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Certified Hazardous Materials Manager

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1. NFPA Class B fire
Oil - gasoline - paint
lithium (Li) - sodium (Na) - and potassium (K) Dangerous when wet
Slowest - largest radioactive particle. Most destructive if inhaled or ingested. Can be stopped by paper/tyvek. Made up of a proton and neutron.
The employer must provide training - require the employee to demonstrate proficiency - retrain employees who lose proficiency - and provide written certification.

2. Class III UIC
Superfund Amendments and Re-authorization Act
Used to dispose of oil and gas production wastes (SWDA)
if the HVL of lead is 0.33 cm and you double the thickness you reduce the exposure to 1/4 of the original exposure
Necessary for facility with oil storage in excess of 1 -000 -000 gallons - requires drills and tabletop exercises - plans for Worst Case Discharges (WCDs) - and training for employees on the FRP

3. FRP Facility response plan
Oil and grease
EPA - Protection of the Environment
Necessary for facility with oil storage in excess of 1 -000 -000 gallons - requires drills and tabletop exercises - plans for Worst Case Discharges (WCDs) - and training for employees on the FRP
Ignitability - corrosivity - toxicity - reactivity

4. DNAPL
Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid. Includes chlorinated solvents and long-chain hydrocarbons (heavy oils/asphalts) - DNAPLs do not adhere to soil particles
Carbon dioxide
Trespass - Nuisance - Negligence - Strict Liability
Chain of Custody - provides written documentation of the history of the sample

5. Waste Management Hierarchy
Includes manifests - exception reports - applicable records for the previous year - and certificates of disposal or destruction
OSHA General Industry Standard
1. Prevent or reduce 2. Recycle 3. Treat 4. Dispose or otherwise release
Approval - Conditional Approval - Disapproval

6. SWDA
Safe Water Drinking Act (1980) - established public notifications for violations - increased civil penalties - recalled all water coolers with lead lined tanks and banned lead containing pipes
Should only be available to those who 'need to know' (CFATS)
Imposes 'strict' and 'joint and several' liability to all generators - transporters and facility owners. Does not require showing of fault or negligence where damages have occurred. Full damages may be recovered from one - some or all potentially lia
30% of Earth's fresh water supply

7. NPL
Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats (business)
National Priorities List - Superfund
EPA - OSHA - DOT
Oil and grease

8. Used Oil
Required under EPCRA for a facility that has 10 -000 pounds of any hazardous chemical
Covers Haz Waste Operations - Cleanup - and ERs
Three. 100 (one) 50 (two) 25 (three) 12.5
Arsenic (5 ppm max) - Cadmium (2 ppm max) - Chromium (10ppm max) - Lead (100 ppm max) - Total Halogens (4000 ppm max) - Flash point (100oF minimum)

9. FIFRA
Comprehensive Environmental Response - Compensation and Liability Act
Pesticides that can be used by untrained persons according to label instructions without creating unreasonable adverse effects to the person applying the pesticides or to the environment.
Federal Insecticide - Fungicide - and Rodenticide Act
the primary health effect from lead

10. NFPA Class II combustible liquid
Required for facilities manufacturing - mining - and utilities that manufacture or process over 25 -000 pounds or 'otherwise use' over the threshold planning quantity of extremely hazardous substances
flash point >= 100oF but less than 140oF
Comprehensive Environmental Response - Compensation and Liability Act
Carbon dioxide

11. TRI Toxic Chemical Release Inventory

12. Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifest
In RCRA - a facility that predates RCRA but is pursuing a RCRA permit
Hazardous Air Pollutant
Pesticides that can be used by untrained persons according to label instructions without creating unreasonable adverse effects to the person applying the pesticides or to the environment.
Includes the EPA ID number - the name of the primary transporter - the names of backup transporters - an ER number that must be answered 24/7 - the name and address of the generator - the signature of the generator or an agent

