Ambient water criterion

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-001261

That concentration of a toxic pollutant in a navigable water that, based upon available data, will not result in adverse impact on important aquatic life, or on consumers of such aquatic life, after exposure of that aquatic life for periods of time exceeding 96 hours and continuing at least through one reproductive cycle; and will not result in a significant risk of adverse health effects in a large human population based on available information such as mammalian laboratory toxicity data, epidemiological studies of human occupational exposures, or human exposure data, or any other relevant data.

Table 1. Record
Identifier	MLC-T-ENV-001261
Field	Environment
Subject	Regulatory activities
References	40 CFR 129.2 (CFR 2013)

Record as JSON

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  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-001261",
  "term": "Ambient water criterion",
  "field": "Environment",
  "term_source": "Ambient Water Criterion",
  "definition": "That concentration of a toxic pollutant in a navigable water that, based upon available data, will not result in adverse impact on important aquatic life, or on consumers of such aquatic life, after exposure of that aquatic life for periods of time exceeding 96 hours and continuing at least through one reproductive cycle; and will not result in a significant risk of adverse health effects in a large human population based on available information such as mammalian laboratory toxicity data, epidemiological studies of human occupational exposures, or human exposure data, or any other relevant data.",
  "subject": "Regulatory activities",
  "references": [
    "40 CFR 129.2 (CFR 2013)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/ambient-water-criterion/"
}

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