40 CFR Part 300 Appendix A
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40 CFR Part 300 Appendix A is the section of the U.S. federal regulations that formally codifies the Hazard Ranking System used to evaluate and prioritize hazardous waste sites for inclusion on the National Priorities List under Superfund.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 40 CFR Part 300 | 1 |
| 40 CFR Part 300 Appendix A canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11730596 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 40 CFR Part 300 Appendix A Context triple: [Hazard Ranking System, legalBasis, 40 CFR Part 300 Appendix A]
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A.
National Ambient Air Quality Standards
The National Ambient Air Quality Standards are U.S. federal air pollution limits that set maximum allowable concentrations of key pollutants in outdoor air to protect public health and the environment.
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B.
NESHAP
NESHAP stands for National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants, a set of U.S. federal regulations that limit emissions of toxic air pollutants from industrial and commercial sources.
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C.
Annex 12 Chemicals of Emerging Concern
Annex 12 Chemicals of Emerging Concern is a component of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement that addresses the identification, assessment, and management of newly recognized or insufficiently regulated chemical substances that may pose risks to Great Lakes ecosystems and human health.
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D.
Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
The Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards is a division of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency responsible for developing national programs, policies, and regulations to control air pollution and protect air quality.
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E.
Prevention of Significant Deterioration program
The Prevention of Significant Deterioration program is a U.S. air quality permitting system that limits emissions from new or modified major pollution sources in areas that already meet national air quality standards.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 40 CFR Part 300 Appendix A Target entity description: 40 CFR Part 300 Appendix A is the section of the U.S. federal regulations that formally codifies the Hazard Ranking System used to evaluate and prioritize hazardous waste sites for inclusion on the National Priorities List under Superfund.
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A.
National Ambient Air Quality Standards
The National Ambient Air Quality Standards are U.S. federal air pollution limits that set maximum allowable concentrations of key pollutants in outdoor air to protect public health and the environment.
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B.
NESHAP
NESHAP stands for National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants, a set of U.S. federal regulations that limit emissions of toxic air pollutants from industrial and commercial sources.
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C.
Annex 12 Chemicals of Emerging Concern
Annex 12 Chemicals of Emerging Concern is a component of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement that addresses the identification, assessment, and management of newly recognized or insufficiently regulated chemical substances that may pose risks to Great Lakes ecosystems and human health.
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D.
Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
The Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards is a division of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency responsible for developing national programs, policies, and regulations to control air pollution and protect air quality.
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E.
Prevention of Significant Deterioration program
The Prevention of Significant Deterioration program is a U.S. air quality permitting system that limits emissions from new or modified major pollution sources in areas that already meet national air quality standards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. federal regulation appendix
ⓘ
environmental regulation ⓘ |
| administeredBy | United States Environmental Protection Agency ⓘ |
| appliesIn | preliminary assessment and site inspection process ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Superfund sites
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. EPA Superfund site
uncontrolled hazardous waste sites ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
National Priorities List
ⓘ
Superfund program ⓘ |
| authorityFrom | Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ⓘ |
| basisFor | National Priorities List site scores ⓘ |
| citation | 40 CFR §300 Appendix A ⓘ |
| codifies | Hazard Ranking System ⓘ |
| concerns |
environmental and public health risk
ⓘ
hazardous substances ⓘ pollutants and contaminants ⓘ |
| defines |
criteria for evaluating likelihood of release
ⓘ
criteria for evaluating targets ⓘ criteria for evaluating waste characteristics ⓘ numerical scoring system for hazardous substance releases ⓘ |
| establishes | minimum score threshold for NPL consideration ⓘ |
| implements | CERCLA site ranking requirements ⓘ |
| includes |
air migration pathway
ⓘ
ground water migration pathway ⓘ pathway-specific scoring formulas ⓘ soil exposure pathway ⓘ surface water migration pathway ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalBasisFor | listing sites on the National Priorities List ⓘ |
| partOf |
40 CFR Part 300
ⓘ
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan ⓘ
linked to:
National Contingency Plan
Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations ⓘ |
| provides | standardized methodology for site ranking ⓘ |
| publisher |
U.S. Government Publishing Office
ⓘ
linked to:
Government Printing Office
|
| regulates | process for scoring potential Superfund sites ⓘ |
| regulatoryArea |
contaminated site remediation
ⓘ
hazardous waste management ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
40 CFR Part 300 Subpart E
ⓘ
National Contingency Plan ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act implementation ⓘ |
| typeOfDocument | appendix to federal regulation ⓘ |
| usedBy |
EPA remedial program
ⓘ
EPA removal program ⓘ state environmental agencies ⓘ |
| usedFor |
evaluation of hazardous waste sites
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prioritization of hazardous waste sites ⓘ screening sites for the National Priorities List ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: 40 CFR Part 300 Appendix A Description of subject: 40 CFR Part 300 Appendix A is the section of the U.S. federal regulations that formally codifies the Hazard Ranking System used to evaluate and prioritize hazardous waste sites for inclusion on the National Priorities List under Superfund.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
NCP
linked to: 40 CFR Part 300 Appendix A