Primacy: Having the primary responsibility for administering and enforcing regulations.
primacy agency The agency that is responsible for regulation of water supply systems in states and on Indian lands. In most cases, this is a state agency that regulates water supply systems. In Virginia, it is the state Department of Health.
primacy. The responsibility for ensuring that a law is implemented, and the authority to enforce a law and related regulations. A primacy agency has the primary responsibility for administrating and enforcing regulations.
A state with primacy may relieve a public water system from a requirement respecting an MCL, treatment technique, or both by granting an exemption if the system cannot comply due to compelling economic or other factors, ...
A state (with primacy) may exempt a public water system from a requirement involving a Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL), treatment technique, or both, if the system cannot comply due to compelling economic or other factors, ...
deep (or dark) green: someone who believes we need a radical transformation to a more sustainable society. Also, the belief environmental sustainability should have primacy over economic and social factors.
Primacy
Primary Drinking Water Regulation
Primary Effect
Primary Standards
Primary Waste Treatment
Principal Organic Hazardous Constituents (POHCs)
Prior Appropriation
Probability of Detection
Process Variable
Process Verification ...
 See also: Permit, Reduce, Pollution, Particulate, Hazard
  
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