Review of Power Planning in the Pacific NorthwestPower Planning Subcommittee, Columbia Basin Inter-Agency Committee, 1970 |
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Page 52 - Report (hereinafter referred to as the "report") which shall set forth (1) the status and condition of the major natural, manmade, or altered environmental classes of the Nation, including, but not limited to, the air, the aquatic, including marine, estuarine, and fresh water, and the terrestrial environment, including, but not limited to, the forest, dryland, wetland, range, urban, suburban, and rural environment...
Page 12 - Act, as amended, on or directly affecting any river which is listed in section 5, subsection (a), of this Act, and no department or agency of the United States shall assist by loan, grant, license, or otherwise in the construction of any water resources project that would have a direct and adverse effect on the values for which such river...
Page 42 - ... prepare and keep up to date, to the extent practicable, a comprehensive, coordinated, joint plan for Federal, State, interstate, local and nongovernmental development of water and related resources...
Page 59 - ... years in advance of construction. (3) pre-construction review and approval of all new large power facilities by a public agency at the state or regional level, or by the federal government if the states fail to act.
Page 12 - Agriculture shall make specific studies and investigations to determine which additional wild, scenic and recreational river areas within the United States shall be evaluated in planning reports by all Federal agencies as potential alternative uses of the water and related land resources involved.
Page 58 - ... Chapter I Introduction Electric power plants and transmission lines have become a focal point for action in responding to the national concern for protecting the environment. A growing segment of the public is protesting the intrusions on the environment resulting from the construction of electrical generating plants and transmission facilities. At the same time, the population is increasing its consumption of electricity almost faster than the power supply facilities can be built. The problem...
Page 12 - In all planning for the use and development of water and related land resources, consideration shall be given by all Federal agencies involved to potential national wild, scenic and recreational river areas, and all river basin and project plan reports submitted to the Congress shall consider and discuss any such potentials. The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall make specific studies and investigations to determine which additional wild...
Page 52 - All agencies of the Federal Government shall review their present statutory authority, administrative regulations, and current policies and procedures for the purpose of determining whether there are any deficiencies or inconsistencies therein which prohibit full compliance...
Page 15 - Council may find appropriate, and with the approval of the President, principles, standards, and procedures for Federal participants in the preparation of comprehensive regional or river basin -r. ;• plans and for the formulation and evaluation of Federal water and related land resources projects.
Page 42 - Governors. Representatives of the Federal agencies are generally the regional supervisors, appointed by the Secretary of each Department having a substantial activity concerned with the water resources of the Great Lakes Basin. The...