Environmental Compliance: A Simplified National Guide provides a hands-on approach to environmental compliance, as well as an effective means of keeping records. Using a question-and-answer format, it includes detailed coverage of federal laws and references the leading state legislation governing environmental and occupational health and safety, transportation management, and facility and homeland security. This Guide is ideal for both small- and large-quantity generators of hazardous waste.
State Differences Summaries and Checklists can be purchased to complement this Federal Guide: Available for 49 states including Puerto Rico; California is available as a separate Guide.
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Benefits
- Covers EPA regulations, plus OSHA and DOT
- Presented in a user-friendly question-and-answer format designed to ease the compliance process
- Discusses the federal laws applicable to each topic, highlights corresponding leading state laws, and notes leading state variations on federal requirements
- Can be tailored to a particular facility’s needs
- Includes a broad array of useful supplementary materials (see Features section below)
Topic Areas
- Accidental release prevention – air toxics, emergencies
- Air quality – pollutants
- Air toxics – routine emissions
- Bloodborne pathogen standard
- Chemical process safety management
- Emergency planning and community right-to-know (SARA Title III)
- Emergency response planning
- Facility and homeland security
- HAZWOPER standards
- Industrial discharges to sewers – pretreatment
- Laboratory requirements
| - Pesticide regulation
- Pollution prevention and improved waste-management programs
- Regulation of hazardous wastes
- Regulation of medical wastes
- Regulation of storage tanks (USTs/ASTs)
- Release reporting and response – overall summary
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA)
- Transportation of hazardous materials and wastes
- Water quality control
- Worker protection, including hazard communication, and the employer's "general duty" responsibilities
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Features
| Supplementary Materials
| Includes sample forms; chemical lists; agency addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail and Web addresses; list of acronyms; and subject index |