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Certified Hazardous Materials Manager

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1. RD/RA
units associated with medical monitoring for lead
Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats (business)
Remedial Design/ Remedial Action
Land Disposal Restriction (RCRA) - meant to minimize post-closure escape of waste - reduces the volume of haz waste disposal - encourages recycling

2. CNR
Composite noise level - a noise rating associated with airports
Part A- Who and what Part B- Where and how much
The top priority for OSHA inspections are imminent danger situations.
Best Available Control Technology

3. CWA Title III
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
Established water quality criteria - requires assessment of watersheds - established the NPDES program - requires point source compliance with treatment technologies
Comprehensive Environmental Restoration Compensation and Liability Act. Established 'Hazardous Substances' and covers sites not covered by existing laws - except facilities and vessels - does not apply to active sites - requires that actions meet sta
National Pollution Discharge Elimination System

4. SWDA
Department of Labor
Environmental Auditing (EA) - Environmental Management Systems (EMS) and Life cycle assessment (LCA)
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
Comprehensive Environmental Restoration Compensation and Liability Act. Established 'Hazardous Substances' and covers sites not covered by existing laws - except facilities and vessels - does not apply to active sites - requires that actions meet sta

5. Trade exemption
Noise exposure forecast - a noise rating associated with airports
Requires core elements such as a management review - policy - checking - and corrective actions
Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (RCRA) included hazardous waste used as fuel - financial responsibility - Minimum Technology Requirements (MTRs) - and air emissions from TSDFs
Allows private carriers to transport hazardous materials if individual packages do not exceed 8 gallons or 66 pounds

6. The majority of the gas generated within a landfill is methane and ____?
Maximum Achievable Control Technology
5 ft (UFC)
Carbon dioxide
Established water quality criteria - requires assessment of watersheds - established the NPDES program - requires point source compliance with treatment technologies

7. Characteristic Waste
Work breakdown structure (PM)
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (1972)
Reactive - Corrosive - Ignitable - Toxic
corrosive/highly toxic - flammable - non-flammable

8. PCB Annual Report
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.
Preliminary Assessment/ Site Inspection
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
Includes manifests - exception reports - applicable records for the previous year - and certificates of disposal or destruction

9. PDCA
Plan - Do - Check - Act (P2)
Systematic discovery - voluntary discovery (sampling/auditing) - prompt disclosure (within 21 days) - independent discovery and disclosure - correction and remediation within 60 days - prevent recurrence of the violation - repeat violations are ineli
Stormwater pollution prevention plans
EPA - Protection of the Environment

10. PA/SI
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
Preliminary Assessment/ Site Inspection
Maximum Achievable Control Technology

11. How do you calculate the Hazard Index (HI)?
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
PPA - RCRA - CWA - CAA
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
HI = dose / RfD

12. NFPA Class II combustible liquid
1. Prevent or reduce 2. Recycle 3. Treat 4. Dispose or otherwise release
Light Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid - Short chain hydrocarbons including gasoline. NAPLs adhere to soil particles
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
flash point >= 100oF but less than 140oF

13. Vapor Density > 1
HI = dose / RfD
will sink. All flammable liquids and most gases have a vapor density greater than 1.0
Department of Labor
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants

14. Class IV UIC
The employer must provide training - require the employee to demonstrate proficiency - retrain employees who lose proficiency - and provide written certification.
Local Emergency Planning Committee
A list of impaired waters
Used to dispose of hazardous wastes (SWDA)

15. Audible range for humans
between 16 Hz and 20 -000 Hz frequencies
The employer must provide training - require the employee to demonstrate proficiency - retrain employees who lose proficiency - and provide written certification.
Minimum Technology Requirements (RCRA) - including liner requirements - leak detection and collection requirements - groundwater monitoring
Time - Distance - Shielding (ways to reduce exposure to radiation)

16. MCL
Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (RCRA) included hazardous waste used as fuel - financial responsibility - Minimum Technology Requirements (MTRs) - and air emissions from TSDFs
Maximum Contaminate Level - legally enforceable public health goal
Covers Haz Waste Operations - Cleanup - and ERs
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)]

