Environmental Education Act Extension: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session ... June 6 and 7, 1977U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - 226 pages |
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Academia Sinica Administration Advisory Council applications areas BOGAN BRADEMAS Chairman Commissioner Committee on Education community education concern CONGRESS THE LIBRARY conservation Cook College cooperation coordination criteria curriculum deal Department Director dissemination economic ecosystems educa educational activities effective efforts energy environment Environmental Education Act environmental education program environmental education projects environmental problems environmental quality Environmental Studies Program established evaluation Federal agencies FICE grants groups guidelines harbor Health hearing impairment human identify IESP impact industrial institutions International Environmental Studies issues John Brademas Lake Superior LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Louis Public Schools mass media materials ment mental management noise Office of Education Office of Environmental organizations participants personnel PIMENTEL planning pollution population Port priority recommendations regional responsibility Rutgers Rutgers University Secretary for Education SHIPSHAPE statement subcommittee Superior technical assistance tion U.S. Office USOEE Wisconsin
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Page 223 - Nation may — (1) fulfill the responsibilities of each generation as trustee of the environment for succeeding generations; (2) assure for all 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...
Page 223 - 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 fulfill the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans.
Page 222 - The Congress, recognizing the profound impact of man's activity on the interrelations of all components of the natural environment, particularly the profound influences of population growth, high-density urbanization, industrial expansion, resource exploitation, and new and expanding technological advances...
Page 223 - ... (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) achieve a balance between population and resource use which will permit high standards of living and a wide sharing of life's amenities ; and (6) enhance the quality of renewable resources and approach the maximum attainable recycling of depletable resources.
Page 4 - Federal funds made available under this section for any fiscal year will be so used as to supplement and, to the extent practical...
Page 4 - ... (v) provides for such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of and accounting for Federal funds paid to the applicant under this...
Page 4 - Federal funds paid to the applicant under this section; and (4) provides for making such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Commissioner may require to carry out his functions under this title, and for keeping such records and for affording such access thereto as the Commissioner may find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports.
Page 10 - ... environmental quality and ecology, and for public service personnel, government employees, and business, labor, and industrial leaders and employees...
Page 4 - Secretary establishing objective criteria for such determinations, that assistance in excess of such percentages is required in furtherance of the purposes of this section. The Federal share for the second year shall not exceed 60 per centum, and for the third year 40 per centum. Non-Federal contributions may be in cash or kind, fairly evaluated, including but not limited to plant, equipment, and services.
Page 4 - Amendments of applications shall, except as the Secretary may otherwise provide by or pursuant to regulation, be subject to approval in the same manner as original applications.