comments from the environmental protection agency

... well as the impact of the Act’s provisions on the US economy This report is the third in the Section 812 series, and is the result of EPA’s Second Prospective analysis of the 1990 Amendments The ... The Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act fron 1990 to 2020 ABSTRACT Section 812 of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments requires the U.S Environmental Protection Agency to develop ... benefits estimate to the central cost estimate, while the high ratio reflects the ratio of the high benefits estimate to the central costs estimate The Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act fron...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... at the Environmental Protection Agency, 16 Uses of Results of Environmental Protection Agency Research, 18 Summary, 18 References, 19 EFFICIENCY METRICS USED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ... TOOL, AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 11 Inherent Difficulties in Evaluating Research, 11 Research Terms at the Environmental Protection Agency, 12 Evaluating Research under the Government ... Outcomes, 22 The Program Assessment Rating Tool Grading System, 23 The Use of “Expert Review” at the Environmental Protection Agency, 24 Emerging Issues, 27 Metrics Proposed by the Environmental Protection...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20

... strawberry, subgroup 1307H from 1.1 ppm to 1.5 ppm and rhubarb from 0.4 ppm to 0.5 ppm The Agency revised these tolerance levels based on analysis of the residue field trial data using the Organization ... this rule and other required information to the U.S Senate, the U.S House of Representatives, and the Comptroller General of the United States prior to publication of the rule in the Federal Register ... of the petition prepared on behalf of IR-4 by BASF Corporation, the registrant, which is available in the docket, http://www.regulations.gov There were no comments received in response to the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 15:20

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... the above policy, such a replacement is legal only if the resulting engine-chassis configuration is equivalent to a certified configuration of the same model year or newer as the chassis If the ... are not in compliance with federal policy, the Agency does strongly recommend that these programs set their requirements so as to be consistent with the federal law State or local programs which ... policy allows engine switches as long as the resulting vehicle matches exactly to anv certified configuration of the same or newer model year as the chassis, there are some substantial practical...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 23:20

... insights into the environmental legal regulation in Vietnam and the impacts they have on the industry I.1 Research questions The thesis aims to answer the following questions, from the macro level ... increasing the production cost The Porter hypothesis represents that benefits from the compliance with environmental regulation will offset the cost through the technological changes and thereby ... operations, how much they invest in the improvement of machine, the environmental and economic benefits that they experience from doing so and how they actually deal with the inspections by environmental...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2013, 18:48

... by the polar states The 1972 Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage With 156 states parties (as at June 1999), the 1972 Convention for the Protection of the ... Global environmental protection instruments 65 The application of the London Convention in polar waters is enhanced by the obligations that it imposes upon the polar states, whether they be ... and where there is the potential for severe environmental impact following a nuclear accident within the region or to the south These Conventions may also have application in the Southern Ocean,...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

... slope from the active tank battery, the injection well/pit, and the old tank battery to the lake edge Two small creeks cross the northern and southern parts of the site The upper part of the site ... collected from the two sites and adjoining areas For the OSPER ‘A’ site, 35 water samples were obtained from the asphaltic pit and adjacent weathered-oil pit, from a local stream channel and the Skiatook ... gases were obtained from most of the other wells located on the salt scarred, but ‘remediated’ area below the brine pit All the wells located in the salt-scarred area below the brine pit, especially...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 03:20

... directing the publication of the facts relating to the offence, the Department may publish the facts in compliance with the order and recover the costs of publication from the offender (3) Where the ... the provisions of this Act; (h) the protection of the ozone layer; (i) the prevention and reduction of pollution of the air and water including streams and rivers; (j) the control of noise; THE ... to the environment that results or may result from the act or omission that constituted the offence; (c) directing the offender to publish, in the manner prescribed, the facts relating to the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20

