Manhattan College

ENVL417 - Environmental Law

Instructor: Dr. Walter F. Matystik

Assignment: Week 5

Study for Exam (closed book)

Using the Internet links from the course's home page, find the full text of EPA's: Final Rule - Whole Effluent Toxicity: Guidelines for Establishing Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pollutants"("WET").

• Under what authority was this rule issued?

• You are the newly hired environmental project engineer for the Riverdale, N.Y. office of EnviroJasper. You are to coordinate a field study and data analysis project for a new client concerned about some possible contamination of their SPDES permitted food processing waste stream and new EPA WET implications . The microbiologist on your team ( a 15 year employee) asks a simple question: "So young hotshot engineer, just tell me what kind of sample containers to bring with us in the field?" Thinking quick, you say "I'll get back to you in 20 minutes or so". How do you answer later?

  (Let the technology do the work for you both finding the applicable regulation and wading through it with a search tool. Done like this, it's a few minutes work. And if you can find this obscure guideline - you can probably find anything like perhaps the water quality standard applicable to your next client!)