Apes Legislation

Identifies hazardous waste sites & provides the funding for cleaning them up:

• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)

• Safe Drinking Water Act

• Clean Air Act

• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)

• Montreal Protocol

Municipal wastewater treatment systems must abide by the ___ in order to protect the environment from human waste pollution.

• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)

• Clean Water Act

• Montreal Protocol

• Clean Air Act

• Safe Drinking Water Act

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

Superfund Law: Used to clean-up abandoned toxic waste sites, such as Brownfields and old gas stations

• TOSCA: Toxic Substances Control Act

• CERCLA: Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, & Liability Act

• RCRA: Resource Conservation & Recovery Act

• FIFRA: Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, & Rodenticide Act

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NGSS.HS-ETS1-4

Requires minimum safety standards for community water supplies

• Safe Drinking Water Act

• Clean Water Act

• Clean Air Act

• Resource Conservation Recovery Act

Establishes cradle to grave tracking of hazardous waste

• Safe Drinking Water Act

• Clean Water Act

• CERCLA

• Resource Conservation Recovery Act

Passed in 1976 to regulate solid and hazardous waste disposal

• Superfund Act

• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)

• Clean Water Act

• Clean Air Act

Which regulation requires hazardous waste producers to document how waste is handled?

• Superfund Act

• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

• Landfill Act

• Hazardous Waste Act

Cradle-to-grave law for describes rules for the proper handling of hazardous and toxic waste

• The EPA

• Clean Air Act

• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, RCRA

• Recylcing Act

Which legislation is primarily responsible for the protection of great apes and their habitats?

• Endangered Species Act

• Clean Air Act

• Marine Mammal Protection Act

• National Environmental Policy Act

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The Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP) is an initiative under which international organization?

• World Health Organization (WHO)

• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

• World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

• International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)