D-4 "Not in my Backyard..." June 19, 1989
A GUIDE TO SELECTED
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
DATABASES ON THE SUBJECT
OF HAZARDOUS WASTES
June 1989
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
HEADQUARTERS LIBRARY
401 M STREET, SW
WASHINGTON, DC 20460
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OVERVIEW OF HAZARDOUS WASTE LAW
Sharon S. Metcalf
June 19, 1989
I. Introduction
II. Citations to Primary Statutes and Regulations
A. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), codified at 42
U.S.C. sees. 6901-9657. This statute was passed, originally in
1976, as an amendment to the Solid Waste Disposal Act. It was
itself amended by the Hazardous and Solid Waste Act Amendments of
1984 ("Hiswa"), and the Medical Waste Tracking Act of 1988, P.L.
100-582.
Federal RCRA regulations appear at 40 C.F.R. Parts 240-280.
B. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and
Liability Act of 1980,. P.L. 96-510 (CERCLA or "Superfund".), as
amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of
1986, P.L. 99-499 (SARA), codified at 42 U.S.C. sees. 9601-9675.
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan
("NCP"), 40 C.F.R. Part 300 (1985). The proposed revised
National Contingency Plan, incorporating changes required by
SARA, appears at 53 Fed. Reg. 51394, December 21, 1988.
See also 40 C.F.R. Part 35 for state and local assistance
regulations, including Technical Assistance Grants.
C. Emergency Planning and Community.Right to Know Act (Title III
of SARA), 42 U.S.C. sec. 11001 et seq.
Regulations for Title III are at 40 C.F.R. Part 370.
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III. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
A. Consists of three basic programs
-Hazardous Waste (Subtitle C)
-Solid Waste (Subtitle D) .
-Underground Storage Tanks (Subtitle I)
Sources of waste
B. . Hazardous waste program
1. Who's regulated?
a) types of activities
-generator
-transporter
-treatment, storage, disposal
(owner & operator)
b) types of wastes
-listed
-characteristic
-exclusions
2. What kinds of requirements are there?
(emphasis on design and operation)
a) notification
b)" generator and transporter requirements
c) treatment, storage, disposal facilities
-interim status operational standards •
-land .ban
-permit requirements
-closure, financial assurance
-corrective action
3. What role is there for the public?
a) state program authorizations
b) permitting process
c) enforcement or citizen suits1
4. How might law librarians be involved?
C. Solid waste program
1. Who's covered
2. How program works
3. Types of requirements
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D. Underground storage tank program
1. Who's covered
2. Types of requirements
3. Trust fund
IV. Overview of Superfund
A. Some unique features
designed to clean up "inactive" sites .
potential use of Fund for direct cleanup
broad liability provisions
high stakes
B. "Removal," or emergency response program
C. Remedial process
1. site investigation, scoring, listing
2. remedy selection (how clean is clean?)
statutory factors
-protective
-permanent
-achieve ARARs (applicable or relevant and
appropriate requirements)
-cost effective
3. remedy implementation
4. site deletion
D. "Enforcement" process
1. liability provisions
("potentially responsible parties" or "PRPs")
strict, joint and several
2. enforcement tools
special notice
information requests
106 or 104/122 administrative orders
consent decrees
3. cost recovery
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E. State role
F. Public role
site identification
site listing
remedy selection
enforcement
site deletion
G. How might law libraries be involved?
V. Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act
A. Preparedness requirements
8. Notification/reporting requirements
VI. Conclusion
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HAZARDOUS WASTE DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (HWDMS)
FACILITY LOCATION EXTRACT
HWDMS contains data on hazardous waste handlers, and/or
generators. The information is compiled from the Notification of
Hazardous Waste Activity, EPA Form 8700-1, and Form 3510-3,
Application for Hazardous Waste Permits. The data includes names
and addresses as well as locational information for all notifying
generators of at least 1,000 KG/MO of non-active hazardous
wastes or 1 KG/MO of acute hazardous wastes. EPA does not claim
that HWDMS contains all the potential regulated hazardous waste
facilities that exist or will exist. Although the property in
which you are interested is not currently listed in the
database, this is not a guarantee that a hazardous waste problem
will not exist there.
ACCESS
Magnetic tapes of the HWDMS Facility Location Extract are
available for purchase from the National Technical Information
Service (NT-IS-) Computer Products at 703/487-4763. The data file
is available on a quarterly subscription basis. The NTIS order
number is PB88-914300/XAB.
Individual requests for information contained on HWDMS must be
made in writing though a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
request to:
Jeralene Green
Freedom of Information A-101
U.S. EPA
401 M Street, SW
Washington, DC 20460
No telephone requests please!
Questions pertaining to the differences between the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act Notification Data File and the
Facility Location Extract should be addressed to NTIS Computer
Products 703/487-4763.
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Other Information: THE FILE IS UPDATED ON A QUARTERLY BASIS
A CURRENT DATA DICTIONARY AND DOCUMENTATION
IS INCLUDED WITH THE FILE TAPE. *
The tape contains data on approximately 253,393 facilities,
and has been expanded to include data on all hazardous waste
handlers that have notified under RCRA, as well as information
compiled from facilities filing for a Hazardous Waste Permit
Application.
The tape contains the names and addresses of the facility,
owner and operator, as well as the facility contact. The data
indicates whether a facility is a generator, transporter, or
treater/storer/disposer, and lists the code numbers of wastes
handled.
The tape does not contain enforcement sensitive data.
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TOXIC RELEASE INVENTORY
Mandated by Title III of the Superfund Amendments and
Reauthorization Act (SARA) of 1986, the inventory contains
provisions for the reporting, by industry, of data on over 300
toxic chemicals into the air, water, and land. Data submitted to
EPA includes names and addresses of facilities which manufacture,
process, or otherwise use these chemicals, as well as amounts
released to the environment or transferred to waste sites.
ACCESS
Registered users of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) will
be able to access TRI on the TOXNET system by direct dial or
through Telenet or Tymnet telecommunications networks. TRI users
will also automatically have access to all TOXNET and other NLM
files though the TOXNET Gateway. For more information, please
contact:
TRI Representative
Specialized Information Services
National Library of Medicine
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894
301/496-6531
At present, two TRI products are available to the public on.
magnetic tape from the National Technical Information Service
(NTIS) Computer Products at 703/487-4763. The order number for
the complete National TRI on magnetic tapes is PB89-186065. The
order number for just the TRI reporting facilities is
PB89-186118.
State and local agencies may be able to obtain direct access to
the inventory. Please contract the 313 Coordinator in your
appropriate EPA Region.
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D-4 "Not in my Backyard..." June 19, 1989
U.S. EPA Announcement
RCRA/Superfund Industrial Assistance Hotline Fact Sheet
Background
The RCRA/Superfund Industrial Assistance Hotline is operated by
Geo/Resource Consultants, Inc. It is an information service under contract to the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency
Response. The Hotline's primary function is to assist the public and the regulated
community in understanding the regulations promulgated and EPA's policies
developed pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
(CERCLA), also known as Superfund. In addition to providing regulatory
assistance, the Hotline serves as a liaison between the regulated community and
EPA personnel. The Hotline also provides information on the availability of and
accepts requests for some RCRA and CERCLA documents.
The Hotline is staffed by Information Specialists. The Information Specialists
come from such varied backgrounds as civil, chemical, environmental and
geological engineering, biology, chemistry, geology, industrial hygiene,
environmental science, and environmental policy.
In addition to responding to questions about the regulations, the Hotline staff
has other responsibilities. For example, in order to achieve the highest degree of
understanding and familiarity with the regulations and related policy, each
Information Specialist is required to be current with new and existing laws,
regulations, policies, guidance and documents. This is accomplished by continuous
research, training, work group participation and frequent interaction with EPA
program personnel. Other Hotline activities include researching unresolved issues
and questions, statistical documentation, special projects for EPA program offices,
keeping abreast in specialty areas and preparation of reports summarizing the
Hotline's monthly activities.
Typically the Hotline receives calls from a variety of persons within the
United States and abroad. The attached summary report provides the breakdown of
call categories by geographic distribution (EPA Regions), callers (e.g., generators) and
topics.
Location and Hours
The RCRA/Superfund Hotline is located in the offices of Geo/Resource
Consultants, Inc., adjacent to EPA headquarters in the Waterside Mall at 401 M
Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. Information Specialists are available to answer
questions Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m
(EST), excluding Federal holidays. Callers within the United States, Puerto Rico, and
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the Virgin Islands may reach the Hotline by dialing toll free 1-800-424-9346. The
Hotline may also be reached by commercial and FTS services by dialing (202) 382-
3000. Calls originating in the District of Columbia (area code 202) must use 382-3000.
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Attachment A
Daily/Monthly Summary Report
Manufacturers.
Generators
Transporters
TSDFs
EPA HQ.
EPA Regions
Federal Agencies.
State Agencies
Local Agencies
Used Oil Handlers.
USTO/O's
Consultants
Attorneys
Laboratories
Breakdown of Calls by EPA Regions:
1 3
Univ. Researchers—
Trade Associations.
Insurance Go's
Environ. Groups!
Press.
Citizens.
Other
International
10.
RCRA
General Information.
§3010 Notification—
§260.10 Definitions_
§260.22 Petitions/Delisting
§261.2 Solid Waste Definition,
§261.3 H.W. Definition
§261 C Characteristic H.W.
§261 D Listed H.W
§261.4 Exclusions
§261.5 SQ Generators.
§261.6 Recycling Standards
§261.7 Container Residues
§266 C Use Const. Disposal.
§266 D H.W. Burned for Energy Rec
§266 E Used Oil Burned for Energy Rec.
§266 F Precious Metal Reclamation
§266 G Spent Lead/AB Rec
§262 Generator - General
100-1000 fcg/
Manifest Info.
Accumulation.
Record Keeping/Rep.
International Shipments.
Subtitle D_
Used Oil - General.
Household H.W
Diovins
Mixed Radioactive Waste.
Test Methods
PCBs
Infectious Waste
Liability/Enforcement
Corrective Action
Waste Minimization
Minimum technology
H.W. Training/OSHA Req,
264/265 TSDF
A—Scope/ Applicability
B—General Facility Stds
C—Preparedness/Prevention.
D—Contingency Plans.
E—Manifest/RK/Reporting-
F—GW Monitoring.
G—Closure/Post dosure__
H—Financial Requirements.
I—Container*
J—Tanfcc
K—Surface Impoundments.
L—Waste Piles
M—Land Treatment.
N—Landfills.
O—Incinerators.—
P—Thermal Treatment
\., Phys., Bio Treatment.
R—Underground Injection
X—Miscellaneous
Liquids in Landfills.
§268 Solvents and Dio»ns_
California List Wastes.
Scheduled Thirds
§269 Air Emission Stds
§270 A—General
B—Permit Applic.
D—Changes toPermits.
F—Special Permits.
G—Interim Status/LOIS.
§271 State Programs
§124 Admin. Procedures.
Subtotal.
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CERCLA
General
SARA General _
Access and Info. Gathering —
Allocations from Fund/Fund,
Balancing and Grants _
Clean-Up Stds./ARARs/
How Clean-is-Qean _
Contractor Indemnification _
Contracts/Contract Lab Prog.
ExposureAssessment/PubliC-
Health Evaluation _
Enforcement
Federal Facilities.
Hazardous Substances/RQs.
HRS
Liability/PRPs
Mandatory Schedules.
Natural Resource Damages.
NBARsu—
NCP
NPL •
Off-Site Policy.
PA/SI _
RD/RA
Remedial
Removal
RI/FS
RODs/dean-Up Costs.
Settlements________
SITE Program.
State Participation.
Taxes—_____
Title III/Right-to-Know-
Other Provisions
Underground Storage Tanks
General
§280.10 Applicability-
§280.11 Interim Prohibition.
§280.12 Definitions
General
UST
Regulated Substance-
§280 B New UST Systems
§280.20 Performance Stds
§280.21 Upgrading
§280.22 Notification.
§280 C General Operating Req..
§280 D Release Detection :_
§280 E Release Rpt Invest.
§280 F CA—Petroleum
§280 GCA—Haz.Sub.
§280 H—Out-of-Service/aos._
§2801—Financial Respon
§281 State UST Programs___
Liability.
Enforcement.
LUST Trust Fund.
Other Provision—
Subtotal.
Subtotal.
Written Request Responses:
Referrals:
EPAHQ/Regions
State
Dockets
CPO,NTIS,PIC,ORD.
Other
Referred to EPA Program Ofc
Referred to other Fed. Agencies_
Referred externally (states
organizations, etc.)
Response form sent
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D-4 "Not in my Backyard... June 19, 1989
GUIDE TO
EPA LIBRARIES
AND
INFORMATION SERVICES
Ninth Edition
July 1988
Information Management and Services Division
Office of Information Resources Management
Office of Administration and Resources Management
• United States Environmental Protection Agency
Washington DC 20460
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Introduction jjj
EPA Information Services:
Headquarters Library, Washington DC 1
Public Information Center, Washington DC 5
Legislative Reference Service, Washington DC 6
Region 1 Library, Boston MA 8
Waste Management Records Center, Boston MA 10
Environmental Res Lab Library, Narragansert Rl 11
Region 2 Library, New York NY 13
Region 2 Field Office Library, Edison NJ 14
Region 3 Information Resource Center, Philadelphia PA 15
Law Library, Washington DC 17
Central Regional Lab Library, Annapolis MD ,19
Office of Toxic Non-Confidential Information Center,
Washington DC 20
Region 4 Library, Atlanta GA : . 22
Research Triangle Park NC Library Services 24
Environmental Res Lab Library, Gulf Breeze FL 26
Environmental Res Lab Library, Athens GA 28
Research Triangle Park NC Library (OAQPS) 30
Research Triangle Park NC Library (ASRL-Meteorology) 32
Region 5 Library, Chicago IL 33
A.W. Breidenbach Environmental Research Center Library,
Cincinnati OH 36
Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office,
Technical Information Center, Cincinnati OH 39
Motor Vehicle Emissions Lab Library, Ann Arbor Ml 41
Environmental Res Lab Library, Duluth MN 43
Region 6 Library, Dallas TX . . 45
Robert S. Kerr Environmental Res Lab Library, Ada OK' 47
Region 7 Library, Kansas City KS 49
Region 8 Library, Denver CO 51
National Enforcement and Investigations Center Library, Denver CO. 52
Region 9 Library, San Francisco CA . . . 54
Environmental Monitoring Systems Lab Library, Las V-jgas, NV . . . 57
Region 10 Library. Seattle WA 59
Environmental Res Lab Library, Corvallis OR 61
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INTRODUCTION
Appendices:
Legend of EPA Library Codes
Special Collections
Subject Index to EPA Libraries' General Collections :
Description of Databases Used by EPA Libraries . . .
Table of Databases Used by EPA Libraries
Approximate Number of Items Held by EPA Libraries
Cities in which EPA Libraries are Located
States in which EPA Libraries are Located
Regions in which EPA Libraries are Located
Names of EPA Library Staff Members
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69
79
85
95
96
97
101
105
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is comprised of a
Headquarters Office in Washington. D.C.. 10 Regional offices, and 13
specialized, scientific laboratories located throughout the country. There are
28 EPA network libraries located in Headquarters and all Regional offices and
laboratories to support this organizational structure. Other information services
include:
• Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office
Technical Information Unit. Cincinnati, OH
• Legislative Reference Library, Washington DC
• Public Information Center, Washington DC
• Waste Management Records Center, Boston MA
The libraries and other information services contain a combined collection of
over 127,538 books, 5,048 journals subscriptions, 355.917 hard copy reports,
2.998,513 docu-ments on microfilm and microfiche, 9.000 journal article
reprints and 2,000 maps. Most of the EPA library network's holdings are
cataloged on OCLC, a national cataloging system.
This Guide provides background information on the collections of each of the
28 libraries and the wide range of general and specialized information services
provided to EPA staff and the general public. The services provided include:
acquisition of books, journals, reports; cataloging; circulation; access to the
collections of other Federal, academic, public and special libraries through
interlibrary loan; reference assistance including preparation of special subject
bibliographies and bibliographic database search services.
Several of the libraries have more complete selections of information or special
collections on specific subjects. In FY 1986, the Headquarters library
developed a special collection on Hazardous Waste for the entire network. The
complete collection currently contains over 2.843 books, journals and reports.
It is housed in 17 selected EPA libraries.
To facilitate ease of access to the documents in the Hazardous Waste
Collection (HWC), a PC-based database has been developed. The database.
which is updated quarterly, contains keywords and abstracts of all documents
in the collection. Copies of the database may be obtained from the National
Technical Information Sen/ice (NTIS) in Springfield. Virginia. The NTIS Order
Number is: PB87-152-690. (See 'Special Collections' Appendix for specific
locations of the Hazardous Waste and other special collections.)
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Three-character codes have been assigned to each of the network libraries
according to geographical location, e.g., EHA. The *A* library (last character
of code) is always the regional library; the °B,* *C,' etc., are assigned to other
libraries located in the same geographic region. (Prior to 1979, the libraries
were assigned numeric codes, e.g., 01A.) The entries in the Guide are arranged
by library code. Please note that the other information services noted in
paragraph one, e.g., Public Information Center, have not been assigned library
codes. Entries for those services can be found immediately after the library in
its geographic region.
The ten appendices include the following information: Legend of EPA Library
Codes; Guide to Special Collections; Subject Index to EPA Libraries' General
Collections; Description of Databases Used by the EPA Libraries; Table of
Databases Used by EPA Libraries (in chart-form); Approximate Number of
Items Held by EPA Libraries; Cities in which EPA Libraries are located; States
in which EPA libraries are located; Regions in which EPA libraries are located;
and Names of EPA Library Staff Members.
This Guide was prepared by the Information Management and Services
Division. Any questions can be directed to Mary Patterson, Information
Management Specialist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street.
S.W.. PM-211D, Washington, D.C.. 20460. Phone number: (202) 382-5929.
Headquarters Library
Washington, D.C.
Codes: EJB/03B
MAIN LIBRARY
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Staff:
TECHNICAL SERVICES
Address:
Telephone:
Staff:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Headquarters Library, PM-211A
401 M Street, S.W.. Room 2904 WSM
Washington, DC 20460
(202) 382-5921 (CML)
(8)382-5921 (FTS)
EPA3738
Library.Hq
Mary Hoffman
Head Reference Librarian Anne Twitched
Reference Librarian Athena Stone
Reference Librarian Sheila Richard
Reference Librarian Steve Hirsch
Head Librarian/Hazardous Waste Monique Currie
EPA Library Technical Services Center
401 M Street. S.W.. PM-211B
Washington. DC 20460
(202) 475-7762 (CML)
(8) 475-7762 (FTS)
Acquisitions Librarian Susan Lowell
Catalog Librarian Gretl Cox
Interlibrary Loan Librarian Leida Torres
Hours:
8.00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
The EPA Headquarters Library is operated by the Information Management
and Services Division under contract to Labat-Anderson, Inc. It provides
information services covering a wide range of environmental and related
subjects of interest to EPA staff and the general public. Major areas include.
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Resource recovery
Solid waste
Toxicology
Wastewater treatment '
Water quality
Water supply
There is also a collection of materials on social, economic, legislative, legal,
administrative and management projects related to all aspects of environmental
policy.
The Headquarters Library collection is comprised of: 15.000 books; 625 current
subscriptions to journals, abstracts and indexes, newsletters and newspapers;
23,000 hard copy documents and technical reports generated by government
sources or the private sector; 335.000 documents on microfiche, including
technical reports produced by EPA and its predecessor agencies; and a
microfilm collection that includes back files of newspapers, abstracts and
indexes, and periodicals.
Library services include the following:
Acquisitions: The acquisitions unit processes orders for subscriptions and
reference materials for the Headquarters Library only.
Bibliographies: These are compiled based on special requests by EPA
employees.
Cataloging: The cataloging unit processes 'books, journals and other
documents from all EPA libraries into the EPA national catalog.
Circulation: Documents from the Headquarters Library collection are
circulated to EPA employees.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL): The interlibrary loan unit maintains cooperative
agreements with many academic, public and special libraries to borrow books,
journals and other research materials not maintained in the Headquarters
collection for the use of EPA staff. The average turnaround time for borrowing
through interlibrary loan is 3.5 working days.
Literature Searching: Computerized searching of commercial databases
and selected EPA databases is performed for EPA employees to retrieve
information for policy decisions, report preparation, data analysis and
background research, and for preparation of special subject bibliographies.
Reference: On-site ready reference service is available to EPA staff and the
public. More extensive reference service is provided to EPA staff as required.
Equipment: Photocopy machines and microform reader/printers are
to library patrons for the reproduction of up to 25 pages of literature not
covered by copyriqht. Material is loaned to Agency personnel; other users
must submit interlibrary loan forms.
Computer assisted literature search services: CAS Online, Chemical
Information System (CIS), DIALOG, Ground Water On-line, LEXIS/NEXIS,
National Library of Medicine (NLM), NewsNet. Washington Alert and EPA's
Hazardous Waste Database and Information Systems Inventory (ISI).
Publications currently available:
Bibliographies:
Asbestos-in-Schools
Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention
Estuarine Management Program
Indoor Air Pollution
Indoor Radon Pollution
Information Resources Management Management Bibliographies:
Intrapreneurship
Managing in the Public Sector
Resistance to Change
Supervisors and Human Resources Management
Technical Expert Turned Manager
Risk Assessment, Management, Communication: A Guide to
Selected Sources
Waste Minimization
• Books for Young People on Environmental Issues
• Interlibrary Loan Services of the Headquarters Library.
• Introduction to Headquarters Library Services and Collections.
• Searching for Answers, Guide to Database Searching at the EPA
Headquarters Library
• Special Library Collection: Hazardous Waste
• The Information Broker (monthly)
OTHER INFORMATION SERVICES
The Information Management and Services Division is also the U.S. National
Focal Point for UNEP/INFOTERRA and manager for the Agency's translation
service.
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U.S. NATIONAL FOCAL POINT - UNEP/INFOTERRA: The Environmental
Protection Agency was designated as the United States National Focal Point
(or the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)/INFOTERRA Program
by the U.S. Department of State in 1975. There are 135 countries participating
as INFOTERRA National Focal Points. The network is designed to serve as an
environmental referral organization providing sources, documents and
bibliographic information to inquirers.
TRANSLATIONS: The EPA translations service was established in 1972 to
provide EPA employees with a mechanism for having scientific and technical
documents translated from and into English. The Information Management
and Services Division is the project manager for the service and maintains a
microfiche collection of all items that have been translated through the
program. A 'What's New in Translations' newsletter is published periodically
to inform EPA staff of recent translations.
Public Information Center
Washington, D.C.
Code: -
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Director:
Staff:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Public Information Center
40! M Street, S.W.
Southeast Garage Level
Washington, D.C. 20460
(202) 475-7751 (CML)
(8) 475-7751 (FTS)
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N.Langford
Nancy Langford
Hours:
Information Specialist
Specialist
Information Aide
Information Aide
8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
Julia Houston
Leib Kaminsky
Johnnie Bailey
William McDonald
The Public Information Center (PIC) is operated by the Information
Management and Services Division under contract to Labat-Anderson, Inc. PIC
provides a wide variety of general, non-technical information about EPA and
its programs to the general public and EPA staff.
As the primary point of communication between EPA and the public, PIC
responds to over 3,500 inquiries per month on all major environmental topics.
A small inventory of publications is maintained onsite. Publications produced
rn cooperation with the Office of Public Affairs are stored in the Cincinnati
warehouse.
PIC services include:
• Handling general inquiries regarding EPA program activities and
environmental concerns.
• Acting as a referral center for technical inquiries and non-EPA inquiries
• Providing onsite information services to EPA visitors and staff.
• Networking with EPA Project Officers to offer public information
services where possible.
• Assisting EPA staff with compiling informational packets.
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Reference Library
Washington, D.C.
Codes: -
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Staff:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Legislative Reference Library (A-102)
401 M Street, S.W.. Room 832 West Tower
Washington, D.C. 20460
(202) 382-5425 (CML)
(8) 382-5425 (FTS)
EPA1550
S.Overman
Joan Flatten
Legislative Reference Assistant (Vacant)
Hours:
9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
The Legislative Reference Library is maintained by the Office of External
Affairs, Office of Legislative Analysis, to provide Federal environmental
legislation information for the Agency.
The collection contains over 8,000 documents produced by Congress, i.e.,
copies of bills, reports, public laws, committee prints, committee hearings,
legislative histories. Congressional Records (three years), Senate & House
calendars and phone books, Congressional Directories. Congressional
Pictorial Directories, and other congressional reports when possible. The
collection also contains many reference guides and a number of periodicals.
The library tracks the status of current environmental, water and land
resources, budget and Federal personnel legislation. The information is
organized by subject, committee, etc. The library maintains a card catalog of
the congressional hearings it retains.
The library compiles lists and reports on the status of bills pending before the
current and past Congresses. The library prepares a daily morning report of
events taking place in the Congress and abstracts the Congressional Record
each day. Individuals may request to be placed on the mailing list for the
Congressional Record Abstract.
Acquisitions: The Legislative Reference Library receives all Congressional
documents for the Agency.
Circulation: Copies of materials are provided to EPA employees as long
as supplies last. When supplies are exhausted and can no longer be acquired,
file copies of documents may be xeroxed.
Reference Services: The library staff provides reference assistance to EPA
staff as time permits. Assistance is provided to the public by phone.
Computer assisted literature search services: The library subscribes to
the LEGI-SLATE and Washington Alert (Congressional Quarterly) databases.
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Region 1, Boston
Codas: EH A/01 A
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Staff:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Region 1 Library
JFK Federal Bldg.
Boston, MA 02203
(617) 565-3300 (CML)
(8) 835-3300 (FTS)
EPA9128
Library.Regl
Peg Nelson
Library Technician Judy Saravis
Library Aide Wayne Malin
Hours:
8:30 am to 4:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
The EPA Region 1 Library was established in 1967 at the New England Basins
Office of the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration. The collection
still reflects some older New England river basin reports, but has been
extensively developed in the areas of:
• Pesticides & Toxic Substances
• Solid & Hazardous Waste
• Test Methods (EPA)
• Water Pollution & Control
The library, co-located with the Information Center, is operated by the
Information Management Branch of the Planning and Management Division
under contract to Labat-Anderson, Inc. The combined collections consist of
approximately 5.000 books, 5,000 documents, 9,000 EPA reports, 80,000
microfiche, and 175 journal titles in three locations: Main and Law libraries in
Boston and New England Regional Laboratory library in Lexington, MA.
