Air
This is the Title of UTMB Galveston's Federal Air Permit.
What is Title V?
This is the hazardous waste Generator Status of UTMB Galveston campus.
What is a Large Quantity Generator?
Location of UTMB Galveston's stormwater outfall.
What is the Helipad?
This is the minimum number of people who respond to a spill.
What is two people?
This Title in the Code of Federal Regulations encompasses the EPA regulations.
What is Title 40?
Mobile sources of emissions include on-road and non-road sources. Examples of “non-road sources" include which of the following:
a) Trains, b) Motorcycles, c) Commercial Ships, d) Trucks, and e) drilling rigs
What are trains, commercial ships, and drilling rigs?
This is the hazardous waste generator status for UTMB Angleton Danbury Campus.
What is a Very Small Quantity Generator?
This is the amount of oil released into water that creates a sheen.
What is one drop?
This is the course that must be taken to respond to emergencies.
What is HAZWOPER?
This agency enforces medical waste reguations.
What is the TCEQ?
Aqueous ammonia is used as an added catalyst to assist with nitrogen oxide (NOx) reduction in the emissions at both the East and West Plant combustion turbine facilities. Audio, visual, and olfactory inspections are required for each of the aqueous ammonia storage systems. What is the frequency of these required inspections?
What is daily?
This is the regulation that governs hazardous waste - full name, not acronym
What is the Resource Conservation Recovery Act?
This regulation governs oil products from entering waterways - full name, not acronym
What is Spill Prevention Countermeasure and Control?
This is where responses are recorded in EHSA.
What is Rapid Response?
This annual report summarizes bulk chemicals on all UTMB campuses.
What is Tier II?
As part of our air permits, UTMB is required to conduct visible emissions readings (opacity readings) on all of exhaust stacks on our Galveston campus. This is also known as “reading smoke” and it applies to all of our boilers, generators and the medical waste incinerator. What frequency do the regulations require that our certified opacity or smoke readers conduct this activity?
What is quarterly?
This is the frequency in which waste has to be shipped at Clear Lake Campus.
What is 180 days?
The minimum chlorine residual for drinking water (mg/L).
What is 0.5mg/L?
For a small scale diesel spill outdoors (not near a storm drain), this is needed at minimum.
What are brooms, non sparking shovels, oil dry, micro-blaze, drum, PPE?
Texas TCEQ Region that encompasses the Houston/Galveston area (1-16)
What is Region 12?
EPA regulates six air pollutants known as “criteria pollutants”. These include: 1) lead, 2) carbon monoxide, 3) ozone, 4) nitrogen oxide, 5) particulate matter (PM) and 6) sulfur dioxide. The Houston/Galveston Region in “non-attainment” for which one?
What is ozone?
Small Quantity Handlers of Universal Waste may accumulate this much universal waste before shipping.
What is 5,000kg?
This regulation updates every five years and governs MS4 regulations.
What is TXR040000?
These are the two UT System Emergency Response contractors.
Who are The Cleaning Guys, and Lighthouse Environmental?
This must be conducted prior to property acquisitions to relieve UTMB of prior environmental burdens.
What is a Phase I/II?