EnvH 446 - Electronic Supplement

Winter Quarter, 2008

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General

Literacy - Terms of the Environment (EPA)
http://www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms/

Literacy - ATSDR Glossary
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/glossary.html

General Reference - EPA homepage
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/

General Reference - WA Department of Ecology homepage
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/

General Reference - National Library for the Environment - CRS Reports Database
http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRS/

General Reference - Statistical Abstract of the US
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Hazardous Waste Stream in Perspective

HW Identification - RCRA Training Module - "Solid and Hazardous Waste Exclusions" (PDF)
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hotline/training/excl.pdf

HW Identification - RCRA Training Module - "Hazardous Waste Identification" (PDF)
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hotline/training/hwid05.pdf

HW Identification - 40 CFR 261
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_02/40cfr261_02.html

HW Identification - EPA HWID homepage
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/id/id.htm

HW Identification - EPA HWIR homepage
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/id/hwirwste/index.htm

HW Generation - EPA OPPT/TRI homepage
http://www.epa.gov/tri/

HW Generation - Green Media Toolshed TRI site
http://www.scorecard.org/

HW Generation - 2001 Biennial RCRA Hazardous Waste Report
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/data/brs01/index.htm

Chapter 2. Regulation of Hazardous Wastes

Federal Laws - EPA Code of Federal Regulations site
http://www.epa.gov/epacfr40/chapt-I.info/

Federal Laws - EPA Date Searchable Federal Register site
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/

RCRA - EPA RCRA Orientation Manual (PDF)
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/general/orientat/

RCRA - CRS Report - Leaking Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Issues, 2/17/99
http://www.ncseonline.org/nle/crsreports/waste/waste-18.cfm?&CFID=18050970&CFTOKEN=51351533

CERCLA - CRS Report: Superfund Reauthorization Issues in the 106th Congress, 10/30/00
http://www.ncseonline.org/nle/crsreports/waste/waste-28.cfm?&CFID=18051008&CFTOKEN=28836558

NPL Sites - Current proposed, final and deleted NPL sites and Construction Completions
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/products/index.htm

WA State - Department of Ecology Laws (RCW) and Rules (WAC) page
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/laws-rules/index.html

WA State - Site Register (PDF files)
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/tcp/pub_inv/pub_inv2.html

Exports - Basel Convention homepage
http://www.basel.int/

Exports - CRS Report: Waste Trade and the Basel Convention, 12/30/98
http://www.ncseonline.org/nle/crsreports/waste/waste-26.cfm?&CFID=18051047&CFTOKEN=78402520

Interstate Transport - CRS Report: Solid Waste Issues in the 106th Congress, 04/27/00
http://www.ncseonline.org/nle/crsreports/waste/waste-27.cfm?&CFID=18051072&CFTOKEN=27473309

Property Transfers - Industrial Site Recovery Act (NJ Dept of Environmental Protection)
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/srp/isra/isragide.htm

Property Transfers - EPA Brownfields homepage
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/

Federal Register Example - [delisting repeal] - Hazardous Waste Management System; Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste; Removal of Final Rule
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-WASTE/1997/December/Day-01/f31404.htm

Federal Register Example - [de micromis settlement] - Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-WASTE/1998/December/Day-10/f32865.htm

Federal Register Example - [de minimis settlement] - Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-GENERAL/1998/August/Day-04/g20680.htm

Federal Register Example - [municipal liability] - Proposed CERCLA Administrative Cost Recovery Settlement Pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act; City of Toledo, Toledo, OH
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-WASTE/1998/April/Day-10/f9702.htm

Federal Register Example - [natural resources damages] - Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-WASTE/1998/December/Day-10/f32822.htm

Federal Register Example - [partial NPL deletion] - Notice of partial deletion of the Hanford 100-Area (USDOE) Superfund site from the National Priorities List
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-WASTE/1998/July/Day-08/f17684.htm

Federal Register Example - [response costs] - The Freelove Valley Home Meth Lab Superfund Site; Notice of Proposed Agreement for Payment Future Costs and Recovery of Past Response Costs
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-WASTE/1998/November/Day-30/f31804.htm

Chapter 3. Properties and Environmental Fate of Hazardous Chemicals

Chemical Properties - Periodic Table of the Elements (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic/

Multi-Compartment Models - Fugacity model download site (EMC)
http://www.trentu.ca/cemc/models/models.html

