AICP Environmental & Energey Review Questions
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| show | 1899 - Prohibited the construction of any bridge, dam, dike, or causeway over any navigable waterway without Congressional Approval. Also required Congressional approval for all wharfs, piers, or jetties, and the excavation or fill of navigable waters.
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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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| Water Quality Act | show 🗑
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| show | 1969
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| National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) | show 🗑
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| Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) | show 🗑
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| show | Mandates state programs to delinate coastal boundaries, regulate activities within them & inventory areas req. protection.
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| show | Requires states to control water pollution
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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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| show | Air Quality Control Regions (AQCR) are airsheds of our communities
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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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| First Earth Day | show 🗑
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| Metropolitan Water District of Southern California | show 🗑
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| show | Author of Silent Spring, published in 1962. Examined the dangers of chemical pesticides, such as DDT, on plants, animals, and humans. Major influential in the way people think about the environment.
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| show | Set restrictions on the discharge of pollutants into the environment. The EPA has effluent guidelines for more than 50 categories.
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| Non-point Source Pollution | show 🗑
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| show | Safe to drink.
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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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| Estuary | show 🗑
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| Lagoon | show 🗑
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| show | A type of freshwater, brackish water or saltwater wetland found along rivers, ponds, lakes, and coasts. It does not accumulate appreciable peat deposits and is dominated by herbaceous vegetation.
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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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| Surface Water | show 🗑
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| Swamp | show 🗑
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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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| Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) | show 🗑
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| Endangered Species Act | show 🗑
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| show | 1978 - Promoted alternative energy sources, energy efficiency, and reduced dependence on foreign oil. It also created a market for non-utility power producers and requires competition in the utility industry.
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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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| Biomass energy | show 🗑
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| Methane | show 🗑
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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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| 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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| show | Allows for more efficient heating of a building.
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| R-value | show 🗑
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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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| show | Minimum R-value recommended for home insulation?
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| Lowering a thermostat by 1 degree Fahrenheit can reduce a heating bill by what percent? | show 🗑
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| Tennessee Valley Authority | show 🗑
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| National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) | show 🗑
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| show | A biological process to remove dissolved organic matter from wastewater. Sewage microorganisms are cultivated and added to the wastewater. The microorganisms absorb organic matter from sewage as their food supply.
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| Effluent | show 🗑
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| Mass Wasting | show 🗑
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