Special collections include the Hazardous Waste Collection, Envirofiche since
1980 and the New England materials: Connecticut, Maine. Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
The library provides a full range of services to approximately 600 EPA staff,
and to other Federal, State and municipal agencies. Outside users--
consultants, private businesses, students, citizens' groups, and the general
public have on-site use o< the collection, as well as limited reference service
and borrowing privileges.
Library services include the following:
Acquisition: The library orders most of the books and periodicals for the
region.
Cataloging: The library catalogs books, documents and unnumbered EPA
report's using a local Document Control System (DCS) and adds holding to
OCLC. A printed book-catalog offers local subject headings and title access
to the collection.
Circulation: All materials, except reference, circulate for two-week period
to qualified borrowers.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL): Interlibrary loans are transacted primarily through
OCLC, but American Library Association (ALA) forms or phone requests will
be accepted.
Literature Searching: The library maintains access to multiple systems and
will search for EPA and State agencies, but not for the general public.
Reference: Both phone and on-site reference assistance are available to •
anyone. More extensive service is limited to full EPA and State agencies.
Equipment: A microfiche reader/printer and a photocopy machine are
available to library patrons for the free reproduction of up to 20 pages.
Computer assisted literature search services: Bibliographic Retrieval
Service (BRS), CAS Online, Chemical Information System (CIS), DIALOG, Dun
and Bradstreet, Ground Water On-Line, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
LEXIS/NEXIS and EPA's Hazardous Waste Collection Database, Information
Systems Inventory (ISI). Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), Public
Health Risk Evaluation Database (PHRED) and Department of Justice's Justice
Retrieval and Inquiry System (JURIS).
Publications currently available: ,
• What's New (monthly acquisitions)
• Index to EPA Test Methods (EPA/901-3-88-001)
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WasTe^ Management Division Records Center
Boston, MA
Codes:
Address:
Telephone:
Staff:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Records Center/HES-CAN3
JFK Federal Building
Boston, MA 02203
(617) 573-5729 (CML)
Records Manager
Records Clerk
Evo Cunha
(Vacant)
Hours:
9:00 -11:00 a.m. and 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Monday - Friday
A pubic reading room is maintained in the Waste Management Division
Records Center at 90 Canal Street in Boston for the review of public dockets
including: Federal Facilities Docket, National Priority List (NPL) Docket and
Superfund Administrative Records.
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Narragansett, Rhode Island
Codes: EHB/01B
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Hours:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Research Laboratory Library
South Ferry Road
Narragansett, Rl 02882
(401) 789-1071 (CML)
(8) 838-6025 (FTS)
EPA8461*
ERL/Narragansett*
Rose Ann Gamache
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
Librarian on duty Monday - Thursday
The Environmental Research Laboratory Narragansett (ERLN), with its Field
Station in Newport, Oregon, is the Agency's center for marine, coastal and
estuarine water quality research.
The library at ERLN is a highly specialized scientific and technical library,
providing support services for the following research areas:
• Estuarine and marine disposal and discharge of complex wastes,
dredged materials, and other wastes.
• Water use designation and quality criteria for estuarine and marine
water and sediment.
• Environmental assessment of ocean discharge.
These research program areas involve the development, evaluation, and
application of techniques and test systems for measuring and predicting the
transport, fate, and biological and' ecosystem effects of complex and other
wastes in estuarine and marine systems.
The primary function of the library is to obtain and provide specialized
reference materials and library services for technical and administrative
personnel working at ERLN. Secondly, the library will service information
requests from other EPA facilities and bona fide libraries. The library consists
of a single centralized core library and numerous specialized individual
libraries located physically as is convenient to the respective users. The library
is comprised of: 3,100 books, 38 subscriptions to journals, abstracts and
newsletters. Also, a small document collection including EPA reports is held.
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Subject areas are:
• marine biology
• marine organisms
• fisheries biology ' ' .
The following services are available through the library in support of the
on-going research at ERLN.
Selection, acquisition, current awareness, circulation, reference, interlibrary
loan, information retrieval, translations, and cataloging.
Equipment: A photocopy machine, personal computer and a microform
reader/printer are available for library use.
Region 2, New York
Codes: EIA/02A
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID.
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Hours:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Region 2 Library, Room 402
26 Federal Plaza
New York NY 10278
(212)264-2881 (CML)
(8) 264-2881 (FTS)
EPA9299*
C.Equo*
Dennis Carey
EPA Staff: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
Open to Public:
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday,
Monday - Friday
The library, organized under the auspices of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Administration, embraces all aspects of EPA's environmental mission.
The collection includes over 4,100 monographs, 12,000 Federal, State and
local documents and technical reports, and 60 journals and abstract services.
Holdings are distributed between New York and the field office in Edison, N.J.,
and focus on subjects relevant to Region 2, which comprises New York, New
Jersey, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
The library is open to the general public for reference purposes.
Services provided to EPA staff and their contractors include: circulation,
interlibrary loan, reference, cataloging, and monthly acquisitions list.
Equipment: A microfiche reader-printer is available in the library.
Computer assisted literature search services: DIALOG, Ground Water
Online and EPA's Hazardous Waste Database and Information Systems
Inventory (ISI).
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Edison, New Jersey
Codes: EIC/02B
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Hours:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Region 2 Field Office Library
Edison. NJ 08837
(201) 321-6762 (CML)
(8) 340-6762 (FTS)
EPA9299*
C.Equo*
Dorothy Szefczyk
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
The library was organized in 1966 under the auspices of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Administration. It was originally heavily oriented toward
water, but now includes materials on all EPA programs:
Air
Hazardous wastes
Pesticides
Radiation
Solid waste
Toxic substances
Water
Radiation
At present, the collection consists of 3,000 books, 5,000 technical reports, 50
journal subscriptions, and 100,000 reports on microfiche.
Services provided to EPA staff and their contractors include circulation,
interlibrary loan, reference, cataloging, and monthly acquisitions list. A
microfiche reader-printer and a copier are available in .the library. Visitors are
charged $.10 per page.
The library is open to the general public for reference purposes.
Computer assisted literature search service: DIALOG.
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Region 3, Philadelphia
Codes: EJA/03A
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Staff:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Region 3 Information Resource Center
841 Chestnut Street (3PM52)
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 597-0580 (CML)
(8) 597-0580 (FTS)
EPA9337
Library.Reg3
Diane McCreary
Interlibrary Loan
Library Technician
Joyce Baker
Thurmond Lewis
Hours:
8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Monday - Friday
(24 hour access to staff)
The Region 3 Information Resource Center (IRC) provides information support
for a wide range of environmental programs and activities conducted by the
Regional office. It also serves as an information resource for the general public.
Subject areas include:
Air pollution
Employee development
Environmental Law
Hazardous waste
Management
Pesticides
Radiation
Toxic Substances
Toxicology
Water pollution
Wetlands
There are special collections on wetland ecology and hazardous waste. In
addition, a special effort is made to acquire published information on
environmental conditions and trends within the five states and the District of
Columbia which comprise Region 3. Development of a comprehensive
collection of geologic and topographic maps is underway.
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The Region 3 IRC consists of 5,100 books; 5,000 law books, 200 subscriptions
and 8,000 technical reports in hard copy. There are 63,000 technical reports,
25,000 environmental impact statements and 20,000 articles and other
publications on environmental topics in microform.
Library services include the following:
Acquisitions: The Region 3 IRC coordinates the acquisition of published
material throughout the Regional Office.
Cataloging: All incoming items are processed arid added to the library's
catalog for quick retrieval. The IRC participates in the OCLC system.
Circulation: Most items in the library are available to EPA employees on a
loan basis.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL): Publications not in the Region 3 collection can be
borrowed from other government, university, public and corporate libraries.
In turn, the Region 3 IRC loans items from its collection to other libraries.
Literature Searching: The library maintains access to over 250 databases
and performs information searches for EPA employees. The information is
used to prepare risk assessments, site investigations and enforcement actions,
as well as to respond to inquiries from other agencies, the media and the
general public.
Reference: The library staff provides reference assistance to EPA staff and
to all library visitors. Assistance is also provided to the public by phone.
Equipment: A photocopier and microform reader/printers are available to
library users. Visitors may make a moderate number of copies free; a $.20 per
page fee is charged for large amounts of copying.
Computer assisted literature search services: Chemical Information
System (CIS), DIALOG. Ground Water On-Line, LEXIS/NEXIS, National Library
of Medicine (NLM). TOXNET and EPA's Haiardous Waste Database and
Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS).
Law Library
Washington, D.C.
Codes: EJC/03G
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Staff:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Law Library, LE-1 SOL
401 M Street. S.W.. Room 2902
Washington. DC 20460
(202) 382-5919 (CML)
(8) 382-5919 (FTS)
EPA2B08
Library.Law
Barbara Pedrini Morrison
Librarian
Interlibrary Loan
Anne Gillis
Anne Gillis
Hours:
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
The EPA Law Library is maintained by the Office of General Counsel (OGC)
to provide information services to the Agency's legal and enforcement
personnel, and to the ten Regional Counsels.
The collection contains approximately 9.500 volumes of legal and law-related
material concentrating on Federallaw. with special emphasis on administrative
and environmental law. Included are statutes, codes, regulations, case
reporters, digests, citators, and legal reference sources, as well as looseleaf
services, newspapers, and 75 current law reviews and periodicals. In particular,
the Law Library owns Statutes at Large from 1931 and U.S. Code
Congressional and Administrative News from 1946.
Of special interest are archival hpldings in hardcopy and microfiche of Title
40 of the Code of Federal Regulations from 1972 to the present, as well as
microfiche of other CFR titles from inception: T. 5. Administrative Personnel;
T. 21, Food and Drugs; T. 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters; T. 41, Public
Contracts and Property Management; T. 42, Public Health; T. 48, FAR System.
The microfiche collection also covers the Congressional Record (1969 to date),
the Federal Register (1970 to date) and legislative histories of laws relevant
to EPA's mission.
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Library services include the following:
Acquisitions: The Law Library staff processes all orders for new collection
materials, and for the books and journals required by individual OGC offices.
Circulation:, Materials circulate to in-house Agency staff and, by messenger
pickup, to the local community. Interlibrary loans are handled directly in the
Law Library, usually within 24 hours.
Reference services (e.g., case identification, cite verification) are provided to
the Office of General Counsel, the Administrative Law Judges, the Judicial
Officer, and all other EPA personnel who request assistance. Telephone
reference is extended to EPA field locations and to numerous private law firms,
both local and nationwide. The public is allowed use of the Law Library
collection.
Equipment: Copying privileges are extended to Agency employees only. A
microform reader/printer is available for patron use.
Computer assisted literature search services:
and Inquiry System) and LEXIS.
JURIS (Justice Retrieval
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Annapolis, Maryland
Codes: EJD/03C
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Hours:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Central Regional Laboratory (CRL) Library
839 Bestgate Road
Annapolis, MD 21401
(301) 266-9180 (CML)
EPA9385*
CRL/Reg.3*
Meg Munro
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
Librarian on duty Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
The Central Regional Laboratory (CRL) library was established in support of
the Regional Laboratory which started in Annapolis in 1964. The subjects in
the collection focus on:
Biology
Chemistry
Ecology
Engineering
Hazardous waste
Hydrology
Oceanography
To serve the highly diversified expertise of the laboratory scientists and
engineers, material is provided in aquatic biology, analytical chemistry,
automated laboratory techniques, industrial wastewater monitoring, toxic and
hazardous substances, and mathematical modeling.
CRL holdings total 1,300 tech ical books, 4,500 reprints, 60 journal
subscriptions, and a large collection of EPA reports. CRL reports deal with
water quality management of the Chesapeake Bay and other estuaries of the
Mid-Atlantic region, and the continental shelf off Maryland and Delaware.
Library services available are acquisition, interlibrary loan, literature searches,
current awareness, with reference and information services.
The library users include the laboratory staff, EPA libraries, Federal and State
agencies, academic institutions, the scientific community, students and the
general public.
The library houses an extensive special collection on the Chesapeake Bay.
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Office of Toxic Substances Non-Confidential Information Center
Washington. D.C. Codes: CJE/03T
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Staff:
Hours:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Toxic Substances Non-Confidential
Information Center. TS-793
401 M Street. S.W.. Northeast Mall, Room B002
Washington, DC 20460
(202) 382-2320 (CML)
(8) 382-2320 (FTS)
EPA7565
Library.TSCA
Lisa Thompson
Technical Information Specialist
Library Technician
Librarian Technician
Machine Operator
Library Support (contractor)
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
Betlie Sterling
Lisa Frisch
Francine Benjamin
Nancy Porter
The Office of Toxic Substances (OTS) Non-Confidential Information Center
(NCIC) is in the Information Management Division. Office of Toxic Substances.
Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances (OPTS).
The NCIC collection covers chemical literature in areas of:
Biotechnology
Chemical industry and process technology
Ecology
Health
International chemical control
Pesticides
The NCIC supports program activities under the Toxic Substances Control Act
(TSCA).
The NCIC has 5.000 books, 162 current journals, a collection of 5,000 technical
reports, including those supported by OPTS, a microfiche collection of 140.000
scientific and technical journal articles, and three national newspapers.
NCIC services include the following:
Acquisitions: Program-related, priority materials are ordered for the
Director, scientific and support staff of the Office of Toxic Substances (OTS).
Cataloging: All books and reference materials acquired are cataloged and
entered into the EPA national catalog.
Circulation: Books and reports circulate to EPA employees.
Interlibrary Loan: The NCIC maintains cooperative agreements with many
Federal, public and special libraries; to borrow books and technical reports for
the OTS staff. Interlibrary loans are transacted primarily through OCLC.
Literature searching: Computerized and manual searches are compiled
for OTS staff. Bibliographies of national interest are shared with EPA.
Reference: Extensive reference service is provided to OTS staff.
Equipment: The NCIC staff will duplicate library materials for OTS staff. A
photocopier and microform reader/printers are available for use by EPA staff
and visitors. Non-Federal visitors are limited to 124 pages of copied materials.
Computer assisted literature search services: CAS Online, Chemical
Information System (CIS), DIALOG, LEXIS/NEXIS, National Library of Medicine
(TOXLINE/TOXNET). SDC/ORBIT, all OTS developed databases and EPA's
Information Systems Inventory (ISI).
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Region 4, Atlanta
Codes: EKA/04A
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Library/Records
Management Manager:
Librarian:
Staff:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Region 4 Library (G6)
345 Courtland Street, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30365-2401
(404) 347-4216 (CML)
(8) 257-4216 (FTS)
EPA9415.
Library.Reg.IV
Gayle Alston
Priscilla Pride
Superfund Librarian
Library Technician
Library Technician
Beverly Fulwood
Betty Drury
Bill Marx
Hours:
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Monday - Friday
The Region 4 Library is operated by the Information Management Branch
under contract to Labat-Anderson, Inc. The Library was established in May,
1973, and provides a full range of library and information services, covering
subjects from air and water pollution to toxics and hazardous waste with a
variety of technical reports, reference books, journals and online computer
services.
Along with its large collection of environmental materials, the library offers
reference/research services, online literature searches, interlibrary loan,
1 selected chemical and pesticide files and Current awareness services.
At present the library owns approximately 4,500 reference books, 60,000
technical reports, 250 journals and newsletters, and an extensive microfilm
collection of EPA reports, environmental impact statements and Federal
Registers. Of special interest are the environmental problems of the
Southeastern United States, namely, Alabama, Florida, Georgia. Kentucky,
Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Region 4 employees may borrow most library materials for three weeks.
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Limited reference and loan services are also provided to the public. The Library
accepts telephone and mail requests and OCLC requests from other libraries.
Books are cataloged on OCLC and then entered into an in-house database
system. Documents are cataloged into major subject areas including: air,
energy, general, hazardous, land, noise, water. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
soil surveys, and the eight states in the Region. Journals are not cataloged at
the present time, but simply shelved alphabetically.
Computer assisted literature search services: CAS Online. Chemical
Information System (CIS). DIALOG, Dun and Bradstreet. LEXIS/NEXIS.
National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Pesticide Information Retrieval
System (NPIRS). Occupational Health Services (OHS), and ERA'S Hazardous
Waste Database, Information Systems Inventory (ISI) and Integrated Risk
Information System (IRIS).
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Library Services Oftice
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Codes: EKB/04B
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Staff:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Library Services Office, MD-35
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
(919) 541-2777 (CML)
(8) 629-2777 (FTS)
EPA3128
Libby.Smith
Rosemary Thorn
Air Information Center Reference
Ann Ingram
Interlibrary Loan
Jennifer Kraar
Library Technician
Evelyn Sauerbier
Photocopy Operator
Creighton Wellman
Information Center (RICII)
Ann Ingram
629-3661
629-0095
629-4242
629-3661
Hours:
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
The Research Triangle Park (RTP) Library provides support to the
Environmental Research Center, the Office of Air Quality Planning and
Standards (OAOPS), the Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office, the .
National Computer Center and local Agency contractors.
Collection concentration is on chemical toxicity, all aspects of air pollution as
well as the basic sciences, with some coverage of business and economics.
The collection's historical coverage of air pollution is particularly strong. Hard
copies of obscure materials from Air Pollution Abstracts (1966-1976) are
maintained.
The Library operates an Air Information Center (AIC) for the OAOPS. This
Center handles requests for air pollution information and documents from all
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over the world. The AIC provides free literature searches to State and local air
pollution agency employees and environmental groups as well. '
Services include extensive literature searching support; interlibrary loan,
utilizing a combination of off-site photocopying truck delivery service from
local libraries and blanket purchase agreements with major research libraries
in this country and abroad; reference and acquisitions.
The Library is staffed with Government personnel and through a contract with
the University of North Carolina Graduate School of Library Science. Contractor
personnel are primarily library school graduate students.
Computer assisted literature search services: Bibliographic Retrieval
Service (BRS), CAS Online, Chemical Information System (CIS), DIALOG.
Hazardline, National Library of Medicine (NLM) and EPA's Hazardous Waste
Database.
In October, 1985, the EPA opened an Information Center (RIC II) in the RTP
Library. The Center is designed to handle.questions, one-on-one training,
demonstrations, and assistance for Agency personnel using personal
computers and software packages.
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Gutt Breeze, Florida
Codes: EKC/04H
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Staff:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Research Laboratory (ERL) Library
Sabine Island
Gulf Breeze, FL 32561
(904) 932-5311. ext. 218 (ext. 318 ILL) (CML)
(8) 686-9011. ext. 218 (ext. 318 ILL) (FTS)
EPA8478
E.Pinnell
Liz Pinnell
Library Technician/ILL
Library Aide
Edith Barnes
Liz Hawthorne
Hours:
7:30 a.msto 4:00 p.m.
Monday - Friday
The Gulf Breeze Environmental Research Laboratory (GBERL) Library,
established in 1967, provides information services to GBERL employees and
the general public. The Library collection is comprised of approximately 5,000
volumes; 225 journals, newsletters, abstracts and indexes; 1,700 documents;
and 37,500 microform titles. Subject areas include:
Aquatic toxicology . .
Estuarine Research
Genetic engineering
Marine ecology
Microbiology
Palhobiology
Pesticide science
Library services include selection, acquisition, cataloging of new materials;
circulation of materials to laboratory staff and interlibrary loan to other libraries;
manual and online literature searches of commercial and government
databases; and on-site reference service to laboratory staff and the public as
well as telephone ready reference.
The Library archives and distributes copies of all laboratory publications.
Computer-generated bibliographies of this collection, complete with author
and keyword indexes, are available on request.
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A photocopy machine and microform reader/printer are available to laboratory
staff for the reproduction of material not covered by copyright. The Library
uses two Hewlett Packard 262IP terminals to access the laboratory VAX
11/785 minicomputer and other external databases.
Computer assisted literature search services: DIALOG, Ground Water
On-line, National Library of Medicine (NLM).
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Athens, Georgia
Codes: EKD/04D
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Hours:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Research Laboratory Library
College Station Road
Athens, GA 30613
(404) 546-3324 (CML)
(8) 250-3324 (FTS)
EPA8431*
ERL/Athens*
Janice Sims
8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Monday - Friday
The Athens Environmental Research Laboratory (ERL) library provides
information services covering a wide range of environmental and management
subjects of interest to EPA staff and the general public. Providing the necessary
information sources to meet the needs of the Laboratory research staff is of
utmost importance. Subject areas include:
Aquatic toxicology
Biology
Chemistry
Engineering
Microbiology
Pesticides
Water pollution
Water quality
The Athens Library collection is comprised of: 8,000 books; 75 current
subscriptions to journals and newsletters; 7,500 documents and technical
reports generated by government sources or the private sector; 50,000
documents on microfiche, including technical reports produced by EPA; and
a microfilm collection that includes back files of abstracts and indexes, and
periodicals.
Library services include the following:
Acquisitions: Books, newsletters, journal subscriptions, and technical
reports are ordered by the Librarian.
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Circulation: Documents from the Athens ERL Library collection are
. circulated to EPA staff and the general public. .
Interlibrary Loan: Interlibrary loan services are available to other EPA
libraries, government and university libraries. The library uses the OCLC
interlibrary loan subsystem to borrow books, journals and other research
materials not maintained in the library collection for the use of EPA staff.
Literature Searching: Computerized searching of databases is performed
for Athens ERL employees to retrieve information for report preparation, data
analysis and background research, and for preparation of special subject
bibliographies.
Reference: On-site reference service is available to EPA staff and the public.
More extensive reference service is provided to EPA staff as required.
Equipment: Photocopy machines and microform reader/printers are
available to library patrons for the reproduction of literature.
Computer assisted literature search services: CAS Online. Chemical
Information System (CIS), DIALOG, Ground Water On-Line.
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OAQPS
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Codes: EKE/04G
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Hours:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
826 Mutual Plaza, MD-16
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
(919) 541-5514 (CML)
(8) 629-5514 (FTS)
EPA3128*'
Libby.Smith"
University of North Carolina Library School Graduate
Student
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Monday - Friday
Librarian's hours vary.
The Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS) Library was
established as a unit of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and
was transferred from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Durham, North Carolina, in 1968.
Since then it has undergone several parent organization changes and in April,
1971, was designated as. part of the Environmental Protection Agency.
In 1981, the library began to be staffed by student interns as part of the contract
between Library Services/Research Triangle Park (RTP) and the University of
North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The University provides student help on a half-time
basis. The OAQPS library is a branch of the Library Services/RTF. Reference
questions related to air pollution and research can be directed to that library
(see pages 27-28).
The library consists of approximately 800 books, 70 journals and newsletters,
and a complete collection of EPA/OAQPS reports. The subject focus is on air
pollution and control technology, including material on costs, chemical
technology, minerals and statistics. The reference collection. emphasizes
chemistry and engineering.
Library services include the following:
Acquisitions: The library procures new materials for the use of OAQPS
personnel, including monographs, journals and government reports.
Circulation: Materials from the collection are circulated to EPA employees
and contractors.
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Interlibrary Loan (ILL): ILL requests by EPA personnel are forwarded to
Library Services/RTP if the material cannot be supplied from OAQPS
materials. ILL requests from other libraries for OAQPS materials are completed
by the OAQPS librarian.
Reference: On-site reference service is available to EPA staff and the public.
Because of limited in-house facilities, the librarian may contact Library
Services/RTP or local universities to obtain necessary information.
Equipment: A microfiche reader/printer and a photocopier are available.
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ASRL - Meteorology
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Codes: EKF/04L
Region 5. Chicago
Codes: ELA/05A
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Hours:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
ASRL - Meteorology Division Library (MD-80)
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
(919) 541-4536 (CML)
(8) 629-4536 (FTS)
EPA8491*
MAD/ESRL*
Evelyn Poole-Kober
7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Monday - Friday
The Atmospheric Sciences Research Laboratory (ASRL)/Meteorology Division
library originated in 1958 at the Robert S. Tatt Sanitary Engineering Center in
Cincinnati. Ohio. Through a series of government reorganizations it was
transferred to North Carolina in 1968 and became a part of the Environmental
Protection Agency at Research Triangle Park in 1971.
Its major field of interest is the meteorological aspects of air pollution, including
model development and application, climatic analysis, and geophysical
studies.
The collection includes 3,200 books, 125 scientific journal subscriptions and
1,300 technical reports. The library also holds a collection of climatic data
material consisting of approximately 4,000 climatic data reports on microfiche,
over 400 rolls of film of synoptic data, surface and vorticity charts, and a large
body of topographic maps.
Interlibrary loan, acquisition, circulation, literature searching and reference
services are provided to EPA personnel and to National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration meteorologists. Reference service is available to
Agency contractors, local university faculty and students, and the general
public.
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Staff:
Hours:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Region 5 Library
230 South Dearborn Street, Room 1670
Chicago, IL 60604
(312) 353-2022 (CML)
(8) 353-2022 (FTS)
EPA9559
Library.RegS
Lou W. Tilley
Librarian
GLNPO Librarian
Library Technician
ORC Law Library Technician
Library Aide
Penny Boyle
Erusha Newman
Conrad Winke
Yvette Griffith
Carol Hale
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Monday - Friday
(Only Regional staff may use the library before
10:00 a.m.)
The Region 5 library was established in January 1972 and is part of the
Region's Office of Public Affairs. Much of the initial collection was acquired
from pre-EPA offices in Chicago in the then Department of Health, Education
and Welfare's Public Health Service and the Department of the Interior's
Federal Water Pollution Control Administration (later Federal Water Quality
Administration).
The library is staffed by EPA and contractor personnel and provides services
to EPA staff and, on a more limited basis, to the general public. The subject
areas of the collection are:
Air pollution
Air quality
Groundwater
Hazardous wastes
Noise
Pesticides
Recycling and resource recovery
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Solid waste management
Toxic substances
Water pollution
Water quality
Water supply (drinking water)
The emphasis is on the Great Lakes and the six states in the Region: Illinois,
Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.
The current collection consists of 15,000-18,000 technical documents and
reports in paper copy generated by international, Federal, interstate, State,
regional and local government agencies (including EPA) and by private
endeavors.
There are currently about 4,500 book titles in the collection and about 325
journal subscriptions (including abstracts/ indexes, newsletters, newspapers,
etc.) in effect. There are some 130.000 microfiche items in the collection
(including a fairly complete collection of EPA and predecessor agency reports,
Federal Register, etc.). /
There is a sizable collection of the U.S. Geological Survey Water Supply Papers
and a fairly complete collection of the Water Resources Data for Region 5
States and other contiguous states. Paper copy of proceedings of most of the
Great Lakes enforcement conferences held in the Region 5 States is available
in the Library.
