Apes Legislation

Clean Water Act 1972

• established the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior. 

• U.S. federal law that regulates the discharge of pollutants into the nation's surface waters, including lakes, rivers, streams, wetlands, and coastal areas. Passed in 1972 and amended in 1977 and 1987, the Clean Water Actwas originally 

• legislation that grants public access to documents or other data in the possession of a government agency or public authority, unless the information falls into a category that is specifically excluded from the terms of the legislation.

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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

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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

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

Apes Legislation

• A) Legislation that protects the habitats of apes from deforestation.

• B) A law that regulates the use of apes in scientific research.

• C) An international treaty focused on the conservation of apes.

• D) A policy that bans the trade of apes and their body parts.

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Apes Legislation

• A) The Great Ape Project advocates for the rights of apes to life and liberty.

• B) The Great Ape Project is a scientific study on ape behavior.

• C) The Great Ape Project is a conservation effort to protect ape habitats.

• D) The Great Ape Project is a government initiative to increase ape populations.