Environmental Laws and Regulations Flashcards
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Under the Clean Air Act's Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) program, which areas are protected from significant degradation of air quality?
Answer: Areas already in attainment with NAAQS
The PSD program applies to attainment areas to ensure air quality does not significantly deteriorate below current levels while still allowing some economic growth.
Which provision of RCRA governs underground storage tanks (USTs) containing petroleum or hazardous substances?
Answer: RCRA Subtitle I
RCRA Subtitle I, added by the 1984 HSWA amendments, established the federal regulatory program for underground storage tanks to prevent and respond to releases.
A facility conducting a Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS) under CERCLA is evaluating cleanup alternatives. What document formally selects the remedy?
Answer: Record of Decision (ROD)
The Record of Decision is EPA's formal public document that presents the selected remedy for a Superfund site based on the RI/FS findings and public comment.
The 'bubble concept' under the Clean Air Act allows a company to treat all emission points at a facility as if they were under a single bubble. This is primarily used for:
Answer: Providing flexibility in meeting emission reduction requirements across multiple stacks
The bubble concept provides regulatory flexibility by allowing facilities to meet aggregate emission limits across multiple sources rather than requiring reductions at every individual point.
Under the Safe Drinking Water Act's Underground Injection Control (UIC) program, Class I wells are used for:
Answer: Injection of hazardous, industrial, or municipal wastewater into deep isolated rock formations
Class I UIC wells inject hazardous or non-hazardous industrial and municipal waste fluids into deep formations well below and isolated from underground sources of drinking water.
Which federal regulation requires facilities with more than 1,320 gallons of aggregate aboveground oil storage to prepare Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) plans?
Answer: Clean Water Act Section 311 and 40 CFR Part 112
CWA Section 311 and 40 CFR Part 112 require facilities with oil storage above regulatory thresholds to prepare and implement SPCC plans to prevent discharges to navigable waters.
The 'Right-to-Know' component of EPCRA requires facilities to provide Material Safety Data Sheets (now Safety Data Sheets) for hazardous chemicals. This is required under which EPCRA section?
Answer: Section 311
EPCRA Section 311 requires facilities to submit SDSs (or lists of hazardous chemicals) to the LEPC, State Emergency Response Commission, and local fire department.