Other special collections include EIC Statefiche, Environmental Impact
Statements (EIS) microfiche (1973-1985) with indexes, 85,000 Air Pollution
Technical Information Center (APTIC) items in microfiche, and about 75 video
cassette tapes. A law collection in the Office of Regional Counsel (ORC)) is
staffed by a contract employee as is a Great Lakes library collection in the
Great Lakes National Program Office.
There is a vertical file collection of pamphlet/reprint/brochure materials. The
library has a Women's Collection and a Personal Development Collection and
a special collection of Hazardous Waste material (computer-searchable with
an online database).
Library services include the following:
Acquisitions: Processes procurement actions for subscriptions (new/
renewal), books, documents, technical reports, microforms, etc., as requested
by program staff in the Region and to enhance the library/reference
collections.
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Cataloging: Processes books, documents and other materials for the
Regional collection and staff in the program offices.
Circulation: Materials from the Regional collection are loaned or routed to
Regional office staff as requested or for selective dissemination of information
(SDI).
Interlibrary Loan (ILL): Materials not in the Regional collection are
borrowed on loan for Regional staff from other EPA libraries or other libraries,
as requested. Loans are made to other EPA libraries, other types of libraries
and to other authorized borrowers, as requested.
Literature Searching: Computerized searching of online databases is
performed for ERA staff to retrieve information for many purposes.
Reference: On-srte ready reference is available to Regional staff and, on a
more limited basis, to the general public.
Equipment: Microform readers and reader/printers are available to patrons
for reading/reproducing microforms. There are limitations on printer usage
by non-EPA staff.
Computer assisted literature search services: Bibliographic Retrieval
Service (BRS), Chemical Information System (CIS), DIALOG, Ground Water
On-Line, LEXIS/NEXIS, National Library of Medicine (NLM), SDC/ORBIT and
EPA's Hazardous Waste Database and Information Systems Inventory (ISI).
The Law Library has access to EPA's Enforcement Document Retrieval System
(EDRS) and the Department of Justice's Justice Retrieval and Inquiry System
(JURIS) database.
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Cincinnati, Ohio
Codes: ELB/05B
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Staff:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental Research
Center Library
26 W. Martin Luther King Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45268
(513) 569-7707 (CML)
(8) 684-7707 (FTS)
EPA3141
J.Byrd
Jonda Byrd 684-7707
Audio/Visuals Melinda Holmes 684-7704
Cataloging Sandy Geideman 684-7709
Circulation Joan Honeck 684-7705
Documents Louise Gunkel 684-7708
Interlibrary Loan Lilian Bosworth 684-7701
Sandra Geideman 684-7709
Virginia Slye
Reference Nancy Austin 684-7703
Serials Martha O'Leary 684-7706
Hours: EPA Staff. 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Monday - Friday
Visitors: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
The Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental Research Center (/WBERC)
Library is a composite of the holdings, dating from 1950, of the Public Health
Service and the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration. The facility,
established in 1971, served at one time as the scientific and technical focal
point for all EPA libraries. It was moved to its present location in 1976. The
major subjects areas include:
• Bacteriology
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Engineering
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Environmental Safety & Health
Hazardous waste
Marine Biology
Microbiology
Solid Waste Management
Toxicology
Wastewater Treatment
Water pollution
Water quality
The Library is operated by the Information Services Branch under contract to
Labat-Anderson, Inc. The holdings consist of 16,000 books; 7,000 bound
periodicals; 800 current journal and newsletter subscriptions; 4 newspapers;
1,600 hard copy documents; over 300,000 technical reports on microfiche
produced by EPA and other government agencies; and a microfilm collection
that includes back files of abstracts and periodicals.
Special collections include the Hazardous Waste Collection, Solid Waste
Reports, Legal Collection and the Environment Canada Reports.
Library services include the following:
Acquisitions: Books, journals and documents are ordered for the A/VBERC
Library only.
Cataloging: Books, documents and journals are cataloged into the EPA
National Catalog.
Circulation: Materials are circulated to EPA personnel only; all other
requests are handled through interlibrary loan (ILL). Books will be loaned,
journal articles and technical reports will be reproduced.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL): The interlibrary loan department participates in the
OCLC ILL subsystem. They maintain cooperative agreements with many
Federal, academic and special libraries and are a member of the Greater
Midwest Regional Medical Libraries Network.
Literature Searching: The library performs computerized literature searches
of commercial databases for EPA personnel in Cincinnati, -as well as any EPA
library that does not have online searching capabilities. The library also
provides end-user searching of several CD-ROM databases to the EPA staff.
Reference: Reference assistance is available to the EPA staff and to the
public as time permits.
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Equipment: A photocopy machine and microform reader/printers are
available to library patrons for the reproduction of library materials. There are
limitations on usage by non-EPA staff.
Computer assisted literature search services: Bibliographic Retrieval
Service (BRS). CAS Online. Chemical Information System (CIS). DIALOG. Dun
and Bradstreet. Ground Water Online. LEXIS/NEXIS, National Library of
Medicine (NLM). Pergamon INFOLINE. and ERA'S Hazardous Waste Collection
Database. CD-ROM databases include CHEMBANK, MEDLINE on SilverPlatter.
Occupational Health Services Material Safety Data Sheets (OHS MSDS).
Publications currently available:
• Information Online
• Introduction to the X4MBERC Library Services and Collection
• What's New in the AWBERC Library (monthly)
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Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office
Technical Information Unit
Codes:
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Staff:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office
Technical Information Unit (G44)
26 W. Martin Luther King Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45268
(513) 569-7532 (CML)
(8) 684-7532 (FTS)
EPA3141*
J.Byrd*
Brigid Almaguer
Information Manager
Library Aide
Library Aide
AARP Employee
Sue Arentsen
Linda Ketcham
Luella Kessler
Hila Foley
Hours:
7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Monday - Friday
The Technical Information Unit (TIU) is operated by the Environmental Criteria
and Assessment Office (ECAO) under contract to Labat-Anderson, Inc. The
TIU. established in December of 1987, provides support to ECAO scientists in
Cincinnati. TIU is responsible for acquiring, processing and maintaining a
collection of documents and references relating to the risk assessment of
environmental pollutants in human health.
TIU's collection consists of over 900 ECAO reports and documents and over
50.000 hard copies of references cited in those reports and documents. This
includes the background references and documents used to support the
reference doses cited in the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)
database.
The Unit provides literature searches, current awareness and circulation
services to the ECAO scientific staff and to other EPA staff as necessary. TIU
is responsible for maintaining and organizing records used in the production
of documents and for the appropriate disposition of documents and references
no longer need by ECAO.
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Special Collections:
• Core collection of 'commonly cited* references and other research
materials currently of interest to ECAO staff.
• The hard copy files for over 550 chemicals used to support the
information contained in the IRIS database.
TIU services include the following:
Cataloging: TIU is currently entering its hardcopy references into a large
database using the REFEREE software.
Circulation: Materials are circulated mainly to ECAO staff, but requests
from other EPA staff are welcome.
Literature Searching: Online literature searches are performed mainly for
ECAO staff.
Reference: Reference service is provided to ECAO staff, but requests for
information from other EPA staff are welcome.
Computer assisted literature search services: DIALOG and National
Library of Medicine (NLM) databases.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Codes: ELC/05D
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Hours:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Motor Vehicle Emissions Laboratory Library
2565 Plymouth Road
Ann Arbor, Ml 48105
(313)668-4311 (CML)
(8)374-8311 (FTS)
EPA6476*
OMS/AMS*
Oebra Talsma
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Monday - Friday
The Motor Vehicle Emissions Laboratory (MVEL) Library is operated by the
Administrative Management Staff, under contract to Labat-Anderson, Inc. It
provides information services concentrated on automotive engineering to EPA
staff and the general public. Subject areas include:
• Air pollution from mobile sources
• Alternative alcohol fuels
• Motor vehicle retrofit devices
The MVEL collection is comprised of: 300 books, 45 current subscriptions to
journals, abstracts and indexes, newsletters and newspapers; 20,000 hard
copy documents and technical reports generated by government sources or
the private sector; 9,000 documents on microfiche, including technical reports
produced by EPA and its predecessor agencies; and a microfiche collection
that includes back issues of the Federal Register and Applications for
Certification. The Library also has 10,000 Society of Automotive Engineers
papers related to topics in automotive emissions, fuel economy and new
automotive technology.
The Library also contains unique information pertinent, to the MVEL.
Information such as Engineering Operations Division (EOD) test procedures.
Advisory Circulars, Applications for Certification of Light and Heavy-Duty
Vehicles, Fuel Economy Guides (1974 to present) and Rulemaking Analysis.
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Literature Searching: Computerized searching is performed for ERL-
Duluth scientists.
Computer assisted literature search services: Bibliographic Retrieval
Service (BBS).
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Region 6, Dallas
Codes: EMA/06A
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Library
Coordinator:
Staff:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Region 6 Library
1445 Ross Avenue
First Interstate Bank Tower
Dallas TX 75202-2733
(214) 655-6444 (CML)
(8) 255-6444 (FTS)
EPA9699*
F.Woods*
Beverly Negri
Technician Leticia Lane
Hours:
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
Reference materials for water quality planning constituted the beginning of
the collection which became the EPA Region 6 library in July, 1971. The library
includes materials on all EPA programs:
Air pollution
Hazardous waste
Noise
Pesticides
Radiation
Solid waste
Toxic substances
Water pollution
This material particularly relates to the States within the Region: Arkansas,
Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
The Region 6 library collection consists of 1,994 books; 76 journal
subscriptions including newsletters; 13,646 documents; and 56,248 technical
reports in paper and microfiche.
The library has a large collection of U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps
and U.S. Department of Agriculture/Soil Conservation Surveys by counties
covering the five-state region; a microfiche collection that includes Air Pollution
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Technical Information Center (APTIC) items; and back issues of the Federal
Register (1971-present); a small collection of audiovisuals.
Library services include the following: ,
Acquisitions: The library technician processes orders for new/renewal
journal subscriptions and books. She also assists/approves procurement
requests for Region 6 program staff as the material is eventually added to the
library collection.
Cataloging: The library processes books, documents. EPA .reports, and
journals into the EPA national catalog.
Circulation: Documents from the Region 6 library collection are circulated
to EPA employees and local contractors.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL): The library provides ILL services to all EPA libraries.
Requests are accepted in writing or by telephone. It borrows publications from
other Government agencies and local public libraries.
Literature Searching: The EPA library located in Cincinnati, Ohio, performs
literature searches for the Region 6 library.
Reference: The library serves EPA staff and their contractors. The library
also assists the general public with reference information.
Equipment: A copier and microfiche reader/printer are available to library
users.
Computer assisted literature search services: Ground Water Online.
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Ada, Oklahoma
Codes: EMB/06B
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Staff:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory
Library
P.O. Box 1198
Ada. OK 74820
(405) 332-8800 (CML)
(8) 743-2241 (FTS)
EPA8441"
ERL/ADA*
Stanley Shannon
Library Aide Lily Mae Cagle
Hours:
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
The Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory (RSKERL) Library is
operated by the Administrative Support Staff under contract to Labat-
Anderson, Inc. The laboratory, one of the 14 major research laboratories of
EPA's Office of Research and Development, is the Agency's center of expertise
for investigation of the soil and subsurface environment, 'important areas of
research at RSKERL include the study of the chemical and microbial
contamination of groundwater and the mathematical and computer modeling
of both the movement of groundwater and the influence of various
contaminants in this area of the environment. Sources of pollution, as well as
migration and degradation of pollutants, are all topics of concern at RSKERL.
The library, established in 1966 as part of the Federal Water Pollution Control
Administration, functions in support of the research programs of the laboratory
by providing access to an unlimited amount of scientific and technical
information relevant to the laboratory's mission. Major subject areas covered
are:
Agriculture
Biology
Chemistry
Hydrology
Modeling
Soil science
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The holdings consist of approximately 2,000 books, 80 journal subscriptions,
2,000 maps, and 20,000 documents, either in hard copy or on microfiche,
including technical reports produced by EPA and its predecessor agencies,
and a comprehensive collection of U.S. Geological Survey Water Supply
Papers.
Library services include acquisitions, circulation, reference, literature searching,
interlibrary loan, and current awareness. Reference services are available to
the neighboring university community and the general public.
Equipment: A photocopy machine and microform reader/printers are
available to the users.
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Region 7, Kansas City
Cocies: ENA/07A
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Hours:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Region 7 Library
726 Minnesota Avenue.
Kansas City, KS 66101
(913) 236-2828 (CML)
(8) 757-2828 (FTS)
EPA9743
Library.Reg7
Constance McKenzie
7:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
The Region 7 library is part of the Administration and Information Management
Branch of the Office of Policy and Management. It provides information on a
wide range of environmental subjects of interest to the Regional staff and the
general public. Subject areas include:
Agricultural pollution
Air pollution
Environmental law
Hazardous waste
Pesticides
Radiation
Solid waste management
Water pollution
Water quality
Water supply
The library's holdings consist of: 1,400 books; 42 periodicals; 3,400 hard copy
documents and technical reports published by government agencies or the
private sector; 105,000 documents on microfiche, including EPA and other
agency's technical reports and the Federal Register from 1970 to present.
Library services include the following:
Acquisitions: Books, periodicals and newspapers are ordered for the
Regional program offices.
Cataloging: Library materials are cataloged into the EPA national catalog.
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Circulation: Periodicals and documents from the library collection are
circulated to Regional staff.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL): Loans for books, periodicals and other research
materials not maintained in the Regional library's collection are arranged
through other EPA libraries and many academic, public and special libraries.
Literature Searching: Computerized searching of databases is arranged
through the library for Regional staff. Some searches are completed in the
Regional library while others are processed through the EPA libraries in
Cincinnati, Ohio, and Research Triangle Park, N.C.
Reference: On-site ready reference service is available to EPA staff and the
general public.
Equipment: A photocopy machine and microfiche reader/printers are
available for library users.
Computer assisted literature search services: Chemical Information
System (CIS), LEXIS/NEXIS. National Library of Medicine (NLM). WATSTORE
(U.S. Geological Survey database) and EPA's Hazardous Waste Database.
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Region 8, Denver
Codes: EOA/08A
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Staff:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Region 8 Library, 8PM-IML
999 18th Street, Suite 1300
Denver, CO 80202-2413
(303) 293-1444 (CML)
(8) 564-1444 (FTS)
EPA9869
Library.Reg.VIII
Dolores Eddy
Library Technician
Library Aide
Sheila Kersens
Barbara Greenman
Hours:
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
Organized in 1973, the Region 8 library includes materials on all EPA
programs: air, water, hazardous and solid waste, pesticides, toxic substances,
noise and radiation, particularly as they relate to the States within the Region:
Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. In
addition, because the Rocky Mountain area is rich in energy resources, the
library collects material relating to energy resource development and its
relationship to the environment. And finally, to support other Agency programs,
the collection incorporates publications relating to economics, planning,
transportation, management and employee development.
General library services including reference, research, database searching,
and interlibrary loan are available to Regional office staff. Second copies of
EPA reports are available for loan to other libraries, government agencies,
businesses and organizations in the Region. Limited telephone and in-person
reference service to outside users is provided as time and staffing permit.
Equipment: Public duplicating facilities are available in the building for
paper copies. The library will copy up to 10 pages per user at no charge.
Computerassisted literature search services: CARL (Colorado Association
of Research Libraries), Chemical Information System (CIS), DIALOG, Ground
Water On-line. NEXIS and EPA's Hazardous Waste Collection Database.
The library is a member of the Central Colorado Library System which provides
courier services for the libraries in the region.
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National Enforcement Investigations Center
Denver, Colorado
"Codes: EOB/08B
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Staff:
Hours:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
National Enforcement Investigations Center Library
Building 53. Box 25227
Denver Federal Center
Denver, CO 80225
(303) 236-5122 (CML)
(8) 776-5122 (FTS)
EPA2339
Library.NEIC
Dorothy Biggs
Interlibrary Loan
Consent Decrees
7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
Louise Havermann
Diane Filipowicz
The library of the National Enforcement Investigations Center (NEIC) of EPA's
Office of Enforcement and Compliance Monitoring was established in Denver
in January, 1972. The Library is a component of the NEIC Information Center.
The collection comprises case files, technical reports, data compilations and
background information used to develop the basis for field studies and
enforcement actions; research and development reports on municipal,
industrialandagriculturalpollutionabatementpractices;enforcementconference
documents and environmental law materials; technical reference materials
covering chemistry, pesticides, toxic substances, air technology and hazardous
wastes. Holdings include 1,000 books; 100 journals (85 current subscriptions)
and numerous paper and microfiche documents. The Consent Decree
Repository holds more than 1,000 consent judgments with related documents.
The library disseminates technical and enforcement reports produced by the
NEIC staff. The library shares its resources through interlibrary loan services
via OCLC and telephone or mail requests. Response time to requests for
reports and interlibrary loans is normally less than 24 hours. All services are
provided without charge.
Literature searching and data retrieval are provided to NEIC staff and to
support enforcement activity by EPA personnel.
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Reference service is provided for NEIC staff and other EPA personnel.
Equipment includes a copier, microform reader/printers, microfiche copier,
three personal computers and a Lexrtron.
The Information Center provides a common use area to allow staff access to
computer, graphics, and word processing equipment.
Computer assisted literature search services: Commercial databases:
Bibliographic Retrieval Service (BRS), Chemical Information System (CIS),
DATATIMES, DIALOG, Ground Water On-Line. Justice Retrieval and Inquiry
System (JURIS), LEXIS/NEXIS. National Library of Medicine (NLM). VU-TEXT
and WESTLAW.
EPA databases: Compliance Data System (CDS), Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Information System
(CERCLIS), Consent Decree Tracking System, Facilities Tracking System
(FINDS), Hazardous Waste Data Management System (HWDMS), Permit
Compliance System (PCS), Superfund Financial Assessment System (SFFAS),
Storage and Retrieval of Water Quality Information (STORET), and the
Hazardous Waste Collection Database.
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Region 9, San Francisco
Codes: ERA/09A
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Staff:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Region 9 Library
215 Fremont Street, 6th Floor
San Francisco. CA 94105
(415) 974-8082 (CML)
(8) 454-8082 (FTS)
EPA9956
Library.Reg9
Linda Sunnen
Library Technician
Library Aide
Public Information Specialists:
Ann Marie Sinfield
Mary Winn
Patricia Maravilla
Ernestine Vaden
Helen Field
Phyllis Schweitzer
Deborra Samuels
Hours:
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
The Region 9 library and the Public Information Center are part of the
Information Resources Management Branch. The library is operated under
contract with Labat-Anderson, Inc. The library provides a full range of reference
services to the EPA staff, as well as providing EPA Program information and
reference services to the general public. The collection includes the following
major subject areas:
Air pollution and control
Health Effects
Hazardous Waste
Law
Pesticides
Solid Waste
Water Pollution & Control
The library collection includes over 5,000 books, over 60,000 reports (EPA,
Federal and private sector), approximately 250 journals and over 400,000
reports on microfiche.
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The library also maintains a collection of topographical maps published by the
U.S. Geological Survey and a collection of Wetland Maps. The library maintains
a collection of OSWER directives, as welt as the National Priorities List Docket
and the Federal Facilities Docket.
Library services Include the following:
Acquisitions: The library processes all requests for books, reports and
journal subscriptions submitted by the staff in addition to ordering items
needed to enhance the collection.
Cataloging: The technical services staff catalogs books, unnumbered EPA
reports and other Agency publications and adds the holdings to OCLC. Access
to the collection is provided by using a microfiche catalog for older items or a
printed book catalog for more recent additions. The more recent items have
been converted to the EPA online catalog.
Circulation: All materials, except those in the reference collection, circulate
to staff for a three week period and to other libraries via interlibrary loans.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL): The Region 9 library maintains cooperative
agreements with many academic, public and special libraries as well as being
a member of OCLC. Books, journals and other research materials may be
borrowed from other libraries by the Library Technician for EPA staff members.
Literature searches: The library has access to a wide variety of databases
and can perform searches for the EPA staff.
Reference: A reference librarian and four information specialists are
available to answer telephone and on-site inquiries from the EPA staff and the
public. Reference support includes use of the reference collection, access to
other libraries and information sources, instruction on use of the catalog,
indexes and directories.
Equipment: Two microfiche reader/printers and a copy machine are
available to library patrons. The public is charged $.20 per page in excess of
10 pages. The library also has a PC which may be used by the staff to search
the Hazardous Waste Database. The library has two Telex terminals, one for
use by the technical services section and one to be available to the public as
the system permits for searching the EPA Online Catalog.
Computer assisted literature search services: Chemical Information
System (CIS); DIALOG; Ground Water Online; Hazardline; NEXIS and EPA's
Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS); Hazardous Waste Collection
Database and Office of Enforcement and Compliance Monitoring (OECM)
database.
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Other services: The library publishes a bimonthly Newsletter/Acquisitions
List, The Library Line, which informs the EPA staff of additions to the collection
and highlights services and new databases. The Journal Holdings Report is
an annual list of Region 9 periodical holdings.
Tours: Library tours are conducted monthly and is a good way for new
employees to familiarize themselves with our library services and for long-term
employees to reacquaint themselves with new services.
Special Collection: The library is a repository for all the printed exhibits
generated from all phases of the State Water Quality Review being conducted
by EPA and the State Water Resources Control Board. The hearings will be
conducted over a three year period. A terminal has been installed in the library
which allows dial-up access to the State Hearing Testimony and Exhibit
Database which resides on the EPA Micro VAX-II Minicomputer. The system
provides online access to the full-text testimonies of the Water Hearings, as
well as access to the printed exhibits. The system is menu driven, user-friendly
and available to the EPA staff and the public.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Codes: ERB/09B
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Staff:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory
Library
(P.O. Box 93478. Zip 89193-3478)
944 E. Harmon Avenue .
Las Vegas, NV 89119
(702) 798-2648 - 2646 (CML)
(8) 545-2648 - 2646 (FTS)
EPA8239
Library.LV
Doreen Wickman
Library Technician
Yolanda Flores
Hours:
7:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
The Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory (EMSL) library is operated
by the Management Information Services Branch of the Office of Program
Management and Support under contract to Labat-Anderson, Inc. The library
was established in 1966 as part of the Public Health Service, Southwestern
Radiological Hearth Laboratory. Materials were primarily oriented toward
nuclear science at that time. When the facility became part of EPA in 1970, the
collection was broadened to include all aspects of environmental science.
The mission of the Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory is to
develop, evaluate and apply methods and strategies for monitoring the
environment. Major program areas include:
Advanced analytical methods
Advanced monitoring methods
Exposure assessment
Monitoring network design
Quality assurance
Radiation monitoring
Special projects
The present collection of the EMSL library supports this mission.
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The holdings include 1.248 books; 1,200 hard copy technical reports; 49,505
microfiche reports, and subscriptions to more than 100 scientific journals and
newspapers.
Library services include the following: Reference, acquisitions, circulation,
interlibrary loan and computer assisted literature searches. All library services '
are provided to EPA staff. Reference and copying services are available to the
general public.
Equipment: A photocopy machine, two microform reader/printers, a
duplifiche developer, duplifiche printer, a CIT 220 terminal and a printer.
Computer assisted literature search service: DIALOG.
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Region 10, Seattle
Codes: ESA/10A
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Staff:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Region 10 Library (MD-108)
1200 Sixth Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 442-1289 or 1259 (CML)
(8) 399-1289 or 1259 (FTS)
EPA9085 .
Library.Reg.X
Julienne Sears
Assistant Librarian
Library Technician
OPA Publications Clerk
Library Technician
Library Aide
Patricia Carey
Darci Dudel
Bertha Sauls
Jan Fulton
Zandra Clark
Hours:
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
The library was established in 1971, based on material from the Federal Water
Quality Administration office in Portland, Oregon. The collection was originally
heavily oriented toward water pollution, but has since been developed to
encompass all other areas of environmental quality.
At present, the holdings include monographs, serials, a basic environmental
law collection, EPA reports (both hard copy and microfiche) and local and
State government reports. The non-EPA portion of the collection is focused
mainly on materials pertinent to the four Region 10 States: Alaska, Idaho,
Oregon and Washington. <
Library services include the following:
Acquisitions: All materials acquired for the Regional office, Laboratory and
State operations offices are coordinated by the librarian.
Cataloging: All incoming materials are processed for rapid retrieval.
Circulation: All library materials circulate to Region 10 staff. EPA technical
reports are circulated to all Region 10 requestors. Region 10 EPA reports are
available for loan throughout the country.
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Intel-library Loan (ILL): Interlibrary loans are transacted primarily through
OCLC, but phone requests and ILL forms are also accepted. The library also
participates in the University of Washington Library's Resource Sharing
Program and utilizes the Washington Library Network (WIN), as well.
Reference: On-srte ready reference service is available to EPA staff and the
general public. More extensive reference service is provided to EPA staff as
required.
Equipment: Microform readers are available in the library. Microform copies
and photocopies are available to EPA staff; a limited number of copies may
be made by other Federal agency employees. Public copiers are not available.
Computer assisted literature search services: Chemical Information
System (CIS), DIALOG. Ground Water On-Line, LEXIS/NEXIS. National Library
of Medicine (NLM). TOXNET, TOXLINE; the Department of Justice's Justice
Retrieval and Inquiry System (JURIS) and EPA's Enforcement Document
Retrieval System (EDRS), Hazardous Waste Collection Database, Information
Systems Inventory (ISI) and Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS).
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Corvallis, Oregon
Codes: ESB/10B
Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Box ID:
E-Mail Box Name:
Librarian:
Staff:
Hours:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
CorvallisEnvironmentalResearchLaboratoryLibrary
200 S.W. 35th Street
Corvallis. OR 97333
(503) 757-4731 or 4740 (CML)
(8) 420-4731 or 4740 (FTS)
EPA842r
ERL/Corvallis*
Betty M. McCauley
Library Technician
Air Ecology and Acid Rain
Collections
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
Carol Robertson
Barbara Hagler
The Corvallis Environmental Research Laboratory (CERL) Library was
established in 1966, when the Pacific Northwest Water Laboratory of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Administration was opened. The emphasis
was on marine, estuarine and fresh water quality. Since EPA was established
in 1970, the laboratory's responsibilities and the library collection have been
broadened to include air and terrestrial research.
At present the laboratory has three branches: Ecotoxicology Branch, Water
Branch and Terrestrial Branch. Research concerns acid precipitation and its
effects on the ecosystem, wildlife toxicology, genetic engineering, wetlands
and hazardous waste.