17. To qualify a UST as a 'confined space' it must be established that it has...

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18. NEF
Noise exposure forecast - a noise rating associated with airports
On the periodic table - a set of elements that act the same chemically. Eg. Noble Gases - Halide series
losing electrons
Part A- Who and what Part B- Where and how much

19. Interim Status
Permits Dredge and Fill Permits administered by the Army Corp of Engineers
In RCRA - a facility that predates RCRA but is pursuing a RCRA permit
Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid. Includes chlorinated solvents and long-chain hydrocarbons (heavy oils/asphalts) - DNAPLs do not adhere to soil particles
Recycling the solution directly into the process from which it was generated. Disposal in a landfill and volatilization are not acceptable under RCRA

20. Pesticides
Required for a new facility or a modified existing facility (>10%)
Not considered a hazardous waste if the mixture no longer retains the characteristic that made it hazardous (i.e. ignitability)
units associated with medical monitoring for lead
Herbicides - Insecticides - Biocides

21. 49 CFR = ?
Department of Transportation
chemiluminescence
OSHA Construction Standard
Material that can be separated by a physical process (evaporation) - density differences - or simple solubility difference.

22. FIFRA
Federal Insecticide - Fungicide - and Rodenticide Act
Soil vapor extraction wells
Department of Transportation
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-know Act

23. 30 CFR = ?
Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) - Mineral Resources
State Emergency Response Commission
Apply to discharges from MS4s serving fewer than 10 -000 people
Immediate (acute) health hazards - delayed (chronic) health hazards - and sudden releases of pressure

24. Ionization
the primary route of exposure to lead
The removal of electrons from an electrically neutral atom
Requires 40-hours off-site safety training - 3 days of supervised field experience. Supervisors require 8 hours of additional training.
An absolute value which cannot be exceeded (no TWA)

25. Tier II Report
Federal Insecticide - Fungicide - and Rodenticide Act
Temporary Unit (RCRA)
Local Emergency Planning Committee
Required under EPCRA for a facility that has 10 -000 pounds of any hazardous chemical

26. Legal concepts for pollution control
Initiation - Document review - prepare for on-site audit - perform on-site audit - prepare the audit report - complete the audit - conduct the audit follow-up
Trespass - Nuisance - Negligence
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)
Material that can be separated by a physical process (evaporation) - density differences - or simple solubility difference.

27. Grab samples for wastewater 24-hour composite sampling event
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
Should be performed at the bottom and top of a space because methane is lighter than air and hydrogen sulfide is heavier than air - Required controls for a major facility modification BACT- in attainment areas LAER- in non-attainment areas MACT - f
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
Oil and grease

28. Four characteristics of a corporation
EPA - Protection of the Environment
Particulates - Sulfur Dioxide - Nitrogen Dioxide - Carbon Monoxide - Ozone - Lead
limited liability to the extent of assets - continuity of life - centralization of management - free transferability of ownership interests (an LLC can only have two of these traits)
Established water quality criteria - requires assessment of watersheds - established the NPDES program - requires point source compliance with treatment technologies

29. Periodic group
Suitable for NFPA Class A and Class B fires
Used to dispose of hazardous wastes (SWDA)
On the periodic table - a set of elements that act the same chemically. Eg. Noble Gases - Halide series
The removal of electrons from an electrically neutral atom

30. 5 EMS components
The removal of electrons from an electrically neutral atom
Environmental policy - planning - Implementation and operation - Checking and Corrective Action - Management Review
PPA - RCRA - CWA - CAA
gaining electrons

31. AEA
Systematic discovery - voluntary discovery (sampling/auditing) - prompt disclosure (within 21 days) - independent discovery and disclosure - correction and remediation within 60 days - prevent recurrence of the violation - repeat violations are ineli
Best Available Control Technology
Atomic Energy Act
As Low As Reasonably Achievable (AEA)

32. HVL Half Value (radiation)
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
Not a toxin (for a particular target organ) that in combination with a toxin - enhances the toxins effect
Have the full effect of the law and can be enforced civilly and criminally
Toxic Substances Control Act (requires toxicity testing of new compounds)

33. LD(50/30) refers to?
Atomic Energy Act
The dose expected to cause the death of 50% of an exposed population within 30 minutes
FIFRA definition for pesticide residue on food
the primary health effect from lead

