Environmental Quality: The ... Annual Report of the Council on Environmental Quality, Volume 10, Part 1979Executive Office of the President, Council on Environmental Quality, 1979 |
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... economic loss to its recreational and commercial fish- ing industry [ due to acid rain ] at $ 50 to $ 100 million in ... economics , management , and enforcement . ( p . 88 ) CEQ made a close examination of trends in water pollution at ...
... economic loss to its recreational and commercial fish- ing industry [ due to acid rain ] at $ 50 to $ 100 million in ... economics , management , and enforcement . ( p . 88 ) CEQ made a close examination of trends in water pollution at ...
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... economic , and safe breeder reactor components and fuel cycles . ( p . 364 ) • The Interagency Review Group on Nuclear Waste Management ( IRG ) made its final report to the President in March 1979. The report concluded that ...
... economic , and safe breeder reactor components and fuel cycles . ( p . 364 ) • The Interagency Review Group on Nuclear Waste Management ( IRG ) made its final report to the President in March 1979. The report concluded that ...
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... economic or environmental stand- ards and would ultimately have cost $ 1.8 billion dollars to construct . ( p . 388 ) • • Despite an investment by the federal government of more than $ 20 billion in support of soil conservation ...
... economic or environmental stand- ards and would ultimately have cost $ 1.8 billion dollars to construct . ( p . 388 ) • • Despite an investment by the federal government of more than $ 20 billion in support of soil conservation ...
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... ECONOMICS [ I ] t sometimes appears that regulation , or any other government action for that matter , is judged with reference to one narrow national economic goal - lower prices . ( p . 644 ) Although environmental regulations can ...
... ECONOMICS [ I ] t sometimes appears that regulation , or any other government action for that matter , is judged with reference to one narrow national economic goal - lower prices . ( p . 644 ) Although environmental regulations can ...
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... economy .... ( p . 659 ) • [ CEQ ] estimates indicate that the cost of complying with all existing fed- eral pollution ... economic incentives that have received the most attention when alternative kinds of environmental policy are ...
... economy .... ( p . 659 ) • [ CEQ ] estimates indicate that the cost of complying with all existing fed- eral pollution ... economic incentives that have received the most attention when alternative kinds of environmental policy are ...
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Page 746 - Americans safe, healthful, productive, and esthetically and culturally pleasing surroundings 3. attain the widest range of beneficial uses of the environment without degradation, risk to health or safety, or other undesirable and unintended consequences 4. preserve important historic, cultural, and natural aspects of our national heritage, and maintain, wherever possible, an environment which supports diversity and variety of individual choice 5.
Page 746 - Copies of such statement and the comments and views of the appropriate Federal, State, and local agencies, which are authorized to develop and enforce environmental standards, shall be made available to the President, the Council on Environmental Quality and to the public as provided by section 552 of title 5. United States Code, and shall accompany the proposal through the existing agency review processes...
Page 783 - Government shall (A) utilize a systematic, interdisciplinary approach which will insure the integrated use of the natural and social sciences and the environmental design arts in planning and in decisionmaking which may have an impact on man's environment...
Page 734 - Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act. and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act...
Page 746 - ... include in every recommendation or report on proposals for legislation and other major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment, a detailed statement by the responsible official on — (i) the environmental impact of the proposed action...
Page 243 - The legislation defines hazardous waste "as a solid waste, or combination of solid wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics, may cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness...
Page 746 - Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment, a detailed statement by the responsible official on- (I) the environmental impact of the proposed action, (ii) any adverse environmental effects which cannot be avoided should the proposal be implemented, (iii) alternatives to the proposed action, (iv) the relationship between local short-term uses of man's environment and the maintenance and enhancement of longterm productivity, and (v) any irreversible and irretrievable...
Page 790 - Tiering' refers to the coverage of general matters in broader environmental impact statements (such as national program or policy statements) with subsequent narrower statements or environmental analyses (such as regional or basinwide program statements or ultimately site-specific statements) incorporating by reference the general discussions and concentrating solely on the issues specific to the statement subsequently prepared.
Page 743 - ... to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony, and fulfill the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans.
Page 742 - The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our National life.