The library collection consists of 3,500 books, over 150 subscriptions to
journals and newsletters, and an extensive file of government documents.
including EPA reports and State and Federal research reports. Microfiche and
microfilm expand the holdings. A comprehensive reprint collection on acid
precipitation and air ecology is maintained in a nearby location.
Library services include the following:
Acquisitions: Books are purchased at the request of laboratory employees
to support ongoing research.
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Cataloging: All books and library materials are cataloged into the EPA
national catalog.
Circulation: Library materials are loaned to EPA staff and on-site contractors.
Local university staff also borrow materials. Students and private citizens may
use the materials in the library.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL): Books not available in the CERL library or through
the Oregon State University Library are obtained using a network of interlibrary
loan resources, including the computerized facilities of OCLC.
Reference: Ready reference service is available for EPA staff and the
general public. The library also networks with other EPA and special libraries,
thus extending the resources for reference requirements that go beyond the
on-site collection.
Equipment: The library provides reader/printers for patrons who need to
use microform materials. Photocopy equipment is located near the library.
Computer assisted literature search services:
of Medicine (NLM) databases.
DIALOG. National Library
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LEGEND OF EPA LIBRARY CODES
To assist in calling the various EPA locations, time zones have been included.
The relationship is:
.
Library
Coda
EHA/01A
—
.
EHB/01B
EIA/02A
EIC/02B
EJA/03A
EJB/03B
—
Eastern (E)
Central (C)
Mountain (M)
Pacific (P)
Location
EPA Region 1
Boston, MA 02203
Region 1 Waste Mgmt.
Div.
Records Center
Boston, MA 02203
Environmental Res. Lab.
Narragansett, Rl 02882
EPA Region 2
New York. NY 10278
EPA Region 2 Field
Office
Edison, NJ 08837
EPA Region 3
Philadelphia. PA 19107
EPA Headquarters
Library
Washington. DC 20460
Public Information
Center
Washington. DC 20460
Legislative Reference
Library
Washington. DC 20460
Noon
11:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
Time
Zone FTS #
E 835-3300
E (617)573-5729
E 838-6025
E 264-2881
E- 340-6762
E 597-0580
E 382-5921
E 475-7751
E 382-5425
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Code
EJC/03G
EJD/03C
EJE/03T
EKA/04A
• EKB/04B
EKC/04H
EKD/04D
EKE/04G
EKF/04L
ELA/05A
ELB/05B
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Location 2one
Law Library . E
Washington, DC 20460
Central Regional Lab E
Annapolis. MD 21401
OTS Non-Confidential E
Information Center
Washington. DC 20460
EPA Region 4 E
Atlanta. GA 30365-2401
Library Services Office E
Research Triangle Park.
NC 27711
Environmental Res. Lab C
Gulf Breeze. FL 32561
Environmental Res. Lab E
Athens. GA 30613
Office of Air Quality E
Planning & Standards
Research Triangle Park,
NC 27711
ASRL- Meteorology Lab E
Research Triangle Park,
NC 27711
EPA Region 5 c
Chicago. IL 60604
Environmental Res. E
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382-5919 17
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382-2320 20
257-4216 22
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629-2777 24
1C
686-9011 26
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250-3324 *°
629-5514 30
629-4536 32
353-2022 33
684-7707 36
Library
Code
ELD/05C
EMA/06A
EMB/06B
ENA/07A
EOA/08A
EOB/08B
ERA/09A
ERB/09B
ESA/10A
ESB/10B
Time
Location Zone
Environmental Res. Lab C
Duluth. MN 55804
EPA Region 6 C
.Dallas. TX 75202-2733
Robert S. Kerr C
Environmental Res. Lab
Ada. OK 74820
EPA Region 7 C
Kansas City, KS 66101 •
EPA Region 8 M
Denver. CO 80202-24 13
National Enforcement M
Investigations Center
Denver. CO 80225
EPA Region 9 P
San Francisco, CA94 1 05
Environmental P
Monitoring and Systems
Lab
Las Vegas, NV 891 19
EPA Region 10 P
Seattle, WA 98101
Corvallis Environmental P
Research Lab
Corvallis, OR 97330
FTS#
780-5538
255-6444
743-2241
757-2828
564-1444
776-5122
454-8082
545-2648
399-1289
420-4731
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45
47
49
51
52
54
57
59
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ELC/05D
VsOl lioi
Cincinnati, OH 45268
Environmental Criteria &
Assessment Office
Technical Information
Unit
Cincinnati, OH 45268
Motor Vehicle Emissions
Lab
Ann Arbor. Ml 48105
684-7532
39
374-8311
41
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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Several of the EPA libraries have more complete selections of information or
special collections on specific subjects. Listed below are those libraries which
have primary reference) collections.
Special Collection
Acid Rain
Air Ecology
Air Information
CFR Archives
Chemical Industry Health and
Safety Data
Chesapeake Bay Collection
Climatic Data
Congressional Record
(Microfiche)
Consent Decrees
Library/Location
EnvironmentalRes.LabLibrary
Corvallis OR
EnvironmentalRes. LabLibrary
Corvallis OR
Research Triangle Park NC
Library Services
Law Library
Washington DC
OTS Non-Confidential
Information Center,
Washington. DC
Central Regional Lab Library
Annapolis MD
ASRL Meteorology Division
Library,
RTP. NC
Law Library
Washington DC
NEIC Library, Denver
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Environmental Impact
Statements
Environmental Impact
Statements*
(* Microfiche collection through 1985
(ElC/lnlelllgence)
Federal Register
(Microfiche)
Geological Survey
(Water Resources)
Data (Midwest)
Hazardous Waste
Region 9 Library
San Francisco CA
Region 10 Library
Seattle WA
Human Resources
Management
Law Library
Washington DC
Region 5 Library
Chicago IL
Headquarters Library, DC
Region 1 Library, Boston
Region 2 Library, New York
Region 3 Information
Resource Center, Philadelphia
Region 4 Library, Atlanta
Region 5 Library, Chicago
Region 6 Library, Dallas
Region 7 Library, Kansas City
Region 8 Library, Denver
Region 9 Library, San
Francisco -
Region 10 Library, Seattle
Environmental Monitoring &
Sys. Lab Library, Las Vegas
Environmental Research Lab
Library, Ada
Region 2 Field Office, Edison
Environmental Research
Center Library, Cincinnati
Environmental Research Lab
Library, RTP
NEIC Library, Denver
Region 2 Library
New York
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Law
Management
Motor Vehicle Emissions
Pesticides
Puget Sound
Law Library
Washington DC
Region 3 Information
Resource Center,
Philadelphia PA
Region 5 Library
Chicago IL
NEIC Library, Denver
Headquarters Library, DC
Motor Vehicle Emissions Lab
Library,
Ann Arbor Ml
OTS Non-Confidential
Information Center
Washington, DC
Region 10 Library
Seattle WA
Speeches given by EPA Senior Region 9 Library
Staff San Francisco CA
Toxic Substances OTS Non-Confidential
Information Center
Washington, DC
Wetland Ecology Region 3 Information
Resource Center,
Philadelphia, PA
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SUBJECT INDEX TO LIBRARIES' (SWlERAL
COLLECTIONS
All EPA libraries have some information on all of EPA's programs: air, noise,
water, solid waste, hazardous waste, toxic substances, pesticides and
radiation. Several of the libraries also have collections on major subject areas
as they relate to their organizational function and/or region, the collections
may not be complete or extensive in all major subject areas. Listed below are
the major subject areas covered by the libraries:
Library
Page
ACID RAIN
Environmental Research Lab Library, Corvallis OR 61
ADMINISTRATION
Headquarters Library, Washington DC 1
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Law Library, Washington DC 17
AGRICULTURE
Environmental Research Lab Library, Ada OK 47
Region 7 Library, Kansas City KS 49
National Enforcement Investigations Center Library, Denver CO ... 52
AIR POLLUTION - ECOLOGY -
Environmental Research Lab Library, Corvallis OR 61
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AIR POLLUTION - HISTORICAL
Library Services, Research Triangle Park, NC
AIR POLLUTION - MOBILE SOURCE
Motor Vehicle Emissions Lab Library. Ann Arbor Ml
AIR POLLUTION TECHNOLOGY
Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards Library, Research
Triangle Park, NC
ALCOHOL FUELS • ALTERNATIVES
Motor Vehicle Emissions Lab Library, Ann Arbor Ml
ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Central Regional Lab Library Annapolis MD . . .
Environmental Research Lab Library, Duluth MN
AQUATIC BIOTA
Central Regional Lab Library, Annapolis MD
AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY
Environmental Research Lab Library, Gulf Breeze PL
Environmental Research Lab Library, Narragansett Rl.
AUTOMATED LABORATORY TECHNIQUES
Central Regional Lab Library, Annapolis MD
24
41
30
41
19
43
19
26
11
19
AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING
Motor Vehicle Emissions Lab Library, Ann Arbor Ml . .
BACTERIOLOGY
Environmental Research Center Library, Cincinnati OH
Environmental Research Lab Library, Ada OK
BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
Environmental Research Lab Library, Narragansett Rl
BIOLOGY
Environmental Research Lab Library, Ada OK
Central Regional Lab Library, Annapolis MD
Environmental Research Lab Library, Athens GA ....
Environmental Research Center Library, Cincinnati OH
Environmental Research Lab Library, Corvallis OR ...
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE
Environmental Research Lab Library, Narragansett Rl.
BIOTECHNOLOGY
OTS Non-Confidential Information Center, DC
Environmental Research Center Library, Cincinnati OH
BUSINESS
Library Services, Research Triangle Park NC
CHEMICAL INDUSTRY AND PROCESS TECHNOLOGY
OTS Non-Confidential Information Center, DC
41
36
47
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47
19
28
36
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20
36
24
20
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CHEMICAL TOXICITY
OTS Non-Confidential Information Center, DC
Library Services. Research Triangle Park NC .
CHEMISTRY
Headquarters Library, Washington DC • • •
Environmental Research Lab Library, Ada OK
Central Regional Lab Library, Annapolis MD
Environmental Research Lab Library, Athens GA
Environmental Research Center Library, Cincinnati OH
Library Services, Research Triangle Park NC
National Enforcement Investigations Center Library, Denver CO
COASTAL RESEARCH
Environmental Research Lab Library, Narragansett Rl
Central Regional Lab Library, Annapolis MD
ECOLOGY
Central Regional Lab Library, Annapolis MD .
OTS Non-Confidential Information Center, DC ,
ECONOMICS
Headquarters Library, Washington DC . . . .
Library Services, Research Triangle Park NC
Region 8 Library, Denver CO
EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT
Region 3 Information Resource Center, Philadelphia, PA
Region 8 Library, Denver CO
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24
1
47
19
28
36
24
52
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19
19
20
1
24
51
15
51
ENERGY
Region 8 Library, Denver CO
ENFORCEMENT
National Enforcement Investigations Center Library, Denver CO
ENGINEERING
Central Regional Lab Library, Annapolis MD
Environmental Research Lab Library, Athens GA
Environmental Research Center Library, Cincinnati OH
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
Region 9 Library, San Francisco CA . . . .
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
Law Library, Washington DC
Region 3 Information Resource Center, Philadelphia, PA
Region 7 Library, Kansas City KS
Region 9 Library, San Francisco. CA
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
Headquarters Library, Washington DC
ESTUARINE RESEARCH
Environmental Research Lab Library, Narragansett Rl
Central Regional Lab Library. Annapolis MD
Environmental Research Lab Library, Gulf Breeze . .
Environmental Research Lab Library, Corvallis OR . .
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52
19
28
36
54
17
15
49
54
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19
26
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FISHERIES BIOLOGY
Environmental Research Lab Library, Duluth MN ......
Environmental Research Lab Library, Narragansett Rl. . .
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11
GENETIC ENGINEERING
OTS Non-Confidential Information Center, DC . . . 20
Environmental Research Lab Library, Gulf Breeze FL -26
Environmental Research Lab Library, Corvallis OR 61
GROUNDWMER
Region 5 Library, Chicago IL
Region 9 Library, San Francisco, CA
Environmental Research Lab Library, Ada, OK
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HEALTH
OTS Non-Confidential Information Center, DC..
20
HYDROLOGY
Central Regional Lab Library, Annapolis MD
19
INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER MONITORING
Central Regional Lab Library, Annapolis MD
19
INTERNATIONAL CHEMICAL CONTROL
OTS Non-Confidential Information Center, DC
20
74
MANAGEMENT
Headquarters Library, Washington DC
Region 3 Information Resource Center, Philadelphia., PA ,
Region 8 Library, Denver CO
1
15
51
MARINE BIOLOGY
Environmental Research Lab Library, Narragansett Rl
11
MARINE ECOLOGY
Environmental Research Lab Library, Gulf Breeze FL
Environmental Research Lab Library, Narragansett Rl ,
26
11
MARINE ORGANISMS
Environmental Research Lab Library, Narragansett Rl
11
MATHEMATICAL MODELING
Central Regional Lab Library, Annapolis MD
19
MICROBIOLOGY
Environmental Research Lab Library, Gulf Breeze FL .
Environmental Research Lab Library, Athens GA....
Environmental Research Center Library, Cincinnati OH
26
28
36
MOTOR VEHICLE RETROFIT DEVICES
Motor Vehicle Emissions Lab Library, Ann Arbor Ml
41
NEW ENGLAND RIVER BASIN
Region 1 Library, Boston MA .
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NUCLEAR SCIENCE
Environmental Monitoring Systems Lab Library. Las Vegas NV
OCEANOGRAPHY
Central Regional Lab Library. Annapolis MD
PATHOBIOLOGY
Environmental Research Lab Library. Gulf Breeze FL
PHYSICS
Environmental Research Center Library, Cincinnati OH
PLANNING
Region 8 Library. Denver CO
PUGET SOUND
Region 10 Library, Seattle WA .
QUALITY ASSURANCE*
•Quality assurance aspects of hazardous wastes and pesticides programs.
Environmental Monitoring Systems Lab Library. Las Vegas NV .
RECYCLING AND RESOURCE RECOVERY
Region 5 Library, Chicago IL
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Region 9 Library. San Francisco CA
57
19
26
36
51
59
57
33
54
RESOURCE RECOVERY
Headquarters Library, Washington DC
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
Headquarters Library. Washington DC
Region 1 Library, Boston MA
Region 5 Library, Chicago IL
Region 6 Library. Dallas TX . .
Region 9 Library, San Francisco CA
Region 10 Library. Seattle \AA
Environmental Research Lab Library, Cincinnati OH
TOXICOLOGY
Headquarters Library, Washington DC
OTS Non-Confidential Information Center, DC
TRANSPORTATION
Region 8 Library, Denver CO
WASTE ENGINEERING
Environmental Research Lab Library, Ada OK
WETLANDS
Region 3 Information Resource Center. Philadelphia. PA
Environmental Research Lab Library, Corvallis OR ....
WILDLIFE TOXICOLOGY
Environmental Research Lab Library, Corvallis OR
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45
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DESCRIPTION OF DATABASES USED BY EPA
LIBRARIES
(See individual library descriptions for a list of specific databases used.)
BRS (Bibliographic Retrieval System) a commercial vendor of databases.
provides access to more than 60 databases in science, technology,
business economics, humanities, social sciences and other areas.
.CARL (Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries) is an online bibliographic
database which contains the holdings of six major Colorado research
libraries.
CAS ONLINE, a product of Chemical Abstract Service, contains records for
the documents covered since 1967 in the printed version of Chemical
Abstracts. Journals, patents, technical reports, books, conference
proceedings, and dissertations from all areas of chemistry and chemical
engineering are abstracted and the file is updated biweekly.
CDS (Compliance Data System) is an EPA management information system
that stores, sorts, and reports compliance data for approximately 30,000
stationary sources of air pollution that are subject to air quality
regulations.
CERCLIS (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and
Liability Information System), an EPA database, contains an inventory
of potential hazardous waste sites and serves as a vehicle for the EPA
Regions to report to Headquarters on the status of major stages of
cleanup at sites.
CIS (Chemical Information System) is a commercially available collection
of scientific and regulatory databases. It contains numeric, textual, and
some bibliographic information in the areas of toxicology, environment,
regulations, spectroscopy, chemical and physical properties, and
nucleotide sequencies.
CONSENT DECREE SYSTEM, an ERA/National Enforcement Investigations
Center-operated and maintained system consisting of a hardcopy library
of consent decrees to which EPA is a party, a computerized inventory
of that library, and computerized summaries of the contents of decrees
by facility. Also available full-text on JURIS.
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DATATIMES provides full-text articles from major newspapers and wire
services. Newspapers include The Wall Street Journal. USA Today, and
many regional newspapers as well as Dow Jones business services.
DIALOG INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SERVICE, a commercial vendor of
databases, has more than 200 databases available through its system.
The type of information varies with the database accessed; database
records may be bibliographic citations, abstracts, directory listing or
statistical tables. Some of the DIALOG databases commonly used by
EPA libraries are Pollution Abstracts, Enviroline, Chemical Regulations
and Guidelines, Social SciSearch, and The National Technical Information
Service (NTIS).
DUN AND BRADSTREET, a credit-reporting firm, provides business information
reports for privately- and publicly-owned companies and government
activity reports which list Federal contracts, grants, fines and debarments
for specific companies.
EDRS (Enforcement Document Retrieval System), an automated database
that contains the full text of enforcement documents (e.g., policy,
guidance, consent decrees). Documents are fully indexed; the user
searches the database for applicable documents and text by specifying
words or phrases of interest.
FINDS (Facilities Index System), an EPA database, provides descriptive
information on facilities/establishments which are of interest to EPA
programs, with a cross reference to EPA programmatic information
systems which have information on these facilities/establishments.
GROUND WATER ON-LINE, a bibliographic database, contains references
on the occurrence and utilization of surface and ground water, and on
water well technology. Indexed titles include trade and technical journals
and newsletters, books, and government documents. Because EPA
established the Center, there is special emphasis in the database on
EPA-sponsored reports.
HAZARDLINE, a product of the Occupational Health Service, Inc., contains
data on hazardous chemicals, including chemical name, formula,
synonyms, and Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number.
HAZARDOUS WASTE COLLECTION DATABASE, an EPA system, contains
references to key materials on hazardous waste in the EPA library
network. Biblioqraphic descriptions, keywords, abstracts, locations and
other information are listed for books, EPA reports, Office of Solid Waste
and Emergency Response (OSWER) policy and guidance directives,
periodicals and commercial databases containing information on
hazardous waste. Hard copies of the documents are available in the
Headquarters and Regional libraries, the National Enforcement
Investigations Center/Denver, CO, and the laboratory libraries in
Cincinnati. OH; Edison, NJ; Research Triangle Park, NC; Ada, OK; and
Las Vegas, NV. A list of the documents is available at all other laboratory
libraries.
HWDMS (Hazardous Waste Data Management System) is an EPA database
which includes information on the status of responses to EPA regulations
by the 5,000 facilities that treat, store or dispose of hazardous waste and
60,000 handlers who generate or transport hazardous waste.
IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System) is an E-Mail based system
containing EPA data on a chemical by chemical basis. Data include,
when available, oral reference doses, carcinogencify assessments, acute
health hazard data and risk management summaries.
INFORMATION SYSTEMS INVENTORY (ISI) is an EPA database listing over
500 EPA information systems and environmental models. The database
includes a description of each environmental measurement system/
model and can be accessed at several points, including system name,
acronym, associated Congressional act or law, number of users and
responsible personnel. Headquarters Library staff can search this
inventory to obtain information for the purpose of referring requestors
to the appropriate office within EPA.
JURIS (Justice Retrieval and Inquiry System), is a computerized full-text legal
information retrieval system designed and maintained by the Department
of Justice (DOJ) for use by the Federal legal community. The database
contains Federal and State case materials; Federal statutes and
regulatory materials; administrative decisions; Presidential documents;
treaties; DOJ briefs; Shepard's Citations; and special litigation support
files.
LEGI-SLATE is an online service that contains synopses of every bill and
resolution introduced in Congress since the beginning of the 96th
Congress in 1979. Also contains committee and subcommittee actions,
House and Senate floor actions, and all votes taken. Also covers all
announcements in the Federal Register including Presidential
documents, rules and regulations, proposed rules, notices of proposed
rulemaking and Sunshine Act meetings.
LEXIS is the largest full-text legal database in existence, containing Federal
and State cases, administrative decisions, U.S. Code, CFR, Federal
Register, selected State statutes, law reviews. ABA materials, and
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separate libraries dealing with Federal issues: Admiralty, Banking;
Bankruptcy; Energy; Environment; Federal Communications; Federal
Securities; Federal Tax; International Trade; Labor; Patent, Trademark
and Copyright; Public Contracts; Trade Regulation. Auto-Cite and
Shepard's Citations are also available.
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE (NLM) ON-LINE SERVICES database
consists of bibliographic citations on biomedical literature, including
health care services and administrative, clinical, and policy topics.
Special files on population, cancer, and toxic substances are also
available on the NLM database.
NATIONAL PESTICIDE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, developed
by Purdue University, contains information that describes the key
characteristics of pesticides, including approximately 50,000 products
registered by EPA, as well as State registrations.
NEWSNET, is a full-text database of newsletters, press releases, and wire
services. Subject areas in NewsNet include the environment, chemicals,
government and regulation, public relations, farming and food, research
and development. *>nd electronics and computers.
NEXIS is a full-text database that contains general and business news. NEXIS
sources include magazines, newspapers, wire services, newsletters, and
government documents.
OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) supports resource sharing among
more than 2,700 member libraries. Participants use the OCLC
Cataloging module to catalog books, serials, and various other library
materials and the Interlibrary Loan module to facilitate interlibrary
lending.
OECM is produced by the EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance
Monitoring and contains three files: EDRS (Enforcement Document
Retrieval System), Hazardous Waste Casefinder and Consent Decrees.
ORBIT is an online service which provides access to more than 70 databases
in science, technology, business, economics, humanities, social sciences
and other areas.
PCS (Permit Compliance System) is an EPA management information
system for tracking permit, compliance, and enforcement status for the
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System program under the
Clean Water Act.
PERGAMON INFOLINE is an online information retrieval system which
provides access to more than 50 databases. These files cover the areas
of patents, business, chemistry, biotechnology, manufacturing
technology, materials and health safety.
PHRED (Public Health Risk Evaluation Database) is a PC-based product
from the EPA Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response covering
about 500 chemicals.
SFFAS (Superfund Financial Assessment System), is an EPA computer
application designed to calculate the remedial costs a responsible party
can theoretically afford to pay for cleanup of a site.
STORET (Storage and Retrieval of Water Quality Information), an EPA
database, provides a capability to store, retrieve and analyze water
quality information.
TOXLINE, a product of the National Library of Medicine, contains citations and
abstracts to the worldwide literature in all areas of toxicology, including
chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants,
and mutagens and teratology.
TOXNET is a computerized system of lexicologically oriented data banks
operated by the National Library of Medicine.
VU-TEXT contains the full text of 19 daily newspapers, including nationally
recognized papers such as the Boston Globe and Chicago Tribune and
regional papers such as the Orlando Sentinel.
WASHINGTON ALERT provides detailed information on the status of bills in
Congress; text of bills as printed by GPO; legislative reports from the
Congressional Record; floor and committee schedules up to 3 months
in advance including late changes, agendas, witness. lists, markup
sessions.
WATSTORE (National Water Data Storage and Retrieval System), a product
of the U.S. Geological Survey, contains data collected as a result of
measuring and quantifying the occurrence and quality of U.S. water
resources and the effect of development and utilization on those
resources.
WESTLAW is a full-text database containing statutory and case law, citator
services, administrative materials and legal literature indexes.
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TABLE OF DATABASES USED BY EPA LIBRA^k*
(A-C) ^
LIBRARY LOCATION
BRS
CARL
CAS
ONLINE
CDS
HEADQUARTERS
Hqs Library
Law Library
Leg. Ref. Lib.
OTS Non-Conl Info Center
REGIONS
Region 1, Boston MA
Region 2, New York NY
Region 3, Philadelphia PA
Region 4, Atlanta GA
Region 5. Chicago IL
Region 6, Dallas TX
Region 7. Kansas City KS
Region 8, Denver CO
Region 9, San Francisco CA
Region 10, Seattle VW
LABORATORIES
Ada. OK
Ann Arbor, Ml
Annapolis, MD
Athens, GA
Cincinnati, OH:
ECAO/TIU
Library
Corvallis, OR
Denver/NEIC
Duluth, MN
Edison, NJ
Gulf Breeze, PL
Las Vegas, NV
Narragansett, Rl
Research Triangle Park, NC
ASRL Library '
Library Services
OAQPS Library
See pages 79-84 for description of databases used by EPA Libraries.
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TABLE OF DATABASES USED BY EPA LIBRARIES*
(C-D)
LIBRARY LOCATION CERCLIS
HEADQUARTERS
Hqs Library
Law Library
Leg. Ref. Lib.
OTS Non-Conf Info Center
REGIONS
• Region 1, Boston MA
Region 2, New York NY
Region 3, Philadelphia PA
Region 4. Atlanta GA
Region 5. Chicago IL
Region 6, Dallas TX
Region 7, Kansas City KS
Region 8, Denver CO
Region 9. San Francisco CA
Region 10. Seattle W
LABORATORIES
Ada, OK
Ann Arbor. Ml
Annapolis, MD
Athens, GA
Cincinnati, OH:
ECAO/TIU
Library
Corvallis, OR
Denver/NEIC
Duluth, MN
Edison, NJ
Gulf Breeze. FL
Las Vegas. NV
Narragansett. Rl
Research Triangle Park, NC
ASRL Library
Library Services
OAQPS Library
CONSENT
DECREE DATA-
CIS SYSTEM TIMES
86
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TABLE OF DATABASES USED BY EPA LIBRARIES*
(D-F)
LIBRARY LOCATION
DUN AND
DIALOG BRADSTREET EDRS FINDS
HEADQUARTERS
Hqs Library
Law Library
Leg. Ref. Lib.
