AICP Functional Areas of Practice - Energy / Resources / Environment
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| show | Author of Silent Spring, which was published in 1962. In the book, Carson examined the dangers of chemical pesticides, such as DDT, on plants, animals, and humans.
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| What are Effluent Standards? | show 🗑
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| show | Discharged directly from a specific site, such as a sewage treatment plant or an industrial pipe.
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| What is Non-point Source Pollution? | show 🗑
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| What is an Aquifer? | show 🗑
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| What is an Estuary? | show 🗑
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| What is a Lagoon? | show 🗑
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| show | A type of fresh, brackish or salt water wetland found along rivers, ponds, lakes, and coasts. Does not accumulate appreciable peat deposits and is dominated by herbaceous vegetation.
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| What is a Reservoir? | show 🗑
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| show | Rivers, lakes, oceans, ocean-like water bodies, and coastal tidal waters.
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| What is a Swamp? | show 🗑
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| What is a Watershed? | show 🗑
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| What are Wetlands? | show 🗑
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| show | Oil, natural gas, nuclear, coal, etc.
Renewable energy sources include solar, wind, geothermal, etc.
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| What was the The Clean Water Act? | show 🗑
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| Type of permit required from Clean Water Act? | show 🗑
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| What was the The Clean Air Act? | show 🗑
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| What six pollutants does the Clean Air Act monitor? | show 🗑
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| show | PSD relates to air quality and requires that a project will not increase emissions above a specified Prevention of Significant Deterioration increment.
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| show | Maximum air contaminant concentrations allowed in the ambient air.
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| How many non-attainment areas per Clean Air Act since 2002? | show 🗑
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| How much reduction in six most common air pollutants since 1970 (passage of Clean Air Act)? | show 🗑
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| What is The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)? | show 🗑
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| show | 1899. Required congressional approval for construction of any bridge, dam, dike, or causeway over navigable waterways in U.S., as well as for wharfs, piers, jetties, and excavation or fill of navigable waters.
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| show | 1948. Allowed Surgeon General of Public Health Service with other governmental entities to prepare comprehensive program to eliminate or reduce pollution of interstate waters + tributaries, and improve sanitary condition of surface + underground waters.
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| show | Act allowed Federal Works Administrator to assist gov. agencies in constructing treatment plants that could help to prevent discharges of inadequately treated sewage and other wastes into interstate waters or tributaries.
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| What was the Water Quality Act? | show 🗑
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| show | 1966. Provided construction grants for wastewater treatment facilities.
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| What is the Coastal Zone Management Act? | show 🗑
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| show | 1972. Amended Water Pollutant Act of 1948. Changes broadened and restructured gov authority for water pollution under EPA. Changed enforcement from water quality standards to regulating amount of pollutants discharged from point sources.
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| show | 1973. Provided protection of animal and plant species that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designate as threatened or endangered. Amended in 1988.
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| show | 1978. Promoted alternative energy sources, energy efficiency and reduced dependence on foreign oil. Created market for non-utility power producers, requires competition in the utility industry.
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| show | AKA "Superfund Act." 1980. Created $1.6 billion Superfund to clean up abandoned hazardous waste sites; requires major industries to annually report releases of toxic wastes into the air, water, or ground.
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| What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)? | show 🗑
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| show | 1976. Gave EPA responsibility for reporting, record-keeping, testing requirements, and restrictions relating to chemical substances and/or mixtures.
Certain substances generally excluded, including food, drugs, cosmetics and pesticides.
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| show | Original =1947, est. registering + labeling pesticides w/ USDA. Rewritten 1972; amended by Fed. Env. Pesticide Ctrl Act (FEPCA). Mult. amndmts since 1972 incl: Food Qual. Protect. Act (FQPA) 1996. EPA regulates pesticide use/sale to protect health/enviro.
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| show | 1974. Ensures that drinking water is safe. Amended several times since. Protects the end product, but also sources of drinking water.
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| show | Often called superfund sites. Superfund = common name for CERCLA. More than 1,200 sites. Tax on petrochem industries provide funds to cleanup sites. Feds provide funds through the Superfund. Many states created funds to cleanup property.
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| show | Real property; expansion, redev, or reuse complicated by actual/potential presence of a haz substance, pollutant or contaminant. Cleaning up/reinvesting in properties takes development pressures off of undeveloped land, improves + protects environment.
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| Executive Order 12898 | show 🗑
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| EPA's Environmental Indicators Initiative | show 🗑
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| Biomass Energy | show 🗑
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| show | Naturally occurring byproduct of decaying plant and animal material. Gas is burned to produce electricity.
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| show | Typically associated with large dams. It uses falling water to produce power, which is moved through a turbine, causing it to spin. The spinning turbine is coupled with a generator, which produces energy.
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| show | Can be used to heat homes through panels. This power uses photovoltaic panels to convert sunlight directly into electricity. The panels can be added together to create large systems.
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| show | Growing in popularity in many parts of the U.S. Turbines are tall (100+ feet) in order to catch the wind more efficiently. Farms made up of wind turbines built close together. Found in coastal, mountain, or other regions with a constant wind supply.
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| R-value | show 🗑
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| show | Between 1-3%, according to energystar.gov
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