13. NOAEL
Superfund Amendments and Re-authorization Act (1986)
EPA - OSHA - DOT
No observable adverse effect level
will float in water

14. Level A PPE
Full body encapsulating suit - SCBA - Dermal protection
Sound Pressure Level - unweighted SPL(total) = 10 log [ sum 10 (SPL/10)] or weighted SPL (total) = 10 log [sum 10 (SPL/10) (t(partial)/t(total)]
Perceived noise level - a noise rating associated with airports
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

15. Toxin
Stormwater pollution prevention plans
Total Maximum Daily Load - CWA Section 303
I(2) = I(1) (r(1)/r(2))^2 I= intensity r= distance from the source
Any substance that will produce a harmful effect when introduced to the body in sufficient concentrations - creates a toxic effect when a mechanism is available to allow a biochemical reaction at a receptor site in the target organ

16. ALARA
Strict liability for abnormally dangerous activities may cause a defendant to be liable for harm to a person - land or personal property of another resulting from that activity - although the defendant has exercised the utmost care to prevent the har
EPA - OSHA - DOT
Department of Transportation
As Low As Reasonably Achievable (AEA)

17. ISO 14001
Requires core elements such as a management review - policy - checking - and corrective actions
Maximum Achievable Control Technology
CDI = (Concentration)(daily intake)(exposure frequency)(exposure duration - typ 70 years)/(body weight - typ 70 kg)(average exposure time (day)
Oil - gasoline - paint

18. Beta particle
National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health - conducts research in occupational safety and health - develop criteria as a basis for new standards - provides education - manpower development and training on health and safety equipment - enfor
The employer must provide training - require the employee to demonstrate proficiency - retrain employees who lose proficiency - and provide written certification.
Can be stopped by plastic/aluminum foil. Can travel up to four feet from source. Made up of an electron.
Time - Distance - Shielding (ways to reduce exposure to radiation)

19. RFI
Federal Insecticide - Fungicide - Rodenticide Act
Department of Homeland Security (US Coast Guard - US Secret Service - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) - US Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
RCRA Facility Investigation
Normally stable

20. Group H UBC classification
National Pollution Discharge Elimination System
mass per unit volume of a given vapor/gas relative to that of air
Hazardous occupancy
will float

21. Ceiling Value
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
Ignitability - corrosivity - toxicity - reactivity
An absolute value which cannot be exceeded (no TWA)
Nitric oxide exists in equilibrium with nitrogen tetroxide in the ambient atmosphere - is colorless - is a dissociation product of nitrogen trioxide and is an irritant of the eyes and mucous membranes

22. AAI
As Low As Reasonably Achievable (AEA)
All Appropriate Inquiries - must update government records or visual inspections after 180 days - requires that the environmental professional sign the report - provide an opinion regarding site conditions - review historical records - and provide pr
Chemical of Interest (CFATS)
Safe Water Drinking Act (1980) - established public notifications for violations - increased civil penalties - recalled all water coolers with lead lined tanks and banned lead containing pipes

23. Tier II Report
Required under EPCRA for a facility that has 10 -000 pounds of any hazardous chemical
Confined space - HAZWOPER - respirator training
HI = dose / RfD
Covers Haz Waste Operations - Cleanup - and ERs

24. Asbestos
Burns as ordinarily combustible and presents a minimum reactivity hazard
limited access and/or toxic atmospheres the potential for an IDLH atmosphere makes it a 'permit required confined space'
Has thermal resistance - chemical resistance - high tensile strength - not electrically conductive
manufacturers and importers

25. 29CFR1910
The top priority for OSHA inspections are imminent danger situations.
FIFRA definition for pesticide residue on food
OSHA General Industry Standard
Does NOT require an employer to pay for non-specialty safety toe footwear

26. LOD
Limit of Detection - Should be at least 25% of the TLV for a air monitoring device to be acceptable for use
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
CAA - Clean Air Act
Have the full effect of the law and can be enforced civilly and criminally

