Case.An employee isseriouslyinjured on the job and the employer calls OSHA as part of notification requirements. OSHA investigates and slaps a $12,000 fine against the employer. The employee had partially amputated a finger while diagnosing the engine on an automobile. This happened to an auto ...
The standards requirements covered by the Safe Drinking Water Act needs to be strengthened by Environmental Protection Act (EPA). National Drinking Water Advisory Council member, Hillard Hampton II recommended that lead water pipes should be replaced for potable water...
These Final Guidelines for classifying ground water augment the Ground-Water Protection Strategy by further defining the key terms and concepts of the classification system, and describing procedures and data requirements to assist in classifying ground water. The procedures in the Final Guidelines are ...
Reports that the United States Environmental Protection Agency released its Small System Compliance Technology List for the Surface Water Treatment Rule or sewage purification rules. Includes listings on the capabilities, water quality concerns, operational and maintenance requirements for compliance technologies...
water are tested. In receiving streams, however, such numbers of viruses, in terms of the daily water intake requirements of even small communities, are not small. When one considers the low efficiencies of the methods that we have for concentrating these viruses, that the cell culture ...
organisms that originate where the water is collected. When transported to non-native waters, these organisms may upset the environment or food web as “invasive species.” Table 1 below summarized the number of vessels subject to the ballast water requirements as calculated by the EPA and Coast...
However, the method is performance-based and gives requirements for establishing equivalency.1 Oasis WAX/GCB for PFAS Analysis cartridges can alternatively be used and have been tested and shown to meet the acceptance criteria fo...
US EPA Method 1633 has become the foundation method for analysis of PFAS in non-potable water matrices, soils, biosolids and tissues in the United States. The method consists of sample preparation using weak anion exchange (WA...
and the need for more concerted action – is unclear.' The GAO is recommending that it improve its data on key aspects of lead rule implementation, strengthen some regulatory requirements and oversight, and assess the problem of lead in the drinking water at schools and child care facilities. ...
The purpose of this document was to describe the variety of reuse practices available, provide an inventory of the state regulations controlling reuse, and give guidance on treatment requirements for various intended uses. Since 1992 there have been significant changes in the field of water ...