OTS Non-Conf Info Center
REGIONS
Region I.Boston MA
Region 2. New York NY
Region 3, Philadelphia PA
Region 4, Atlanta GA
Region 5, Chicago IL
Region 6. Dallas TX
Region 7, Kansas City KS
Region 8, Denver CO
Region 9, San Francisco CA
Region 10, Seattle W\
LABORATORIES
Ada. OK
Ann Arbor, Ml
Annapolis, MD
Athens, GA
Cincinnati, OH:
ECAO/TIU
Library
Corvallis, OR '
Denver/NEIC
Dululh, MN
Edison, NJ
Gulf Breeze, FL
Las Vegas. NV
Narragansett, Rl
Research Triangle Park. NC
ASRL Library
Library Services
OAQPS Library
See pages 79-84 for description of databases used by ERA^^aries. 87
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TABLE OF DATABASES USED BY EPA LIBRARIES*
(G-H)
LIBRARY LOCATION
GROUND HAZARDOUS
WATER HAZARD WASTE
ONLINE -LINE DATABASE HWDMS
HEADQUARTERS
Hqs Library
Law Library
Leg. Ref. Lib.
OTS Non-Conf Info Center
REGIONS
Region 1, Boston MA
Region 2. New York NY
Region 3. Philadelphia PA
Region 4, Atlanta GA
Region 5, Chicago IL
Region 6, Dallas TX
Region 7. Kansas City KS
Region 8. Denver CO
Region 9, San Francisco CA
Region 10, Seattle V\A
LABORATORIES
Ada, OK
Ann Arbor, Ml
Annapolis, MD
Athens, GA
Cincinnati, OH:
ECAO/TIU
Library
Corvallis, OR
Denver/NEIC
Duluth, MN
Edison, NJ
Gu|f Breeze, FL
Las Vegas. NV
Narragansett, Rl
Research Triangle Park, NC
ASRL Library
Library Services
OAQPS Library
BB
See pages 79-84 for description of databases used by EPA Libraries.
TABLE OF DATABASES USED BY EPA LIBRARIE
(I-L)
LIBRARY LOCATION
IRIS
ISI JURIS LEGISLATE
HEADQUARTERS
Hqs Library
Law Library
Leg. Ref. Lib.
OTS Non-Conf Info Center
REGIONS
. Region 1, Boston MA
Region 2. New York NY
Region 3, Philadelphia PA
Region 4, Atlanta GA
Region 5. Chicago IL
Region 6, Dallas TX
Region 7, Kansas City KS
Region 8, Denver CO
Region 9, San Francisco CA
Region 10. Seattle V\A
LABORATORIES
Ada, OK
Ann Arbor, Ml
Annapolis, MD
Athens, GA
Cincinnati, OH:
ECAO/TIU
Library
Corvallis, OR
Denver/NEIC
Duluth, MN
Edison, NJ
Gulf Breeze, FL
Las Vegas, NV
Narragansett, Rl
Research Triangle Park, NC
ASRL Library
Library Services
OAQPS Library
See pages 79-84 for description of databases used by EPA Libraries.
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TABLE OF DATABASES USED BY EPA LIBRARIES*
(L-N)
LIBRARY LOCATION
LEXIS/
NEXIS
NLM
NPIRS NEWSNET
HEADQUARTERS
Hqs Library
Law Library
Leg. Ref. Lib.
OTS Non-Conf Info Center
REGIONS
Region 1, Boston MA
Region 2. New York NY
Region 3. Philadelphia PA
Region 4. Atlanta GA
Region 5. Chicago IL
Region 6, Dallas TX
Region 7, Kansas City KS
Region 8. Denver CO
Region 9. San Francisco CA
Region 10. Seattle WV
LABORATORIES
Ada, OK
Ann Arbor, Ml
Annapolis, MD
Athens. GA
Cincinnati. OH:
ECAO/TIU
Library
Corvallis, OR
Denver/NEIC
Duluth, MN
Edison. NJ
Gulf Breeze, FL
Las Vegas, NV
Narragansetl, Rl
Research Triangle Park, NC
ASRL Library
Library Services
OAQPS Library
90
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TABLE OF DATABASES USED BY EPA LIBRARIES*
<0-P)
LIBRARY LOCATION
OECM
OHS
ORBIT
PCS
HEADQUARTERS
Hqs Library
Law Library
Leg. Ref. Lib.
OTS Non-Conf Info Center
REGIONS
Region 1, Boston MA
Region 2. New York NY
Region 3, Philadelphia PA
Region 4, Atlanta GA
Region 5, Chicago IL
Region 6, Dallas TX
Region 7, Kansas City KS
Region 8, Denver CO
Region 9, San Francisco CA
Region 10. Seattle V\A
LABORATORIES
Ada. OK
Ann Arbor, Ml
Annapolis, MD
Athens, GA
Cincinnati, OH:
ECAO/TIU
Library
Corvallis, OR
Denver/NEIC
Duluth, MN
Edison, NJ
Gulf Breeze, FL
Las Vegas. NV
Narragansett, Rl
Research Triangle Park, NC
ASRL Library
Library Services
OAQPS Library
See pages 79-84 for description of databases used by EPA Li
91
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TABLE OF DATABASES USED BY EPA LIBRARIES*
(P-S)
LIBRARY LOCATION
PERGAMON
INFOLINE PHRED
SFFAS STORET
HEADQUARTERS
Hqs Library
Law Library
Leg. Ref. Lib.
OTS Non-Conf Info Center
REGIONS
Region 1, Boston MA
Region 2. New York NY
Region 3, Philadelphia PA
Region 4, Atlanta GA
Region 5, Chicago IL
Region 6. Dallas TX
Region 7. Kansas City KS
Region 8, Denver CO
Region 9, San Francisco CA
Region 10, Seattle V\A
LABORATORIES
Ada. OK
Ann Arbor, Ml
Annapolis, MD
Athens, GA
Cincinnati, OH:
ECAO/TIU
Library
Corvallis, OR
Denver/NEIC
Duluth, MN
Edison, NJ
Gulf Breeze, FL
Las Vegas, NV
Narragansett, Rl
Research Triangle Park, NC
ASRL Library
Library Services
OAQPS Library
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TABLE OF DATABASES USED BY EPA LIBRAR
LIBRARY LOCATION
TOX
LINE
TOX
NET
VUTEXT
WASH.
ALERT
HEADQUARTERS
Hqs Library
Law Library
Leg. Ref. Lib.
OTS Non-Conf Info Center
REGIONS
Region 1, Boston MA
Region 2. New York NY
Region 3, Philadelphia PA
Region 4, Atlanta GA
Region 5, Chicago IL
Region 6, Dallas TX
Region 7, Kansas City KS
Region 8, Denver CO
Region 9, San Francisco CA
Region 10. Seattle V\A
LABORATORIES
Ada, OK
Ann Arbor, Ml
Annapolis, MD
Athens, GA
Cincinnati, OH:
ECAO/TIU
Library
Corvallis, OR
Denver/NEIC
Duluth, MN
Edison, NJ
Gulf Breeze, FL
Las Vegas, NV
Narragansett, Rl
Research Triangle Park, NC
ASRL Library
Library Services
OAQPS Library
See pages 79-84 for description of databases used by ERA Libraries.
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TABLE OF DATABASES USED BY EPA LIBRARIES*
(W-W)
LIBRARY LOCATION
WATSTORE
WESTLAW
HEADQUARTERS
Hqs Library
Law Library
Leg. Ref. Lib.
OTS Non-Conf Info Center
REGIONS
Region 1, Boston MA
Region 2, New York NY
Region 3, Philadelphia PA
Region 4, Atlanta GA
Region 5, Chicago IL
Region 6. Dallas TX
Region 7, Kansas City KS
Region 8. Denver CO
Region 9, San Francisco CA
Region 10, Seattle WV
LABORATORIES
Ada. OK
Ann Arbor. Ml
Annapolis. MD
Athens, GA
Cincinnati. OH:
ECAO/TIU
Library
Corvallis, OR
Denver/NEIC
Duluth, MN
Edison, NJ
Gulf Breeze, PL
Las Vegas, NV
Narragansett, Rl
Research Triangle Park, NC
ASRL Library
Library Services
OAQPS Library
see pages 79-84 for description of databases used by EPA Libraries.
APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF ITEMS HELD BY EPA UBRARIES
LIBRARY
IOCATION
HEADQUARTERS
Hqs Library
Law Library
Legislative Ref Ub
OTS Non-Conf Info Or
REGIONS
Region 1, Boston MA
Region 2, New York NY
Region 3. Philadelphia PA
Region 4, Atlanta GA
Region 5, Chicago L
Region 6. Dallas TX
Region 7, Kansas City KS
Region 8, Denver CO
Region 9, San Francisco CA
Region 10. Seattle VM\
LABORATORIES
Ada. OK
Ann Arbor, Ml
Annapolis, MD
Athens, GA
Cincinnati, OH
Cincinnati/ECAO
Corvallis, OR
Denver/NEIC
Duluth, MN
Edison, NJ
Gulf Breeze, FL
Las Vegas, NV
Narragansett, Rl
Res. Triangle Park. NC:
ASRL Library
Library Services
OAQPS Library
NUMIER 1
• OOKS
15.000
9.500
5.000
5.000
4,100
10.100
4.500
4,500
1.994
1.400
1.600
5,000
3.300
2.000
300
1.300
8,000
16,000
3,500
1,000
3,094
3.000
5.000
1.250
3.100
,
3,200
5,000
800
NUMBER Or NUMBER OF HUUtER Or
CURRENT HARDCOPY ITEMS IN
SUMCRrTIOHS DOCUMENTS MICROFORM PM»
625
75
162
175
60
200
250
325
76
42
300
250
141
80
45
60
75
800
150
85
164
50
225
100
38
125
300
70
23.000
8.000
5.000
14,000
12,000
8.000
60.000
18.000
13.700
3.400
20.000
60.000
10,417
12.000
30.000
4.500
7.500
8,600
900
5,000
10,000
2.700
5.000
1.700
1.200
5.000
1.300
5.000
_
335.000
200.000
140,000
80,000
108,000
100,000
130,000
57.000
105,000
250.000
400,000
113,113
10.000
9.000
10.000
50.000
300,000
80,000
90.000
50,000
100,000
37.500
49.500
90,000
4,400
100,000
_
1
17
6
20
8
13
15
22
33
45
49
51
54
59
47
41
19
28
36
39
61
52
43
14
26
57
11
32
24
30
TOTAL
127,538
5,048 355,917 2,998,513
95
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CITIES IN WHICH EPA LIBRARIES ARE LOCATED
STATES IN WHICH EPA LIBRARIES ARE LOCJWfb
CITY
FTS
TELEPHONE NUMBER
PAGE
(Although there is a Regional library and several laboratory/other libraries i
each Region, all EPA libraries are independent entities.)
Ada OK
Ann Arbor Ml
Annapolis MD
Athens GA
Atlanta GA
Boston MA:
Library
Records Center
Chicago IL
Cincinnati OH:
Library
ECAO/TIU
Corvallis OR
Dallas TX
Denver CO (Region 8}
Denver CO (NEIC)
Duluth MN
Edison NJ
Gulf Breeze FL
Kansas City KS
Las Vegas NV
Narragansett Rl
New York NY
Philadelphia PA
Research Triangle Park, NC:
ASRL • Meteorology Library
Library Services
OAQPS Library
San Francisco CA
Seattle V\A
Washington DC:
Headquarters Library
Law Library
Legislative Reference Lib
OTS Non-Conf. Info. Ctr.
Public Information Center
743-2241
374-831 1
(301) 266-9180
250-3324
257-4216
' 835-3300
(617)573-5729
353-2022
684-7707
684-7532
420-4731
255-6444
564-1444
776-5122
780-5538
340-6762
686-9011
757-2828
545-2648
838-6025
264-2881
597-0580
629-4536
629-2777
629-5514
454-8082
399-1289
382-5921
382-5919
382-5425
382-2320
475-7751
47
41
19
28
22
8
10
33
36
39
61
45
51
52
43
14
26
49
57
11
13
15
32
24
30
54
59
1
17
6
20
5
96
.
STATE REGION
Alabama
Arkansas
Arizona
Alaska
Delaware
District of
Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
4
6
9
10
3
3
10
5
5
LIBRARY
LOCATION
LIBRARY
FTS#
California
Colorado
/^_ .:_ . .
9
8
*San Francisco
"Denver
Denver/NEIC
Regional Library
Hqs Library
Law Library
Leg. Ref. Lib
OTS Non-Conf. Info Ctr
Pub. Info Ctr
Gulf Breeze
'Atlanta
Athens
PAGE
454-8082 54
564-1444 51
776-5122 52
382-5921 1
382-5919
382-5425
382-2320 20
475-7751 5
17
6
686-9011 26
257-4216 22
250-3324 28
'Chicago
353-2022 33
97
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STATE REGION
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
.
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
7
7
4
6
1
3
1
5
5
4
7
8
7
9
1
2
6
2
4
8
5
6
10
LIBRARY
LOCATION
j_
'Kansas City
—
- •
•
Annapolis
'Boston
Recrds Ctr
Ann Arbor
Duluth
--
-
—
_
Las Vegas
-
Edison
-
'New York City
Research Triangle Park:
ASRL Library
Library Svcs
OAOPS Library
—
Cincinnati:
Library
ECAO/TIU
Ada
Corvallis
LIBRARY
FTS#
-
757-2828
"•
-
_
(301)266-9180
835-3300
(617)573-5729
374-831 1
780-5538
-
—
„
545-2648
-
340-6762
-
264-2881
629-4536
629-2777
629-5514
—
684-7707
684-7532
743-2241
420-4731
PAGE
«v
49
*•
-
_
19
8
10
41
43
-
-
—
_
57
-
14
—
13
32
24
30
. -
36
39
47
61
South Carolina 4
South Dakota 8
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
4
6
1
3
10
3
5
8
'Dallas
255-6444 45
'Seattle
399-1289 59
lion
99
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REGIONS IN WHICH EPA LIBRARIES ARE
(Although there is a Regional library and several laboratory/other libraries in
each Region, all EPA libraries are independent entities.)
REGION/STATE
LIBRARY
LOCATION
FTS # PAGE
REGION 1
Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont
REGION 2
New Jersey
New York
REGION 3
Delaware
District of Columbia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
REGION 4
Alabama
Florida
"Boston
Records Center
Narragansett
Edison
*New York City
Hqs Library
Law Library
Leg. Ref. Lib
OTS Non-Conf. Info Ctr
Pub. Info Ctr
Annapolis
'Philadelphia
835-3300 8
(617)573-5729 10
838-6025 11
340-6762
264-2881
382-5921
382-5919
382-5425
382-2320
475-7751
(301) 266-9180
597-0580
Gulf Breeze
14
13
1
17
6
20
5
19
15
686-9011 26
100
Regional Library
101
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REGION/STATE
LIBRARY
LOCATION
FTS # PAGE
REGION/STATE
LIBRARY
LOCATION
FTS # PAGE
Georgia
Kentucky
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
REGION 5
Illinois
Michigan
Minnesota
Indiana
Ohio
Wisconsin
REGION 6
Arkansas
Louisiana
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
REGION 7
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
'Atlanta
Athens
Research Triangle Park:
ASRL Library
Library Svcs
OAOPS Library
'Chicago
Ann Arbor
Ouluth
Cincinnati:
Library
ECAO/TIU
Ada
'Dallas
'Kansas City
257-4216 22
250-3324 28
629-4536 32
629-2777 24
629-5514 30
353-2022 33
374-8311 41
780-5538 43
684-7707 36
684-7532 39
743-2241
255-6444
47
45
757-2828 49
REGION 8
Colorado
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
Utah
Wyoming
REGION 9
Arizona
California
Hawaii
. Nevada
REGION 10 '
Alaska
Idaho
Oregon
Washington
"Denver
Denver/NEIC
*San Francisco
Las Vegas
564-1444 51
776-5122 52
454-8082 54
545-2648 57
Corvallis
'Seattle
420-4731 61
399-1289 59
102
Regional Library
Reoipnal Libzacy
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NAMES OF STAFF MEMBERS
To assist in calling the various EPA locations, time zones have been included.
The relationship is:
Eastern
Central
Mountain
Pacific
(E)
(C)
(M)
(P)
Noon
11:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
NAME
LIBRARY CODE
Almaguer, Brigid (C)
Alston, Gayle (C)
Arentsen, Sue (C)
Austin, Nancy (C)
Bailey, Johnnie (C)
Baker, Joyce
Barnes, Alonzo (C)
Barnes, Edith (C)
Benjamin, Francine (C)
Benson, Isa (C)
Biggs, Dotty
Bosworth, Lilian (C)
Boyle, Penny (C)
Butler, Gloris
Byrd, Jonda (C)
Carey, Dennis
Carey, Patricia (C)
Clark, Zandra (C)
Cline, Laura (C)
Coleman, Selma (C)
Cook. Philip
Cox. Gretl (C)
Cunha, Evo (C)
Currie, Monique (C)
ECAO/TJU
EKA
ECAO/TIU
ELB
PIC
EJA
EJB
EKC
EJE
EJB
EOB
ELB
ELA
PIRU
ELB
EIA
ESA
ESA
EOA
EJB
ELD.
EJB
EHA
EJB
FTS#
684-7532
257-4216
684-7532
684-7703
475-7752
597-0580
382-5922
686-9011
382-2320
475-7766
776-5122
684-7701
353-2022
382-5926
684-7707
264-2881
399-1289
399-1289
564-1444
382-5933
780-5538
475-7767
(617)573-5729
382-5934'
TIME
ZONE
E
E
E
E
E
E
E
.C
E
E
M
E
E
E
E
E
P
P
M
E
C
E
E
E
104
Std
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NAME
Davis, Jean
Drury. Bette (C)
Dudel. Darci (C)
Dyson, Brenda (C)
Eddy, Dolores
Fandel, Dick
Field, Helen
Flores, Yolanda (C)
Foley, Hila (AARP)
Frisch, Lisa (C)
Fulton, Jan (C)
Fulwood, Beverly (C)
Gamache, Rose Ann
Gamson, Art (AARP)
Geideman, Sandra (C)
Gillis, Anne
Greenman, Barbara (C)
Griffith. Yvette (C)
Gunkel, Louise (C)
Hadaway, Martha (C)
Hagler, Barbara
Hale, Carol (C)
Hawthorne, Liz
Hicks, Diane (C)
Hoffman, Mary (C)
Holmes, Melinda (C)
Holmgren, Stephanie (C)
Honeck, Joan (C)
Houston, Julia (C)
Ingram, Ann
James, Michael (C)
LIBRARY CODE
HW COLLECTION
EKA
ESA
EJB
EOA
LIB. INFO. EXCHANGE
ERA
ERB
ECAO/TIU
EJE
ESA
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D-4 Not in my Backyard... June 19, 1989
HAZARDOUS WASTE COLLECTION
DATABASE
THESAURUS
INFORMATION SERVICES BRANCH
OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
December 1987
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ,... i
INTRODUCTION .1 - Hi
HIERARCHICAL DISPLAY ... 1
Overview of the Major
Subject Headings 3
Guide to the Format 5
ALPHABETICAL DISPLAY ...'. 21
Guide to the Format --- ...23
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GUIDE TO THE FORMAT
Shown below is a sample entry from the Alphabetical Display.
I > Rem6di3l Action - Those solutions, either proposed or
2 —> actually undertaken, for the permanent cleanup at
a Superfund site. Use for Remedial Designs,
Remedial Response.
3 > ui . Cleanup
4 _> N1 . Data Quality Objectives (DQO)
s > R1 . Removal Action
Remedial Designs
use Remedial Action
(I) Keyword
(2) Definition .
(.<) BT - liroader term'. Indicates that the keyword following
HI is.the more general concept under which the
listed keyword would fall. The user might choose to
search using the broader keyword for a more
comprehensive search.
(4) NT - Narrower lerm". Indicates that the keyword following
•VI is a more specific concept under the listed
keyword. The user may choose to search using the
narrower keyword for a more refined search.
(?) NT Related lerm . The ke\word following KT is a concept
closely telaied to the listed keyword other than the NT
~- or III .relai ionsliips. Ilie searcher may wish to search
orf the u-iaicd keyword tor a more comprehensive search.
«n l;sc Directs ihe user from a lerm not recoiuii/.ed as a
kcvwnrd to a used kevword. Ihe searcher would never
.v., . . . —;
search on the non rccov;m/cd term, rather he/she should
search «m the synonym or newer keyword which follows
I he ptu.isi.' ' use...'.
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WASTE TYPES
EMISSIONS
INFECTIOUS WASTES
LEACHATES
LIQUID WASTES
Slurry
SOLID WASTES
Dusts
Sludge
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Hazardous Waste Collection Database Thesaurus has"been
produced to provide an index to terminology dealing with hazardous
waste and to facilitate the use of the Hazardous Waste Collection
Database.
We sincerely want to thank the following individuals for their
contributions to this project:
Monique Currie, Headquarters Library staff, for
her dedication in the design and creation of the
Thesaurus; .
Beth Ann Kyle, Headquarters Library staff, for
her imaginative ideas in formatting and editing
the document; and
• Jean Davis, Information Services Branch, for her
persistence in the production of the document.
Loretta A. Marzetti
Chief, Information Services Branch
Office of Information Resources Management
Barbara Roth
Information Services Branch
Office of Information Resources Management
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INTRODUCTION
The linvironmental Protection Agency's (I?PA) Hazardous Waste
Collection is a collection of EPA. reports, policy, and guidance
directives from the HPA's Office of Solid Waste and Hmergency Response
(OSWF.R), commercial books, legislation, regulations, and reports from
selected Government Agencies, such as the General Accounting Office,
concerning the subject of hazardous waste.
Much item in the Collection corresponds to a record in the
Hazardous Waste Collection Database. This Thesaurus lists some 300
subject terms used to classify the documents in the Collection. It is
hoped that by using this Thesaurus of controlled terms, the searcher of
the database will formulate more effective searches and retrieve more
pertinent records.
The Thesaurus is divided into two parts: the Hierarchical and the
Alphabetical Display. The Hierarchical Display is used to familiarize
oneself with the terms within broad subject areas. If one is looking
for a particular, specific term, it is much quicker to consult the
Alphabetical Display. The Hierarchical Display consists of groupings,
by subject, of terms that are listed alphabetically in the Alphabetical
Display. It starts with very broad terms such as "Superfund" or
"Control Methods* and displays their narrower terms.
The Alphabetical Display lists the terms alphabetically and in-
many cases provides for an accompanying definition. Also, beneath each
listed term is found other terms and their relationship to the listed
term: "broader", "narrower", or "related".
The terms and their accompanying definitions have not been subject
to peer review. This Thesaurus is meant as an aid to individuals
searching only the Hazardous Waste Collection Database. These terms
and their definitions in no way reflect the official views or policy of
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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HIERARCHICAL DISPLAY
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OVERVIEW OF THE MAJOR SUBJECT HEADINGS
Listed below are the nine major subject areas and their
respective second tier terms. Each of the 300 keywords in the
Alphabetical Display falls within one of these nine major subject
headings: Assessment, Legal Aspects, Emergency Preparedness,
Control Methods, Superfund, Management, Government, Hazardous
Substances, and Waste Types. A more detailed breakdown follows
the Overview.
ASSESSMENT
Analysis
Ecological Risk
Economic Assessment
Generators
Human Health Risk
Methodology
Monitoring
LEGAL ASPECTS
Enforcement
Legislation
Liability
Regulations
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
Community Awareness
Emergency Response
CONTROL METHODS
Alternative Technologies
Conventional Treatment
Equipment
In-situ
Ocean Dumping
Waste Minimization
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SUPERFUND
•CERCLIS
Cleanup
Mixed Funding
National Contingency Planning
National Priorities List
Record of Decision (ROD)
Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE)
MANAGEMENT
Contracts
Information Sources
Policy
Training
GOVERNMENT
International
Local
State
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES
Carcinogens
Inorganic Chemicals
Mutagens
Organic Chemicals
Pesticides
WASTE TYPES
Emissions
Infectious Wastes
Leachates
Liquid Wastes
Solid Wastes
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GUIDE TO THE FORMAT
Shown below is a sample entry from the Hierarchical Display.
i- >CONTROL METHODS
2~>ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Best Demonstrated Available Treatment (BDAT)
Biological Treatment
Aeration
Aerated Lagoons
Aerobic Biodegradation
Anaerobic Biodegradation
Stabilizing Ponds
Trickling Filters
Chemical Treatment
Chlorinolysis
Dechlorination
Hydrolysis
Neutralization
Precipitation
Reduction/Oxidation
Ozonation
UV/Ozonation
(1) Main Heading - This represents the broadest level of terms.
While these terms can be used as keywords, they are usually
too general. There are nine main headings in this thesaurus.
(2) Second Tier Terra - From this point on, the further indented a
term is, the more specific the term. Each term encompasses
every term that lies to the right of it in the hierarchy.
