U.S. National Park Service

The U.S. National Parks Service announced plans in 2009 to restructure and rehabUitate the National Mall in Washington, D.C., so that it would be more sustainable and environmentally friendly. Plans include soil restoration and replacement, as well as the planting of more trees and the development of a sustainable irrigation system. 

Without seeking public comment, the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) announces a plan to ban lead ammunition and lead fishing sinkers from all of the lands it manages Our goal is to eliminate the use of lead ammunition and fishing tackle in parks by 2010, says Acting Park Service Director Dan Wenk. 

Preparation of this manuscript was partially supported by the One-Hundred Talent Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to J.-D.G. This work was also supported in part by grants No. BES-990 6337 from the U.S. Natural Parks Service, National Center for the Preservation Technology and Training to Harvard University. We would like to thank Jessie Lai and Yanzhen Fan for the digitalization of images and Yanzhen Fan for preparation of the references. 

AIRWeb Air Resources Web, an air quality information web site for U.S. parks and wildlife refuges developed by the Air Resources Division of the National Park Service and the Air Quality Branch of the Fish and Wildlife Service. 

Full-time firefighters are also hired by federal and state government agencies to protect government-owned property and special facilities. For example, the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and Park Service offer both year-round and seasonal fire service jobs to protect the country s national parks, forests, and other lands. 

Research Triangle Institute. 1965, Recommendations for the Development and Operation of the National Environmental Health Sciences Center. Research Triangle Park, N.C. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, U.S. Public Health Service, Bureau of... 

M. J. LYNOTT—U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Federal Building Room 474, Lincoln, NE 68508... 

The District of Columbia obtained a permit from the National Park Service and the District s staff surveyed this area with a Fisher Gemini-3 Radio Frequency Transmitter-Receiver Metal Detector. They repeated the survey using a Schonstedt GA-72 Cd Magnetic Locator. Thus far, the District has located 13 anomalies that are compatible with munitions burials. Additionally, the EPA s expert in UXO recovery has confirmed the compatibility of several of the District s anomalies with deep munitions burials and has located a 14th anomaly. The anomalies are marked with tape and are plotted on the attached map (deleted for purposes of this book). In addition, the District of Columbia looked at the utility maps to eliminate the possibility that a utility line may account for the anomalies. One such map bears the strange comment, NOTE FOR NONINTERFERENCE BETWEEN NEW CHAIN BRIDGE AND U.R.DC., SEE E.D. 236905-1. ... 

Superintendent of Documents U. S. Government Printing Office Washington, DC 20402 or National Park Service Regional Offices. 

Five management alternatives for future use of the Hanford Reach are being analyzed as part of an environmental impact study being prepared by DOE, the National Park Service, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (DOE/EIS 1992) ... 

Anfinson, J. O., Forsberg, D. M., Madigan, T., Nunnally, P. (2003). River of history a historic resources study of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area. St. Paul, MN U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and National Park Service. 

Whiteacre, C. (Ed.). (1992). Gateways to Commerce The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 9-Foot Channel Project on the Upper Mississippi River. Selections from the Division of Cultural Resources, National Park Service, Rocky Mountain Region, No. 2. National Ptirk Service, Rocky Mountain Region, Denver, and United States Army Corps of Engineers. 

U.S. Department of the Interior. (2008). Effects of the international boundary pedestrian fence in the vicinity of Lnkeville, Arizona on drainage systems and infrastructure. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona. Ajo, AZ National Park Service. 

V. B. Voulk ia Toxicology of Metals, Vol. 2, Environmental Health Effects Research Series PB 268 324, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, N.C. reproduced by National Technical Information Service, May 1977, pp. 370—383. 

Fifth yinnualKeport on Carcinogens Summary 1989, NTP 89-239, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), National Toxicology Program (NTP) of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, N.C., 1989, pp. 24—30. 

NTP. 1983. National Toxicology Program—technical report series no. 232. Carcinogenesis bioassay of pentachloroethane in Fischer-344/N rats and B6C3Fj mice. Research Triangle Park, NC U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health. 

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