Environmental Compliance Handbook

✍ Scribed by Jacob I. Bregman, Robert D. Edell

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 434
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

If your organization is subject to the thousands of federal, state, and local environmental laws and regulations in effect in the U.S. today, the Environmental Compliance Handbook should be within easy reach. Thousands of professionals have benefited from the bestselling first edition. The Second Edition builds on that foundation and goes further to provide you with the latest, most up-to-date information available. It simplifies the complex world of environmental law and compliance and describes, in everyday language, the major federal laws and regulations as well as the critical state requirements appended to them.

✦ Table of Contents

Front cover......Page 1
Authors......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
List of Acronyms......Page 10
Contents......Page 16
1 Introduction......Page 28
2 Compliance Assessment......Page 36
3 Surface Water......Page 52
4 Groundwater......Page 80
5 Drinking Water......Page 100
6 Air......Page 120
7 Hazardous Waste Management......Page 162
8 Contamination Remediation......Page 196
9 Toxic Substances Control......Page 220
10 Storage Tanks......Page 242
11 Archaeological and Cultural Resources......Page 268
12 Biological Resources......Page 284
13 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)......Page 302
14 Environmental Justice......Page 322
15 The Range Rule......Page 338
16 Other Federal and State Laws and Regulations......Page 342
Appendix A. EIS Process......Page 378
Appendix B. EPA Regional Offices......Page 384
Appendix C. State Environmental Agencies......Page 386
Appendix D. State Required Contingency/ Response Plans......Page 392
Appendix E. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: Guidance Under the National Environmental Policy Act......Page 404
Index......Page 426
Back cover......Page 434