The Superfund Program: Ten Years of Progress, Volume 70, Issue 9Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1991 - Government publications - 45 pages |
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Page 43 - National Priorities List (NPL) EPA's list of the most serious uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites identified for possible long-term remedial action under Superfund. A site must be on the NPL to receive money from the Trust Fund for remedial action.
Page 2 - SARA stressed the importance of permanent remedies and innovative treatment technologies in cleaning up hazardous waste sites, required Superfund actions to consider the standards and requirements found in other state and federal environmental laws and regulations, provided new enforcement authorities and settlement tools, increased state involvement in every phase of the Superfund program, increased the focus on human health problems posed by hazardous waste sites, encouraged greater citizen participation...
Page 44 - Potentially Responsible Party (PRP) Any individual or company — including owners, operators, transporters or generators — potentially responsible for, or contributing to, the contamination problems at a Superfund site. Whenever possible, EPA requires PRPs, through administrative and legal actions, to clean up hazardous waste sites they have contaminated.
Page 43 - List and, if so, what ranking it should have compared to other sites on the list. hazardous substance — 1 . Any material that poses a threat to human health and/or the environment. Typical hazardous substances are toxic, corrosive, ignitable, explosive, or chemically reactive. 2. Any substance designated by...
Page 45 - New-source performance standards may be applied to sources record of decision (ROD) A public document that explains which cleanup alternative(s) will be used at National Priorities List sites.
Page 3 - The national goal of the remedy selection process is to select remedies that are protective of human health and the environment, that maintain protection over time and that minimize untreated waste.
Page 45 - ... an in-depth study designed to gather the data necessary to determine the nature and extent of contamination at a Superfund site; establish criteria for cleaning up the site; identify preliminary alternatives for remedial actions; and support the technical and cost analyses of the alternatives. The remedial investigation is usually done with the feasibility study. Together they are usually referred to as the RI/ PS.
Page 3 - Superfund response effort is guided by the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan, commonly referred to as the National Contingency Plan (NCP).
Page 43 - IN-SITU STRIPPING: Treatment system that removes or "strips" volatile organic compounds from contaminated ground or surface water by forcing an airstream through the water and causing the compounds to evaporate [EPA Terms of Environment, available at www.epa.gov/OCEPTAterms].
Page 40 - Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Region 10 Pesticides & Toxic Substances Branch USEPA Region 10 (WCM-128) 1200 Sixth Avenue Seattle, WA 98101 (206) 553-4016 Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington APPENDIX H.