Council on Environmental

Energy and the Environment, Council on Environmental QuaUty, Executive Office of the President, Washington, D.C., Aug. 1973. [Pg.246]

Council on Environmental QuaUty CEQ provides poHcy advice on environmental matters implements National Environmental PoHcy Act (NEPA) coordinates environmental concerns among other agencies... [Pg.73]

National Environmental Policy Act, 1969 The National Environmental Pohcy Act (NEPA) of 1969 was the first federal act that required coordination of federal projects and their impacts with the nation s resources. The act specified the creation of Council on Environmental Quahty in the Executive Office of the President. This body has the authority to force eveiy federal agency to submit to the council an environmental impact statement on eveiy activity or project which it may sponsor or over which it has jurisdic tion. [Pg.2162]

Fig. 2-4. Average CO2 concentration North Atlantic Region O, Pacific Region A. (The dashed line is the nineteenth-century base value 290 ppm.) Source Combination of data from Callender, G. C., Tellus, 10, 243 (1958), and Council on Environmental Quality, "Global Energy Futures and the Carbon Ehoxide Problem." Superintendent of Documents, Lf.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1981. (See also Fig. 11-1.)...

Council on Environmental Quality, Annual Reports. Washington, DC, 1984-1992. [Pg.59]

Fig. 10-7. Scattering and absorption cross-section per unit volume as a function of particle diameter. Source Charlson, R. J., Waggoner, A. P., and Thielke, H. F., "Visibility Protection for Class I Areas. The Technical Basis," Report to the Council on Environmental Quality, Washington, DC, 1978.

European Council (2008) Common Position (EC) No 3/2008 of 20 December 2007 adopted by the council, acting in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the treaty establishing the European community, with a view to the adoption of a directive of the European Parliament and of the council on environmental quality standards in the field of water policy and amending directives 82/176/EEC, 83/513/EEC, 84/156/EEC, 84/491/EEC, 86/280/EEC and 2000/60/EC. Official Journal of the European Communities, p 1-15... [Pg.165]

The Council on Environmental Quality would be charged with coordinating efforts to establish a uniform system for classifying and handling information on chemical substances. [Pg.2]

The origin of TSCA is attributed to the CEQ (Council on Environmental Quality) report "Toxic Substances" prepared on April, 1971. This report focused on certain metals and their compounds and... [Pg.81]

For background information on this subject, one may consult the following (1) Annual Reports of the Council on Environmental Quality ... [Pg.251]

Letter from Edward Strohbehn to Eula Bingham on OSHA Generic Carcinogen Proposal," Council on Environmental Qualty, October 24, 1978. [Pg.194]

Environmental Quality, The 13th Annual Report of the Council on Environmental Quality Council on Environmental Quality. U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, DC, 1982. [Pg.411]

Crump, K. S. Guess, H. A. Drinking Water and Cancer Review of Recent Findings and Assessment of Risks Prepared for Council on Environmental Quality, Springfield, VA. National Technical Information Service. U.S. Department of Commerce. Contract No. EQ10AC018, 1980. [Pg.411]

The objective of this act is to declare a national policy which will encourage productive and enjoyable harmony between man and his environment to promote efforts which will prevent or eliminate damage to the environment and biosphere and stimulate the health and welfare of man to enrich the understanding of the ecological systems and natural resources important to the Nation and to establish a Council on Environmental Quality. (NEPA)... [Pg.22]

Bottrell, D. G. Integrated Pest Management Council on Environmental Quality, 1979. U.S. Gov. Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, 3. [Pg.9]

ABBREVIATIONS ADI-Allowable daily intake BRL-Bionetics Research Laboratory C EN-Chemical and Engineering News CAS-Chemical Abstracts Service CDC-Center for Disease Control CDD-Chlorodibenzodioxin CDF-Chloradibenzofuran CEQ-Council on Environmental Quality CFR-Code of Federal Regulations CIB-Current Intelligence Bulletin CNS-Central Nervous System d.-Day(s)... [Pg.411]

Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Chemical Hazards to Human Reproduction. Hexachlorobenzene, Appendix A-... [Pg.452]

Commission of the European Communities. 2000. Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Environmental Quality Standards in the field of water policy and amending Directive 2000/60/EC. [Pg.173]

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), passed by Congress on December 24, 1969, and signed into law by President Nixon on January 1,1970, mandated the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Council on Environmental Quality. Congressional environmental protection legislation subsequent to NEPA included the Clean Air Act (1970), the Resource Recovery Act (1970), the Water Pollution Control Act (1972), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Amendments (1972), and others. [Pg.158]

Subchapter E-Pesticide Programs Subchapter H-Ocean Dumping Subchapter N-Effluent Guidelines and Standards Chapter IV-Low-Emission Vehicle Certification Board Chapter V-Council on Environmental Quality Part... [Pg.78]

Composite data from the Comprehensive Emergency Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) monitoring program indicate that benzene was detected at a frequency of 11.2% in groundwater in the vicinity of 178 inactive hazardous waste disposal sites (Plumb 1987). Data from a 1980 national survey by the Council on Environmental Quality on groundwater and surface water contamination showed benzene concentrations in contaminated drinking water wells in New York, New... [Pg.304]

The act also established the Council on Environmental Quality in the Executive Office of the President, with goals of assisting in the preparation of the Environmental Quality Report, reviewing government programs, carrying out research, and recommending national policies to improve environmental protection. [Pg.1077]

Agency US Council on Environmental Quality Year Passed 1969... [Pg.1777]

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