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... For land disposal (should it occur) of hazardous nonradioactive wastes, these uncertainties may be particularly substantial because of limited knowledge of: · the likely quantity and timing of releases of particular constituents; · the rates of transport of released hazardous constituents through the environment and their rates of degradation in the environment; · the extent of possible exposures of people and the environment to persistent hazardous constituents and their degradation products; and · the probability of damages (U.S.


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