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ASSESSMENT
ANALYSIS
Corrosiyity
EP Toxicity
Gas Chromatography
Ignitability
Incompatability
Reactivity
ECOLOGICAL RISK
Contamination
EIS
Indian Lands
Natural Resources
Environmental Media
Air
Soil
Aquifer
Water
Drinking Water
Groundwater
Oceans
Surface Water
Restoration
ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT
Audits
Costs
Economic Impact
Fee Systems
Taxes
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ASSESSMENT
GENERATORS
Energy
. Geothermal
• Radioactivity
Utilities
Federal Facilities
Industry
Batteries
Construction
Detergents
Electroplating
Mining
Transformers
Municipalities
Households
Sewage
Sites
Abandoned Sites
Off-site
On-site
Uncontrolled Sites
Small Quantity Generators
HUMAN HEALTH RISK
Health Effects Assessment (HEAS)
Health and Environmental Effects Document (HEEDS)
Health and Environmental Effects Profile (HEtPS)
Worker Protection
MONITORING
Inspection
Migration
Sensing Techniques
Bioassay
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ASSESSMENT
METHODOLOGY
Data
Design
Models
Quality Assurance
Sampling
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LEGAL ASPECTS
ENFORCEMENT
Consent Decree
Illegal Actions
Litigation
Civil Judicial Action
Criminal Judicial Action
Mediation
Negotiations
Settlements
De Mini mis
LEGISLATION
CERCLA
Post-Closure Liability Fund
Clean Air Act
Clean Water Act
311(K) Fund
Funds
Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA)
Section 3008(h)
OSHA
RCRA
Interim Prohibition
Subtitle C
Subtitle D
Subtitle I
LUST Trust Fund
SARA
Right-to-Know
TSCA
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LEGAL ASPECTS
LIABILITY
Claims
Cost Recovery
Indemnification
Insurance
Private Insurance
Non-binding Preliminary Allocation of Responsibility
(NBAR)
Penalties
Potentially Responsible Parties (PRP)
Responsible Parties
REGULATIONS
Alternative Concentration Limits (ACL)
California List
Compliance
Exemptions
Facility Standards
Financial Responsibility Requirements
Hazardous Substance Lists
Appendix VIII Constituents
Delisting
Interim Status
Location Standards
Loss of Interim Status
Minimum Technological Requirements
Non-compliance
Recordkeeping Requirements
Reporting Requirements
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EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
COMMUNITY AWARENESS
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
Notification
Confidentiality
EMERGENCY RESPONSE
Emergency Response Plans
Environmental Response Team
Releases
Fires
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CONTROL METHODS
ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Best Demonstrated Available Treatment (BDAT)
Biological Treatment
Aeration
Aerated Lagoons
Aerobic Biodegradation
Anaerobic Biodegradation
Stabilization Ponds
Trickling Filters
Chemical Treatment
Chlorinolysis
Dechiorination
Hydrolysis
Neutralization
Precipitation
Reduction/Oxidation
Ozonation
UV/Ozonation
Mobile Treatment
Physical Treatment
Activated Carbon Adsorption
Air Stripping
Distillation
Evaporation
Extraction
Soil Flushing/Soil Washing
Supercritical Extraction
Filtration
Belt Filter Press
Chamber Pressure Filters
Granular Media Filtration
Vacuum Filtration
Flocculation
Ion Exchange
Mechanical Aeration
Membrane Separation
Electrodialysis
Reverse Osmosis
Phase Separation '
Centrification
Dissolved Air Flotation
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CONTROL METHODS
Physical Treatment, cont'd
Sedimentation
Slurry Trenching
Steam Stripping
Stabilization/Solidification
Cementing
Polymerization
Pozzolanic Process
Sorption
Surface Encapsulation
Thermal Treatment
'Calcination
Incineration
Boilers
Circulation Bed Combustion
Fluidized Bed Incineration
CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT
Land Treatment
Landfills
Capping
Open Landfills
Liners
Storage
Containers
Drums
Corrosion
Storage Tanks
Underground Storage Tanks
Surface Impoundments
Transportation
Manifest
Underground Injection
Capping
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CONTROL METHODS
EQUIPMENT
Repair
Retro-Fit
IN-SITU
OCEAN DUMPING
WASTE MINIMIZATION
Materials Recovery
Recycling
Source Reduction
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SUPERFUND
CERCLIS
CLEANUP
Remedial Actions
Data Quality Objectives (DQO)
Removal Actions
Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS)
MIXED FUNDING
NATIONAL CONTINGENCY PLAN
NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST
Mitre Model
RECORDS OF DECISION (ROD)
SUPERFUND INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY EVALUATION (SITE)
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MANAGEMENT
CONTRACTS
INFORMATION SOURCES
Bibliographies
Case Studies
Databases
Directories
Inventories
Technology Transfer Documents
POLICY
Directives
Guidance
Regions
Region 1
Region 2
Region 3
Region 4
Region 5
Region 6
Region 7
Region 8
Region 9
Region 10
TRAINING
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GOVERNMENT
INTERNATIONAL
LOCAL
STATE
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HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES
CARCINOGENS
Asbestos*
Dioxins*
Phenol
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCS)
INORGANIC CHEMICALS
Acids*
Asbestos*
Metals
Solvents*
MUTAGENS
ORGANIC CHEMICALS
Acids*
Dioxins
Fuels
Oils
Solvents*
PESTICIDES
These terms fall under numerous categories.
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WASTE TYPES
EMISSIONS
INFECTIOUS WASTES
LEACHATES
LIQUID WASTES
Slurry
SOLID WASTES
Dusts
Sludge
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GUIDE TO THE FORMAT
Shown below is a sample entry from the Alphabetical Display.
1 > Remedial Action - Those solutions, either proposed or
2 _—> actually undertaken, for the permanent cleanup at
a Super fund site. Use for Remedial Designs,
Remedial Response.
3 > u, . Cleanup
4 .> vi . Data Quality Objectives (DQO)
5 > RT . Removal Action
Remedial Designs
•> use Remedial Action
(I) Keyword
(2) Definition
(.<) BT - Mroadcr lerm". Indicates that the keyword following
HI is.the more general concept under which the
listed keyword would fall. The user might choose to
search using the broader keyword for a more
comprehensive search.
(4) NT - ..Narrower lerm'. Indicates that the keyword following
• N'l is a more specific concept under the listed
kevword. (he user may choose to search using the
narrower keyword for a more refined search.
(?) UT Related lerm . The kcvword following RT is a concept
closcl\ (elated tn the listed keyword other than the NT
or I'll relationships. I he searcher may wish to search
mi ilie iclaicd k-e> word tor a more comprehensive search.
(<» I :.sc Directs the user from a term not rccoiuii/.ed as a
kcvtturd to a used kevword. The searcher would never
search on the non recogni/ed term, rather he/she should
search on the svnoium or newer keyword which follows
(he phrase use...'.
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A List
use Technology Transfer Documents
Abandoned Sites ~ A hazardous site, facility or generator whose
use has been permanently discontinued or which is in a
state of disrepair such that it cannot be used for its
intended purpose.
BT - Sites
- 'Compounds, either organic or inorganic, that have certain
similar properties, one being a pH of less than 7.0.
BT - Inorganic Chemicals
BT - Organic Chemicals
NT - Phenol
Activated Carbon Adsorption - A physical treatment technology
whereby soluble substances are collected on the surface of
activated carbon by surface attraction phenomena.
BT - Physical Treatment
Activated Sludge
use Aerobic Biodegradation
Advanced EleCtriC Reactor - Type of pyrolysis. Uses radiation
instead of combustion, convection or conduction.
Destruction of hazardous waste achieved by pure heat in a
vessel and hydrogen. Use for High Temperature Fluid Wall.
BT - Pyrolysis
Aerated LagOOnS - Natural or artificial wastewater pond or basin
in which mechanical or diffused air is used to supplement
natural oxygen supply.
BT - Aeration
Aerated Ponds
use Aerated Lagoons
Aeration - Biological treatment where oxygen is circulated
through a substance such as wastewater.
BT - Biological Treatment
NT - Aerated Lagoons
RT - Aerobic Biodeqradation
RT - Anaerobic Biodegradation
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Aerobic BiodegradatJOn - Biological treatment where
microorganisms metabolize biodegradable organics in aqueous
waste in anoxygcn environment. Includes activated sludge
process.
in - Biological Treatment
K r - Anaerobic Biodegradation
RT - Aeration
Air
BT - Environmental Media
Air Stripping - System which provides for mass transfer of
volatile organic contaminants from a liquid phase to a gas
phase. A type of physical treatment.
BT - Physical Treatment
Alternate Concentration Limits
use Alternative Concentration Limits (ACL)
Alternative Concentration Limits (ACL) - KPA regional
administrator can permit higher levels of hazardous
substances if it will not pose a present or potential threat
to human health or the environment.
BT - Regulations
Alternative Technologies - Any unit operations and the related
equipment that permanently alters the composition of
hazardous waste through biological, physical, thermal,
chemical treatment or through a stabilization/solid-
ification process to significantly reduce the toxicity.
BT - Control Methods
NT - Best Demonstrated Available Treatment (BOAT)
NT - Biological Treatment
NT - Chemical Treatment
NT - Mobile Treatment
NT - Physjcal Treatment
-NT - Solidification/Stabilization
NT - Thermal Treatment
RT - Conventional Treatment
RT - Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation
Programs (SITE)
RT - Waste Minimization
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Anaerobic Biodegradation - moiogicai treatment where
microorganisms metabolize biodegradable organics in
aqueous waste in an oxygen deficient environment.
BT - Biological Treatment
RT - Aerobic Biodegradation
RT - Aeration
Analysis - The testing of substances to determine their chemical
composition or hazardous characteristics. Use for
testing.
BT - Assessment
NT - Corrosivity
NT - EP Toxicity
NT - Gas Chromatography
NT - Ignitability
NT - Incompatibility
NT - Reactivity
RT - Methodology
RT - Monitoring
Appendix VIII Constituents - AS listed in 40 CFR 201. These
chemicals when found present in a substance are criteria
used for placing it on one of the Hazardous Substance Lists.
Includes Principal Organic Constituents.
BT - Hazardous Substance Lists
- Underground bed or layer of earth, gravel, or porous
stone containing water.
BT - Soil
AsbeStOS - Fibrous magnesium silicate. Highly carcinogenic.
BT - Inorganic Chemicals
BT - Carcinogens
Assessment - The quantative and qualitative study of hazardous
waste and its sources. May include its effects on the
environment, including, the human population.
NT - Analysjs
NT - Ecological Risk
NT - Economic Assessment
NT - Generators
NT - Human Health Risk
NT - Methodplogy
NT - Monitoring
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Audits
BT - Economic Assessment
Available Technologies
use Alternative Technologies
B List
use Technology Transfer Documents
Batteries
BT - Industry
Belt Filter PreSS - Filtration process where a press continuously
squeezes sludge through a series of rollers which apply
increasing pressure and shear force on the sludge.
\
BT - Filtration
Best Demonstrated Available Treatment (BOAT) - Ranking of
hazardous waste alternative technologies for each specific
waste. Ranking is based on factors such as availability and
performance.
BT - Alternative Technologies
Bibliographies
BT - Information Sources
- Use of living organisms to measure the effect of a
substance on the environment.
BT - Sensing Techniques
Biological Treatment - Alternative technology proces whereby the
organic components of hazardous waste are biologically
decomposed or altered under controlled cond.itions to a state
which is either non-toxic or less toxic than its
pretreatment state. Includes composting.
BT - Alternative Technologies
NT - Aeration
NT - Aerobic Biodegredation
NT - Anaerobic Biodegradation
NT - Stabilization Ponds
NT - Trickling Filters
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- Vessels where hazardous waste is used as supplementary
fuel to coal or oil.
BT - Incineration
Burial
use Landfills
Burning
use Incineration
C List
use Technology Transfer Documents
Calcination - Process of heating waste material to high
temperatures without fusing. Often used with high-level
radioactive waste.
BT - Thermal Treatment
California List - List of liquid hazardous wastes containing.
certain metals, cyanides, PCBs, corrosives, etc. .List
subsequently incorporated into the provisions of the
Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments.
BT - Regulations
Capping - The covering of a landfill, injection well, etc., after
operations have ceased.
BT - Landfills
BT - Underground Injection
Carcinogens - Chemicals which cause cancer. Includes polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons.
BT - Hazardous Substances
NT - Asbestos
NT - Dioxins
NT - Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)
NT - Phenol
Case Studies
BT - Information Sources
Cement Kiln Dust
use Pozzolanic Process
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Cementing - Wastes are stirred with the water and mixed directly
with cement. Suspended particles are incorporated into
hardened concrete.
BT - Stabilization/Solidification
Gentrification - Components of the hazardous waste are separated
mechanically by the application of centrifugal force to
a rapidly rotating mixture in a confined vessel.
BT - Phase Separation
CERCLA - Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act.
BT - Legislation
RT - Post-Closure Liability Fund
RT - Non-binding Preliminary Allocation of Responsibility
(NBAR)
RT - SARA
RT - Superfund
RT - CEftCLIS
CERCLIS - Comprehensive Emergency Response, Compensation and
Liability Information System. EPA database which tracks
Superfund cleanup actions.
BT - Superfund
RT - CERCLA
RT - Databases
Chamber PreSSUre Filters - Filtration technique where a group of
cloth covered plates compresses the waste with the filtrate
exiting through the cloth.
BT - Filtration
Chemical Treatment - Alternative technology processes and related
equipment which alter the chemical structure of the
hazardous constituents so that the resulting material is
less hazardous than the original waste.
-BT - Alternative Technologies
NT - Chlorinplysis
NT - Dechiorination
NT - Hydrolysis
NT - Neutralization
NT - Precipitation
NT - Reduction/Oxidation
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- Chemical treatment process where excess chlorine
is added to waste at high temperatures rendering it less
hazardous.
BT - Chemical Treatment
RT - Dechlorination
Circulating Bed CombUStion - Variation of fl-uidized bed
technology which does not employ a fixed bed depth.
.BT - Incineration
RT - Fluidized Bed Incineration
Civil Judicial Action - Legal action brought about by the I-FA to
enforce or protect the private rights of citizens concerning
the environment. In general, all types of legal action
other than criminal proceedings.
BT - Litjgation
RT - Criminal Judicial Action
Claims
BT - Liability
Clean Air Act .
BT - Legislation
Clean Water Act
BT - Legislation
NT - 311(K) Fund
Cleanup - Process of restoring a hazardous waste site under the
Superfund program.
BT - Superfund
NT - Remedial Actions
NT - Removal Actions
NT - Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS)
RT - Restoration
Commercial
use Industry
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Community AwareneSS - The disclosure of the dangers of hazardous
chemicals to workers and community at large; also the
participation of community groups in the preparation of
emergency plans.
BT - Emergency Preparedness
NT - Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
NT - Notification
NT - Right-to-Know
Compliance
BT - Regulations .
RT - Non-compliance
Composting
use Biological Treatment
Confidentiality - Withholding of precise chemical information
considered proprietary by chemcial companies.
BT - Notification
Consent Decree - Agreement by defendant to cease activities
asserted as illegal by EPA. Upon approval 'of agreement by
the court, the EPA action against the defendant is dropped.
BT - Enforcement
Construction - Erection of both residential and nonresidential
buildings. Source of hazardous waste.
BT - Industry
Containers - Any package, can, barrel, or containing device other
than tanks or drums, used to enclose a hazardous waste.
BT - Storage
NT - Drums
-NT - Corrosion
NT - Storage Tanks
Contamination
BT - Ecological Risk
Contingency Plan
use National Contingency Plan
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Contracts - Agreements in which one party performs a service in
exchange for financial renumeration or a return service.
BT - Management
Control Methods - Means by which the toxicity of hazardous waste
is lessened or its impact minimized through either
containment and storage (Conventional Treatment).
treated (see Alternative Technologies) or minimized at
the source of generation (Waste Minimization).
NT - Alternative Technologies
NT - Conventional Treatment
NT - Equipment
NT - In-situ
NT - Ocean Dumping
NT - Waste Minimization
Conventional Treatment - Removal or containment of hazardous
waste to regulated land treatment sites: Waste is neither
treated nor destroyed. Continued maintenance is required to
monitor potential contamination of surrounding environment.
Solution is not permanent.
BT - Control Methods
NT - Land Treatment
NT - Landfills
NT - Liners
NT - Storage
NT - Surface Impoundments
NT - Transportation
NT - Underground Injection
RT - Alternative Technologies
RT - Waste Minimization
Corrective Actions
use Removal Actions or Remedial Actions
Corrosion - The gradual wearing away of storage tanks. Can lead
to leakage and contamination.
BT - Containers
BT - Drums
BT - Storage Tanks
- Characteristic of a hazardous waste whereby it
dissolves metals or burns the skin. \
BT - Analysis
RT - EP Toxjcity
RT - Ignitability
RT - Reactivity
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COSt ReCOVGPy - Process by which liPA documents and attempts to
recover maximum practical amount of money due from
responsible parties for Superfund financed cleanups.
HI - Liability
RT - Responsible Parties
RT - Settlements
Costs
in Economic Assessment
RT - Mixed Funding
Criminal Judicial Action - Legal action brought by liPA against
those parties charged with violating criminal laws.
in - Litigation
RT - Civil Judicial Action
Data
MI - Methodology
in - Data Quality Objectives (DQO)
Data Quality Objectives (DQO) - Quantitative and qualitative
statements outlining the decisionmaking process and data
required to support KPA remedial actions decisions.
IIT - Remedial Actions
RT - Methodology
KT - Data
Databases
in - Information Sources
RT - CERCLIS
- Type of settlement where parties that contribute very
small amounts of ha/aidous wastes to a site will settle with
the i.l'A for small or. "de miitimis" amounts.
»T - Settlements
- Chemical treatment process where chlorine is
chemically removed from chlorinated organic compounds suqh
as PCHs and dioxins.
in - Chemical Treatment
RT Chlorinolysis
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- Process of excluding a waste from regulation as
hazardous.
BT - Hazardous Substance Lists
RT - Exemptions
Design
BT - Methodology
Detergents
BT - Industry
DJOXinS - Family of compounds with common triple ring structure
of two benzene rings interconnected with a pair of oxygen
atoms.
RT - Organic Chemicals
BT - Carcinogens
Directives - Special series of policy and guidance documents
which provide interpretation, suggestions, or
recommendations consistent with legislation. Guidance
materials do not supercede legislation.
BT - Policy
Directories
BT - Information Sources
Disposal
use Conventional Treatment
Air Flotation - A physical treatment technique whereby
air is dissolved under high pressure.- As the pressure is
dropped, waste accumulates at the air-water surface and the
waste is skimmed off.
BT - Phase Separation
Distillation - A physical treatment technique that separates
components of a liquid mixture by partially vaporizing the
mixture.
BT - Physical Treatment
Drinking Water
BT - Water
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Drums
BT - Containers
NT - Corrosion
Dumps
use Landfills or Ocean Dumping
Dusts
BT- - Solid Wastes
Ecological Risk - Discussion of the risk or damage to organic
matter (plant and animal life) as well as inorganic matter
(air, water, soil, etc.).
BT - Assessment
NT - Contamination
NT - EIS
NT - Indian Lands
NT - Natural Resources
NT - Restoration
Economic Assessment - Estimating the monetary value of a program,
procedure or event, and/or the monetary value of the effects
of such a procedure, program, or event.
BT - Assessment
NT - Audits
NT - Costs
NT - Economic Impact
NT - Fee Systems
NT - Taxes
Economic Impact - Includes the social and/or economic impact of a
particular decision or action.
BT - Economic Assessment
RT - Liability
EIS - Environmental Impact Statement. Provides information
concerning the positive and negative effects on the
environment of major projects or legislative proposals.
BT - Ecological Risk
- A physical treatment process whereby heat
energy is applied to a solution, slurry, or suspended solid
mixture to vaporize part of the mixture while concentrating
the semisolid components.
BT - Membrane Separation
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Electroplating - Production of a thin coat of metal on a surface.
Source of hazardous waste.
BT - Industry
Emergency Preparedness - Right-to-Know provision of rule .> of
SARA mandates preparation of emergency measures for
hazardous spills.
NT - Community Awareness
NT - Emergency Response
RT - Right-to-Know
Emergency Response - Acnonls) taken to contain the release of
hazardous substances in the environment.
BT - Emergency Preparedness
NT - Emergency Response Plans
NT - Environmental Response Team
NT - Releases
NT - Removal Actions
•
Emergency Response Plans - Those plans developed at State or
local level which detail procedures and responses to
hazardous spills and releases in local communities.
BT - Emergency Response
Emissions - Gaseous waste materials discharged into the
environment.
BT - Waste Types
Energy
BT - Generators
NT - Geothermal
NT - Radioactivity
NT - Utilities
Enforcement - The means employed to force violators or potential
violators of the law to obey the laws or make restitution
for the transgression of those laws.
BT - Legal Aspects
NT - Consent Decree
NT - Illegal Actions
NT -Litigation
NT - Mediation
NT - Negotiations
NT - Settlements
RT - Section 3008(h)
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Environmental Media
in - Natural Resources
NT - Air
NT - Soil
NT - Water
Environmental Response Team - Group of hazardous waste experts
who provide multidisciplinary assistance to HPA's other
ha/.ardous waste experts.
in - Emergency Response
EP TOXicity - Characteristic of a' hazardous waste whereby an
extract of the waste contains high concentrations of heavy
metals or specific pesticides.
HI Analysis
RT Corrosivity
RT - Iqnitability
RT - Reactivity
Equipment
HI - Control Methods
NT - Repair
NT - Retro-fit
Evaporation - A physical treatment process whereby heat energy is
applied to a solution, slurry, or suspended solid mixture to
vapori/e part of the mixture while concentrating the
scmisolid components.
in - Physical Treatment
Exemptions
in - Regulations
RT - Delisting
Extraction - Physical treatment process where dissolved or
absorbed substances are transferred from a liquid or solid
phase of a solvent.
in - Physical Treatment
NT - Soil Washing/Soil Flushing
NT - Supercritical Extraction
Facility Standards
in - Regulations
RT - Location Standards
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Feasibility Study
use Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study
Federal Facilities - Federal buildings or programs which arc a
source of hazardous waste.
.BT - Generators
Fee Systems - Method for funding hazardous waste disposal where
"user" is assessed a fee for use of disposal program.
BT - Economic Assessment
Filtration - A physical treatment process where suspended solids
are removed from a fluid by passage through a porous
media with a force of gravity. •
BT - Physical Treatment
NT - Granular Media Filtration
NT - Belt Filter Press
NT - Chamber Pressure Filters
NT - Vacuum Filtration
Financial Responsibility Requirements - o.wncrs and operators are
to prove adequate funding is available either through
insurance or trust funds for their closure or post-closure
plans.
BT - Regulations
FireS - The combustion of a release of ha/.urdous materials.
BT - Releases
Fixation
use Stabilization/Solidification
FlOCCUlatJOn - Physical treatment process where small suspended
particles are transformed into larger more settled ones by
the addition of a chemical, typically alum, lime, or
polyelectrolytcs.
BT - Physical Treatment
Fluidized Bed Incinerator - Type of incineration, using
refractory-lined vessels containing a bed of graded, inert
granular material.
;
BT - Incineration
RT - Circulating Bed Combustion
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Fly Ash
use Pozzolanic Process
Fuels - Includes motor fuels, gasoline, etc.
BT - Organic Chemicals
Funds - Sources of money for hazardous waste cleanup and control,
raised through taxes and authorized by legislation.
BT - Legislation
NT - 311(K) Fund
NT - LUST Trust Fund
NT - Post-Closure Liability Fund
RT - Superfund
RT - Taxes
Garbage
use Municipalities
GaS ChromatOgraphy - Method for separating and anlyzing complex
mixtures of volatile organic and inorganic compounds.
BT - Analysis
Gasoline
use Fuels
Generators - Producers of hazardous waste. May be further
defined by industry, quantity, or source.
BT - Assessment
NT - Energy
NT - Federal Facilities
NT - Industry
NT - Municipalities
NT - Sites
- NT - Small Quantity Generators
RT - Waste Types
Geo thermal
BT - Energy
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from
- Reserved for items of very general nature. Use
international, local, or State for issues addressed at such
levels; otherwise, items are assumed to address issues,
policies, programs, etc., at the national level.
NT - International
NT - Local
NT - State
RT - Legislation
RT - Regulations
Granular Media Filtration - use of gravity to remove solids
a fluid by passage of the fluid through a bed of granular
material. A physical treatment technique.
BT - Filtration
Ground Water - Fresh water below the earth's surface.
BT - Water
Guidance - Documents or portions of documents which provide
interpretation, suggestions, or recommendations consistent
with legislation. Guidance materials do not supercedc
legislation.
BT - Policy
Hazard Ranking System
use Mitre Model
Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA) - Amendments
to RCRA. Use for RCRA Amendments.
BT - Legislation
BT - RCRA
NT - Section 3008(H)
Substance ListS - Total of four lists of substances
which meet requirements as hazardous as defined by 40 CT'R
sec. 261 subpart D. Use for Listed Hazardous Waste.
BT - Regulations
NT - Appendix VIII Constituents
NT - Delisting
Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund
use Superfund
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HazardOUS Substances - Substances which adversely affect the life
process.
NT Carcinogens
NT - Inorganic Chemicals
NT - Mutagens
NT - Organic Chemicals
NT - Pesticides
RT - Waste Types
lazardous Waste Trust Fund
*
use Superfund
lealth and Environmental Effects Document (HEEDS) - special type
of document prepared to support listings under RCRA and
provide health-related limits for emergency actions under
CERCLA.
RT - Health and Environmental Effects Document (HEEDS)
RT - Health and Environmental Effects Profile (HEEPS)
RT - Health Effects Assessment (HEAS)
BT - Human Health Risk
RT - lexicological Profile
Health and Environmental Effects Profile (HEEPS) - special type
of document prepared to support listings of hazardous
constituents under Section 3001 of RCRA and provide health-
related limits for emergency actions under Section 101 of
CERCLA.
RT - Health and Environmental Effects Document (HEEDS)
RT - Health Effects Assessment (HEAS)
BT - Human Health Risk
RT - Toxicological Profile
Health Effects Assessment (HEAS) - Special type of document which
summarizes and evaluates adverse health effects associated
with a particular chemical.
RT - Health and Environmental Effects Document (HEEDS)
RT - Health and Environmental Effects Profile (HEtPS)
BT - Human Health Risk
RT - Toxicological Profile
Herbicides
use Pesticides
High Temperature Fluid Wall
use Advance Electric Reactor
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Households
BT - Municipalities
Human Health Risk - Includes health risks to individuals as well
as the public at large. For more general discussion of
environmental risks use ecological risk.
BT - Assessment
NT - Health and Environmental Effects Documents (HEEDS)
NT - Health and Environmental Effects Profile (HEEPS)
NT - Health Effects Assessment (HEAS)
NT - lexicological Profile
NT - Worker Prott~»ion
Hydrolysis - Chemical treatment process in. which compounds react
with water leading to. the breakage of the chemical bonds.
Accelerates the degradation of a variety of organic
compounds.
BT - Chemical Treatment
Hyperfiltration
use Membrane Separation
- Characteristic of ha/ardous waste whereby it is
easily combustible or flammable. .
BT - Analysis
RT - Corrosivity
RT - EP Tpxicity
RT - Reactivity
Illegal Actions
BT - Enforcement
Immobilisation
use Stabilization/ Solidification
ln~SitU - Treatment of contaminated soils applied without tin-
excavation of the materials to he treated.
BT - Control Methods
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Inciner3tion - Controlled process that uses combustion to convert
a waste to a less bulky, less toxic material in an
oxygenated environment.
in - Circulating Bed Combustion
BT - Thermal Treatment
NT - Boilers
NT - Fiuidized Bed Incineration
NT - Industrial Kilns
NT - Infrared Incineration
NT - Liquid Injection Incineration
NT - Microwave Discharge
NT - Molten Salt Incineration
Incompatability
BT - Analysis
Indemnification - Securing against loss or damage.
in - Liability
Indian Lands
BT - Ecological Risk
Industrial Kilns - Vessels constructed of steel casings and lined
with refractory brick in which ha/.ardous waste is burned as
fuel. Includes cement, lime, aggregated, and clay kilns.
in - Incineration
NT - Rotary Kilns
Industry - Private generators of hazardous waste. Use for
commercial.
in - Generators
N
N
N
N
N
N
Batteries
- Construction
Detergents
- Electroplating
- Mining
- Transformers
Infectious Wastes
in - Waste Types
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Information SOUrceS - Sources of information pertaining to
hazardous waste.
