Eighth Annual Report on Carcinogens

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Barry Leonard
DIANE Publishing, 1999 - Medical - 252 pages
Discusses individual substances, mixtures of chemicals, or exposure circumstances associated with technological processes which are known to be human carcinogens or which may reasonably be anticipated to be human carcinogens. Also contains information relating to estimated exposures and exposure standards or guidelines. Chapters: delisted substances; profiles for agents, substances, mixtures or exposure circumstances known to be human carcinogens, or reasonably anticipated to be human carcinogens; list of manufacturing processes, occupations, and exposure circumstances classified; and listing/delisting procedures.
 

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Page 65 - Implementation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA ) and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) or "Superfund" at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Page 53 - EPA regulates 2-acetylaminofluorene under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA).
Page 245 - Parts of vapor or gas per million parts of contaminated air by volume at 25° C. and 760 mm. Hg pressure. ""Approximate milligrams of particulate per cubic meter of air. (No footnote "c...
Page 21 - Clean Air Act (CAA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA), and Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
Page 173 - EPA regulations in implementation of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).
Page 129 - Threshold Limit Values (TLVs) of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH).
Page 177 - The CPSC received a petition to declare sewage sludge products containing polychlorinated biphenyls hazardous substances. CPSC did not take action based on an anticipated EPA determination on this matter. EPA regulates polychlorinated biphenyls under the Clean Water Act (CWA), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization...
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Page 5 - ... concerning the nature of such exposure and the estimated number of persons exposed to such substances ; (C) a statement identifying (i) each substance contained in the list under subparagraph (A) for which no effluent, ambient, or exposure standard has been established by a Federal agency, and (ii) for each effluent, ambient, or exposure standard established by a Federal agency with respect to a substance contained in the list under subparagraph ( A) , the extent to which, on the basis of available...
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