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Peer Review Standards for the Disposal of Sewage Sludge

In 1989 the Cooperative State Research Service Technical Committee W-170, with the assistance of experts from EPA, academia, environmental groups, and units of state and local government agencies, organized a Peer Review Committee which conducted a review of the Environmental Protection Agency 40 CFR Parts 257 and 503 Standards for the Disposal of Sewage Sludge Proposed Rule.

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