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n: (EPA) a federal agency that was created in 1970 from a variety of existing agencies. The EPA administers air pollution, water pollution, pesticide, solid waste, noise control, drinking water, and toxic substances acts. It also has major research responsibilities. Ad- dress: 401 M Street SW;Washington, DC 20460;(202) 260-2090.

n: 1. any solid waste (solid" includes any solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material) resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, or agricultural operations, or from community activities, that meets certain characteristics of hazard (i.e., ignitable, corrosive, reactive, toxic) or that is listed as a waste from specific or nonspecific sources or that is a listed commercial chemical product or manufacturing intermediate that is sometimes discarded.2. (RCRA) discarded materials regulator by the EPA because of public health and safety concerns. 3. (HAZWOPER) a waste or combination of wastes as defined in 40 CFR 261.3, or those substances defined as hazardous wastes in 49 CFR 171.8.3. (CERCLA) those wastes listed in 40 CFR 261.3.

n: a congressional act that implements Annex V of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL). Under the provisions of this act, all ships and water-craft (including all commercial and recreational fishing vessels) are prohibited from dumping plastics at sea. The law also severely restricts dumping other vessel-generated garbage and solid waste both at sea and in US navigable waters.

n: (RCRA) a federal regulatory program designed to ensure responsible man- agement of hazardous waste at all levels of contact. i.e., generation, transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal;regulates the management of onland disposal of all solid wastes. This comprehensive program is designed to protect human health and the envirorunent from the unintentional exposure to solid waste that is identified as hazardous waste." Also institutes a "cradle-to-grave" monitoring program that closely tracks and regulates the handling of hazardous waste from the time the waste is first generated until it is disposed.

n: a US government term for waste that is in solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous form. A solid waste can be anything that is discarded or may be discarded.

any solid or semisolid material intended for disposal.

Solid Waste Disposal Act.

n: dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water.