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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... million acres to our national parks and 1,200 miles to our Wild and Scenic River System . We created 57 new wildlife refuges - more than any administration in histo- ry . We adopted a philosophy of ecosystem management and ended ...
... million acres to our national parks and 1,200 miles to our Wild and Scenic River System . We created 57 new wildlife refuges - more than any administration in histo- ry . We adopted a philosophy of ecosystem management and ended ...
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... million acres 10th Signup 34.4 million 9th Signup 33.9 million acres 8th Signup 30.6 million acres 7th Signup 28.1 million acres 6th Signup 25.5 million acres 5th Signup 22.2 million acres 4th Signup 17.7 million acres 3rd Signup 8.2 ...
... million acres 10th Signup 34.4 million 9th Signup 33.9 million acres 8th Signup 30.6 million acres 7th Signup 28.1 million acres 6th Signup 25.5 million acres 5th Signup 22.2 million acres 4th Signup 17.7 million acres 3rd Signup 8.2 ...
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... million acres 8th Signup 30.6 million acres. Agriculture U .S . agriculture is in the midst of a major transition motivated by economic and environmental factors . These include the budget deficit , the expansion of international trade ...
... million acres 8th Signup 30.6 million acres. Agriculture U .S . agriculture is in the midst of a major transition motivated by economic and environmental factors . These include the budget deficit , the expansion of international trade ...
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... million acres 8th Signup 30.6 million acres 7th Signup 28.1 million acres 6th Signup 25.5 million acres 5th Signup 22.2 million acres 4th Signup 17.7 million acres Note : CRP Conservation Reserve Program . The legislative mandate for ...
... million acres 8th Signup 30.6 million acres 7th Signup 28.1 million acres 6th Signup 25.5 million acres 5th Signup 22.2 million acres 4th Signup 17.7 million acres Note : CRP Conservation Reserve Program . The legislative mandate for ...
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... million acres in the pro- gram , resulting in numerous environ- mental benefits . Average soil loss on CRP lands has declined to one - tenth of the former rate , from 21 to 2 tons per acre per year . Farmers are planting 2.4 million acres ...
... million acres in the pro- gram , resulting in numerous environ- mental benefits . Average soil loss on CRP lands has declined to one - tenth of the former rate , from 21 to 2 tons per acre per year . Farmers are planting 2.4 million acres ...
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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.