Impacts of Air Pollution on National Park Units: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session ... Hearings Held in Washington, DC, May 20 and 21, 1985, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986 - 586 páginas |
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... problems. In some cases the very resources we thought were protected. I have read the Congressional Research reports ... problem. I am very pleased with the response, incidentally, to date of the private sector in terms of the work that ...
... problems. In some cases the very resources we thought were protected. I have read the Congressional Research reports ... problem. I am very pleased with the response, incidentally, to date of the private sector in terms of the work that ...
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... problems . In some cases the very resources we thought were protected . I have read the Congressional Research reports ... problem . I am very pleased with the response , incidentally , to date of the private sector in terms of the work ...
... problems . In some cases the very resources we thought were protected . I have read the Congressional Research reports ... problem . I am very pleased with the response , incidentally , to date of the private sector in terms of the work ...
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... problem , and the degradation of forests and streams , whether they be in California , Vermont , or Tennessee , I think is of concern to all Americans . A concerted Federal - State - local response is necessary to tackle this problem ...
... problem , and the degradation of forests and streams , whether they be in California , Vermont , or Tennessee , I think is of concern to all Americans . A concerted Federal - State - local response is necessary to tackle this problem ...
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... problems , not the least of which is decreased visibility . Visibility impairment is most noticeable during the tour ... problem . The TVA , by its own admission , has been one of the Nation's largest emitters of sulfur dioxides . Yet ...
... problems , not the least of which is decreased visibility . Visibility impairment is most noticeable during the tour ... problem . The TVA , by its own admission , has been one of the Nation's largest emitters of sulfur dioxides . Yet ...
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... problem , and the degradation of forests and streams , whether they be in California , Vermont , or Tennessee , I think is of concern to all Americans . A concerted Federal - State - local response is necessary to tackle this problem ...
... problem , and the degradation of forests and streams , whether they be in California , Vermont , or Tennessee , I think is of concern to all Americans . A concerted Federal - State - local response is necessary to tackle this problem ...
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Acadia Acadia National Park acid deposition acid precipitation acid rain acidification air pollution air quality ambient aquatic atmospheric BENNETT biological California cause Chairman class I areas Clean Air Act Colorado concern Congress crop damage declines of forests decrease East eastern eastern white pine ecosystems effects of air EL-ASHRY emissions Environmental EVISON factors federal common law going Grand Canyon GRIER HANSEN haze impact levels look major MALM metals MOLLOHAN Mountains National Park National Park Service National Park System nitrate nitrogen oxides North America NPS units occur ozone particulate percent plants problem protection question Raven Fork red spruce reduction regional scientists SEIBERLING sensitive Sequoia Shenandoah National Park smelters Smoky Mountains Smoky Mountains National soils sources species standards subcommittee sulfate sulfur dioxide symptoms testimony Thank tion trees Valley vegetation VENTO visual range West western white pine
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Página 361 - The Service thus established shall promote and regulate the use of the Federal areas known as national parks, monuments, and reservations hereinafter specified by such means and measures as conform to the fundamental purpose of the said parks, monuments, and reservations, which purpose is 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...
Página 378 - Nothing in this section shall restrict any right which any person (or class of persons) may have under any statute or common law to seek enforcement of any effluent standard or limitation or to seek any other relief (including relief against the Administrator or a State agency). "(f ) For purposes of this section, the term 'effluent standard or limitation under this Act...
Página 371 - The authorization of activities shall be construed and the protection, management, and administration of these areas shall be conducted in light of the high public value and integrity of the National Park System and shall not be exercised in derogation of the values and purposes for which these various areas have been established, except as may have been or shall be directed and specifically provided by Congress.".
Página 365 - The obligations of his oath of office oblige him to see that the law is carried oat, and that none of the public domain is wasted or is disposed of to a party not entitled to it. He represents the government, which is a party in interest in every case involving the surveying and disposal of the public lands.
Página 361 - The service thus established shall promote and regulate the use of the Federal areas known as national parks, monuments, and reservations hereinafter specified by such means and measures as conform to . the fundamental purpose of the said parks, monuments, and reservations...
Página 359 - Congress hereby declares as a national goal the prevention of any future, and the remedying of any existing, impairment of visibility in mandatory class I Federal areas which impairment results from manmade air pollution.
Página 381 - However, due regard for the presuppositions of our embracing federal system, including the principle of diffusion of power not as a matter of doctrinaire localism but as a promoter of democracy, has required us not to find withdrawal from the States of power to regulate where the activity regulated was a merely peripheral concern of the Labor Management Relations Act.
Página 361 - Interior, whose duty it shall be, as soon as practicable, to make and publish such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary or proper for the care and management of the same. Such regulations shall provide for the preservation from injury or spoliation of all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders within said park, and their retention in their natural condition.
Página 372 - Act shall be permitted — (1) on any lands within the boundaries of units of the National Park System, the National Wildlife Refuge System, the National System of Trails, the National Wilderness Preservation System, and Wild and Scenic Rivers system, including study rivers designated under section 5(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act and National Recreation Areas designated by Act of Congress...
Página 354 - ... to preserve, protect, and enhance the air quality in national parks, national wilderness areas, national monuments, national seashores, and other areas of special national or regional natural, recreational, scenic, or historic value...