The Federal Government owns or operates over 20,000 facilities, ranging from huge military establishments, national parks, and systems of prisons and veterans’ hospitals to individual fish hatcheries, Coast Guard stations and research laboratories. All of these facilities are required by federal law to comply with environmental quality standards established by national,...
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- Recommendation number: 75-4
- Adopted on: June 6, 1975
- Tags: Clean Air Act (CAA), Congress, Enforcement, Environmental Law, Federal Facilities, Federal Water Pollution Control Act (Clean Water Act)
- Recommendation number: 73-6
- Adopted on: December 19, 1973
- Tags: Environmental Law, Generic Proceedings, Licensing, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Public Information
The new environmental legislation, especially the National Environmental Policy Act, has imposed on licensing agencies responsibility to consider environmental values in licensing that involves major Federal action significantly affecting the environment. The new responsibility has created new difficulties and has exacerbated old problems for the agencies.
...- Recommendation number: 69-7
- Adopted on: October 22, 1969
- Tags: Environmental Law, Licensing, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
Court decisions, notably Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. FPC,[1] have emphasized that in licensing cases the Federal Power Commission must explore and give proper consideration to possible alternatives to the specific plan proposed by the applicant. This principle may in the future be applied to other licensing agencies....
- Recommendation number: 90-3
- Adopted on: June 7, 1990
- Tags: Environment, Environmental Law, Risk Communication, Science, Worker Health and Safety
The term “risk communication is commonly used to describe procedures by which a public agency or other party possessing information about the hazardous attributes of an activity or product transfers this information to others. For several decades, the Freedom of Information and National Environmental Policy Acts have, in effect, provided for...
- Recommendation number: 84-1
- Adopted on: June 28, 1984
- Tags: Clean Air Act (CAA), Congress, Environmental Law, Interagency Coordination, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Public Participation
Major industrial development projects often have significant environmental effects and require permit approvals and preparation of environmental reviews by agencies under legislation such as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Clean Air Act. Although governmental permitting and review processes—...
- Recommendation number: 84-4
- Adopted on: June 29, 1984
- Tags: CERCLA, Environmental Law, Superfund
By enacting the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) in 1980, Congress undertook to provide a federal solution for the problem of abandoned and inactive hazardous waste disposal sites. Approximately 2,000 sites will require action, at a cost of tens of billions of dollars. CERCLA created a $1.6 billion...
- Recommendation number: 85-3
- Adopted on: June 13, 1985
- Tags: Enforcement, Environmental Law
Congress has incorporated into the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and other Federal environmental statutes provisions authorizing private parties to bring enforcement actions in the Federal courts. These “citizen suit” provisions generally permit any person or organization to seek injunctions abating...