34. Stormwater pollutants
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
Trespass - Nuisance - Negligence - Strict Liability
Oil and grease - BOD - COD - and TSS
National Pollution Discharge Elimination System

35. Emergency response not required...
Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) - Mineral Resources
5 ft (UFC)
30% of Earth's fresh water supply
When the release results in exposure to persons solely within the boundaries of the facility

36. TRI Toxic Chemical Release Inventory

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37. NFPA Life Safety Code
Covers building services and fire protection equipment
Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) - Mineral Resources
Hazardous occupancy
Covers Haz Waste Operations - Cleanup - and ERs

38. Ways to reference a law
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
Concentrations >= 50 and >500 ppm PCB
Can be found in the Federal Register but are easiest to find on the Agencies website or from a regulation tracking service
1. Short title (eg TSCA) 2. Public law citation (eg. PL 101-459 = 549th law of the 101 Congress) 3. United State Code (USC) (eg. 42USC

39. RI
Used to dispose of hazardous wastes (SWDA)
Can be found in the Federal Register but are easiest to find on the Agencies website or from a regulation tracking service
Remedial Investigation
Total Maximum Daily Load - CWA Section 303

40. Air monitoring for methane and hydrogen sulfide
Should be performed at the bottom and top of a space because methane is lighter than air and hydrogen sulfide is heavier than air - Required controls for a major facility modification BACT- in attainment areas LAER- in non-attainment areas MACT - f
Immediate (acute) health hazards - delayed (chronic) health hazards - and sudden releases of pressure
1. Prevent or reduce 2. Recycle 3. Treat 4. Dispose or otherwise release
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

41. FFCA
Comprehensive Environmental Restoration Compensation and Liability Act. Established 'Hazardous Substances' and covers sites not covered by existing laws - except facilities and vessels - does not apply to active sites - requires that actions meet sta
A list of impaired waters
Initiation - Document review - prepare for on-site audit - perform on-site audit - prepare the audit report - complete the audit - conduct the audit follow-up
Federal Facilities Compliance Act (1992) - provided a statutory basis for pursuing monetary penalties against Federal Facilities

42. NIOSH
Interim Measures
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
corrosive/highly toxic - flammable - non-flammable
Should only be available to those who 'need to know' (CFATS)

43. RACT
will float
Only pesticides registered with the USEPA can be distributed - sold or placed into commerce
Confined space - HAZWOPER - respirator training
Reasonable Achievable Control Technology

44. How frequently should employee refresher training be provided under the Process Safety Management (PSM) standard?
Coast Guard - Navigation and Navigable Waters
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.
as needed - but at least every 3 yrs
Light Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid - Short chain hydrocarbons including gasoline. NAPLs adhere to soil particles

45. NA
Systematic discovery - voluntary discovery (sampling/auditing) - prompt disclosure (within 21 days) - independent discovery and disclosure - correction and remediation within 60 days - prevent recurrence of the violation - repeat violations are ineli
Established water quality criteria - requires assessment of watersheds - established the NPDES program - requires point source compliance with treatment technologies
The dose expected to cause the death of 50% of an exposed population within 30 minutes
Non-attainment

46. Hazardous waste characteristics
Covers building services and fire protection equipment
Minimum Technology Requirements (RCRA) - including liner requirements - leak detection and collection requirements - groundwater monitoring
Ignitability - corrosivity - toxicity - reactivity
Oil - gasoline - paint

47. BLEVE
Three year have elapsed since the last audit
will sink. All flammable liquids and most gases have a vapor density greater than 1.0
Department of Labor
Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion. A rapid pressure increase in a confined vessel that results in a sudden release of pressure as the vessel ruptures

48. Phase II ESA
Has one or more states of matter in the mixture
Best Available Control Technology
Should only be available to those who 'need to know' (CFATS)
Invasive evaluation of potential RECs

49. What conditions prompt a compliance audit under the PSM standard?
Composite noise level - a noise rating associated with airports
Federal Insecticide - Fungicide - Rodenticide Act
Three year have elapsed since the last audit
TMDLs - Turbidity - pH - Bioassay

50. EPCRA
TMDLs - Turbidity - pH - Bioassay
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-know Act
manufacturers and importers
Local Emergency Planning Committee