BT - Management
NT - Bibliographies
NT - Case studies
NT - Databases
NT - Directories
NT - Inventories
NT - Technology Transfer Documents
Infrared Incineration - Process to destroy hazardous waste which
uses infrared energy as the auxilary heat source.
BT - Incineration
Injection Wells
use Underground Injection
Innovative Technologies
use Alternative Technologies
Inorganic Chemicals - Non-carbon chemical compounds.
BT - Hazardous Substances
NT. - Acids
NT - Asbestos
NT - Metals
NT - Solvents
RT - Organic Chemicals
Inspection
BT - Monitoring
Insurance
BT - Liability
NT - Private Insurance
Interim Prohibition - section 9oo3(g) of RCRA. Prohibits the
installation of underground storage tanks for storing
hazardous substances unless certain requirements are met.
BT - RCRA
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Interim St3tUS - Status of hazardous waste disposal facility
until a permit to operate the facility under RCRA guidelines
is granted or denied.
in - Regulation
KT - Loss of Interim Status (LOIS)
HI - Permits
KT RCRA
International - Includes items which discuss the United States
;md other nations, or those which just discuss nations other
•than the United States.
ur Government
Inventories - Lists of particular items.
in Information Sources
Ion Exchange - A physical treatment technique where toxic ions in
a solution are exchanged for nontoxic ions to form a solid
resin.
MI - Physical Treatment
Land Treatment - Mean waste management in which wastes are
deposited and worked into the soil where natural processes
degrade and demohili/.e the ha/ardous constituents within the
.soil. -
MI - Conventional Treatment
v
Landfills - Disposal facilities where hazardous waste is placed
in containers, or in hulk form, covered with soils and left
indefinitely.
MI Conventional Treatment
\ i Capping
\ i Open Landfills
Lawsuits
use Litigation
- Materials that pollute water as it seeps through
solid waste.
MI - Waste Types
Leaching - Process by which ha/ardous chemicals are dissolved or
carried away ny water or moved into a lower layer of soil.
MI - Migration
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Legal Aspects - The legislation and resultant regulations, funds.
enforcement procedures, and liability.
NT - Enforcement
NT - Legislation
NT - Liaoiiity
NT - Regulations
Legislation - Laws, amendments, and particular funds created by
the laws.
BT - Legal Aspects
NT CERCLA
NT - Clean Air Act
NT - Clean Water Act
NT - Funds
NT - Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA)
NT - OSHA
NT - RCRA
NT - SARA
NT - TSCA
RT - Government
Liability - F.conomic responsibility for costs involved in cleanup
of a site.
BT - Legal Aspects
NT - Claims
NT - Cost Recovery
NT - Indemnification
NT - Insurance
NT - Non-binding Preliminary Allocation of Responsibility
(NBAR)
NT - Penalties
NT - Potentially Responsible Parties (PRP)
NT - Responsible Parties
RT - Economic Impact
RT - Mixed Funding
- Materials used to prevent the migration <>! h;i/anJniis
waste to the surrounding environment.
in - Conventional Treatment
Liquid Injection Incineration ivoeess which uses MTU-S <>\
atomi/ing devices to introduce finely divided dropleis »|
waste mixed with air into a refractory-lined combusi ion
chamber.
in - Incineration
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Liquid Wastes
NT - Waste Types
NT - Slurry
Listed Hazardous Waste
use Hazardous Substance Lists
Litigation - Use for lawsuits.
BT - Enfprcement
NT - Civil Judicial Action
NT - Criminal Judicial Action
LOCal - Includes Government agencies, programs, laws, etc., below
the State level such as municipal or county/
BT - Government
Location Standards
BT - Regulations
RT - Facility Standards
LOSS Of Interim StatUS (LOIS) - The interim status of hazardous
waste facilities is automatically revoked if certain
requirements set forth" by RCRA are not met. •
BT - Regulations
RT - Interim Status
RT - Permits
RT - RCRA
LUST TrUSt Fund - Created by Subtitle I of the HSWA for Federal
response to the problem of leaking undergorund storage
tanks.
in - Funds
BT - Subtitle I
Management - The supervision of programs, policies, regulations,
etc., and the tools used in such supervision.
NT - Contracts
NT - Information Sources
NT - Policy
NT - Training
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M3nJf6St - Invoice of cargo for a shipment of hazardous waste.
Regulations require every shipment of hazardous waste to
have a manifest with copies submitted to State and regional
offices.
BT - Transportation
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) - Document(s) which delineate
physical properties, exposure limits, emergency procedures,
etc., for specific hazardous chemicals.
BT - Community Awareness
RT - Training
Materials Recovery - Reclamation of useful constituent fractions
within a waste material or the removal of contaminants from
a waste source that allows it to be reused.
BT - Waste Minimization
Mechanical Aeration - A physical treatment process where clean
air is put in contact with contaminated soil in order to
transfer the volatile organics from the soil to the air
stream. Subsequent treatment of the air stream must then be
applied.
BT - Physical Treatment
Mediation - The process of the settling of a dispute by a third
party.
BT - Enforcement
RT - Negotiations
RT - Settlements
Membrane Separation - Separation of solutes or contaminants from
liquids through the use of semipermeable membranes. The
membranes selectively reject contaminants. Includes
ultrafiltration and hyperfiltration. A physical treatment
_. process.
BT - Physical Treatment
NT - Electrodialysis
NT - Reverse Osmosis
MetalS - Includes trace metals and heavy metals.
BT - Inorganic Chemicals
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Methodology - Procedures used, or the evaluation of procedures.
in - Assessment
N
N
N
N
N
R
R
R
Data
- Design
- Models
- Quality Assurance
- Sampling
_ Analysis
- Data Quality Objectives (DQO)
- Monitoring
Microwave Discharge - Process to destroy hazardous waste which
uses microwave discharge as the auxiliary heat source.
in - Incineration
Migration - Uncontrolled movement of hazardous waste through the
. environment.
in - Monitoring
NT - Leaching
Minimum Technological Requirements - Minimum standards required
for the operation of a ha/.ardous waste facility as defined
by section 3004(o) of RCRA. . .' ...
in - Regulations
RT - RCRA
Mining
in - Industry
Mitre Model - Developed by Mitre Corporation in 1981. Calculates
score for potential Superfund sites. Those with high enough
scores are placed on the National Priorities List.
in - Models
in - National Priorities List
Mixed Funding - Monies from both Superfund and the responsible
parties are used to pay for cleanup at Superfund sites.
in - Superfund
RT - Costs
RT - Liability
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Mobile Treatment - Modular equipment and the corresponding
processes that can be brought to a hazardous waste site :md
transported to a number of sites. Generally, the equipment
is smaller than conventional equipment used in permanent
structures.
BT - Alternative Technologies
Models
BT - Methodology
RT - Mitre Model
Molten Salt Incineration - Waste material is injected beneath a
bed of molten salt for incineration.
BT - Incineration
Monitoring - Periodic or continuous review of a program.
facility, or the environment.
BT - Assessment
NT - Inspection
NT - Migration
NT - Sensing Techniques
NT - Analysis
RT - Methodology
Municipalities
BT - Generators
NT - Households
NT - Sewage
Mutagens
BT - Hazardous Substances
National Contingency Plan - Establishes basic Government
. procedures for coordinating State and Federal response at
Superfund sites. Use for National Oil and Hazardous
Substances Contingency Plan.
BT - Superfund
National Priorities LiSt - List of the most hazardous sites under
the Superfund program.
BT - Superfund
NT - Mitre Model
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Natural ReSOUrCeS - Land, fish, wildlife, biota, air, water, and
other resources belonging to, managed by, or held in trust
by the United States.
BT - Ecological Risk
NT - Environmental Media
Negotiations - The submitting and consideration of offers until
an acceptable offer is made and accepted.
BT - Enforcement
RT - Mediation
RT - Settlements
.Neutralization- Chemical treatment process in which the
interaction of an acid or base with another solution results
in solution or mixture with a ph of between 5 and 9.
BT - Chemical Treatment
Non-Binding Preliminary Allocation of Responsibility (NBAR)
Part of CERCLA legislation; allows EPA to allocate
percentage of total cost of response among potentially
responsible parties at the hazardous waste facility.
BT - Liability
RT - CERCLA
RT - Potentiajly Responsible Parties (PRP)
RT - Responsible Parties
Non-compliance
BT - Regulations
RT - Compliance
Notification - As required by Right-to-Know Provision, Title 3 of
SARA, companies must alert residents of the release of a
hazardous substance.
BT - Community Awareness
- NT - Confidentiality
Nuclear.
use Radioactivity
Ocean Dumping - Disposal of hazardous waste at sea, subject to
the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act.
BT - Control Methods
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Oceans
BT - Water
Off~Site - Treatment, regulation, production, etc., of hazardous
waste other than at the site of its 'generation.
BT - Sites
Oils .- Nonspecific term applied to several groups of organic
mixtures. Includes petroleum oils and lubricants.
BT - Organic Compounds
On~SJte - Treatment, regulation, production, etc., of hazardous
waste on the property of the generator of the hazardous
waste. '
BT - Sites
Open Landfills - Any facility or site where hazardous waste is
disposed of which is not a sanitary landfill meeting the
criteria promulgated under section 4004 of RCRA.
BT - Landfills
Organic Chemicals - Chemical compounds of carbon, excluding
carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, carbolic acid, metallic
carbides, metallic carbonates, and ammonium carbonate.
Includes VOC, "volatile organic compounds."
BT - Hazardous Substances
NT - Acids
NT - Dioxins
NT - Fuels
NT - Oils
NT - Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)
NT - Solvents
RT - Inorganic Chemicals
OSHA - Occupational Safety and Health Act
BT - Legislation
Oxidation
use Reduction/ Oxidation
- Chemical treatment process where the oxidation of the
compound is achieved with ozone as the oxidizing agent.
NT - Reduction/ Oxidation
NT - UV/Ozonation
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Penalties - Includes both civil and criminal penalties.
in - Liability
Permits - Compliance of a ha/.ardous waste facility with
requirements of RCRA.
in - Regulations
KI - Loss of Interim Status (LOIS)
KT - Interim Status
Pesticides - Chemical agents used to kill both plant and _animal
lite that interferes with agricultural productivity.
Includes herbicides.
in - Hazardous Substances
Phenol - Carbolic acid.
in - Acids v
in - Carcinogens
Physical Treatment - Processes which separate the waste stream by
either applying physical forces or changing the physical
form of the1 waste. In cither case, the chemical structure
of the waste stavs the same.
in
N'
NT
N'
N'.
N'
N'
N'
N'
N'
\
N"
N
N'
N
- Alternative Technologies
- Activated Carbon Adsorption
- Air Stripping
- Distillation
- Evaporation
- Extraction
- Filtration
- Flocculation
- Ion Exchange
- Mechanical Aeration
- Membrane Separation
Phase Separation
- Sedimentation
Slurry Trenching
- Steam Stripping
Plasma Arc - Type of pyrolsis where ha/.ardous waste is passed
through a plasma or electrical arc generated by electrodes.
The waste substances arc reduced to elemental constituents.
in - Pyrolysis
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Policy - The general principles hy which the Government is guided
in its management of public affairs. May also include the
intended audience of the policy. ..
BT - Management
NT - Directives
NT - Guidance
NT - Regions
Pollution Fund
use 311(K) Fund
PolyChlormated BiphenylS (PCS) - Any of several organic
compounds used in plastics manufacturing or transformers
that are toxic and persistent environmental pollutants.
BT - Carcinogens
BT - Organic Chemicals
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
use Carcinogens
Polymerization - Process which uses catalysts to convert a lower
order polymer of a particular compound to a larger order
chemical multiple with different properties for in-place
stabilization/solidification.
BT - Stabilization/Solidification
POSt-CIOSUre Liability Fund - Originally authori/cd by Cl-RCI.A to
pay cost of monitoring and maintenance of hazardous waste
site. Repealed by SARA.
BT - CERCLA
BT - Funds
BT - SARA
Potentially Responsible Parties (PRP) - parties identified by i PA
. which may be responsible for the hazardous waste at an
uncontrolled hazardous waste site.
BT - Liability
RT -Non-binding Preliminary Allocation of Responsibility
(NBAR)
RT - Responsible Parties
POZZOlaniC PrOCeSS - Method of solidification/stabilization in
which waste is mixed with fine grained silicious materials
such as fly ash or cement kiln dust to produce a solid.
BT - Stabilization/Solidification
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Precipitation - A chemical process in which dissolved chemical
species in solution are transformed into solid phases for
removal.
BT - Chemical Treatment
Principal Organic Hazardous Constituents
use Appendix VIII Constituents
Private Insurance
BT - Insurance
Public Health
use Human Health Risk
- Thermal decomposition of hazardous materials in an
oxygen deficient atmosphere.
BT - Thermal Treatment
NT - Advanced Electric Reactor
NT - Plasma Arc
Quality Assurance
BT r Methodology
Radioactivity . - Emission of alpha, beta, or gamma rays either
naturally or as the result of human manipulation. Use for
nuclear.
BT - Energy
RCRA - Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
BT - Legislation
NT - Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA)
NT - Interim Prohibition
. NT - Subtitle C
NT - Subtjtle D
NT - Subtjtle I
RT - Interim Status
RT - Loss of Interim Status (LOTS)
sr - Minimum Technological Requirements
RCRA Amendments
use Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA)
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Reactivity - Characteristic of hazardous waste whereby it is
unstable or rapidly undergoes a chemical reaction with other
materials.
BT - Analysis
RT - Corrosivity
RT - EP Toxicity
RT - Ignitability
Record Of Decision (ROD) - Compiled for each site on the National
Priorities List. Delineates contamination, cleanup, and
liability issues for each site.
BT - Superfund
RT - Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS)
ReCOrdkeeping Requirements - Those requirements set forth in the
Code of Federal Regulations for the transportation,
collection, and disposal of hazardous waste.
BT - Regulations
RT - Reporting Requirements
Recycling - The use or reuse of a waste as an effective
substitute for a commercial product or as an ingredient of
feedstock in an industrial process.
BT - Waste Minimization
Reduction
use Reduction/Oxidation
Reduction/Oxidation - A chemical treatment process where the
oxidized state of one reactant is raised while that of
another is lowered. This process destroys or lessens the
toxicity of many organics and heavy metals. Use for
oxidation or reduction.
BT - Chemical Treatment
NT - Ozonation
Region 1 - Includes States of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
BT - Regions
Region 2 - Includes States of New York and New Jersey; Puerto
Rico and the Virgin Islands.
BT - Regions
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Region 3 - Includes States of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware,
West Virginia, Virginia; and the District of Columbia.
BT - Regions
Region 4 - Includes States of Kentucky, Tennessee, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and
Mississippi.
BT - Regions
Region 5 - Includes States of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan,
Illinois, and Ohio.
BT - Regions
Region 6 - Includes States of New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma,
Arkansas, and Louisiana.
Region 7 - Includes States of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and
Missouri.
BT - Regions
Region 8 - Includes States of Montana, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado.
BT. - Regions
Region 9 - Includes States of California, Nevada, Arizona,
Hawaii; and Guam.
BT - Regions
Region 10 - Includes States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and
Alaska.
BT - Regions
Regions - UFA administrative unit.
BT - Policy
NT - Regjon 1
NT - Regjon 2
NT - Regjon 3
NT - Region 4
NT - Region 5
NT - Regjon 6
NT - Region 7
NT - Region 3
NT - Region 9
NT - Region 10
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Regulations - Rules or orders issued by governmental departments
to carry our the intent of the law. Use for standards.
BT - Legal Aspects
NT - Alternative Concentration Limits (ACL)
NT - California List
NT - Compliance
NT - Exemptions
NT - Facility Standards
NT - Financial Responsibility Requirements
NT - Hazardous Substance Lists
NT - Interim Status
NT - Location Standards
NT - Loss of Interim Status (LOIS)
NT - Minimum Technological Requirements
NT - Non-compliance
NT - Permits
NT - Recordkeeping Requirements
NT - Reporting Requirements
RT - Government
Releases - The unintentional spill or emission of ha/.ardous
materials into the environment.
BT - Emergency Response
NT - Fires
Remedial Actions - Those solutions, either proposed or actually
undertaken for the permanent cleanup at a Superfund site.
Use for Remedial Designs, Remedial Response.
BT - Cleanup
R r - Removal Actions
NT Data Quality Objectives (DQO)
Remedial Designs
use Remedial Actions
Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS) iw«. .sn.
conducted at all National Priority List sites. Kl
determines the type and extent of contamination. I-'S
evaluates the cleanup alternatives.
BT - Cleanup
RT - Record of Decision (ROD)
Remedial Response
use Remedial Actions
Remedy Selection
use Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS)
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Removal Actions - Deal with cleanup at emergency Superfund sites.
This cleanup solution is not nccessaril.y permanent.
BT - Cleanup
RT - Remedial Actions
in - Emergency Response
Repair
in - Equipment
Reporting Requirements - Certain requirements for the reporting
of a spill or unintentional release of hazardpus waste into
the environment.
in - Regulations
RT - Recordkeeping Requirements
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act -
use RCRA
Resource Recovery
use Materials Recovery
Responsible Parties - Parties identified by I-PA which are
responsible for hazardous wastes at a controlled hazardous
waste site. Such parties are liable for costs incurred by
the Government for removal or immediate action, etc.
in - Liability
RT - Cost Recovery
RT - Non-blinding Preliminary Allocation of Responsibility
(NBAR)
RT - Potentially Responsible Parties (PRP)
Restoration - Process of returning! a damaged environment to its
ore-damaged state, excludes Superfund program. Use for non-
Superfund program cleanup.
in - Ecological Risk
RT - Cleanup
RetrO-fit - The addition of a new item, modification or removal
of an existing item of equipment beyond that of regular
maintenance.
NT - Equipment
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Reverse OsmOSiS - A membrane separation technique which allows a
solvent to be removed from a solution containing solutes by
the application of a pressure driven membrane process.
BT - Membrane Separation
Right-tO-KnOW - Title III of SARA. -Emergency Planning and
Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986." Establishes
regulatory program requiring disclosure of more information
about the danger of hazardous chemicals to public;
establishes emergency response plans.
NT - SARA
RT - Community Awareness
RT - Emergency Preparedness
Rotary KilnS - Kilns in which the combustion of the waste is
enhanced through the rotation of the kiln on its axis.
BT - Industrial Kilns
SARA - Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 19S6.
BT - Legislation
RT - CERCLA
NT - Right-to-Know
NT - Post Closure Liability Fund
Section 3008(H) - Part of the Hazardous and Solid Waste
Amendments. Allows the liPA to take enforcement action to
require corrective action or other responses necessary to
protect human life whenever there has been a hazardous
release in the environment.
BT - Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA)
RT - Enforcement
Sedimentation - A physical treatment process whereby solids are
allowed to settle out of liquid hazardous waste.
BT - Physical Treatment
i
Sensing Techniques - Specific means by which monitoring of the
environment is accomplished.
BT - Monitoring
NT - Bioassay
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Settlements
BT - Enforcement
NT - De Minimis
RT - Cost Recovery
RT - Mediation
RT - Negotiations
Sewage - Human body wastes.
HI - Municipalities
Sites - The land or water area or facility where hazardous waste
is cither generated, stored, or treated, including adjacent
land used in conjunction with such activities.
in - Generators
NT - Abandoned Sites
NT - Off-Site
NT - On-Site
NT - Uncontrolled Sites
Sludge - The concentration of solids removed from sewage during
wastewatcr treatment.
BT - Solid Wastes
Slurry - A watery mixture of insoluble matter that results from
some pollution control techniques.
in - Liquid Wastes
Slurry Trenching - A subsurface cut-off or wall of low
permeability placed near a polluting waste source in order
to capture or contain resulting contamination.
ur Physical Treatment
Slurry Walls
use Slurry Trenching
Small Quantity Generators - Businesses that produce less than
l.ODO kilograms or 2,200 pounds of ha/.ardous waste in a.
month.
in - Generators
Soil
in - Environmental Media
N i - Aquifer
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Soil Washing/Soil Flushing - Physical treatment process which
extracts contaminants from a sludge-soil matrix using a
liquid medium process. An extraction process specifically
for soils.
BT - Extraction
Solid Wastes
BT - Waste Types
NT - Dusts
NT - Sludge
Solvent Extraction
use Extraction
Solvents - A substance which dissolves other materials, reducing
them to molecular or ionic form.
BT - Inorganic Chemicals
BT - Organic Chemicals
- Method of solidification/stabilization in which ha/.ard
contaminants are bound up in po/./.olan type matrices through
either physical or chemical sorption.
BT - Stabilization/Solidification
Source Reduction - The reduction or elimination of waste-
generated at the source, usually within a process. Source
reduction implies any action that reduces the amount from ;i
process.
BT - Waste Minimization
Sources •
use Generators
Stabilization PondS - A large shallow hasin for '|iiirif\mjj
industrial wastes which encourages the growth of hactoria
and algae in converting organic materials to riontoxic
organic substances.
»T - Biological Treatment
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Stabilization/Solidification - Treatment to improve the
structural stability and reduce the migration of waste.
Often involves the conversion of a liquid waste to a solid
waste. An alternative technology. Includes related
equipment. Use for immobilization or fixation.
BT - Alternative Technologies
NT - Cementing
NT - Polymerization
NT - Sorption
NT - Surface Incapsulation
Standards . •
use Regulations
State - Includes interstate as well as intrastate items.
BT - Government
Steam Stripping - Physical treatment process in which hazardous
organic constituents are removed by volatilization through
the heating of wastewater to its boiling point and forcing
the steam through the water.
BT - Physical Treatment
Storage
BT - Conventional Treatment
NT - Containers
Storage TankS - Stationary devices constructed primarily of non-
earthen materials designed to contain .an accumulation of
hazardous waste.
BT - Containers
NT - Corrosion
NT - Underground Storage Tanks
Subtitle C - Part of RCRA. Concerns the management of hazardous
-waste.
BT - RCRA
Subtitle D - Part of RCRA. listablishes a framework for
coordinating Federal, State, and local government in the
management of non-hazardous solid waste.
BT - RCRA
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Subtitle I - Part of RCRA. Concerns the regulations of
Underground Storage Tanks.
BT - RCRA
NT - LUST Trust Fund
Supercritical Extraction - F.xtraction process which is more
efficient than traditional extraction. By applying
extremely high temperatures and pressures, fluids reach
their critical point beyond which their solvent properties
are greatly altered.
BT - Extraction
Supercritical Water Oxidation - Process in which air mixed with
aqueous wastes above the critical temperature and pressure
of water oxidizes organic wastes to carbon monoxide and
water.
BT - Wet Oxidation
- Created by CERCLA the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. Includes
Hazardous Waste Trust Fund, popularly known as Supcrfund,
and the programs developed for cleaning up the worst
existing hazardous waste sites.
NT - CERCLIS
NT - Cleanup
NT - Mixed Funding
NT - Natjonai Contingency Plan
NT - National Priorities List
NT - Record of Decision (ROD)
NT - Syperfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE)
RT - CERCLA
RT - Funds
Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) - TWO
programs to accelerate development and use of new
alternative technologies for cleanup at Superfund
sites.
BT - Superfund
RT - Alternative Technologies
Surface Encapsulation - Waste is pressed or bonded together and
enclosed in a coating of inert materials.
BT - Stabilization/ Solidification
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Surface Impoundments - Facility or part of a facility which is a
natural topographic depression, manmadc excavation, or diked
area formed primarily of earthen materials, though may be
lined with manmade materials, designed to hold ha/.ardous
waste.
ur - Conventional Treatment
Surface Water
in - Water
Taxes - Means of raising money for various funds.
in - Economic Assessment
RT - Funds
Technology Transfer Documents - A set of key documents,
identified by KPA's Office of Solid Waste and Hmergeney
Response for the exchange of information on hazardous waste
both within and outside of the liPA- Use for A List, .B List,
or C List.
in - Information Sources
Testing
use Analysis
Thermal Destruction
use Thermal Treatment
Thermal Treatment - Alternative technology where high temperature
is used as the principle means of destroying or detoxifying
hazardous waste. Includes related equipment.
in - Alternative Technologies
NT - Calcination
NT - Incineration
' NT - Pyrolvsis
NT - We
ret Oxidation
Title III
use Right-to-Know
Toxic Substances
use Hazardous Substances
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ProfilG - Characterizes the toxicological and
health effects information for a particular hazardous
substance. Prepared by the Agency for Toxic Sustances and
Disease Registry.
RT - Health and Environmental Effects Document (HEEDS)
RT - Health and Environmental Effects Profile (HEEPS)
RT -. Health Effects Assessment (HEAS)
BT - Human Health Risk
Training - Includes the teaching or implementation of procedures
for safe handling of hazardous waste materials.
BT - Management
RT - Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
RT - Worker Protection
Transformers
BT - industry
Transportation - The intentional movement of hazardous waste by
any mode, including a pipeline. For transportation by a
common or contract carrier, this also includes stoppage in
transit. For the unintentional movement of hazardous waste,
use migration.
BT - Conventional Treatment
NT - Manifest
Trickling Filters - Biological treatment device. Wastewater is
trickled over a bed of stones covered with bacterial growth.
The bacteria breaks down the organic waste into less toxic
forms.
BT - Biological Treatment
TSCA - Toxic Substance Control Act.
BT - Legislation
Uncontrolled Sites - Sources of hazardous waste where the
contamination is increasing or migrating. No removal
procedures or remedial actions have been undertaken.
BT - Sites
Underground Injection - The disposal of liquid hazardous waste in
deep wells drilled in land formations which ideally have no
resource value and are non-permeable. Use for injection
wells.
BT - Conventional Treatment
NT - Capping
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Underground Storage Tanks - stationary devices, typically
constructed of non-earthen materials designed to contain an
accumulation of hazardous waste, typically petroleum related
products which are held underground.
Utilities
BT - Energy
- Chemical treatment process in which wastewater is
simultaneously subject to ozone and ultraviolet radiation.
The ultraviolet radiation enhances the oxidation power of
ozone and increases the reaction rate.
in - Ozonation
VaCUUm Filtration - Type of filtration process in which a
mechanically supported, cylindrical rotating drum, covered
by a filter medium, employes a center vacuum to draw water
into the drum while the solids are scrapped off of the
filter.
BT - Filtration
YOC (Volatile Organic Compounds)
use Organic Chemicals
Waste Minimization - The reduction, to the fullest extent
feasible, of the hazardous waste that is generated or
subsequently treated, stored, or disposed of.
