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Web Taxonomy-Emergencies & Cleanup Topics
Short Name
WBT - Emrgcy & Cleanup Topics
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Web Taxonomy-Emergencies & Cleanup Topics
Description
Extensible list of topics related to environmental emergencies and cleanup referred to or associated with content.
Subject Areas
Emergencies
Publishing Organization
Office of Environmental Information, Office of Information Analysis and Access
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Expand Cleanup - Actions taken to deal with a release or threat of release of a hazardous substance that could affect humans and/or the environment. The term "cleanup" is sometimes used interchangeably with the terms remedial action, removal action, response action, or corrective action. [Terms of Env] 
Bullet Cleanup Processes  
Expand Cleanup Sites  
Bullet Abandoned Mines  
Bullet Brownfields - Abandoned, idled, or under used industrial and commercial facilities/sites where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination. They can be in urban, suburban, or rural areas. EPA's Brownfields initiative helps communities mitigate potential health risks and restore the economic viability of such areas or properties. [Terms of Env] 
Bullet RCRA Corrective Action - EPA can require treatment, storage and disposal (TSDF) facilities handling hazardous waste to undertake corrective actions to clean up spills resulting from failure to follow hazardous waste management procedures or other mistakes. The process includes cleanup procedures designed to guide TSDFs toward in spills. [Terms of Env] 
Bullet Radioactive Sites  
Bullet Superfund - The program operated under the legislative authority of CERCLA and SARA that funds and carries out EPA solid waste emergency and long-term removal and remedial activities. These activities include establishing the National Priorities List, investigating sites for inclusion on the list, determining their priority, and conduct and/or supervising cleanup and other remedial actions. [Terms of Env] 
Expand Emergencies - The term implies an event or incident, which produces severe and widespread damages of such a magnitude as to result in the requirement for significant resources from outside the affected area to provide the necessary response. It results in large numbers of deaths and injuries; causes extensive damage or destruction of facilities that provide and sustain human needs; produces an overwhelming demand on state and local response resources and mechanisms; causes a severe long-term effect on general economic activity; and severely affects state, local, and private sector capabilities to begin and sustain response activities. [Glossary and Acronyms of Emergency Management Terms] 
Expand Accidents - An unexpected occurrence, failure or loss with the potential for harming human life, property or the environment. [GEMET-US] 
Bullet Leaks & Spills  
Bullet Poisoning - The morbid condition produced by a poison which may be swallowed, inhaled, injected, or absorbed through the skin. [GEMET-US] 
Expand Emergency Management  
Bullet Emergency Preparedness  
Bullet Emergency Prevention  
Expand Emergency Response  
Bullet On Scene Coordinators  
Expand National Security Disasters  
Bullet Critical Infrastructure Protection  
Expand Natural Disasters - This term is broadly defined to include disasters and emergencies that may be caused by any natural event. A large emergency event is that one beyond a community?s ability to address within its own and mutual aid resources. 
Bullet Droughts  
Bullet Earthquakes  
Bullet Floods  
Bullet Hurricanes - A tropical cyclone of great intensity; any wind reaching a speed of more than 73 miles per hour (117 kilometers per hour) is said to have hurricane force. [GEMET-US] 
Bullet Tornadoes - A rapidly rotating column of air developed around a very intense low-pressure centre. It is associated with a dark funnel-shaped cloud and with extremely violent winds (>300km/h) blowing in a counterclockwise spiral, but accompanied by violent downdraughts. The precise mechanisms are not fully understood but the following atmospheric conditions appear to be necessary for tornado development: a layer of warm moist air at low altitude; a layer of dry air at higher altitude with an inversion of temperature at about 1.000 m; a triggering mechanism, usually in the form of an active, intense cold front or solar heating of the ground which will create a vortex. [GEMET-US] 
Bullet Volcanoes - A vent in the surface of the Earth through which magma and associated gases and ash erupt; also, the form or structure, usually conical, that is produced by the ejected material. [GEMET-US] 
Bullet Wildfires  
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