Overview Of The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, And Liability Act

The citizen suit provision of the Clean Water Act is an important tool to protect and improve rivers, creeks, streams, and wetlands especially as state agencies may not have the resources to conduct regular water quality monitoring on every water body. Citizen involvement in monitoring and reporting pollution problems is key to watershed protection; hereby helping the government enforce the laws.

Written and verbal instructions concerning procedures and/or precautions are created for my protection. I will follow them.

| State how emergencies should be responded to in accordance with organisational authorisation and personal skills when involved with fires, spillages, injuries and other task-related hazards.

Assessments began to take place in the mid 1980’s, shortly after the site made the National Priorities list in 1983. Relevant standards and guidance levels were used to measure the effect of the Helen Kramer Landfill. The initiation of the EPA’s remedial investigation and feasibility study deemed the nature of the Helen Kramer landfill as an extreme risk to the environment, characterizing the site “by randomly placed, uncompacted, and uncovered refuse, with numerous settlement cracks which vented methane and water vapor” (2). According to the EPA, several million gallons of chemical wastes and over two million cubic yards of solid waste were estimated to have been disposed of at the landfill (2). Studies were performed by the EPA, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, federal natural resource trustees in the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to evaluate the onsite and nearby environmental effects due to the landfill. During these studies, contaminants were detected in air, sediments, and aquifers, including high levels of volatile organic compounds and heavy metals in the air and sediments. VOCS and heavy metals expose humans to carcinogens, developmental toxicants, and reproductive toxicants. The assessments also detected numerous contaminants such as (but not limited to),

1) The remedy chosen must attain a degree of cleanup that assures the protection of human health and environment. 2) The hazardous substances that will remain after the cleanup, they must meet the applicable and/or relevant and appropriate requirements under federal and state law (ARARs). 3) The remedy chosen must utilize permanent solutions and alternative treatment technologies or resource recovery technologies to the maximum extent applicable. 4) There must be cost effective response, taking into consideration total long-and short-term costs of the actions. And 5) It must be in accordance with the NCP to a practicable

2. Describe the actions to be taken in response to an emergency stroke incident in line with agreed ways of

The paper provides vital information on the implementation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and how the act has served as the hallmark for hazardous waste management in the United States. Created in the late 1970s, the RCRA has provided generators of hazardous with policy guidelines and how these processes are implemented to protect public health. As an article review, this paper will address the implementation and the challenges associated with the RCRA and how the Act continues to experienced tremendous changes since its foundation. The paper will also examine the RCRA contingency plan that seeks to address and minimize public health hazards in the environment.

Recently, a contractor working for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unintentionally released 3 million gallons of toxic mine waste into the Animas River in the Mountain West state of Colorado. Today, people in the US are debating the efficacy of the EPA (the right-wing is using the spill as anti-government propaganda) and the toxic aftermath the spill will undoubtedly have on local economies, communities and ecosystems. So far, the spill has "contaminated the Animas River, San Juan River, and the Colorado River in Utah."

Q: Which of the following is a set of procedures designed to spell out which incident types need to be handled by other personnel?

a) What federal statutes did Mr. Bankfiend violate in connection with each of the two restoration projects discussed above?

The CHSEP, also is known as the State Superfund Program, administers the assessment of properties not listed on the EPA’s NPL that are suspected to be contaminated with hazardous substances. The CHSEP monitors hazardous site that are known or could potentially be contaminated with CHS or oil through its Brownfield Master Inventory (BMI). Once a potential site is added to the BMI, the CHSEP will attempt to identify the person or organization responsible for the release of hazardous substances. If the responsible party either refused or was unable to perform the necessary remediation work, the CHSEP will use State general funds to conduct assessments and carry out remediation at the contaminated site. The CHSEP also coordinates with the EPA in conducting preliminary investigations of NPL sites. The VCP encourages eligible purchasers and parties responsible for contamination to voluntarily clean up and redevelop brownfield sites.4 In 1997, Governor Parris N. Glendening singed Maryland's Brownfields Legislation (Senate Bill 340/House Bill 409) into law by, which allowed for the establishment of the VCP and the Brownfields Revitalization Incentive Program (BRIP). The VCP works to facilitate the reuse of eligible brownfield sites contaminated CHS substances or oil since October 2004. Applicants seeking to enroll a property in the VCP must submit a Phase I and Phase II environmental site assessment, a $6,000 application fee, and any other information required by the Maryland VCP. After reviewing the application, the MDE will notify the applicant whether the application is approved, incomplete, or denied. There are two types of final site approval documents: a No Further Requirements Determination (NFRD) or a Certificate of Completion (COC). A NFRD is a notice by the MDE that the

While the flurry of cases caused a bottleneck effect in the midst of the Judicial system, a turning point was still present within the American government. This idea being reinforced by the EPA 's Deputy Administrator at the time of Love Canal, Barbara Blum, who stated the suits should serve notice to those who generate or handle hazardous pollutants, that dangers no longer will be tolerated by the American public and the day of discarding hazardous materials indiscriminately and haphazardly is over (E.P.A). While action was swiftly taken in order to address the change that pollution would be dealt with, it was not until fourteen years later that a

While the flurry of cases caused a bottleneck effect in the midst of the Judicial system, a turning point was still present within the American government. This idea being reinforced by the EPA 's Deputy Administrator at the time of Love Canal, Barbara Blum, who stated the suits should serve notice to those who generate or handle hazardous pollutants?, that dangers no longer will be tolerated by the American public and the day of discarding hazardous materials indiscriminately and haphazardly is over (E.P.A). While action was swiftly taken in order to address the change that pollution would be dealt with, it was not until fourteen years later that a final decision

Mancelona, a small resort town in Antrim county Michigan, is currently experiencing the effects of one of the largest toxic plumes in the great lakes state. The toxin Trichloroethylene (TCE), a solvent used to degrease metal parts, was discovered in the local water supply fifteen years ago. The manufacturer, Mt. Clemens Metal Parts, disposed of the waste after use by dumping it into the ground out back behind the plant where it leached into the ground to the water table. This uninformed method of disposal had been going on for decades. The plume is now six miles long by one mile wide in parts and is estimated to migrate 300-400 feet per year. Many residents are concerned and fear little is being done to rectify the damage and clean it up. TCE

Tubbataha is an important link in the food chain. The reef park, along with the adjacent Jessie Beazley and Cagayancillo, is a major source of coral and fish larvae that are distributed to Sulu Sea, a major breeding area for fishes.