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RECORD NUMBER: 924 OF 1087Main Title | Screening Level Ecological Risk Assessment Protocol for Hazardous Waste Combustion Facilities; Peer Review Draft. Volume 1. | |||||||||||
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CORP Author | Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. | |||||||||||
Publisher | Nov 1999 | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1999 | |||||||||||
Report Number | EPA/530/D-99/001A; | |||||||||||
Stock Number | PB2000-101330 | |||||||||||
Additional Subjects | Hazardous wastes ; Incinerators ; Ecosystems ; Risk assessment ; Air pollution effects ; Screening ; Air pollution dispersion ; Air pollution sampling ; Combustion products ; Stack gases ; Environmental transport ; Environmental exposure ; Ecological concentration ; Food webs ; Toxicity ; Combustors ; Incineration ; Waste processing plants ; Emission rates ; Fugitive emissions ; RCRA(Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) | |||||||||||
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Collation | 372p | |||||||||||
Abstract | The report provides guidance to US EPA regions and state government on how to best implement Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and other US EPA regulations to facilitate permitting decisions for hazardous waste combustion facilities. It addresses facility characterization, including compiling basic facility data, identifying emission sources and compounds of concern (COPC), estimating COPC concentrations for non-detects, and concentrations detected in blanks. It discusses air dispersion and deposition modeling, problem formulation, analysis (exposure assessment and assessment of toxicity), and risk characterization. It includes references, tables and figures. |