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Established the NPS and gathered the fourteen national parks and twenty-one national monuments together. (Land)
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Established the Soil Conservation Service, an agency that deals with soil erosion problems. (Land)
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Provides federal control of pesticide distribution, sale, and use. (Land)
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Designed to protect public health from different types of air pollution caused by a diverse array of pollution sources. (Air)
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Establishes a right of every citizen and resident to fish but to a limit. Also for commercial fishing. (Wildlife)
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The nuclear power industry is responsible for the first $10 billion of damages resulting from a spill or other accident, while the federal government is responsible for any losses exceeding that amount. (Air)
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It created the legal definition of wilderness in the United States, and protected some 9 million acres of federal land. (Land)
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Established to maintain a continuing assessment of the adequacy of water supplies in each region of the U.S.
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the act strengthened the federal water quality regulations by providing changes in permitting and adds substantial penalties for permit violations
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Made to make sure that land is preserved for future and present generations (Land)
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A law that gives you the right to access information from the federal government
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programs that aim to conserve, restore, and in some cases propagate certain species of indigenous fish and wildlife determined to be in danger of extinction
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The Act and its subsequent amendments authorized a national system of trails and defined four categories of national trails
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Requires federal agencies to integrate environmental values into their decision making processes
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prohibits, with certain exceptions, the "take" of marine mammals in U.S. waters and by U.S. citizens on the high seas, and the importation of marine mammals and marine mammal products into the U.S
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Restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters
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Provided for the conservation of ecosystems upon which threatened and endangered species of fish, wildlife, and plants depend.
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Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct an assessment of the Nation's renewable resources every 10 years
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Ensures the quality of Americans' drinking water
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Requires many actions to protect drinking water and its sources: rivers, lakes, reservoirs, springs, and ground water wells
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An international agreement between governments. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival.
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Provides us with the tools we need to cooperatively and creatively manage the public lands in the west
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RPA reports on the status and trends of the Nation’s renewable resources on all forest and rangelands
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Requires that the Forest Service prepare and revise at fifteen-year intervals a Land and Resource Management Plan (LRMP) for each national forest.
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Requires USDA to periodically prepare a national plan for soil and water conservation on private lands.
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Regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States.
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The objective of this law was shift from oil and gas supply toward energy conservation.
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Conservation law providing protection and management of Antarctic resources
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This law created a tax on the chemical and petroleum industries and provided Federal authority to respond directly to releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger public health or the environment.
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Three principles:
(1) state responsibility for providing LLW disposal capacity; (2) encouragement of interstate compacts for the exercise of this responsibility; and (3) the right of regional compacts to prohibit disposal at their regional facilities of LLW generated in non-compact states -
Federal legislation providing protection and management of non-game fish and wildlife.
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Supports the use of deep geologic repositories for the safe storage and disposal of radioactive waste.
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Authorizes the President to assist other countries in wildlife and plant protection efforts in order to preserve biological diversity
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An act to extend and revise agricultural price support and related programs
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Authorized the purchase of wetlands from Land and Water Conservation Fund monies, removing a prior prohibition on such acquisitions
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An international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances believed to be responsible for ozone depletion.
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Marked an end to almost a century of sewage sludge and industrial waste dumping into the ocean
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It provides a cost-effective and efficient way for trademark holders to ensure protection for their marks in multiple countries through the filing of one application with a single office, in one language, with one set of fees, in one currency.
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Conservation law of animals in the United States
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Requires EPA to provide national leadership to increase environmental literacy
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Reduces the amount of any hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant entering any waste stream or otherwise released into the environment.
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Enables more companies to recycle their waste instead of sending it to landfill
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Established the Death Valley National Park, Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert
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Designed to ensure that levels of pesticide residues in food meet strict standards for public health protection.
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a protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, aimed at fighting global warming.