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The National Park Service was created in the Organic Act of 1916. The new agency's mission as managers of national parks and monuments was clearly stated.
"....to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations." -
The act, which established the Soil Conservation Service, sought to “control floods, prevent impairment of reservoirs and maintain the navigability of rivers and harbors, protect public health, public lands and relieve unemployment.”
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To regulate the marketing of economic poisons and devices, and for other purposes.
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Establishes a comprehensive national fish, shellfish, and wildlife resources policy with emphasis on the commercial fishing industry but also with a direction to administer the Act with regard to the inherent right of every citizen and resident to fish for pleasure, enjoyment, and betterment and to maintain and increase public opportunities for recreational use of fish and wildlife resources.
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Designed to ensure that adequate funds would be available to satisfy liability claims of members of the public for personal injury and property damage in the event of a nuclear accident involving a commercial nuclear power plant.
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Designed to control air pollution on a national level.
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Allowed congress to set aside federally owned land for preservation.
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Provides money to federal, state and local governments to purchase land, water and wetlands for the the benefit of all Americans.
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Stipulated states to provide water quality standards for interstate waters.
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Set up to establish governing bodies that would overlook the creation and protection of water resource.
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Providing a means for listing native animal species as endangered and giving them limited protection.
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A federal freedom of information law that allows for the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the United States government.
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The Act created a series of National trails "to promote the preservation of, public access to, travel within, and enjoyment and appreciation of the open-air, outdoor areas and historic resources of the Nation.
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Requires federal agencies to integrate environmental values into their decision making processes by considering the environmental impacts of their proposed actions and reasonable alternatives to those actions.
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The act established the goals of eliminating releases of high amounts of toxic substances into water, and ensured that surface waters would meet standards necessary for human sports and recreation.
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Prohibits the taking of marine mammals, and enacts a moratorium on the import, export, and sale of any marine mammal, along with any marine mammal part or product within the United States.
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An Act to provide for the conservation of endangered and threatened species of fish, wildlife, and plants, and for other purposes.
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Authorizes long-range planning by the United States Forest Service to ensure the future supply of forest resources while maintaining a quality environment.
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The principal federal law in the United States intended to ensure safe drinking water for the public.
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A multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals.
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A United States federal law that governs the way in which the public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management are managed.
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An Act to provide technical and financial assistance for the development of management plans and facilities for the recovery of energy and other resources from discarded materials and for the safe disposal of discarded materials, and to regulate the management of hazardous waste.
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To reform the Forest Service and ensure that the agency give due consideration to wildlife, water quality, and recreation as well as the logging, road building, grazing, and other activities associated with resource extraction.
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The law requires the assessment, planning, and monitoring of national forest resources with a periodic display for Congress
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Primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States.
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Soil and water conservation programs to aid landowners and users; also sets up conditions to continue evaluating the condition of US soil, water, and related resources
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Protects native mammals, birds, and plants and their ecosystems.
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The objective of this law was shift from oil and gas supply toward energy conservation.
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Established the legal and regulatory framework governing the disposal of low-level radioactive waste in the United States.
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Authorizes financial and technical assistance to the States for the development, revision, and implementation of conservation plans and programs for nongame fish and wildlife.
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Clean up uncontrolled releases of specified hazardous substances.
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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.
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Established both the Federal government's responsibility to provide a place for the permanent disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, and the generators' responsibility to bear the costs of permanent storage and disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, and the generators' responsibility to bear the costs of permanent disposal.
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An Act to extend and revise agricultural price support and related programs, to provide for agricultural export, resource conservation, farm credit, and agricultural research and related programs, to continue food assistance to low-income persons, to ensure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and for other purposes.
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Enacted to protect and promote conservation of the Nations wetlands and establish National Wildlife Refuges for waterfowl.
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Designed to reduce the production and consumption of ozone depleting substances in order to reduce their abundance in the atmosphere, and thereby protect the earth’s fragile ozone Layer.
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Makes it unlawful for any person to dump or transport for the purpose of dumping sewage, sludge, or industrial waste into ocean waters.
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An international treaty that allows a trademark owner to seek registration in any of the countries that have joined the Madrid Protocol by filing a single application, called an “international application.”
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Provides that it is unlawful for any person to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase any fish or wildlife or plant taken, possessed, transported, or sold in violation of any law, treaty, or regulation of the United States or in violation of any Indian tribal law whether in interstate or foreign commerce.
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Requires facilities to reduce pollution at its source. Reduction can be in volume or toxicity.
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The purpose of this Act is to reduce and prevent the production and disposal of waste in the province consistent with the principles of sustainable development and to this end.
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To promote environmental education.
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The Act establishes the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert.
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It mandated a health-based standard for pesticides used in foods, provided special protections for babies and infants, streamlined the approval of safe pesticides, established incentives for the creation of safer pesticides, and required that pesticide registrations remain current.
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International treaty that sets binding obligations on industrialized countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
