Environmental Quality: The Twenty-third Annual Report of the Council on Environmental Quality Together with the President's Message to CongressU.S. Government Printing Office, 1993 - 451 pages |
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... Interior , Fish and Wildlife Service , Washington , DC , 1992 . Natural Community Conservation Planning In 1992 the State of California. form . At the Rio meeting , however , President Bush stated that U.S. efforts to conserve domestic ...
... Interior , Fish and Wildlife Service , Washington , DC , 1992 . Natural Community Conservation Planning In 1992 the State of California. form . At the Rio meeting , however , President Bush stated that U.S. efforts to conserve domestic ...
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... Interior , Fish and Wildlife Service , Washington , DC , 1992 . threatened and endangered species lists that cover multiple species in a given region , so that conservation efforts can address their various needs more effi- ciently ...
... Interior , Fish and Wildlife Service , Washington , DC , 1992 . threatened and endangered species lists that cover multiple species in a given region , so that conservation efforts can address their various needs more effi- ciently ...
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... Interior and the USDA Forest Service jointly adopted a phi- losophy of ecosystem management that includes the following elements : Managing lands and waters to restore and sustain biodiversity and productivity of renewable natural ...
... Interior and the USDA Forest Service jointly adopted a phi- losophy of ecosystem management that includes the following elements : Managing lands and waters to restore and sustain biodiversity and productivity of renewable natural ...
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... Interior to support wild bird management efforts in other nations . Caribbean Regional Treaty In 1992 the Bush administration sent to the Senate for ratification the Protocol Concerning Specially Protect- ed Areas and Wildlife . This ...
... Interior to support wild bird management efforts in other nations . Caribbean Regional Treaty In 1992 the Bush administration sent to the Senate for ratification the Protocol Concerning Specially Protect- ed Areas and Wildlife . This ...
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... Interior of Point source dischargers to U.S. coastal waters . Source : Changes in U.S. population density . 500 Population Per Square Mile 400 300 200 100 0 1960 1990 coast U.S. Source : See Part II , Table 6 . Florida , and Texas ...
... Interior of Point source dischargers to U.S. coastal waters . Source : Changes in U.S. population density . 500 Population Per Square Mile 400 300 200 100 0 1960 1990 coast U.S. Source : See Part II , Table 6 . Florida , and Texas ...
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Page 443 - 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...
Page 445 - Council"). The Council shall be composed of three members who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate...
Page 150 - Cumulative impact" is the impact on the environment which results from the incremental impact of the action when added to other past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future actions regardless of what agency (Federal or non-Federal) or person undertakes such other actions. Cumulative impacts can result from individually minor but collectively significant actions taking place over a period of time.
Page 443 - 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 decision making which may have an impact on man's environment...
Page 446 - Nation ; (5) to conduct investigations, studies, surveys, research, and analyses relating to ecological systems and environmental quality ; (6) to document and define changes in the natural environment, including the plant and animal systems, and to accumulate necessary data and other information for a continuing analysis of these changes or trends and an interpretation of their underlying causes; (7) to report at least once each year to the President on the state and condition of the environment...
Page 51 - Unilateral actions to deal with environmental challenges outside the jurisdiction of the importing country should be avoided. Environmental measures addressing transboundary or global environmental problems should, as far as possible, be based on an international consensus.
Page 445 - Act for the purpose of determining the extent to which such programs and activities are contributing to the achievement of such policy, and to make recommendations to the President with respect thereto...
Page 356 - Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.