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Page iv - Congress (A Review of the US Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Research Outlook, FY 1976 through 1980...
Page 119 - ... (A) cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness; or (B) pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of. or otherwise managed.
Page 119 - hazardous air pollutant' means an air pollutant to which no ambient air quality standard is applicable and which in the judgment of the Administrator may cause, or contribute to, an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness. (2) The term 'new source...
Page 122 - standard of performance' means a standard for emissions of air pollutants which reflects the degree of emission limitation achievable through the application of the best system of emission reduction which (taking into account the cost of achieving such reduction) the Administrator determines has been adequately demonstrated.
Page 118 - Webster's New International Dictionary has: "l(a) A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake where the tide meets the river current ; more commonly, an arm of the sea at the lower end of a river ; a firth, (b) In physical geography, a drowned river mouth, caused by the sinking of land near the coast.
Page 108 - ... program is integral to achieving the Nation's goal of greater energy self-sufficiency. With a total funding in 1975 and 1976 of $246 million, the energy program constitutes one of the Agency's major efforts. In 1976 we expect to fund three interrelated energy activities : A processes and effects program to determine the environmental effects associated with energy extraction, transmission, conversion, and end use; A control technology program to identify, develop, and demonstrate necessary pollution...
Page 118 - Epidemiology. A branch of medical science that deals with the incidence, distribution, and control of disease in the animal population.
Page 117 - A substance that initiates a chemical reaction and enables it to proceed under milder conditions than otherwise required and that does not, itself, alter or enter into the reaction.
Page 117 - Latin word for life, and an amine is any of various compounds derived from ammonia by replacement of hydrogen by one or more univalent hydrocarbon radicals.
Page 118 - Cytogenetics — A branch of biology that deals with the study of heredity and variation by the methods of both cytology (history of cells) and genetics.