hello everybody my name is Zohir Chowdhury, and to this topic is hazardous waste regulations
CERCLA versus brick rrah so CERCLA which is in short the name of a regulation or an Act
and the name is comprehensive Environmental Response compensation and Liability Act and
it was promulgated in 1980 this is also known as Superfund so Superfund and CERCLA both of this
name are interchangeable this Act provides sue provides a lot of fund to clean up uncontrolled
or abandoned hazardous waste sites located in different parts of the United States as well as
accidents spills or other emergency releases of hazardous pollutants and contaminants into the
environment again the main key in here is had hazardous pollutants and the agency that has
jurisdiction its EPA so he has the power to seek out responsible party or parties for any release
these hazardous chemicals or spills and should their corporation for the cleanup this map in
here shows in red all of the Superfund sites that are active right now as you can see there
are a lot of Superfund site in the East Coast and more or less also in the west coast where
populated areas are in green you can see all of the areas where the super funds have been cleaned
up and in yellow these are the new and proposed Superfund sites that will be added pretty soon
statistics shows that nearly half of all Americans live within only 10 miles of of a Superfund site
the next regulation is retro which stands for resource conservation and Recovery Act and this
was promulgated in 1976 so EPA has again the jurist the jurisdiction of this and another
name for rickrack is cradle to grave it's just like CERCLA this applies to hazardous waste this
includes essentially the generation of hazardous waste transportation of hazardous waste treatment
storage as well as disposal of hazardous waste and that's why the name cradle to grave under Achra US
EPA is able to address environmental problem from underground storage tanks that contain petroleum
and other other hazardous substances as well as rick revoke assess on active facilities as
well as future facilities that potentially could become abandoned hist good Blackwell addresses
active and future facilities it does not address abandoned or historical sites and again the key
in here is hazardous waste it has to deal with hazardous waste so the distinction between Erika
and CERCLA is very important Rick rrah deals with current sites and future facilities and
Sirte deals with past facilities or abandoned facilities in both cases they're dealing with
hazardous waste rick rrah is cradle-to-grave follow up follow up of hazardous waste whereas
CERCLA is cleanup of hazardous waste so when we say cradle-to-grave as it applies to Rick
raw this is what it means for example let's start from from from here so here let's say
we have a hazardous waste generation facility then the hazardous waste is transported stored
transported again treated then slowly disposed of in a hazardous waste landfill this entire
process of creation to storage disposal follows a manifest tracking of hazardous waste through
this manifest manifest system so every every producer or transporter of hazardous waste
has to fill up this manifest and this manifest goes along with the hazardous waste so it can
be properly she can put the chain of transfer can be properly shown through this manifest
this is a picture of a toxic waste dump site or a Superfund site and this is their workers
in here that are cleaning up a Superfund site okay so let's do some quick concept check rick
rrah is also known as Superfund true or false that's false CERCLA is a Superfund rick rrah
is cradle-to-grave another name for surplus is tracking waste from cradle to grave true
or false that's also false CERCLA is super fun recreating to crave okay all right that's all