Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Moon Lake Power Plant Project, Units 1 and 2Department of Agriculture, Rural Electrification Administration, 1981 - Electric power-plants - 524 pages |
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Page 91 - Unique farmland is land other than prime farmland that is used for the production of specific high value food and fiber crops. It has the special combination of soil quality, location, growing season, and moisture supply needed to economically produce sustained high quality and/or high yields of a specific crop when treated and managed according to acceptable farming methods.
Page 90 - It is applied to primitive areas, some natural areas, and other similar situations where management activities are to be restricted. Class II; Changes in any of the basic elements (form, line, color, texture) caused by a management activity should not be evident in the characteristic landscape.
Page 8 - The purposes of this title are (1) to protect and enhance the quality of the Nation's air resources so as to promote the public health and welfare and the productive capacity of its population...
Page 145 - Act of 1973 was passed to protect those species of plants and animals that are in danger of extinction. There is also a second category, threatened species. Definition of both terms are as follows: Threatened - One which is likely to become endangered within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range. Endangered - In danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of their range.
Page 90 - Changes in the basic elements (form, line, color, texture) caused by a management activity may be evident in the characteristic landscape. However, the changes should remain subordinate to the visual strength of the existing character.
Page 143 - A Logical Mining Unit or LMU is an area of coal land that can be developed and mined in an efficient, economical and orderly manner with due regard to the conservation of coal reserves and other resources.
Page 10 - ... shall, without the approval of the Secretary, be converted to other than public outdoor recreation uses. The Secretary shall approve such conversion only if he finds it to be in accord with the then existing comprehensive statewide outdoor recreation plan and only upon such conditions as he deems necessary to assure the substitution of other recreation properties of at least equal fair market value and of reasonably equivalent usefulness and location.
Page 10 - ... transferees of a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the development of viable plans to use such property in a manner compatible with preservation objectives and which does not result In an unreasonable economic burden to public or private Interests.
Page iii - Service Department of Defense US Army Corps of Engineers Department of Energy Region X Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Geological Survey Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service...
Page 10 - The Secretary is authorized and directed to protect and manage wild free-roaming horses and burros as components of the public lands, and he may designate and maintain specific ranges on public lands as sanctuaries for their protection and preservation...