27. Oxygen deficient atmosphere
CAA - Clean Air Act
RCRA Facility Investigation
No observable adverse effect level
19.5% (O2/vol) or less

28. New major air emissions in an attainment area
Remedial Design/ Remedial Action
Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator - <100 kg per month or <1kg of acute waste per month AND accumulates <1000 kg or <1 kg acute or <100kg cleanup from an acute spill
Toxic Substances Control Act (requires toxicity testing of new compounds)
Requires New Source Performance Standards - BACT - Title V Operating Permit

29. EPCRA
70 years
NEPA - National Environmental Policy Act (requires EIS)
Perceived noise level - a noise rating associated with airports
Required for the transportation of hazardous materials

30. 7 steps of an audit
The removal of electrons from an electrically neutral atom
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
lithium (Li) - sodium (Na) - and potassium (K) Dangerous when wet
Initiation - Document review - prepare for on-site audit - perform on-site audit - prepare the audit report - complete the audit - conduct the audit follow-up

31. ISO 14000 parts
Environmental Auditing (EA) - Environmental Management Systems (EMS) and Life cycle assessment (LCA)
Does NOT require an employer to pay for non-specialty safety toe footwear
Immediate (acute) health hazards - delayed (chronic) health hazards - and sudden releases of pressure
Solid Waste Management Unit (RCRA)

32. What are the required elements in a negligence claim?
1) Duty of the defendant to the plaintiff 2) Breach of that duty 3) Damage to the plaintiff 4) Breach was the proximate cause of the damage
Humic (the process is called on sorption and is based on relative affinity)
Safe Water Drinking Act (1980) - established public notifications for violations - increased civil penalties - recalled all water coolers with lead lined tanks and banned lead containing pipes
Three year have elapsed since the last audit

33. MACT
mass per unit volume of a given vapor/gas relative to that of air
Stormwater pollution prevention plans
Only pesticides registered with the USEPA can be distributed - sold or placed into commerce
Maximum Achievable Control Technology

34. LNAPL
Apply to discharges from MS4s serving fewer than 10 -000 people
CAA - Clean Air Act
Light Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid - Short chain hydrocarbons including gasoline. NAPLs adhere to soil particles
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants

35. Polyvinyl alcohol PVA
Material that can be separated by a physical process (evaporation) - density differences - or simple solubility difference.
Imposes 'strict' and 'joint and several' liability to all generators - transporters and facility owners. Does not require showing of fault or negligence where damages have occurred. Full damages may be recovered from one - some or all potentially lia
19.5% (O2/vol) or less
A material used in PPE - very effective against hydrocarbons but dissolves in water

36. What conditions prompt a compliance audit under the PSM standard?
SCBA operated in pressure demand mode
Three year have elapsed since the last audit
OSHA General Industry Standard
lithium (Li) - sodium (Na) - and potassium (K) Dangerous when wet

37. SARA
Half-mask 10 - Full Face 50 - Supplied Air (w/o egress bottle) 1000 - SCBA 10000
Superfund Amendments and Re-authorization Act
environmental permits - environmental logs and inspections - correspondence to/from regulatory agencies - regulatory report filings - facility material balance - emission inventories - MSDSs - Hazardous waste manifests/shipping papers
Chain of Custody - provides written documentation of the history of the sample

38. Land Disposal Notification
Only pesticides registered with the USEPA can be distributed - sold or placed into commerce
Accompanies the waste shipment to a TSDF and includes an analysis of the ability to meet treatment standards
Arsenic (5 ppm max) - Cadmium (2 ppm max) - Chromium (10ppm max) - Lead (100 ppm max) - Total Halogens (4000 ppm max) - Flash point (100oF minimum)
Oil and grease

39. NEF
Confined space - HAZWOPER - respirator training
Part A- Who and what Part B- Where and how much
Noise exposure forecast - a noise rating associated with airports
1) Duty of the defendant to the plaintiff 2) Breach of that duty 3) Damage to the plaintiff 4) Breach was the proximate cause of the damage

