standard Industrial Classification...
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Page 245 - Area [C(86)64(Final)]; Having regard to the Resolution of the Council of 20th June 1985 on International Cooperation Concerning Transfrontier Movements of Hazardous Wastes, by which it has been decided to develop an international system for effective control of transfrontier movements of hazardous wastes [C(85)100...
Page 1 - As you know, we will limit opening statements to the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member. If other members have statements, they can be included in the record.
Page 222 - Waste electrical and electronic assemblies or scrap containing components such as accumulators and other batteries included on list A, mercury-switches, glass from cathode-ray tubes and other activated glass and PCB-capacitors, or contaminated with Annex I constituents (eg, cadmium, mercury, lead, polychlorinated biphenyl) to an extent that they possess any of the characteristics contained in Annex III (note the related entry on HstBBlllO)3/ A2.
Page 221 - Wastes from the manufacture, formulation and use of wood preserving chemicals Y6 Wastes from the production, formulation and use of organic solvents Y7 Wastes from heat treatment and tempering operations containing cyanides Y8 Waste mineral oils unfit for their originally intended use Y9 Waste oils/water, hydrocarbons/water mixtures, emulsions...