AICP Environmental & Energey Review Questions
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| Rivers and Harbors Act | show 🗑
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| show | 1948 allowed the Surgeon General working w/ other governmental entities, to prepare a comprehensive program to eliminate/reduce the pollution of interstate waters and tributaries and improving the sanitary conditions of surface and underground waters.
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| show | 1965 - Established the Water Pollution Control Administration within the Department of the Interior. This was the first time water quality was treated as an environmental concern rather than a public health concern.
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| National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) | show 🗑
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| National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) | show 🗑
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| show | Adresses: probable impact of proposed action; adverse environ effects that cannot be avoided; alternatives to proposed action;relationship btwn shortterm use man's environ & maint & enhancement of longterm productivity; irreversible & irretrievable commit
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| Coastal Zone Management Act 1972 | show 🗑
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| Federal Water Pollutant Control Act 1972 | show 🗑
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| show | Amend to Fed Water Pollutant Control Act of 1972. Must have permit if discharge pollutants into body of water, amt of discharge regulated by ambient and effuent water quality stds. Excl ship sewage.
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| Clean Air (1990) | show 🗑
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| Clean Air Act | show 🗑
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| show | PSD stds dictate total ambient & effluent stds & new air pollutions not allowed unless reduce pollutants > than pollutants contributed by new source.
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| Ambient Standards | show 🗑
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| show | April 22, 1970
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| Metropolitan Water District of Southern California | show 🗑
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| Rachel Carson | show 🗑
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| Effluent Standards | show 🗑
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| Point Source Pollution | show 🗑
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| show | Contaminated runoff from many sources.
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| Potable Water | show 🗑
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| show | One or more strata of rock or sediment that is saturated and sufficiently permeable to yield economically significant quantities of water to wells or springs.
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| show | An area where fresh water meets salt water.
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| Lagoon | show 🗑
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| Marsh | show 🗑
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| show | A pond, lake, tank, or basin that can be used for the storage and control of water, and can be either natural or man-made.
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| show | Includes rivers, lakes, oceans, ocean-like water bodies, and coastal tidal waters.
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| show | A freshwater wetland that has spongy, muddy land and a lot of water.
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| show | A region drained by, or contributing water to, a surface water body.
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| show | Include swamps, marshes, bogs, and other similar areas. They are areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetland
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| show | Relates to air quality and requires that a project will not increase emissions above a specified increment.
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| Endangered Species Act | show 🗑
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| Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act (PURPA) | show 🗑
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| Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act | show 🗑
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| show | Land previously used for industrial purposes, or certain commercial uses, and that may be contaminated by low concentrations of hazardous waste or pollution and has the potential to be reused once it is cleaned up.
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| Greyfield | show 🗑
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| show | Numerical values from actual measurements of a pressure, state or ambient condition, exposure, human health, ecological condition over a specified geographic domain, whose trends over time represent/draw attention to underlying trends in the environment.
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| show | Draft 2003 - Multiyear effort to identify credible indicators to answer key questions pertaining to the environment & human health and to understand/improve what is know about current state of the environment & identify where additional info is needed.
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| show | Uses organic material which is burned to create energy.
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| Methane | show 🗑
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| Hydroelectric power | show 🗑
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| Solar Energy | show 🗑
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| show | Uses tall turbines (100 feet plus) to convert wind to electrical power. Multipple turbines built close together, and they can be found in coastal, mountain, or other regions with a constant wind supply.
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| Insulation | show 🗑
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| show | Ratings for insulationindicates the resistance to heat flow. The higher the number, the greater the insulating effectiveness.
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| LEED | show 🗑
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| Greenfield | show 🗑
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| Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) | show 🗑
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| R-20 | show 🗑
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| show | Up to 3 percent
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| Tennessee Valley Authority | show 🗑
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| show | The system for granting and regulating discharge permits. Regulates both point and non-point sources that discharge pollutants into waters of the U.S.
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| Secondary Treatment | show 🗑
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| Effluent | show 🗑
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| show | The downslope movement of earth materials due to the force of gravity.
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