... habitation The cause of the disease onset relates to a house, symptoms occur within the house, symptoms are less serious or disappear when the patient is away from the house, and when the patient ... and the substances in indoor air and their concentrations from the 1970s to 2000 in Japan have been summarized by Arashidani et al.12) Outdoor air pollution was also a serious issue from the ... occupants.40) Temperature The relationship between buildings-related symptoms and thermal metrics was investigated by U.S Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA).41) The result suggested that...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... of the place of the damage is required where this law confers broader protection to the victims than does the law of the place of the wrongful conduct On the other hand, the application of the ... the law of the place of the tort encompasses the law of the place of commission of the wrongful act and the law of the place where the damage occurs In case these two places are different, the ... for the application of the law of the place of the dangerous activity (lex loci actus), but gives the injured party the possibility to opt for the application of the law of the State where the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... under the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal Despite the existence of these agreements and conventions, the transfer of WEEE from the ... pollutants, their trace analysis, their emission into the environment and their environmental fate He received his MSc in Environmental Science and his PhD in natural sciences from the Swiss Federal ... state-of -the- art industrial plants For the latter, investment and operational costs for environmentally sound treatment make up a signicant share of the treatment costs On the other hand, their...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20

... taken as absolute, because of these variations There are further significant contradictions between the numbers of the EU and the numbers published by the FAO and the UN The total import amounts for ... confirm the figures given above by the EU on the export prices the EU exporters receive from selling to African countries They serve as an indication for the prices at which poultry meat from the ... Leone, Liberia and the DRC The base for the amounts of export from the EU is the European export statistics Unfortunately, there are some considerable contradictions between the EU numbers and...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 08:20

... ways used to evaluate the theoretical production of methane from MSW landfill This study uses the theoretical model for evaluating of LFG emission The model is based on the first order decay ... benefits The main mechanism for reducing future methane emission from landfill sites is the use of engineered sites and the collection and utilization of LFG There are several ways to utilize LFG The ... system The results were attained from analytical accounting of the matter and energy flux, which can enter or go out of system The energy per functional unit (kcal/kWh) was calculated from the life...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:22

... ways used to evaluate the theoretical production of methane from MSW landfill This study uses the theoretical model for evaluating of LFG emission The model is based on the first order decay ... benefits The main mechanism for reducing future methane emission from landfill sites is the use of engineered sites and the collection and utilization of LFG There are several ways to utilize LFG The ... system The results were attained from analytical accounting of the matter and energy flux, which can enter or go out of system The energy per functional unit (kcal/kWh) was calculated from the life...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:22

... focused on their role in IDSRN, the underlying rationale for the program, their perspectives on implementing research into practice, and their views of IDSRN's successes and challenges The interviews ... Researchers based in operational systems either supplemented their own staff or not, depending on how they viewed the strength of their internal capacity, and the historical working relationships Organizations' ... than others Moreover, some projects relied strongly on an existing research base, while others were only loosely linked to the evidence base from the field As shown in Table 2, about half of the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... relations between environmental units according to Space ix Syntax theory The middle indicates the convex spaces, while the right represent the convex map of the plan 60 Figure 5-2 the convex ... lived within these temples because the temples were far away from their residences Therefore, some temples became the charitable institution For example, the Figure 1-3 describes the kind of temple ... up to the purpose and hypothesis of this study 1.3 Hypothesis The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between the wayfinding performances and the cultural property of the environment...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 22:31

... any of the mitigation measures to see whether it is of benefit to the people and whether the ecosystems are large enough to justify the costs of these measures Our assumption is simply that the ... incorporate them into the financial viability indices of the plant, namely its net present value and electricity price The study was carried out through the following steps: Analyze environmental data from ... including environmental protection and compensation costs The central assumption of the study is that the ecosystem and its inhabitants should be restored to the state of environment and health that they...

Ngày tải lên: 11/04/2016, 16:57

... been the case with the Maghreb, the Levant or the northern shore of the Mediterranean The Great Eurasian Plain The low-lying land that stretches almost without interruption from Britain to the ... belt This is the belt that stretches from Iberia and the Maghreb in the west to the Himalayas in the east Any Eurasian population to the north must have dispersed from this area Its southerly position ... another Yet, there are many examples in the literature of the spread of populations and species, which is a part of the dynamics of the natural world It seems unlikely that, in the history of the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:46

... reduce the generalizability of the results, and the findings may therefore not apply to the general population The present study and the study by Gjesdal and Bratberg [10] are to our knowledge the ... for these analyses Methodological issues The DWECS/DREAM study provides data from a large representative sample of the Danish working population Further, selection bias is minimized from the ... disability pensioned, emigrated or died They were excluded from the study, as they were no longer under risk of disability pension in the follow-up period from 1994 through 2004 This left a total...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 10:03