Environmental Laws

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  1. 3. protects coasts from harmful development.
  2. 4. Regulates and enforces all discharge into water sources and wetland destruction/construction.
  3. 5. Selected rivers in the United States are preserved for possessing outstandingly, remarkable scenic, recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural, or other similar values.
  4. 8. International treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands.
  5. 12. Promotes a national environment free from noise that jeopardizes health and welfare. Establishes research, noise standards, and information dissemination
  6. 14. Requires purchase of a stamp by waterfowl hunters. Revenue generated is used to acquire wetlands. Since its inception, the program has resulted in the protection of approximately 4.5 million acres (18,000 km²) of waterfowl habitat.
  7. 15. EPA is given the ability to track the 75,000 industrial chemicals currently produced or imported into the United States. EPA repeatedly screens these chemicals and can require reporting or testing.
  8. 17. Regulates the dumping of wastes into oceans and coastal waters
  9. 18. Requires restoration of abandoned mines.
  10. 19. Established primary and secondary air quality standards. Required states to develop implementation plans. Sets limits and goals to reduce mobile source air pollution and ambient air quality standards.
  11. 20. Assures the safety, wholesomeness, efficacy, and truthful packaging and labeling of food, drugs, cosmetics, and medical devices. Regulates contaminants.
  12. 21. Management of non-hazardous and hazardous solid waste including landfills and storage tanks. Set minimal standards for all waste disposal facilities and for hazardous wastes. Cradle to grave.
  13. 22. provides public warnings of the risk of exposure to toxic chemicals in drinking supplies, California
  14. 27. Regulates the sale, distribution, and application of pesticides.
  15. 28. Requires reporting of toxic releases
  16. 29. Protects species that are considered to be threatened or endangered. Includes migratory birds and their habitats.
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  1. 1. Provides for a continuing appraisal of US soil, water, and related resources, including fish and wildlife habitats, and a soil and water conservation program to assist landowners.
  2. 2. Provides for the coordination of federal research and activities in noise control. Authorized FAA funds for development of noise abatement plans around airports.
  3. 5. Established the National Wilderness Preservation System, a national network of more than 800 federally-designated wilderness areas. These wilderness areas are managed by the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and US Forest Service.
  4. 6. A United States federal law that regulates grazing on federal public land. The Secretary of the Interior has the authority to handle all of the regulations, and he became responsible for establishing grazing districts. Before these districts are created there must be a hearing held by the state.
  5. 7. Created Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks.
  6. 9. To find better and more efficient ways to dispose of solid waste; promotes shredding and separation of waste and burning of remaining materials to produce stream or generate electricity; promotes recycling.
  7. 10. Provides protection of the scenic, historic and ecological values of federal lands and for public involvement in their management
  8. 11. EPA is given the ability to track the 75,000 industrial chemicals currently produced or imported into the United States. EPA repeatedly screens these chemicals and can require reporting or testing
  9. 13. Requires facilities to reduce pollution at its source. Reduction can be in volume or toxicity.
  10. 14. United States federal law that authorizes and governs prospecting and mining for economic minerals, such as gold, platinum, and silver, on federal public lands
  11. 16. Established the soil conservation service, which deals with soil erosion problems, carries out soil surveys, and does research on soil salinity.
  12. 19. Established federal authority for emergency response and clean-up of hazardous substances that have been spilled, improperly disposed, or released into the environment.
  13. 23. Makes it unlawful for any person to dump or transport for the purpose of dumping sewage, sludge, or industrial waste into ocean waters.
  14. 24. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is allowed to set the standards for drinking water quality and oversees all of the states, localities, and water suppliers who implement these standards.
  15. 25. Authorized the president to assist countries in protecting and maintaining wildlife habitat and provides an active role in conservation by the Agency for International Development
  16. 26. Authorized the Council on Environmental Quality as the oversight board for general conditions, directs federal agencies to take environmental consequences into account in decision making; requires EIP statement to be prepared for every major federal project having environmental impact.