1) Outline the historical overview of environmental statutes 
related to waste management
2) Analyze the development and implementation of solid and 
hazardous waste management regulations from a historical and 
current perspective 
3) Assess and apply the federal rulemaking process, regulatory 
development, specific waste management requirements, 
environmental investigations at waste sites, and remediation 
technologies
5) Evaluate human health risks due to mismanagement practices of 
solid and hazardous waste
4) Design a remediation plan for an existing superfund site in 
the U.S. that complies with federal and state law that protects 
humans and other organisms from threshold-level exposures from 
different routes
5) Examine bioremediation techniques using data from the current 
literature and develop a plan for their use at an existing 
hazardous waste site to prevent human exposures

In addition to the topics listed below, the course will include 
several guest lectures from scientists and engineers that are 
experts in their respective fields on current issues, such as 
hazardous waste combustion, landfill design, and field 
investigative techniques.

1. Overview of Solid and Hazardous Waste Management
2. Global Waste Management Issues
3. Waste Management in the United States
4. Overview of Environmental Statutes
5. The "Rule Making Process" for Regulatory Development, 
Federal, State, and Municipal Law
6. The Provisions of CERCLA (Superfund)
7. The Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA)
8. Transparency of Risk Factors to Human Health in CERCLA
9. Risk Assessment for Humans Through Multiple Exposure Routes 
10. The Resource Conservation Recovery ACT (RCRA)-Historical 
Background
11. Solid Waste Management (Subtitles C and D)
12. Recycling
13. Hazardous Waste Identification
14. Human Health Consequences of Exposures to Toxins from 
Hazardous Waste Disposal 
15. Field Investigations at Hazardous Waste Sites
16. Requirements for Hazardous Waste Generators
17. Requirements for Hazardous Waste Transporters
18. Hazardous Waste Combustion
19. Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facility Requirements
20. Corrective Action at RCRA Facilities
21. Site Characterization Studies
22. Soil and Groundwater Remediation Technologies (case studies)

All academic work must meet the standards contained in "A Culture of Honesty."
Each student is responsible to inform themselves about those standards before
performing any academic work. Each student is expected to closely adhere to 
the University of Georgia honor code.