superfund act Articles
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Clean Water Act
The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution. Passed in 1972, the act established the goals of eliminating releases of high amounts of toxic substances into water, eliminating additional water pollution by 1985, and ensuring that surface waters would meet standards necessary for human sports and recreation by 1983. The principal body of law ...
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The extent of environmental disclosures: effects of regulatory costs and level of exposure to environmental risk
This paper examines the relation between environmental disclosures resulting from environmental legislation and the regulatory costs and level of the environmental exposure for a sample of 51 US chemical firms. The results show that environmental disclosures included as discretionary disclosures in the 10-K reports in 1984 prior to the enactment of SARA (The Superfund Amendments and ...
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Developing solutions for today and tomorrow case study
Challenge: To improve compliance performance, a national foodservice distribution company contracted with Antea Group to develop and implement a corporate-wide environmental compliance audit program throughout the United States. Faced with an aggressive six-week project completion deadline, Antea Group scheduled multiple local audit teams to conduct facility audits simultaneously across the ...
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Enforcement of Superfund Liabilities Expands Beyond Environmental Avenues
A recent Superfund-related case in New Jersey highlights how US authorities, both Federal and State, will not take kindly to companies that seek to circumvent their environmental responsibilities. Companies, and their subsidiaries, that are landowners or waste generators, who are responsible for contaminating a Superfund site should ensure they are in compliance with requirements to clean up ...
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I need a Phase I Environmental site assessment (Phase I ESA) Who do I call?
A Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (Phase I ESA) A Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (Phase I ESA) is used to determine the liability to property buyers or financial institutions during mergers and acquisitions, refinancing of commercial real estate, and other situations in order to identify the environmental risks of a site and satisfy the “due diligence” efforts to ...
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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Water Systems Improvements
The Infrastructure Investment and Job Act will have far-reaching effects across the nation. This law seeks to improve safety and create jobs by investing in projects like bridges, roads, and high-speed internet access. Improvements to local water systems are a large piece of the bipartisan law funding plan. Every state, Tribal nation, and territory will receive millions of dollars for water ...
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Nonaqueous Phase Liquids Compatibility with Materials Used in Well Construction, Sampling, and Remediation
The EPA Regional Ground Water Forum is a group of EPA professionals representing Regional Superfund and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Offices (RCRA), committed to the identification and resolution of ground-water issues impacting the remediation of Superfund and RCRA sites. The Forum is supported by and advises the Superfund Technical Support Project. The compatibility of remediation, ...
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Epa can recover more federal superfund money
Purpose The purpose of this evaluation was to examine issues related to recovering Superfund expenditures from the potentially responsible parties (PRPs) at a sample of Superfund national priority list (NPL) sites. We addressed the following questions: 1 What were the total Superfund expenditures at NPL sites where a viable business is the primary responsible party, and have those ...
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Air Dispersion Models - Models can be used to aid in demonstrating environmental compliance, analyzing process changes and evaluating the impacts of accidental releases
Air dispersion models are used to estimate the downwind concentration of pollutants emitted by various pollution sources such as industrial facilities and regional public traffic. Dispersion models play an important role in the industrial and regulatory communities. They are typically used to demonstrate compliance with National Ambient Air Quality Standards as part of new source review, ...
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A REC is a REC, right? Wrong!
A Recognized Environmental Condition, or REC for short, is a term everyone involved in a commercial property transaction is familiar with. It is a potential problem area for the perspective commercial property buyer, a red flag to the lender, and often a headache for the seller and buyer both. Officially defined by ASTM International (ASTM, E-1527-05) as “the presence or likely presence of any ...
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