Red Tape--inquiring Into Delays and Excessive Paperwork in Administration of Public Works Programs: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 - 790 pages |
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... months , agonizing months , and in some cases years , before the effect of those programs can be felt and the people whom we wish to reemploy , be reemployed . Now , one of the more famous studies of the significance of the problem was ...
... months , agonizing months , and in some cases years , before the effect of those programs can be felt and the people whom we wish to reemploy , be reemployed . Now , one of the more famous studies of the significance of the problem was ...
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... months is introduced into the overall processing of a project by this procedure . This may or may not add to the total time required to progress a project to completion . PUBLIC PARTICIPATION Section 128 of title 23 , United States Code ...
... months is introduced into the overall processing of a project by this procedure . This may or may not add to the total time required to progress a project to completion . PUBLIC PARTICIPATION Section 128 of title 23 , United States Code ...
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... months , or a little over 11 months for the Federal aid project to be advanced from this programing stage that we are just talking about to the letting of a contract . Mr. WRIGHT . Just a little short of a year up to the time to be let ...
... months , or a little over 11 months for the Federal aid project to be advanced from this programing stage that we are just talking about to the letting of a contract . Mr. WRIGHT . Just a little short of a year up to the time to be let ...
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... months later the Federal High- way Administration requested additional information , including a detailed analysis of the number , type , and size of trees that would be affected by the acquisition of this ten foot strip right of way ...
... months later the Federal High- way Administration requested additional information , including a detailed analysis of the number , type , and size of trees that would be affected by the acquisition of this ten foot strip right of way ...
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... months than any other . It is the same step we discussed earlier in connection with the environ- mental and the 4 ( f ) actions . At the present time , the requirement to evaluate potential and environmental impact of proposed highway ...
... months than any other . It is the same step we discussed earlier in connection with the environ- mental and the 4 ( f ) actions . At the present time , the requirement to evaluate potential and environmental impact of proposed highway ...
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Page 16 - Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment, a detailed statement by the responsible official on— ( i) the environmental impact of the proposed action, (ii) any adverse environmental effects which cannot be avoided should the proposal be implemented, (iii) alternatives to the proposed action, (iv) the relationship between local short-term uses of man's environment and the maintenance and enhancement of longterm productivity, and (v) any irreversible and irretrievable...
Page 265 - 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 264 - ... include in every recommendation or report on proposals for legislation and other major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment, a detailed statement by the responsible official on — (i) the environmental impact of the proposed action...
Page 40 - Code, and shall accompany the proposal through the existing agency review processes; (D) study, develop, and describe appropriate alternatives to recommended courses of action in any proposal which involves unresolved conflicts concerning alternative uses of available resources...
Page 34 - The Congress authorizes and directs that, to the fullest extent possible: (1) the policies, regulations, and public laws of the United States shall be interpreted and administered in accordance with the policies set forth in this Act...
Page 39 - Federal decisions about a project or complex of projects can be individually limited but cumulatively considerable. This can occur when one or more agencies over a period of years puts into a project individually minor but collectively major resources, when one decision involving a limited amount of money is a precedent for action in much larger cases or represents a decision in principle about a future major course of action, or when several Government agencies individually make decisions about...
Page 229 - Federal agency which has jurisdiction by law or special expertise with respect to any environmental impact involved. Copies of such statement and the comments and views of the appropriate Federal, State and local agencies, which are authorized to develop and enforce environmental standards...
Page 634 - Senate having legislative jurisdiction over the program involved, a full written report of the circumstances and the grounds for such action. Any action to suspend or terminate or to refuse to grant or to continue Federal financial assistance shall be limited to the particular political entity, or part thereof, or other applicant or recipient as to whom such a finding has been made and shall be limited in its effect to the particular program, or part thereof, in which such noncompliance has been...
Page 40 - Department of Agriculture Department of Commerce Department of Defense Department of Health, Education, and Welfare . Department of Housing and Urban Development . . Department of the Interior Department of Justice Department of Labor Department of State Department of Transportation Department of the Treasury Atomic Energy Commission Environmental Protection Agency General Services Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration Veterans...
Page 41 - Where it is not practicable to reassess the basic course of action, it is still important that further incremental major actions be shaped so as to minimize adverse environmental consequences. It is also important in further action that account be taken of environmental consequences not fully evaluated at the outset of the project or program.