What does OSWER stand for?

Goodwin said she thinks her agency, through the Office of Water and the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, will continue examining the best practices for pharmaceutical waste disposal and work with departments and agencies such as the Department of Agriculture, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to establish disposal opportunities that help prevent the flushing of pharmaceuticals at human and veterinary health care facilities.

When there is a train wreck, we need to know about it because we need to go out and look at chemical spills," said Barry Breen, director of the agency's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response.

This fall, the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response will take over leadership of CARE and has already been providing key financial support to CARE communities.

Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) has sent out a memo to its regional offices clarifying its position on mulch made from CCA-treated wood.

Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) has sent out a clarifying memo to its regional offices dictating that scrap wood treated with chromated copper arsenate (CCA) cannot be used to make mulch products.

Marianne Horinko, assistant administrator of the agency's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, said that fewer sites were being added, and fewer completed, because the agency largely had finished the $20 million, "garden variety" sites on its list and now was taking on huge, difficult cases -- "megasites" costing more than $200 million.

Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Environmental Protection Agency, September 1986.

Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER).