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water acts (need to know)
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| 8972735776 | 1972 Clean water Act | establishes the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters | 0 | |
| 8972735777 | 1974 Federal Safe drinking water Act | Federal law that protects public drinking water supplies throughout the nation. | 1 | |
| 8972735778 | 1980 Comprehensive Environment Response Compensation and Liability act (CERCLA) | provides a Federal "Superfund" to clean up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous-waste sites as well as accidents, spills, and other emergency releases of pollutants and contaminants into the environment. | 2 | |
| 8972735779 | 1984 Hazardous and Solid Waste amendments to the resource conservation and recovery act | is our nation's primary law governing the disposal ofsolid and hazardous waste. ... RCRA was amended and strengthened by Congress in November 1984 with the passing of the Federal Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendment | 3 | |
| 8972735780 | 1987 Water quality act. | An Act to amend the Federal WaterPollution Control Act. | 4 |