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ENVIRONEWS Sea Seminars Environmental Management and Training has come up with a novel way for environmental professionals to keep up with their education on regulations and compliance issues: take a cruise. Norman Wei, president of the company and Pollution Engineering’s contributing editor for the magazine’s Environmental tion of navigable waters in any other regulation that the agency has promulgated. The agency also announced a proposed rule to extend the compliance dates for all facilities to November 2009 and to establish new compliance dates for farms (November 2009), certain qualified farms (November 2010) and marginal oil production facilities (November 2013) subject to SPCC. Go to www.epa.gov/oilspill. Management series, will be holding the company’s two-day environmental seminar on board a seven-day cruise. Instructors will be available at no additional charge for the entire week. “A lot of people are not aware that a fiveday cruise is less expensive than staying at a hotel for five nights. All meals are included onboard any cruise ship,” said Wei. Visit www.proactenv.com. Drugs are Universal Wastes The EPA announced it is proposing to add hazardous pharmaceutical waste to the Universal Waste Rule. The proposed rule encourages generators to dispose of pharmaceutical waste that is classified as non-hazardous under RCRA as universal waste. The proposal will also facilitate the collection of personal medications that are classified as household hazardous waste so they can be properly managed. Navigable Waters Redefined The EPA changed its July 17, 2002 definition of navigable waters for the oil industry, restoring the definition promulgated in 1973, in accordance with a court-issued mandate. The District Court for the District of Columbia decided in American Petroleum Institute v. Johnson (571 F. Supp.2d 165 “ 12 Pollution Engineering JANUARY2009 This final rule does not amend the definition of navigable waters in any other regulation… D.D.C. 2008) that the current broad definition of the scope of the Clean Water Act was arbitrary and capricious. This final rule does not amend the defini- ” A report by the U.S. Geological Survey and noted by Associated Press in 2000 touched off a huge swell of national interest in the effects of trace levels of pharmaceuticals in water. The EPA in August identified pharmaceutical wastes from hospitals and medical care centers as its first priority. The proposed rule applies to pharmacies, hospitals, physicians’ and dentists’ offices, outpatient care centers, ambulatory health care services, residential care facilities, and veterinary clinics, as well as other facilities that generate hazardous pharmaceutical waste. It does not apply to pharmaceutical manufacturing or production facilities. Go to www.epa.gov/epawaste/hazard/ wastetypes/universal/pharm.htm for more information. http://www.epa.gov/oilspill http://www.proactenv.com http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/hazard/wastetypes/universal/pharm.htm http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/hazard/wastetypes/universal/pharm.htm

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Pollution Engineering - January 2009 Contents The Editor’s Desk EnviroNews PE Events Legal Lookout Green Connections Ten Top Technologies for 2009 Old Fashioned Chemistry Emitting Education NGWA Reports from Its Annual Meeting A Wood and a Pond Company Technical Profiles Filtration/Membrane Products Flow and Level Monitoring Equipment Classified Marketplace Advertisers Index State Rules

Pollution Engineering - January 2009

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