BT - Control Methods
N
N
N
R
R
Materials Recovery
Recycling
Source Reduction
Alternative Technologies
Conventional Treatment
Waste Reduction
use Waste Minimization
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Waste Types - Any solid, liquid or gaseous material, no longer
used, that is either listed as hazardous under RCRA
regulations or can be identified as hazardous by the .
characteristics of ignitability, corrosivity, reactivity or
EP toxicity.
NT - Emissions
NT - Infectious Wastes
NT - Leachates
NT - Liquid Wastes
NT - Solid Wastes
RT - Hazardous Substances
RT - Generators
Water
BT - Environmental Media
NT - Drinking Water
NT - Ground water
NT - Oceans
NT - Surface Water
Wet Air Oxidation - Thermal treatment which breaks down organic
materials by oxidation in a high temperature and pressure
aqueous environment and in the presence of compressed air.
BT - Wet Oxidation
Wet Oxidation - Thermal treatment of haxardous waste in which
organic materials are broken down through the use of
elevated temperatures and pressures in a water solution or'
suspension.
BT - Thermal Treatment
NT - Supercritical Water Oxidation
NT - Wet Air Oxidation
Worker Protection - Includes the risks encountered in the
workplace. For procedures concerning the safe handling of
hazardous waste, see Training.
BT - Human Health Risk
RT - Training
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Statute
MAJOR TOXIC CHEMICAL LAWS
ADMINISTERED BY EPA
Provisions •
Toxic Substances
Control Ac:
Requires that EPA be notified of
any new chemical prior to its
manufacture; authorizes EPA to
require chemical testing informa-
tion from manufacturers; and gives
EPA authority to regulate produc-
tion, use; or disposal of a chemical
as necessary.
Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide and
Rodenticide Act
Authorizes EPA to register all
pesticides and specify the terms
and conditions of their use, permit
unregistered uses in certain circum-
stances, and remove unreasonably
hazardous pesticides from the
markeroiace.
Authorizes EPA in cooperation with
FDA to establish tolerance levels
for pesticide residues on food and
food nroducts.
Federal Food, Drug
and Cosmetic Act
Resource Conservation
and Recover}' Act
Comprehensive Environ
mental Response,
Compensation and
liability Act
Clean Air Act
Clean Water Act
Safe Drinking Water Act
Marine Protection
Research and
Sanctuaries Act
Authorizes EPA to identify hazard-
ous wastes and set standards for
their generation, transportation,
treatment, storage, and disposal.
Requires EPA to designate hazard-
ous substances that can present
substantial danger and authorizes
the cleanup of sites contaminated
with such substances when there is
an imminent and substantial
danzer.
Authorizes EPA to set emission
standards to limit the release of
hazardous air pollutants.
Requires EPA to establish a list of
toxic water pollutants and set
standards.
Requires EPA to set drinking water
standards to protect public health
from hazardous substances.
Regulates ocean dumping of toxic
contaminants.
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6 BILLION TONS OF SOLD AND HAZARDOUS WASTE
ARE GENERATED IN THE U.S. EACH YEAR
(Excludes high-level radioactive waste)
Industrial 6.4%
Mining/milling 39.0%
(includes uranium mill tailings)
Municipal 3.1%
Utility 1.2%
\
Agriculture 50.3%
Source: EPA's Office of Solid Waste
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Percent of Hazardous
Waste Generated by
Major Industries
Primary Metals
Industries
Organic Chemicals
34%
Total: 34.5 million metric tons (1977 estimates)
Electroplating Industry
Inorganic Chemicals
-I— Textiles
Petroleum Refining
Rubber and Plastics
Miscellaneous
Source: EPA Journal. February 1979
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HOW HAZARDOUS WASTE IS DISPOSED OF
(Estimated 1981 figures)
Landfill and
land treatment
6%
Surface
impoundment
35%
Underground
injection
59%
Snurcc: EPA's Office o« Solid Waste
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OUTLINE OF RCRA
SUBTITLE PROVISIONS
A General Provisions
B Office of Solid Waste;
Authorities of the
Administrator •
C Hazardous Waste
Management
D State or Regional Solid
Waste Plans
E Duties of the Secretary
.of Commerce in
. Resource and Recovery
F Federal Responsibilities
G Miscellaneous Provisions
H Research, Development,
Demonstration, and
Information
I Regulation of Under-
ground Storage Tanks
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SUBTITLE C PROGRAM
FEDERAL
STATE
i .^^•••(^••L't—•\^-L
WHAT IS
HAZARDOUS WASTE
GENERATOR
TRANSPORTER
TSD
FACILITIES
ENFORCEMENT
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SUPERFUND ACRONYMS
AO — Administrative Order on Consent
CD —Consent Decree
CERCLA — Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act of 1980
CR — Community Relations
EDO — Enforcement Decision Document
ERT — Environmental Response Team
FS — Feasibility Study
HRS — Hazard Ranking System
NCP — National Oil and Hazardous Substances Contingency Plan
NPL — National Priorities List
NRC — National Response Center
NRT -:- National Response Team
OSC — On-Scene Coordinator
O&M — Operation and Maintenance
ppm/ppb — parts per million/parts per billion
PRP — Potentially Responsible Party
PA — Preliminary Assessment
QA/QC — Quality Assurance/Quality Control
ROD — Record of Decision
RRT — Regional Response Team
I
RA — Remedial Action
RD — Remedial Design
RI — Remedial Investigation
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RPM — Remedial Project Manager
RCRA — Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976.
SI — Site Inspection
SARA — Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization.Act of 1986
TSD — Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facility
VOC — Volatile Organic Compound
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SUPERFUND PROCESS
SITE WORK
ENFORCEMENT WORK
Preliminary Assessment:/
Site Inspection (PA/SI)
Hazard Rankinc
INPL Listina
Remedial Investigation/
Feasibility Study (RI/FS)
Record of Decision (ROD)
Remedial Design/
Remedial Action
(RD/RA)
Ooeration & Maintenance (O&M)
Site Deletion from NPL
Potentially Responsible Party
(PR?) Search
[Notice Letters.-...
[RI/FS Negotiations
Section 106 Order or Lawsuit
(Ootional)
Notics Letters
|RD/RA Negotiationsl
Section 106 Order or Lawsuit
(Optional-)
Section 107 Cost Recovery
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Community Involvement / Remedial Process
Technical Assistance Grams
Nolico of Availability of
FS and Fact Sheet,
Public Meeting and
Comment Period
and
Sheet on Selection ol
(SITE INVESTIGATION)
] c
( pnp SEARCH )
t 1
NOTICE LETTERS
3.
111 / FS
NEGOTIATION
( III / FS )
( RP / RA NEGOTIATION )
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UA
c
O&M
3
Community Relations
Plan. Eslnhlislimcnl of
Information Repository
Responsiveness Summary
lo Public Comment
Revise Community
Relations Plan
Public Nolico and Fact
Sheet on Design
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State Participation / Remedial Process
Stale
Participation In
Negotiations
Stales Notify EPA of
Tlioso ARARs that
Relalo to Each
Alternative in FS
•
Stales Review
Comment on ROD
( Stale Concurrence ]
( SITE INVESTIGATION J
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•
Slates Notify EPA of
Those ARARs That May
Need To Do Considered
Stales Commenl on
Proposed Alternative
, and any Waivers
Slates Review / Common!
on Remedial Design
*
(" 04 M )
States Concur on Dotation
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DEVELOP ALTERNATIVES
HEALTH
ASSESSMENT
RISK
ASSESSMENT
TEST ALTERNATIVES
AGAINST
• Prolecllveness
• ARARs
• Recliiclions in
- Mobility
- Toxicily
— Volume
• Permanence
• Alternative Treatment
• Resource Recovery .
• Cost Effectiveness I
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SELECT REMEDY
DOCUMENT
ARARs
COMMUNITY
INVOLVEMENT
STATE
INVOLVEMENT
w
THE REMEDY SELECTION PROCESS
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Development of Alternatives
Problem
Typical Remedies
Contaminated groundwater
Restoration
Alternative water supply
Well-head treatment
Attenuation
Contaminated liquids / sludges
Physical / chemical treatment
Thermal destruction
Biological treatment
Contaminated soils / sediments /
debris
Treatment on-site
Containment on-site
Land disposal off-site
Treatment off-site
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DEVELOP ALTERNATIVES
HEALTH
ASSESSMENT
RISK
ASSESSMENT
TEST ALTERNATIVES
AGAINST
• Prolecliveness
• ARARs
• Reductions in
- Mobility
- Toxicily
— Volume
• Permanence
• Alternative Treatment
• Resource Recovery
• Cost Effectiveness
i
SELECT REMEDY
DOCUMENT
ARARs
COMMUNITY
INVOLVEMENT
STATE
INVOLVEMENT
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Private Industry: Compliance and Liability under the
Environmental Laws
Angus Macbeth
Sidley & Austin
Washington, D.C.
Public concern with health and environmental issues
related to the use, management, and disposal of both toxic and
municipal waste has burgeoned in recent years. In response,
Congress has enacted or reinforced legislation governing all
phases of waste use and disposal. The Clean Air Act, the- Safe
Drinking Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act,
the Toxic Substances Control Act, and the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation & Liability Act (Superfund)
are just a few examples of federal statutes with which a private
industry utilizing or handling toxic substances must comply.
Additionally, every state has its own environmental regulatory
scheme, sometimes imposing even more stringent monitoring and
disposal criteria than exist at the federal level. With often
severe penalties, including criminal prosecution, for
noncompliance, private industry cannot afford to be ignorant of
the law of toxic waste regulation. Equally importantly, since
Superfund liability in particular runs, in part, with the land,
and derives in part from transactions completed many years ago,
corporate financial transactions are directly impacted by these
statutes. Unfortunately, it is both exceedingly difficult and
time consuming to maintain an up to date awareness in an area
governed by so many complex regulations at. so many levels of
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government. There are, however, several useful resources for
acquiring and maintaining a current knowledge of pertinent
environmental regulations. An outline of potentially useful
sources is presented below in connection with a brief overview of
two of the more important federal environmental statutes.
I. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation &
Liability Act (CERCLA),. 42 U.S.C.§§ 9601-9675 (as amendad).
Perhaps the most well known of all federal
environmental statutes, CERCLA, enacted in 1980 and amended and
reauthorized in 1986, provides for the establishment of an $8.6
billion dollar "Superfund" derived from taxes on the petroleum
industry as well as other industries, from which the costs for
emergency clean ups of hazardous waste sites are paid. These
emergency (or "removal") actions are generally limited to one
year's duration and/or $1 million. Further payment from the fund
is permitted only if the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
has placed the site in question on the National Priorities List
(NPL). The NPL is a list of all hazardous waste sites across the
country that have been mathematically rated as deserving priority
attention from the EPA. The Hazard Ranking System used by EPA
considers such factors as the potential for a release (spill,
discharge, dumping, disposal) of hazardous substances, the
magnitude of the potential release, and the numbers of people
potentially affected thereby.
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After initiating a response action at a site, EPA may
seek reimbursement of its response costs under Section 107 of
CERCLA from the parties it establishes to be responsible for the
release of hazardous substances at the facility. Section 107
designates four categories of persons that "shall be liable" for
the government's costs incurred in responding to the release or
threatened release of hazardous substances. These four
categories include, under specified circumstances, past and
present owners and operators of the facility from which the
release or threatened release has occurred, as well as the
generators of the hazardous waste disposed of at the facility and
the transporters of the hazardous waste to the facility. See 42
U.S.C. § 9607(a)(l)-(4).
Three limited defenses to liability are provided in
Section 107(b). These affirmative defenses require proof that
the release or threatened release and resulting damages were
caused solely by either an act of God, an act of war, or the act
or omission of a noncontractually related third party. The third
party defense further requires proof of the exercise of "due care
with respect to the hazardous substance concerned" and the taking
of precautionary measures against the third party's foreseeable
acts or omissions. Courts have interpreted Section 107 as
providing for-strict liability, or liability without regard to
the potentially responsible party's (PRP's) state of mind or
fault, and for the joint and several liability of any PRP that
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cannot demonstrate that the environmental harm at the site is
divisible according to its contribution.
EPA has two other sources of authority for seeking
relief. Under Section 106 of CERCLA, EPA has the authority to
compel responsible parties to undertake both short term (removal)
and long term (remedial) response actions at a hazardous waste
site. Penalties for noncompliance with a Section 106 clean-up
order potentially include fines of up to $25,000 per day and
three times the total amount of EPA's clean-up costs. In
addition EPA may bring an enforcement action in the district
court seeking an order to some or all of the PRPs to conduct a
clean up of a site.
In practical terms, EPA is not eager to expend money
from the fund for clean ups which are not true emergency
situations. As a result, the agency's emphasis is on Section 106
orders and enforcement actions. The use of Section 106 orders
has grown rapidly in the last year. The defenses to failure to
comply with such an order are limited to "sufficient cause" and
pre-enforcement review of such orders is not available in the
courts because a party who complies with a Section 106 order
which requires actions outside the requirements of the statute is
able to bring an action later to recover his costs from the fund.
Consequently, Section 106 orders are difficult to resist.
Although the number of such orders issued by EPA has grown
recently, the most common method of settling Superfund cases is
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for some or all of the PRPs to enter a consent agreement with EPA
resolving an unlitigated enforcement claim and then to carry out
a remedial investigation and feasibility study or a remedial
action.
Direct actions between PRPs and EPA are only the tip of
the legal iceberg when one considers the impact of Superfund on
the legal profession. There are three other major areas of
activity which Superfund has generated. First, in resolving any
Superfund case where more than one private party is involved, the
private parties must address the issue of allocating the
Superfund costs among themselves. This is important and complex
for many reasons. As the cost of Superfund cleanups has grown -
the average site clean up is probably now in the range of $20-30
million - even a dispute over the allocation of 1% of the total
cost is worth devoting a lawyer's time to. Next there are no
clear principles for allocation in the statute and the events
from which liability are derived, such as sending waste to a
commercial disposal site in the 1960's, are often far in the past
and poorly documented. At a old site with, say, 100 parties and
a total Superfund clean up cost of $30 million, these factors
have led to the development of a small legal industry devoted to
historical factual investigation of what parties sent how much
waste of what sort to the site. This factual research leads to
debate and negotiation between the parties as to what the fair
allocation of costs is at site. Almost all of these cases settle
because of the lack of established principles for allocation and
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because of the high transaction and management costs of trying
cases with large numbers of parties.
Next, Superfund has been held by the courts to create a
private cause of action for a party who cleans up part or all of
site in a manner consistent with EPA's National Contingency Plan.
Such sites need not be on the NPL and clean ups do not require
action or approval from EPA. The party conducting the clean up
has a cause of action against the classes of parties (owners,
operators,, .generators and transporters) who are liable under
Superfund. These private Superfund cost recovery cases are most
likely to be brought by present landowners whose property has
been contaminated by the activities of prior owners or neighbors.
Third, Superfund is producing a small revolution in
financial transactions. A party who takes a secured interest in
a contaminated site, forecloses on it and becomes the owner or
operator will find itself liable under Superfund. Banks only let
this happen to themselves once. Thereafter they are likely to
require an environmental assessment or survey of the site in
advance of making a loan. Once the environmental assessment is
underway, liabilities under other environmental statutes are
typically addressed and the final terms of the transaction will
reflect an allocation of risk between the parties through
indemnities warranties, releases, representations and other
mechanisms. This is truly a privatization of environmental law
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in which lenders on property, buyers of property and,
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increasingly, those making stock purchases or entering into
mergers are now looking very closely at the environmental
liabilities that result from a transaction and are attempting to
adjust those liabilities among themselves through the terms of
the transaction.
This careful adjustment of environmental liabilities
has been going on for about five years. The results of those
efforts of corporate and environmental attorneys are now landing
in the litigation departments of the law firms. It is rarely
possible to have complete knowledge of environmental conditions
at the time a transaction is completed. One result of this is
that, there are frequently ambiguities in the terms of
indemnities or warranties that, from time to time, lead to
dispute between the parties. Even terms as simple as the seller
accepting liability for contamination taking place before the
closing date and the buyer accepting liability for contamination
caused after the closing date can lead to disputes where the same
industrial operation is continued after sale and five years later
it is difficult to determine how much contamination was caused
before or after closing. There is a growing practice in
litigation over contract terms of this sort and I anticipate that
over the next ten years it will grown into a regular part of the
practice of litigation departments through the country.
Finally, there is the connection between environmental
law and tort law. The investigatory work necessary for a
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Superfund clean up generates a lot of data on what is in the
groundwater and the soil at a site. If neighbors drink that
water or find that their property has been contaminated -by air
borne pollutants, they may very well have the basis for a tort
action and their ability to pursue the tort claim will be
materially aided by the investigatory work and the remedial
analysis which Superfund generates.
Sources;
The Statute and Regulations
CERCLA/SARA is codified at 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et. seq.,
other relevant statutes are referenced in its provisions.
Pertinent regulations are found at 40.C.F.R. 300 et. seq. (1988).
Current EPA Guidances, Proposed and Final Regulations
Checking the Federal Register daily provides
information about proposed and final regulations, the opening of
comment periods, and the availability of new guidance. Guidance
is EPA's elaboration on how to comply with its regulations.
Almost every Federal Register entry lists a contact person if you
require additional information.
To find out what the latest guidance and/or rulemaking
(and sometimes even a listing of all the rulemakings, old
guidance) on a particular subject, a good place to start is the
RCRA/Superfund Hotline run by EPA. In most cases they will not
send you the actual document but can give you an exact title,
date, author, and OSWER or NTIS number which will allow you to
FOIA it from EPA, obtain it from RCRA or CERCLA docket, or refer
you to someone else if they can't answer your question. The
phone number for the hotline is 424-9346; in Washington, D.C.
382-3000. The hours are 8:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. EST, excluding
federal holidays.
If you see a newspaper article discussing a new rule,
there was probably a press package for it. Call the EPA's Office
of Public Affairs at 382-4361. They are usually willing to mail
it directly to you or allow you to come and pick it up.
Finally, "Inside EPA" (published by Inside Washington)
publishes Inside EPA's Superfund Report (bi-weekly), Inside EPA's
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Weekly Report/ and Inside EPA's Policy Alert (bi-weekly). These
are approximately 15 pages long and report news on environmental
regulation, some litigation, policy directions, and activity on
the Hill. They sometimes report on meetings held "inside EPA" or
progress on reports/guidance due from EPA. The important things
to remember about this publication are 1) it is not published by
EPA and its accuracy should be checked and 2) it generally
enrages EPA people. Do not call the agency to check on a report
and start off by saying "I saw it in Inside EPA".
Sources for Ascertaining the PRP's For a Given Superfund Site
A company's own records are the best source for
determining whether the company has ever generated hazardous
waste that has been deposited at a facility EPA is considering
for remediation, or whether the company presently or in the past
owned such a facility. Discerning the scope of the PRP pool is a
little more difficult. State hazardous waste surveys are often
available, however, and in some instances like surveys have been
performed by private groups. The CERCLIS system maintained by
EPA catalogues information and data which EPA has on particular
sites and information about a particular site can be obtained
through FOIA.
Information Network for Superfund Settlements
A private information service providing access to all
Records of Decision and all settlement agreements entered by EPA.
For more information: 1800 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036,
(202) 467-7777. Notice of the filing of consent decrees is
provided in the Federal Register by the Department of Justice;
consent decrees are available (if you aren't in a hurry) upon
written request to the Department of Justice: Ms. Pearl Chase,
DOJ, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, D.C. 20044
(give docket # and date, case name, and court in which it was
filed).
RODScan Superfund Research Service
A private information service providing access through
word searches to specific aspects of over 270 Records of
Decision. For more information: 200 One Logan Square,
Philadelphia, PA 19103, (215) 963-5260.
GENERAL SOURCES
SNA Toxics Law Reporter
A weekly review of toxic torts, hazardous waste, and
insurance litigation. It does not usually contain full-text
reprints of opinions, but has a toll-free number for obtaining
copies of documents or court decisions referenced. The charges
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for these documents are rather high. Also lists conferences,
seminars etc. on toxics law.
BNA Environment Reporter
The Environment Reporter is a subscription service
which includes binders of Federal and State air, water, and waste
regulations. The service sends updates in the form of
replacement sheets. The Environment Reporter Current
Developments, also part of the service, comes out weekly and
reports and discusses new federal and state environmental
regulations, EPA proposals, reports from agencies such as GAO or
OTA, new EPA guidance, recent research, and recent litigation or
enforcement decisions. Also reports and discusses recent
activity on the Hill and lists conferences, seminars, etc. on
environmental management nationwide. Another part of the service
is Environment Report Decisions, which also comes out weekly and
consists of full text reprints of opinions in recent
environmental cases. These sheets eventually become the bound
volumes of Environment Reporter Cases ERC. There are cumulative
indices to Environment Reporter. BNA Environment Reporter is a
file in the ENVIRN library of LEXIS.
ELI Environmental Law Reporter
A subscription service comprised of 6 binders: ' News &
Analysis, Litigation, Pending Litigation, Indexes, Statutes, and
Administrative Materials. As in BNA, updates are done with
replacement sheets and the topics covered are similar to those
covered by BNA. This service is the source of "ELR" cites to
cases, and tracks EPA Records of Decision (RODs). RODs can also
be ordered from ELI. The Environmental Law Reporter is a file in
the ENVIRN library of LEXIS.
Lexis ENVIRN Library
ENVIRN is simply a library like GENFED. It is
particularly good for searching for cases, articles, RODs, etc.
on a single subject of environmental law. The thing you have to
be careful about is that if you do your search for cases in
ENVIRN you might miss some because LEXIS does not guaranty to put
every environmental case in there. If, however you are looking
for discussions of, say, asbestos regulation and want to know
what the ELR or BNA Environment Reporter has published recently,
it's perfect.
II. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), 42 U.S.C.
§§ 6901-6991(i).
The hazardous waste provisions of Subtitle C of RCRA,
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enacted in 1976 and amended in 1984 and 1986, contain powerful
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environmental protection and enforcement tools covering the
transportation, treatment and disposal of hazardous waste.
Section 3002 through 3004 of RCRA, 42 U.S.C. §§ 6927-6924,
require EPA to establish such standards applicable to generators
and transporters of hazardous waste as wel.l as owners and
operators of hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal
facilities "as may be necessary to protect human health and the
environment." The promulgated standards include, among other
things, reporting, recordkeeping, labeling, and substantive
compliance requirements regarding the use and disposal of
hazardous wastes. See 40 CFR 262.10 et seq. (generators); 40 CFR
263.10 et seq. (transporters); 40 CFR 264.1 et seq., 267.1 et
seq. (owners and operators). Section 3005 requires, in
conjunction with 40 CFR 270.1 et seq., federal permits for the
treatment, disposal, or storage of hazardous waste, as well as
federal permits for the construction of any new hazardous waste
facility. These regulations also apply to significant segments
of those industries which recycle materials.
Section 3006 of RCRA permits a state to seek
authorization from EPA for its own permitting program for
hazardous waste storage, treatment or disposal which, if
authorized, operates in lieu of the federal RCRA program. The
requirements for state program authorization are set out in 40
CFR 123.3. Notably, a state hazardous waste program may impose
more, but not less, stringent requirements than obtain under
RCRA. Prior to the 1984 amendments to RCRA — the Hazardous and
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Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 (HSWA) — a majority of states had
received Section 3006 authorization. Amended Section 3006(g)
provided, however, that pre-1984 authorization did not carry over
to the very substantial new program requirements enacted in HSWA.
The result is that permitting and enforcement authority remains
with EPA with regard to HSWA requirements but lies with the state
for its otherwise authorized program. A private party must,
therefore, apply for and comply with both federal and state
permits in the very common situation where bifurcated permitting
authority exists (as of 1989, over 40 states conduct RCRA
authorized programs while only one state has HSWA authorization).
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EPA can enforce the RCRA standards and permit
requirements through several statutory mechanisms. Section 3007
allows EPA to collect information from and undertake inspections
at any facility where hazardous waste is generated, treated, or
disposed. Section 3008 authorizes the issuance of compliance
orders by EPA and the assessment of civil penalties for
violations of the RCRA regulations. EPA may also seek
injunctions against violations of RCRA and its regulations.
Under the 1984 amendments to Sections 3008(h), 3004(u), and
3004(v), EPA may also issue compliance action orders requiring
the clean-up of hazardous waste that has migrated from a RCRA
facility. As with CERCLA, noncompliance with RCRA regulations or
orders carries with it the risk of severe civil penalties at a
maximum daily rate of $25,000. See 42 U.S.C. §§ 6928, 6934.
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Many of the sources useful to the CERCLA PRP are also
important to the private party seeking to ascertain the nature
and current parameters of RCRA permitting and compliance
requirements. The methods for obtaining current EPA guidances
and recent court decisions listed on Part I, supra, are
particularly relevant. Following are a few sources also useful
to party seeking to comply with RCRA's reporting and permitting
requirements.
RCRA Compliance/Enforcement Guidance .Manual
Published in 1984 by Government Institutes, Inc., 966
Hungerford Drive, #24, Rockville, MD 20850, and updated or
revised where indicated, the Manual was originally compiled for
internal EPA purposes. It contains useful overview of RCRA
followed by a detailed discussion of RCRA operating, monitoring,
and enforcement procedures. A 1985 version of the Manual,
containing a compilation of RCRA Compliance/Enforcement policy
and guidance documents has also been published by Government
Institutes.
EPA's RCRA Hotline
Same as CERCLA Hotline: (202) 382-3000.
(800) 424-9346
State Statutes and Regulations
Because of the dual federal/state permitting
procedures, it will always be necessary to discover whether state-.
authorization exists. Along this line, a company might also seek
to obtain copies, through a FOIA request to EPA or a direct
request to the relevant state agency, of. the state's
authorization application. This document may help clarify the
nature of the state program where ambiguity exists.
RCRA Permits for Other Facilities
Again, a FOIA request to the EPA or under State FOIA
equivalents is the most direct route to receipt of such
documents. To get the cites of state statutes, call the
Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press: (202) 466-6313.
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RCRA Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Decisions
Under RCRA, adverse permitting decisions can be
appealed to EPA's Chief Judicial Officer and enforcement
are heard by EPA's AL Js. Copies of past ALJ and CJO decisions
may be obtained through a FOIA request to EPA Headquarters, 40|| 1*
Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20460, or by calling the ALJ
office: (202) 382-4860. The name and docket number of the casl
must be supplied in either instance.
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