Strategy for Environmental Health Research at EPAOffice of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1990 - Agriculture |
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Page 1-1 - Implementation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA ) and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) or "Superfund" at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Page 3-25 - Reportable quantities are defined and listed in 40 CFR § 302.4. A release report may trigger a response by EPA, or by one or more Federal or State emergency response authorities. EPA implements hazardous substance responses according to procedures outlined in the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP) (40 CFR Part 300). The NCP includes provisions for permanent cleanups, known as remedial actions, and other cleanups referred to as "removals.
Page 3-11 - What is the cost of monitoring and control options? • What is the minimum amount causing an effect? • How should health effects concerns be balanced with monitoring and control technology to determine how drinking water contaminants should be regulated? Research in this area should focus on providing the scientific basis for setting MCLs and developing HAs. For most of the metals (eg, nickel, chromium) and organic pollutants (eg, pesticides, solvents) present in source water, data are available...
Page 1-8 - Division conducts both clinical and epidemiological investigations to improve the understanding of human health risks associated with environmental pollution.
Page 3-18 - The reasonably anticipated manner and methods of manufacturing, processing, distribution in commerce, and disposal Existing Chemicals. Section 4 of TSCA gives EPA the authority to require testing of existing chemicals. To implement this authority, EPA must find that: • The chemical may pose an "unreasonable risk" to human health or the environment; or that the chemical is produced in "substantial...
Page 1-2 - The Administrator may conduct research, studies, and demonstrations relating to the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention of physical and mental diseases and other impairments of man resulting directly or indirectly from contaminants in water, or to the provision of a dependably safe supply of drinking water...
Page 1-2 - The study shall also include such physical, chemical, atmospheric, biomedical, or other research and monitoring as may be necessary to ascertain (A) any direct or indirect effects upon the public health and welfare of changes in the stratosphere, especially ozone in the stratosphere, and (B) the probable causes of changes in the stratosphere, especially the ozone in the stratosphere.
Page 1-2 - In the furtherance of such research, he shall conduct an accelerated research program — (A) to improve knowledge of the contribution of air pollutants to the occurrence of adverse effects on health, including, but not limited to, behavioral physiological, toxicological, and biochemical effects ; and (B) to improve knowledge of the short- and longterm effects of air pollutants on welfare. (2) In carrying out the provisions of this subsection the Administrator may...
Page 3-4 - If so, the Administrator must regulate the pollutant under Sections 108, 111. 112, or any combination of these sections. EPA currently implements a number of programs to protect the public from the health hazards of radiation contamination. While the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) have jurisdiction over many facilities that handle radioactive materials, EPA regulates the exposure of the general public to radiation. Virtually all of these regulatory, guidance,...
Page 3-17 - Enacted in 1954, this law stipulates that tolerances are to be set at levels deemed necessary to protect the public health, while taking into account the need for "an adequate, wholesome, and economical food supply.