Quick Quiz: Catch Up on EH&S News
Test your knowledge relating to recent EH&S news—or use this quiz to stay sharp.
Registration with the US DOT is required of anyone who offers or transports:
Not quite.
Registration with the US DOT is required of anyone who offers or transports:
- A highway route-controlled quantity of radioactive material (Class 7).
- More than 55 pounds (25 kg) of a Division 1.1, 1.2, or 1.3 explosive.
- More than 1 L per package of extremely toxic-by-inhalation materials (Hazard Zone A).
- Any shipment of hazardous materials in bulk packagings with a capacity equal to or greater than 3,500 gallons for liquids or 468 cubic feet for solids.
- Any shipment in non-bulk packagings with a total gross weight of 5,000 lbs. or more of a class of hazardous materials for which placarding is required.
- Any other shipment that requires hazmat placards.
That's right.
Registration with the US DOT is required of anyone who offers or transports:
- A highway route-controlled quantity of radioactive material (Class 7).
- More than 55 pounds (25 kg) of a Division 1.1, 1.2, or 1.3 explosive.
- More than 1 L per package of extremely toxic-by-inhalation materials (Hazard Zone A).
- Any shipment of hazardous materials in bulk packagings with a capacity equal to or greater than 3,500 gallons for liquids or 468 cubic feet for solids.
- Any shipment in non-bulk packagings with a total gross weight of 5,000 lbs. or more of a class of hazardous materials for which placarding is required.
- Any other shipment that requires hazmat placards.
HAZWOPER's “hazardous substance” is synonymous with which term?
Not quite.
HAZWOPER's definition of “hazardous substance” includes CERCLA hazardous substances, DOT hazardous materials, and EPA hazardous waste, and is therefore not directly synonymous with any of them individually.
That's right.
HAZWOPER's definition of “hazardous substance” includes CERCLA hazardous substances, DOT hazardous materials, and EPA hazardous waste, and is therefore not directly synonymous with any of them individually.
When is a solid waste a hazardous waste?
Not quite.
According to 40 CFR 261.3, a solid waste becomes a hazardous waste when it exhibits one or more of the characteristics of hazardous waste identified by the EPA in 40 CFR 261.21-261.24 and/or meets any of the listed descriptions of hazardous waste found in 40 CFR 261.31-261.33.
Also, per 40 CFR 261.3, any mixture of a solid waste with a listed hazardous waste is considered a listed hazardous waste and all listed waste codes apply to the entire mixture, which means there is that much more listed hazardous waste to manage correctly.
That's right.
According to 40 CFR 261.3, a solid waste becomes a hazardous waste when it exhibits one or more of the characteristics of hazardous waste identified by the EPA in 40 CFR 261.21-261.24 and/or meets any of the listed descriptions of hazardous waste found in 40 CFR 261.31-261.33.
Also, per 40 CFR 261.3, any mixture of a solid waste with a listed hazardous waste is considered a listed hazardous waste and all listed waste codes apply to the entire mixture, which means there is that much more listed hazardous waste to manage correctly.
Alaska’s State RCRA program was recently tentatively approved. Which is the only state without an approved RCRA program?
Not quite.
The US EPA’s tentative Final Authorization of Alaska’s State hazardous waste management program left Iowa as the only US state without a state-level RCRA program.
That's right.
The US EPA’s tentative Final Authorization of Alaska’s State hazardous waste management program left Iowa as the only US state without a state-level RCRA program.
Some dangerous goods are too dangerous to ship by air and are forbidden under any circumstance.
Not quite.
Dangerous goods that are known to meet the description of a “forbidden dangerous good” are included in the List of Dangerous Goods in the IATA DGR.
Definition of “forbidden dangerous goods”
“Any article or substance which, as presented for transport, is liable to explode, dangerously react, produce a flame or dangerous evolution of heat or dangerous emission of toxic, corrosive or flammable gases or vapours under conditions normally encountered in transport must not be carried on aircraft under any circumstance.”
That's right.
Dangerous goods that are known to meet the description of a “forbidden dangerous good” are included in the List of Dangerous Goods in the IATA DGR.
Definition of “forbidden dangerous goods”
“Any article or substance which, as presented for transport, is liable to explode, dangerously react, produce a flame or dangerous evolution of heat or dangerous emission of toxic, corrosive or flammable gases or vapours under conditions normally encountered in transport must not be carried on aircraft under any circumstance.”
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