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1. about to be fully implemented

2. after-the-fact remedies

3. amendments ensued

4. arrange with an approved receiving facility

5. at the site

6. attach a manifest identifying the material

7. bar interstate shipments

8. be cut out of business.

9. be liable for

10. be off the hook

11. benign materials

12. bonanza

13. bring about

14. by far

15. capital investment

16. capital-intensive

17. case

18. clean up dangerous wastes

19. commit $51.5 million in privately financed site clean-up

20. costly

21. creation-disposal concept / system

22. dearth of material to handle

23. despite the court's finding

24. discourage waste generators from trying to bury their wastes secretly

25. disposal facilities

26. dispose of wastes / disposition of hazardous waste

27. drastically different methods

28. dump

29. dump site

30. dumping ground

31. emergency environmental clean-ups

32. enforce under general federal guidelines

33. entail risk

34. environmental agencies

35. Environmental groups

36. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

37. for all of that

38. for triple damages

39. from now on

40. generator / handler of waste material

41. generator, transporter, treater, storer or disposer of wastes

42. get an EPA permit

43. get the generators of hazardous waste off the hook

44. gobble up

45. government-approved handler

46. handle hazardous waste

47. handsome fees

48. have an out

49. have nothing to do with

50. hazardous waste

51. Hazardous Waste Enforcement Task Force

52. hazardous waste transaction

53. hazardous-waste dump

54. hazardous-waste handlers

55. health and environmental risks

56. herbicide maker

57. hold liable

58. hunt down the culprit

59. in compliance with a key law

60. in the clear

61. inception

62. industry

63. industry's capacity

64. issue regulations identifying

65. judging from court documents

66. land disposal

67. lease

68. long-term interests

69. manufacture herbicides

70. meet standards set down by EPA

71. miss deadline

72. offer no health threat

73. on the threshold of booming expansion

74. on-site facilities

75. overcome public opposition

76. parties responsible

77. pass an act

78. professional handlers of hazardous waste

79. professional waste-handling industry

80. profitability outlook

81. properly managed facilities

82. prosper

83. public sentiment

84. regulations were in place

85. revenues grew at a rate of

86. run out of land

87. sales campaign

88. seek fines and criminal penalties

89. share the cost

90. shift in the industry

91. sites to dispose of

92. sophisticated new disposal facilities

93. state its destination

94. strict environmental laws

95. surplus of capacity

96. take over/ transport / treat / store / dispose of harmful by-products

97. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA, or Ricra)

98. track down the shipment

99. track substances from their creation to their disposal

100. transform an ordinary trash business into a thriving modern industry

101. treat, store or dispose of hazardous waste

102. treatment, storage or disposal facilities

103. turn over many EPA functions to the states

104. turn the shipment over to a transporter

105. turn waste over to

106. under regulations promulgated by the EPA

107. under the computerized eye of

108. undertake costly environmental clean-up

109. violate EPA standards

110. violators

111. Waste generators

112. waste products

113. waste shipment

114. weigh legislation