Handling and management of hazardous materials and wastes

This book places the emphasis on the legal and regulatory approaches to handling hazardous materials throughout their life cycles. The first eight chapters provide a brief overview of the US Dept. of Transportation (DOT) regulations. Chapter 9 provides an abbreviated overview of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) as it is related to EPA. Chapters 10-17 cover a number of different materials, including polychlorinated biphenyls, asbestos, pesticides, heavy metals and other toxic contaminants, oil spills, hospital materials and wastes, and radioactive wastes. For some reason, however, a discussion of acid rain was interspersed in this section. Chapter 18 contains an outdated presentation on the Superfund program. Chapter 19 presents an abbreviated discussion of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984. The Clean Air Act is merely mentioned in the chapter on asbestos. A portion of the chapter on heavy metals contains a section on the Clean Water Act. The final chapter briefly covers the Toxic Substances Control Act