Multi-Compartment Models - CalTOX download site (CA Dept of Toxic Substances Control)
http://eetd.lbl.gov/ied/ERA/caltox/

National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/exposurereport/

Usual Chemical Suspects - Top 20 Hazardous Substances from the CERCLA Priority List of Hazardous Substances for 2003
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/cxcx3.html

Chapter 4. Introduction to Public Health Significance of Hazardous Wastes

ATSDR - Toxicologic Hazard of Superfund Hazardous Waste Sites (Johnson & DeRosa)
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxhazsf.html

ATSDR - HazDat Database
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/hazdat.html

ATSDR - Hazardous Substances Emergency Events Surveillance Report (PDF)
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HS/HSEES/annual2001.html

Birth Defects - Pew Environmental Health Commission Reports Menu (PDF)
http://healthyamericans.org/reports/pew/

Cancer Causation - The Collaborative on Health and the Environment (interpretation by persons who do not accept the Doll and Peto version of cancer causation)
http://www.healthandenvironment.org/working_groups/cancer#1

Cancer Statistics - National Cancer Institute
http://www.nci.nih.gov/public/factbk/canstat.htm

Cancer Statistics - American Cancer Society
http://www.cancer.org/statistics/index.html

Causes of Cancer (Clapp et al, 2005)

Chemical data - U.S. EPA Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)
http://www.epa.gov/iriswebp/iris/index.html

Chemical data - ATSDR ToxFAQs
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaq.html

Chemical data - Database of Chemical Manufacturers' MSDSs
http://www.msdssearch.com/DBLinksN.htm

Chemical data - Chemical Fact Sheets (EPA/OPPTS)
http://www.epa.gov/chemfact/

Environmental Justice - EPA EJ homepage
http://www.epa.gov/oswer/ej/index.html

Environmental Justice - Executive Order 12898 "Report to the President"
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/eo/eo12898.pdf

Environmental Justice - 1995 WA Environmental Equity Study (PDF)
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/pubs/95413.pdf

Chapter 5. Waste Site Epidemiology

Site Information - EPA's CERCLIS Site Information page
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/index.htm#desnqry

Site Information - ATSDR's Public Health Assessments
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HAC/PHA/

Brownsville, Texas - Corpwatch's Article EPA
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=692

Brownsville, Texas - CERCLIS database
http://cfpub.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0605206

Escambia Wood Treating - ATSDR's PHA
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HAC/PHA/escambia/esc_p1.html

Hardeman County, Tennessee
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/nar494.htm

Love Canal - OTA Habitability Report (PDF)
http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~ota/disk3/1983/8309.html

Woburn, MA - ATSDR PHA for Wells G&H
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HAC/PHA/wellsgh/wgh_toc.html

Woburn, MA - Ohio State Geology class web site
http://www.geology.ohio-state.edu/courtroom/

Woburn, MA - Harvard Law School's Lessons from the Woburn Project
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/acivilaction/

EPA Region 8 - Libby MT homepage
http://www.epa.gov/region8/superfund/libby/index.html

ATSDR's Libby MT asbestos exposure homepage
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/asbestos/sites/libby_montana/

ATSDR's Libby MT final PHA release announcement
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/NEWS/libbymt052803.html

Chapter 6. Exposure Assessment

Bloomington, IN - ATSDR PHAs
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HAC/PHA/bloom1/bl1_toc.html

EPA Region 4 Reading Room - Anniston AL
http://www.epa.gov/region4/foiapgs/readingroom/anniston/index_1-10.htm

ATSDR - Anniston AL air sampling
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/NEWS/annistonal010804.html

ATSDR - Anniston AL fish advisory
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/NEWS/annistonal011504.html

EPA Region 10 - Bunker Hill - Sitewide
http://yosemite.epa.gov/R10/CLEANUP.NSF/sites/bh

EPA Region 10 - Bunker Hill - "The Basin"
http://yosemite.epa.gov/R10/CLEANUP.NSF/sites/cda

EPA Region 10 - Bunker Hill - "The Box"
http://yosemite.epa.gov/R10/CLEANUP.NSF/sites/box

ATSDR Report to Congress - Tar Creek OK - Summary
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/sites/tarcreek/tarcreekfactsheet110804.html

Chapter 7. Post Generation, Pre-release Management Options

Fear in the Fields - Seattle Times investigation
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/special/fear_fields.html

