Environmental Laws- Final Exam Review

What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)-?

• An act that deals with imposing liability on potentially liable parties for releases of harmful chemicals.

• An act that deals with regulation of the generation, treatment, and disposal of hazardous waste.

• An act that encourages states to develop waste management programs.

• An act that is the comprehensive Federal law that regulates air emissions.

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What are the objectives of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)?

• RCRA aimed at making land disposal of wastes safer than it had previously been.

• RCRA is aimed to be technology forcing, by requiring TSD operators to employ technologies for landfill disposal as "may be necessary to protect human health".

• RCRA is aimed as waste reduction.

• RCRA sought to maintain substantial state responsibility of the solid waste problem.

  This gives control and function to state, regional, and local agencies.

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When was Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act (SARA) amended?

• October 17, 1986

• October 19, 2020

• September 27th, 2012

• October 23, 2021

Is the Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act (SARA) a national law?

• Yes, it is a national law.

• No, it is not a national law.

Who does the Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act (SARA) give authority to?

• Superfund gives authority to federal natural resource agencies, states and Native American tribes to recover natural resource damages caused by releases of hazardous substances.

• Superfund gives authority to construction workers.

• Superfund gives authority to homeowners and parents.

When was the Toxic Substance Control Act was made?

• The Toxic Substance Control Act was made 1976.

• The Toxic Substance Control Act was made 2021.

• The Toxic Substance Control Act was made 1973.

• The Toxic Substance Control Act was made 1923.

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Does the Toxic Substance Control Act authorize EPA to secure information on all new and existing chemical substances, as well as to control any of the substances that were determined to cause unreasonable risk to public health or the environment?

• Yes

• No

Does the Toxic Substance Control Act apply through protocols for sections?

True or False

• True

• False

When was the Air Pollution Control Act made?

• The act was made in 1955.

• The act was made in 1953.

• The act was made in 2021.

• The act was made in 1734.

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Air Pollution Control Act of 1955 was the first federal legislation for clean air. Is this statement correct.

True or False

• True

• False

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