REHS Exam (2023/ 2024 Latest Update) Practice Questions with Verified Answers|
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Course
REHS
Institution
REHS
QUESTION
The latest data estimates how many pounds per capita per day is generated in the U.S?
Answer:
4.6 pounds (2006)
QUESTION
What is the resource conservation and recovery act (RCRA)?
Answer:
It is the federal aw that regulates the management of hazardous waste, non-hazardous wastes,
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REHS Exam (2023/ 2024 Latest Update)
Practice Questions with Verified Answers|
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QUESTION
The latest data estimates how many pounds per capita per day is generated in the U.S?
Answer:
4.6 pounds (2006)
QUESTION
What is the resource conservation and recovery act (RCRA)?
Answer:
It is the federal aw that regulates the management of hazardous waste, non-hazardous wastes,
medical wastes, and underground storage tanks.
QUESTION
What agency does both solid and hazardous waste fall under?
Answer:
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
QUESTION
What is toxic hazardous waste?
Answer:
It is defined by the TCLP (toxicity characteristics leaching procedure). The TCLP analysis
simulates conditions and is used to determine if a waste may meet the definition of toxicity.
,QUESTION
Where does household waste go and who is responsible for it?
Answer:
The homeowner is responsible for the household hazardous waste. It should be taken to a facility
by the homeowner
QUESTION
What is CHEMTREC?
Answer:
Sevres as a round the clock resource for obtaining immediate critical response information for
incidents involving hazardous materials and dangerous goods.
QUESTION
What is the DOT emergency response guidebook?
Answer:
A guidebook for first responders such as firefighters, police and emergency response personal,
when responding to a transportation emergency involving hazardous waste.
QUESTION
What materials drained from the crankcase are most harmful to the environment?
Answer:
Heavy metals and additives
QUESTION
What are the design standards for hazardous waste landfills?
Answer:
,Double liners, Double leachate collection and removal systems, leak detection system, run on,
run off, and wind dispersal controls, construction quality assurance program.
QUESTION
What are closure and post-closure requirements for landfills?
Answer:
Installing and maintaining a final cover, continuing operation of the leachate collection and
removal system until leachate is no longer detected, maintaining and monitoring the leak
detection system, maintaining ground water monitoring, preventing storm water run on and run
off, installing and protecting surveyed benchmarks
QUESTION
What is the purpose of leachate and gas monitoring of wells?
Answer:
To protect groundwater on the boundary of the property
QUESTION
What is the best container for storing hazardous materials?
Answer:
Corrosion resistant containers
QUESTION
What standards should underground storage tanks be?
Answer:
Constructed of double walled, fiberglass, reinforced plastics, steel with heavy epoxy or fiberglass
coating or cathodically protected coated steel tanks. All types may be used for 20 years.
, QUESTION
What is the best method that protects underground storage tanks from leaking?
Answer:
Corrosion resistant containers
QUESTION
What is Trench method when it comes to landfills?
Answer:
Commonly used in level terrain. Solid waste is filled into trenches, and soil is placed on top of
the buried materials and than compacted
QUESTION
What is are area method when it comes to landfills?
Answer:
Used on a side of a hill or slope. Refuse is placed on the slope and than covered with soils.
Continues until the entire slope is level
QUESTION
What valley or ravine methods when it comes to landfills?
Answer:
Most commonly used in the past by large cities. Refuse is placed in a natural depression and
covered with soil and compacted
QUESTION
Under the 1976 RCRA regulation businesses considered small quantity are ones that generate
less than what per month?
Answer:
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