Protecting America's Estuaries: Florida: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, First Session, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 - 3193 pages |
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action activities aquifer Army Corps authority bulkhead Bureau of Sport canal system Chief of Engineers Coast Guard Community Development Corporation construction Corps of Engineers Court Dade County Department of Pollution Director discharge District Engineer dredge and fill dredging Environmental Protection Agency FASCELL Federal Water Pollution Fish and Wildlife Fisheries and Wildlife Flagler Beach Flagler County Florida Board Florida Department Improvement Trust Fund Interior Internal Improvement Trust Intracoastal Waterway issuance issued ITT Community Development Jacksonville jurisdiction letter maintenance dredging Marco Island mean high water Miami Natural Resources navigable waters ocean operations outfalls Palm Coast Paragraph Pensacola Pensacola Bay permit application Pollution Control Act problems proposed regulations public interest recommend Refuse Act request response REUSS Secretary Section sewage Sport Fisheries subcommittee Tallahassee U.S. Army U.S. attorney upland violation Washington Water Pollution Water Pollution Control water quality wetlands
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Page 68 - Act, it is the continuing responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means, consistent with other essential considerations of national policy, to improve and coordinate Federal plans, functions, programs, and resources to the end that the Nation may — 1.
Page 69 - 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 976 - Interior, and with the head of the agency exercising administration over the wildlife resources of the particular State wherein the impoundment, diversion, or other control facility is to be constructed...
Page 374 - That the creation of any obstruction not affirmatively authorized by Congress, to the navigable capacity of any of the waters of the United States is hereby prohibited; and it shall not be lawful to build or commence the building of any wharf, pier, dolphin, boom, weir, breakwater, bulkhead, jetty, or other structures in any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, navigable river, or other water of the United States...
Page 69 - ... identify and develop methods and procedures, in consultation with the Council on Environmental Quality established by title II of this Act, which will insure that presently unquantified environmental amenities and values may be given appropriate consideration in decisionmaking along with economic and technical considerations...
Page 324 - In determining the amount of the penalty, or the amount agreed upon in compromise, the appropriateness of such penalty to the size of the business of the owner or operator charged, the effect on the owner or operator's ability to continue in business, and the gravity of the violation, shall be considered by such Secretary.
Page 140 - War ; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of, any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake, harbor of refuge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War prior to beginning the same.
Page 69 - Prior to making any detailed statement, the responsible Federal official shall consult with and obtain the comments of any Federal agency which has jurisdiction by law or special expertise with respect to any environmental impact involved.
Page 63 - War, to remove or alter the structural work or obstructions caused thereby without expense to the United States, so as to render navigation reasonably free, easy, and unobstructed ; and if, upon the...
Page 68 - 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.