Wastes in Fertilizers - WA Department of Ecology
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/hwtr/fertilizer/index.html

Wastes in Fertilizers - EPA publications
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/recycle/fertiliz/index.htm

Incineration - Universe of HWCs
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/combust/general/universe.txt

Incineration - Waste Technologies Industries (WTI) Hazardous Waste Incineration Facility (East Liverpool, OH)
http://www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/wti/wti.html

Incineration - ATSDR testimony on Health Impacts - 1
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/cxcx4.html

Incineration - ATSDR testimony on Health Impacts - 2
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/cxcx5.html

Landfill - EPA Municipal Solid Waste web page
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/muncpl/disposal.htm

Landfill - Landfill Basics from Environmental Justice Groups
http://www.ejnet.org/landfills

Landfill - What is a Landfill?
http://people.howstuffworks.com/landfill.htm

Landfill - Zero Waste America web page
http://www.zerowasteamerica.org/Landfills.htm

Hazardous Waste Landfills - Land Disposal Units (EPA)
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/muncpl/landfill/haz_ldu.htm

Hazardous Waste Management (Industrial Materials Exchange) - Local Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County
http://www.govlink.org/hazwaste/business/imex/

Chapter 8. Post-release Management - Site Remediation

DOT Emergency Response Guidebook
http://hazmat.dot.gov/pubs/erg/gydebook.htm

NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/

Site Remediation Technologies and Screening Matrix (EPA)
http://clu-in.org/remed1.cfm

Worker Protection - NIOSH databases
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/database.html

Worker Protection - OSHA HAZWOPER Fact Sheet
http://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_General_Facts/factsheet-hazardouswaste.pdf

Worker Protection - Hazard sign definitions
http://www.vwrsp.com/learning_center/index.cgi?tmpl=hazardous_materials

Chapter 9. Natural Resource Damages

Natural Resource Damages: A Primer
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/programs/nrd/primer.htm

Natural Resource Damage Assessment
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/programs/nrd/nrda2.htm

Ecological Risk Assessment
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/programs/nrd/era.htm

Ecological Risk Assessment - EPA/NCEA
http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/ecologic.cfm

Ecological Risk Assessment - Priorities for Ecological Protection: An Initial List and Discussion Document for EPA
http://www.co.berks.pa.us/eac/lib/eac/environmental_library/60_science/60.62_science_biology/60.62.01.01_priorities_for_ecological_protection.pdf

Ecological Risk Assessment - Tools and Applications (ORNL)
http://www.esd.ornl.gov/programs/ecorisk/ecorisk.html

Environmental Economics - EPA
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eed.nsf/webpages/homepage

Chapter 10. Pre-generation Management and Industrial Ecology

EMS Standards - International Standards Organization (ISO)
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/otherpubs/iso14000/index.html

EMS Standards - ISO 14000 (Standards Council of Canada)
http://www.scc.ca/en/programs/iso_reg/environment.shtml

Industrial Ecology/Sustainability - Journal of Industrial Ecology
http://mitpress.mit.edu/journal-home.tcl?issn=10881980

Industrial Ecology/Sustainability - Inform homepage
http://www.informinc.org/

Massachusetts DEP Toxics Use Reduction Act overview
http://www.mass.gov/dep/about/organization/turaover.htm

Pollution Prevention - EPA/OPPT homepage
http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/p2home/

Pollution Prevention - EPA/OPPT annual reports
http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/pubs/reports.htm

Electronic Copies (PDF files) of Lecture Notes (Chapters 1 - 10), Homework Assignments, and Other Files

Chapter 1 : Introduction : The Hazardous Waste Stream in Perspective

Chapter 2 : Hazardous Waste Regulations

Chapter 3 : Properties and Environmental Fate of Hazardous Chemicals

Chapter 4 : Introduction to the Public Health Significance of Hazardous Wastes

Chapter 5 : Waste Site Epidemiology

Chapter 6 : Exposure Investigations

Chapter 7 : Post-Generation Management of Hazardous Waste

Chapter 8 : Management of Hazardous Waste Sites

Chapter 9 : Natural Resource Damages

Chapter 10 : Waste Minimization and Industrial Ecology

Chapter 11 : Summary

Homework #1 - Hazard Ranking System (associated downloads: Mitre Corp HRS Users Manual / HRS scoresheet)

Homework #2 - Fate