RISK CHARACTERIZATION Sample Clauses

RISK CHARACTERIZATION. In risk characterization, the information, results, and conclusions from the data evaluation, exposure assessment, and toxicity assessment are integrated. Numerical risk estimates calculated for each COPC and exposure route and pathway are combined to estimate total theoretical noncancer hazards and, for carcinogens, total lifetime excess cancer risks. The critical uncertainties affecting risk calculations are also addressed. 6.1 Noncarcinogenic Hazard Noncarcinogenic effects for each exposure route and pathway, and for each chemical are evaluated by comparing an average dose to a RID for the same time period, generally one day. The ratio of the average daily dose to RID is called a hazard quotient (HQ), which is calculated as follows:
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RISK CHARACTERIZATION. This section of the risk assessment provides a quantitative and qualitative summary of the health risks posed to the populations of concern by contaminants from the refuse fill area for each of the identified exposure scenarios. This section also addresses the potential for site related contaminants to impact the aquatic environment of Belmont Slough. The risk characterization addresses both non-carcinogenic and carcinogenic health effects. Carcinogenic health risks are also put into perspective as to their meaning and interpretation.
RISK CHARACTERIZATION. The information in tables 4a.2 and 4a.3 should be used to fill out the scoring matrix given in table 4a.4.1, to assess the overall relative risk where: < 3 = Low relative risk
RISK CHARACTERIZATION. Ecological exposure to six metals (cobalt, manganese, cadmium, lead, uranium and zinc) exceeds toxicity reference levels for terrestrial plants, soil invertebrates and terrestrial wildlife. However, the risk levels for these chemicals are often in the low range and dominated by a few samples in localized areas. These localized occurrences are generally within the mine rock affected areas. Risk levels for trace metals in stream surface water, stream sediment, and marine sediment were not significantly elevated for either the community receptors or indicator wildlife species in these habitats. Risk levels for radionuclides (Ra‐226, Ra‐228) were elevated for terrestrial plants and for stream‐dependent riparian wildlife. For terrestrial receptors, risks are highest at the upper elevations within the mineralized area, decreasing to lower values at lower elevations within the non‐mineralized area. For riparian wildlife, radionuclide risks appear to be localized to elevated concentrations in a few sample locations and are driven primarily by surface water exposure. Based upon the findings of the SLERA, proposed cleanup levels, expressed as risk‐ based preliminary remediation goals (PRGs), for chemicals of concern in soils in the non‐mineralized area were developed for four trace metal‐receptor pairs: • • • • Cadmium – Small mammals (masked shrew) Cobalt – Plants Lead – Birds (American xxxxx) Zinc – Plants or soil invertebrates. Ecological PRGs were not developed for radionuclides (Ra‐226, Ra‐228) because activity levels of these substances are highly correlated with gamma emissions and background gamma levels have been selected as the cleanup goal for non‐ mineralized areas.
RISK CHARACTERIZATION. Risk characterization in chemical risk assessment primarily takes the form of defining a level of exposure presumed to pose a “notional zero risk.” Quantitative risk assessment methodologies have only rarely been applied for chemical hazards thought to pose no appreciable risk below certain very low levels of exposure (i.e. those with mechanisms of toxic action believed to exhibit a threshold), probably because the approach described above has generally been considered to provide an adequate margin of safety without a need to further characterize the risk. In contrast, quantitative risk assessment models have been applied by some governments as well as by international expert bodies (JECFA) for effects that are judged to have no threshold, i.e. for genotoxic carcinogens. These models employ biologically-appropriate mathematical extrapolations from observed animal cancer incidence data (usually derived from tests using high doses) to estimate the expected cancer incidence at the low levels typical of ordinary human exposure. If epidemiological cancer data are available, they also can be used in quantitative risk assessment models.

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  • Tax Characterization Each party to this Agreement (a) acknowledges that it is the intent of the parties to this Agreement that, for accounting purposes and for all Federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes, the Series 2009-1 Notes will be treated as evidence of indebtedness, (b) agrees to treat the Series 2009-1 Notes for all such purposes as indebtedness and (c) agrees that the provisions of the Related Documents shall be construed to further these intentions.

  • Characterization (a) It is the intention of the parties hereto that each purchase hereunder shall constitute and be treated as an absolute and irrevocable sale, which purchase shall provide the applicable Purchaser with the full benefits of ownership of the applicable Purchaser Interest. Except as specifically provided in this Agreement, each sale of a Purchaser Interest hereunder is made without recourse to Seller; provided, however, that (i) Seller shall be liable to each Purchaser and the Collateral Agent for all representations, warranties and covenants made by Seller pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and (ii) such sale does not constitute and is not intended to result in an assumption by any Purchaser or the Collateral Agent or any assignee thereof of any obligation of Seller or the Originator or any other person arising in connection with the Receivables, the Related Security, or the related Contracts, or any other obligations of Seller or the Originator. (b) The Seller hereby grants to the Collateral Agent for the ratable benefit of the Purchasers a valid and perfected security interest in all of Seller’s right, title and interest in, to and under all Receivables now existing or hereafter arising, the Collections, each Collection Account, all Related Security, all other rights and payments relating to such Receivables, all of Seller’s rights under the Receivables Sale Agreement and all proceeds of any thereof to secure the prompt and complete payment of the Aggregate Unpaids. After an Amortization Event, the Collateral Agent and the Purchasers shall have, in addition to the rights and remedies that they may have under this Agreement, all other rights and remedies provided to a secured creditor after default under the UCC and other applicable law, which rights and remedies shall be cumulative. The Seller represents and warrants that each remittance of Collections to the Collateral Agent, any Managing Agent or any Purchaser hereunder has been (i) in payment of a debt incurred in the ordinary course of its business or financial affairs and (ii) made in the ordinary course of its business or financial affairs.

