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The Environmental Glossary. Letter D +++ Popular Articles: 'Development', 'Deposition', 'Disease'

Design Value

A Design Value is the monitored reading used by EPA to determine an area's air quality status; e.g., for ozone, the fourth highest reading measured over the most recent three years is

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Design-based

A design-based is Statistical inferences using methodology based on the sampling design. Such inferences derive their properties from the design protocols.

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Design-unbiased

A design-unbiased is Indicates that an estimator is unbiased under the design protocol.

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Designated Pollutant

A Designated Pollutant is an Air Pollutant which is neither a Criteria nor hazardous pollutant, as described in the Clean Air Act, but for which new source performance standards exist

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Designated Use

Deutsch: Vorgesehene Verwendung / Español: Uso designado / Português: Uso designado / Français: Utilisation désignée / Italiano: Uso designato /

A Designated Use is classification specified in water quality standards for each waterbody or segment describing the level of protection from perturbation afforded by the regulatory programs.

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Designated use classifications

designated use classifications are classification of a waterbody or segment based on the purposes (beneficial uses) for which the waterbody may be used as specified in water quality standards.

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Designated Uses

Designated Uses are Those water uses identified in state water quality standards that must be achieved and maintained as required under the Clean Water Act.

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Designer Bugs

Designer Bugs are Popular term for microbes developed through Biotechnology that can degrade specific toxic chemicals at their source in toxic waste dumps or in ground water.

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Destination Facility

A Destination Facility is the facility to which regulated medical waste is shipped for treatment and destruction, incineration, and/or disposal.

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Destratification

A Destratification is Vertical mixing within a lake or reservoir to totally or partially eliminate separate layers of temperature, plant, or animal life.

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