40. FIFRA
risk = slope factor (SF) x CDI
Requires New Source Performance Standards - BACT - Title V Operating Permit
Half-mask 10 - Full Face 50 - Supplied Air (w/o egress bottle) 1000 - SCBA 10000
Federal Insecticide - Fungicide - Rodenticide Act

41. SWMU
Threshold Planning Quantity - two values are listed - the first applies to materials with higher hazard properties and the second applies to lower hazard properties (40CFR355.30) - the TPQ when equaled or exceeded subjects the facility to regulation
Oil and grease
Superfund Amendments and Re-authorization Act (1986)
Solid Waste Management Unit (RCRA)

42. Hazardous waste characteristics
flash point >= 100oF but less than 140oF
Ignitability - corrosivity - toxicity - reactivity
Total Maximum Daily Load - CWA Section 303
fume - solid - 0.03um - 0.3um smoke - solid - 0.05 um - 1um mist - liquid - 0.5um - 3um dust - solid - 1um - 10mm spray - liquid - 10um- 10mm

43. AEA
Nitric oxide exists in equilibrium with nitrogen tetroxide in the ambient atmosphere - is colorless - is a dissociation product of nitrogen trioxide and is an irritant of the eyes and mucous membranes
Oil and grease
TMDLs - Turbidity - pH - Bioassay
Atomic Energy Act

44. LDRs
Perceived noise level - a noise rating associated with airports
Corrective Measures Study (RCRA)
Chemical Security Assessment Tool - which assesses security risks
Land Disposal Restriction (RCRA) - meant to minimize post-closure escape of waste - reduces the volume of haz waste disposal - encourages recycling

45. EPCRA
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-know Act
environmental permits - environmental logs and inspections - correspondence to/from regulatory agencies - regulatory report filings - facility material balance - emission inventories - MSDSs - Hazardous waste manifests/shipping papers
Plan - Do - Check - Act (P2)
All chemical manufactured for sale LQG Large Quantity Generator - >1000 kg per month or > 1 kg of acutely hazardous waste per month SQG Small Quantity Generator - 100 kg < x < 1000 kg per month - AND accumulates <6000 kg at any time

46. SPCC
Local Emergency Planning Committee
Normally stable
Includes manifests - exception reports - applicable records for the previous year - and certificates of disposal or destruction
Spill Prevention - Control - and Countermeasure Plans - required for facilities with more than 1320 gallons of above ground oil storage or 40 -000 gallons of below ground storage - must be reviewed every five years - must be sealed by a PE unless it

47. SWOT
manufacturers and importers
Confined space - HAZWOPER - respirator training
Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats (business)
Nitric oxide exists in equilibrium with nitrogen tetroxide in the ambient atmosphere - is colorless - is a dissociation product of nitrogen trioxide and is an irritant of the eyes and mucous membranes

48. 30 CFR = ?
Used to dispose of hazardous wastes (SWDA)
Remedial Design/ Remedial Action
1) Duty of the defendant to the plaintiff 2) Breach of that duty 3) Damage to the plaintiff 4) Breach was the proximate cause of the damage
Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) - Mineral Resources

49. Risk calculation
TMDLs - Turbidity - pH - Bioassay
risk = slope factor (SF) x CDI
Required to prepare and implement a stormwater pollution prevention plan - form a pollution prevention team - create pollution prevention measures - and use Best Management Practices (BMPs)
Threshold Limit Value

50. Vapor Density < 1
1. Congress enacts a law 2. Agency establishes a rulemaking schedule 3. Agency establishes a docket 4. Develop a concept for regulation 5. Publish proposed regulation in Fed Reg 6. Public hearing 7. Withdraw - make minor revisions or publish final re
Has thermal resistance - chemical resistance - high tensile strength - not electrically conductive
will float
Suitable for NFPA Class A and Class B fires