The Hazardous Material Removal Program will provide all academic departments and faculty with the opportunity to dispose of unneeded hazardous chemicals and radioactive material with no EH&S recharge. The disposal program will be organized building by building and advanced notice will be given to each department. Radioactive waste and materials along with routine chemical waste will be collecte...

Senator Mitchell made his comment in the wake of a broad compromise that allowed CERCLA to pass both houses of Congress. The final bill deleted much of what was to make the Act "comprehensive," including private actions for damages and medical expenses.3 The Act that finally was signed into law by President Carter authorizes government cleanup of hazardous waste sites, but does not provide for ...

We have examined rates of hospitalization for respiratory diseases in relation to residences in zip codes with hazardous waste sites, as well as socio-economic status. Chronic bronchitis and chronic airway obstruction were elevated in persons who live in zip codes containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs) (PCBs and persistent pesticides) as compared to "clean" zip codes without hazardous ...

Section 25200.1.5., Health and Safety Code, enacted by Assembly Bill 2060, authorizes DTSC to certify the performance of hazardous waste environmental technologies. Only technologies which are determined to not pose a significant potential hazard to the public health and safety or to the environment when used under specified operating conditions may be certified. Incineration technologies are e...

The potential liability associated with inactive hazardous waste sites can be large for both policyholders and insurance companies. Our paper outlines several methods that can be used to estimate and monitor insurance company and/or policyholder liabilities associated with inactive hazardous waste sites. We have outlined several publicly available data elements which can be helpful in evaluatin...

Iraq experienced two devastating wars in 1991 and 2003, during which massive amounts of new weapons and sophisticated manufactured nuclear weapons were used called Depleted Uranium (DU). As a consequence of the radioactive contamination; the humans are suffering from various disease like cancer and the environment is polluted. In practice, there is no strategy and/ or national program, not even...

Retrospective symptom prevalence data, collected from over 2000 adult respondents living near three different hazardous waste sites, were analyzed with respect to both self-reported "environmental worry" and frequency of perceiving environmental (particularly petrochemical) odors. Significant positive relationships were observed between the prevalence of several symptoms (headache, nausea, eye ...

The Office of Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment (ORCA) provides decisionmakers comprehensive, scientific information on characteristics of the oceans, coastal areas, and estuaries of the United States of America. The information ranges from strategic, national assessments of coastal and estuarine environmental quality to real-time information for navigation or hazardous materials spil...

We recently reported a hazardous waste site in which polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were at such high concentrations in soil that significant levels were found in indoor residential air. This paper uses the waste site to illustrate the complexities in exposure assessment and toxicity assessment of PCBs. Aroclors are commercial mixtures of different arrays of the 209 individual PCB congeners. ...

The Regional Superfund Ground Water Forum is a group of ground-water scientists, representing EPA's Regional Superfund Offices, organized to exchange up-to-date information related to ground-water remediation of Superfund sites. One of the major issues of concern to the Forum is the transport and fate of contaminants in soil and ground water as related to subsurface remediation. Processes which...