  • Income Tax Characterization For purposes of federal income, state and local income and franchise and any other income taxes, the Issuer will, and each Noteholder by such Noteholder’s acceptance of any such Notes (and each Person who acquires an interest in any Notes through such Noteholder, by the acceptance by such Person of an interest in the applicable Notes) agrees to, treat the Notes that are characterized as indebtedness at the time of their issuance, and hereby instructs the Issuer to treat such Notes, as indebtedness for federal, state and other tax reporting purposes. Each Noteholder agrees that it will cause any Person acquiring an interest in a Note through it to comply with this Indenture as to treatment as indebtedness under applicable tax law, as described in this Section 3.21. The Notes will be issued with the intention that, for federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes the Trust shall not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation. The parties hereto agree that they shall not cause or permit the making, as applicable, of any election under Treasury Regulation Section 301.7701-3 (or any successor provision) whereby the Trust or any portion thereof would be treated as a corporation for federal income tax purposes. The provisions of this Indenture shall be construed in furtherance of the foregoing intended tax treatment.

  • Recharacterization The Parties intend the conveyance by the Seller to the Trustee of all of its right, title and interest in and to the Mortgage Loans pursuant to this Agreement to constitute a purchase and sale and not a loan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent that such conveyance is held not to constitute a sale under applicable law, it is intended that this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under applicable law and that the Seller shall be deemed to have granted to the Trustee a first priority security interest in all of the Seller's right, title and interest in and to the Mortgage Loans.

  • Recharacterizations If you make a contribution to a Traditional IRA and later recharacterize either all or a portion of the original contribution to a Xxxx XXX along with net income attributable, you may elect to treat the original contribution as having been made to the Xxxx XXX. The same methodology applies when recharacterizing a contribution from a Xxxx XXX to a Traditional IRA. The deadline for completing a recharacterization is your tax filing deadline (including any extensions), for the year for which the original contribution was made. You may not recharacterize a Xxxx XXX conversion or an employer-sponsored retirement plan rollover.

  • Requirement and Characterization of Distributions Subject to the rights of any Holder of any Partnership Interest set forth in a Partnership Unit Designation, the General Partner may cause the Partnership to distribute such amounts, at such times, as the General Partner may, in its sole and absolute discretion, determine, to the Holders as of any Partnership Record Date: (i) first, with respect to any Partnership Units that are entitled to any preference in distribution, in accordance with the rights of Holders of such class(es) of Partnership Units (and, within each such class, among the Holders of each such class, pro rata in proportion to their respective Percentage Interests of such class on such Partnership Record Date); and (ii) second, with respect to any Partnership Units that are not entitled to any preference in distribution, in accordance with the rights of Holders of such class(es) of Partnership Units, as applicable (and, within each such class, among the Holders of each such class, pro rata in proportion to their respective Percentage Interests of such class on such Partnership Record Date). Distributions payable with respect to any Partnership Units, other than any Partnership Units issued to the General Partner in connection with the issuance of REIT Shares by the General Partner, that were not outstanding during the entire quarterly period in respect of which any distribution is made shall be prorated based on the portion of the period that such Partnership Units were outstanding. The General Partner shall make such reasonable efforts, as determined by it in its sole and absolute discretion and consistent with the General Partner’s qualification as a REIT, to cause the Partnership to distribute sufficient amounts to enable the General Partner, for so long as the General Partner has determined to qualify as a REIT, to pay stockholder dividends that will (a) satisfy the requirements for qualifying as a REIT under the Code and Regulations (the “REIT Requirements”) and (b) except to the extent otherwise determined by the General Partner, eliminate any U.S. federal income or excise tax liability of the General Partner. Notwithstanding anything in the forgoing to the contrary, a Holder of LTIP Units will only be entitled to distributions with respect to an LTIP Unit as set forth in Article 16 hereof and in making distributions pursuant to this Section 5.1, the General Partner of the Partnership shall take into account the provisions of Section 16.4 hereof.

  • Characterization of Payments It is the intention of the parties to this Agreement that payments made pursuant to this Agreement are to be treated as relating back to the Distribution as an adjustment to capital (i.e., capital contribution or distribution), and the parties shall not take any position inconsistent with such intention before any Tax Authority, except to the extent that a final determination (as defined in Section 1313 of the Code) with respect to the recipient party causes any such payment not to be so treated.

  • Characterization of Receivables Each Receivable constitutes either “tangible chattel paper,” “electronic chattel paper,” an “account,” an “instrument,” or a “general intangible,” each as defined in the UCC.

  • Informational Tax Reporting The Assuming Institution agrees to perform all obligations of the Failed Bank with respect to Federal and State income tax informational reporting related to (i) the Assets and the Liabilities Assumed, (ii) deposit accounts that were closed and loans that were paid off or collateral obtained with respect thereto prior to Bank Closing, (iii) miscellaneous payments made to vendors of the Failed Bank, and (iv) any other asset or liability of the Failed Bank, including, without limitation, loans not purchased and Deposits not assumed by the Assuming Institution, as may be required by the Receiver.

  • Identity Verification In the case that the Subscriber provides telecommunication services to any Subscriber’s Customers pursuant to Section 8.1, the Subscriber is responsible for performing and shall perform personal identification of Subscriber’s Customer. SORACOM shall not bear any responsibility in relation to dealing with such matters.

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