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Land ordiances gave the federal goverment the rights to manage unsettled lands.
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Citizens claim 160 acres of public land. After living on it for five years, they could own it for a fee of $16.
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The act provided land for $5 per acre and allowed mining to occur subject to local customs with no government oversight.
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The Act makes it a misdemeanor to discharge refuse matter of any kind into the navigable waters, or tributaries thereof, of the United States without a permit this specific provision is known as the Refuse Act. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_and_Harbors_Act_of_1899
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Congrees created the National Park Service to manage the growing number of national parks and monument.
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Congress enacted RCRA to address the increasing problems the nation faced from its growing volume of municipal and industrial waste. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_policy_of_the_United_States
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The Clean Air Act is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. It requires the Environmental Protection Agency to develop and enforce regulations to protect the public from airborne contaminants known to be hazardous to human health. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_(United_States)
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prevention and control of pollution, waste management, environmental quality standards http://www.lead-journal.org/content/07290.pdf
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Section 6 of chapter 128C of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2012 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out, in line 57, the words “two and one-half” and inserting in place thereof the following words:- three eights of one. https://malegislature.gov/Bills/188/House/H4365
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The Townsend home rule charter, which is on file in the office of the archivist of the commonwealth https://malegislature.gov/Bills/188/House/H3545
