Marine Mammal Amendments: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session, on Save the Great Whales, H.J. Res. 923 ... April 30, 1976, Killer Whales, H.R. 12460, H.R. 12646, S. 3130 ... May 4, 1976, Tuna-porpoise Amendments, H.R. 13865, H.R. 13883 ... May 20, 21, 24, 1976U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 468 páginas |
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Página 320 - ... include in every recommendation or report on proposals for legislation and other major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment, a detailed statement by the responsible official on — (i) the environmental impact of the proposed action, (ii) any adverse environmental effects which cannot be avoided should the proposal be implemented, (iii) alternatives to the proposed action, (iv) the relationship between local short-term uses of man's environment and the...
Página 140 - Prominent on the surface of any case held to involve a political question is found a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment of the issue to a coordinate political department; or a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving it; or the impossibility of deciding without an initial policy determination of a kind clearly for nonjudicial discretion...
Página 320 - Government shall (A) utilize a systematic, interdisciplinary approach which will insure the integrated use of the natural and social sciences and the environmental design arts in planning and in decisionmaking which may have an impact on man's environment...
Página 140 - ... an unusual need for unquestioning adherence to a political decision already made; or the potentiality of embarrassment from multifarious pronouncements by various departments on one question.
Página 315 - optimum sustainable population" means, with respect to any population stock, the number of animals which will result in the maximum productivity of the population or the species, keeping in mind the optimum carrying capacity of the habitat and the health of the ecosystem of which they form a constituent element.
Página 144 - A suit to enforce a right which takes its origin in the laws of the United States is not necessarily, or for that reason alone, one arising under those laws, for a suit does not so arise unless it really and substantially involves a dispute or controversy respecting the validity, construction, or effect of such a law, upon the determination of which the result depends.
Página 465 - optimum", with respect to the yield from a fishery, means the amount of fish — (A) which will provide the greatest overall benefit to the Nation, with particular reference to food production and recreational opportunities ; and (B) which is prescribed as such on the basis of the maximum sustainable yield from such fishery, as modified by any relevant economic, social, or ecological factor.
Página 320 - Act authorizes and directs that, to the fullest extent possible, all agencies of the Federal Government shall: ". . . include in every recommendation or report on proposals for legislation and other major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment...
Página 315 - population stock" or "stock" means a group of marine mammals of the same species or smaller taxa in a common spatial arrangement, that interbreed when mature.
Página 306 - Congress finds that — (1) certain species and population stocks of marine mammals are, or may be, in danger of extinction or depletion as a result of man's activities; (2) such species and population stocks should not be permitted to diminish beyond the point at which they cease to be a significant functioning element in the ecosystem of which they are n part, and, consistent with this major objective, they should not be permitted to diminish below their optimum sustainable population.