Greener Cleanup definition

Greener Cleanup means strategies designed to help minimize the environmental footprint of cleaning up contaminated sites and ensure a protective remedy within the applicable CERCLA statutory and regulatory framework.

Examples of Greener Cleanup in a sentence

  • The Greener Cleanup evaluation considered effects on Total Energy Use, Air Pollutants and Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Water Resource Impacts, Waste/Materials Management, and Protection of Land and Ecosystems.

  • Greener Cleanup Best Management Practices (BMPs) were evaluated during selection of remedial alternatives and are continued to be used during remedy implementation, monitoring, and optimization.

  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 02 August 2016, Consideration of Greener Cleanup Activities in the Superfund Cleanup Process.

  • Smartports, which takes the form of a MoU, helps manage traffic and container flows, reducing the handling time and costs.

  • Jeff Gamlin (CH2M HILL/USA) ASTM E2893-16 Greener Cleanup Self-Declaration at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.

  • Examples of Greener Cleanup BMPs Related to Ecosystem Services Example Ecosystem ServicesExample Greener Cleanup BMPsHabitatErosionControl RecreationSite Assessment PhaseConsider and document property characteristics such as habitat connectivity, topography and site access.

  • Projects executed for certain stakeholders shall use technologies and practices that are sustainable in accordance with EPA’s Consideration for Greener Cleanup Activities (April 2016) found at http://epa.gov/region2/superfund/green_remediation/ or other EPA green requirements as applicable.

  • In completing the VRWP the City of • ASTM International Standard Guide for Greener Cleanups (ASTM E2893-16e1); • EPA Principles for Greener Cleanup website xxxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/greenercleanups ; and • EPA’s Clu-In Green Remediation website xxxxx://xxx-xx.xxx/greenremediation/ .

  • Resource Slide L-3 Gallery of Greener Cleanup BMPs in Action Building Envelope Treatment building's exterior "envelope" at Lawrence Aviation Industries relies on energy-efficient roofing and siding material with potential to meet LEED certification.

  • The Superfund Greener Cleanup Implementation Strategy (the Strategy) summarizes the steps that will be taken by the Region 5 Superfund program to implement the Interim GC Policy in its cleanup programs.

Related to Greener Cleanup

  • Environmental Clean-up Site means any location which is listed or proposed for listing on the National Priorities List, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Information System, or on any similar state list of sites relating to investigation or cleanup, or which is the subject of any pending or threatened action, suit, proceeding, or investigation related to or arising from any location at which there has been a Release or threatened or suspected Release of a Hazardous Material.

  • Remediation Plan means a report identifying:

  • Remedial Action Plan has the meaning in Section 2.4.

  • Environmental Management Plan or “EMP” means the environmental management plan for the Project, including any update thereto, incorporated in the IEE;

  • Environmental and Social Management Plan or “ESMP” means a site-specific environmental and social management plan to be prepared in accordance with the parameters laid down in the ESMF and acceptable to the Association, setting forth a set of mitigation, monitoring, and institutional measures to be taken during the implementation and operation of the Project activities to eliminate adverse environmental and social impacts, offset them, or reduce them to acceptable levels, and including the actions needed to implement these measures.

  • Cleanup means actions necessary to contain, collect, control, identify, analyze, clean up, treat, disperse, remove or dispose of a hazardous substance.

  • Environmental Harm means serious or material environmental harm or environmental nuisance as defined in the Environmental Protection Xxx 0000 (Qld);

  • Environmental Management Framework or “EMF” means the policy framework for environmental management, approved by the Project Implementing Entity’s Board of Directors on July 21, 2009, which sets forth the environmental policies and procedures that shall apply to the carrying out of the Project.

  • MDEQ means the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.

  • Environmental, Health and Safety Liabilities means any cost, damages, expense, liability, obligation or other responsibility arising from or under any Environmental Law.

  • Remediation means any response, remedial, removal, or corrective action, any activity to cleanup, detoxify, decontaminate, contain or otherwise remediate any Hazardous Materials, Regulated Substances or USTs, any actions to prevent, cure or mitigate any Release, any action to comply with any Environmental Laws or with any permits issued pursuant thereto, any inspection, investigation, study, monitoring, assessment, audit, sampling and testing, laboratory or other analysis, or any evaluation relating to any Hazardous Materials, Regulated Substances or USTs.

  • Environmental Safeguards means the principles and requirements set forth in Chapter V, Appendix 1, and Appendix 4 (as applicable) of the SPS;

  • Internal test assessment means, but is not limited to, conducting those tests of quality assurance necessary to ensure the integrity of the test.

  • NYSDEC means the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

  • remedial and "response action" include the types of activities covered by the United States Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA).

  • Environmental and Social Management Framework or “ESMF” means the framework included in the EA setting out modalities to be followed in assessing the potential adverse environmental and social impact associated with activities to be implemented under the Project, and the measures to be taken to offset, reduce, or mitigate such adverse impact.

  • Remedial Action means all actions to (i) clean up, remove, treat, or in any other way address any Hazardous Material, (ii) prevent the Release of any Hazardous Material so it does not endanger or threaten to endanger public health or welfare or the indoor or outdoor environment, (iii) perform pre-remedial studies and investigations or post-remedial monitoring and care, or (iv) correct a condition of noncompliance with Environmental Laws.

  • Flood-related erosion area management means the operation of an overall program of corrective and preventive measures for reducing flood-related erosion damage, including but not limited to emergency preparedness plans, flood-related erosion control works and floodplain management regulations.

  • Remedial Actions means those actions taken in the event of a radioactive release or threatened release into the environment to prevent or minimize the radioactive release so that it does not migrate and cause significant danger to the present or future public health, safety, or welfare, or to the environment. Remedial action includes, but is not limited to, actions at the location of the release such as storage, confinement, perimeter protection which may include using dikes, trenches, and ditches, clay cover, neutralization, dredging or excavation, repair or replacement of leaking containers, collection of leachate and runoff, efforts to minimize the social and economic harm of processing, provision of alternative water supplies, and any required monitoring to assure that the actions taken are sufficient to protect the public health, safety, and welfare, and the environment.

  • Resource conservation means the reduction in the use of water, energy, and raw materials. (Minn. Stat. § 115A.03, Subd. 26a)

  • Stormwater management plan means the set of drawings and other documents that comprise all the information and specifications for the programs, drainage systems, structures, BMPs, concepts and techniques intended to maintain or restore quality and quantity of stormwater runoff to pre-development levels.

  • Decontamination means a procedure whereby health measures are taken to eliminate an infectious or toxic agent or matter on a human or animal body surface, in or on a product prepared for consumption or on other inanimate objects, including conveyances, that may constitute a public health risk;

  • Joint Remediation Committee has the meaning set forth in Section II.A.2.

  • Remediation waste means all solid and hazardous wastes, and all media (including groundwater, surface water, soils, and sediments) and debris that are managed for implementing cleanup.

  • Initial Environmental Examination or “IEE” means an initial environmental examination for a Subproject, including any update thereto, prepared and submitted by the Borrower pursuant to the requirements set forth in the EARF and cleared by ADB;

  • Transportation Company means any organization which provides its own or its leased vehicles for transportation or which provides freight forwarding or air express services.