Laws & Regulations Related To Environmental Contaminants

All links leave the DEPOT Website Clean Air Act (CAA) Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) Clean Water Act - Federal Water Pollution Control Act (CWA) Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) - See Clean Water Act Low Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act (LLWPA) National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants - 40 CFR 61 (NESHAPS ) Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Safe Drinking Water Act - Public Health Service Act (SDWA) Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) Uranium Mill Tailings Recovery Act (UMTRA) Clean Air Act (CAA) 40 CFR 50--National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards 40 CFR 53--Ambient Air Monitoring Reference and Equivalent Methods See also 40 CFR 54 - 59 See also 40 CFR 72 - 80 40 CFR 61--National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants Back to top Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) See 40 CFR 302 - 307 for Superfund regulations Back to top Clean Water Act - Federal Water Pollution Control Act (CWA) http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d100:HR00001:|TOM:/bss/d100query.html| http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d095:HR03199:|TOM:/bss/d095query.html| http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d095:HR12140:|TOM:/bss/d095query.html| 40 CFR 130--Water Quality Planning and Management 40 CFR 131--Water Quality Standards 40 CFR 132--Water Quality Guidance for the Great Lakes System 40 CFR 136--Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pollutants 40 CFR 141--National primary drinking water regulations 40 CFR 142--National primary drinking water regulations implementation 40 CFR 143--National secondary drinking water regulations 40 CFR 144--Underground injection control program 40 CFR 145--State UIC program requirements 40 CFR 146--Underground injection control program: Criteria and standards 40 CFR 147--State underground injection control programs 40 CFR 148--Hazardous waste injection restrictions 40 CFR 149--Sole source aquifers Back to top Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) See also 40 CFR 153 - 186 Back to top Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) - See Clean Water Act 40 CFR 116-- Designation of Hazardous Substances 40 CRR 117--Determination of Reportable Quantities for Hazardous Substances Back to top Low Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act (LLWPA) Back to top National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) See 40 CFR 1500- 1516 for regulations pertaining to the Council on Environmental Quality Back to top National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants - 40 CFR 61 (NESHAPS) Back to top Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) 40 CFR 191--Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Management and Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel, High-Level and Transuranic Radioactive Wastes 40 CFR 197 - Public Health and Environmental Radiation Standards for Yucca Mountain, Nevada Back to top Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) See 40 CFR 260 - 265 for regulations on hazardous waste management See 40 CFR 266 - 279 for regulations on land disposal restrictions and solid waste disposal See 40 CFR 280 - 282 for regulations on underground storage tanks Back to top Safe Drinking Water Act - Public Health Service Act (SDWA) Back to top Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) Back to top Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) See also 40 CFR 700 - 766 Back to top Uranium Mill Tailings Recovery Act (UMTRA) 40 CFR 192--Health and Environmental Protection standards for Uranium and Thorium Mill Tailings Back to top     All links leave the DEPOT Website

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