Nomination of Kathleen A. McGinty: Hearing Before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, on the Nomination of Kathleen A. McGinty to be a Member of the Council on Environmental Quality, September 27, 1995U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996 - 205 pages |
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... ensuring that every president and every administration has an effective environmental policy advocate in the executive office . In addition , under the National Environmental Policy Act , CEQ has historically served as an honest broker ...
... ensuring that every president and every administration has an effective environmental policy advocate in the executive office . In addition , under the National Environmental Policy Act , CEQ has historically served as an honest broker ...
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... ensure that reviews are completed simultaneously with the NEPA process , rather than after the NEPÅ process is complete as had previously been the case . This project has the potential to accelerate all environmental reviews . NEPANet ...
... ensure that reviews are completed simultaneously with the NEPA process , rather than after the NEPÅ process is complete as had previously been the case . This project has the potential to accelerate all environmental reviews . NEPANet ...
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... ensure that costs are contained and that the analysis contributes to better decision - making . Lead Agency Issue and Scope of Environmental Impact Statement ( EIS ) . CEQ is deliberating which federal agency should be designated to ...
... ensure that costs are contained and that the analysis contributes to better decision - making . Lead Agency Issue and Scope of Environmental Impact Statement ( EIS ) . CEQ is deliberating which federal agency should be designated to ...
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... Ensure that personnel from their respective agencies work cooperatively and profesdonally to faithfully implement the objectives of Public Law 104-19 and Executive Branch direction in a timely manner . Interagency disputes will be ...
... Ensure that personnel from their respective agencies work cooperatively and profesdonally to faithfully implement the objectives of Public Law 104-19 and Executive Branch direction in a timely manner . Interagency disputes will be ...
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... ensure that America would not lose its position in this industry as well . I studied law in order to understand how law and public policy affect the viability of our nation's industry , especially nascent industries founded on ...
... ensure that America would not lose its position in this industry as well . I studied law in order to understand how law and public policy affect the viability of our nation's industry , especially nascent industries founded on ...
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Page 2 - Council"). The Council shall be composed of three members who shall be appointed by the President to serve at his pleasure, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Page 2 - ... it is the continuing policy of the Federal Government, in cooperation with State and local governments, and other concerned public and private organizations, to use all practicable means and measures, including financial and technical assistance, in a manner calculated to foster and promote the general welfare, to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony...
Page 176 - ... (A) cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness; or (B) pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of. or otherwise managed.
Page 3 - State and local governments, and other concerned public and private organizations, to use all practicable means and measures, including financial and technical assistance, in a manner calculated to foster and promote the general welfare, to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony, and fulfil the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans.
Page 2 - ... to appraise programs and activities of the Federal Government in the light of the policy...
Page 106 - Conference on Environment and Development held in June, 1992 in Rio de Janeiro...
Page 24 - Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office on Environmental Policy...
Page 176 - Half-life. The time it takes for one-half of any given number of unstable atoms to decay. Each isotope has its own characteristic half life.
Page 181 - The ability of a substance to cause damage to living tissue: impairment of the central nervous system: severe illness; or (in extreme cases) death when ingested, inhaled, or absorbed by the skin.
Page 177 - Different forms of the same chemical element that differ only by the number of neutrons in their nucleus. Most elements have more than one naturally occurring isotope. Many more isotopes have been produced in reactors and scientific laboratories. K Reactor. A plutonium and tritium production reactor at the Savannah River Site. started in 1 954 and shut down in 1988. The code name "K