Environmental Protection Agency's Budget Request for Fiscal Year 1975: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session. February 25, 26, and March 1, 1974U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974 - 404 pages |
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Page 69 - I am here today speaking on behalf of the National League of Cities and the United States Conference of Mayors. The National League of Cities consists of, and is the national spokesman for, approximately 15,000 municipal governments in all fifty states and Puerto Rico.
Page 255 - ... (A) cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness; or (B) pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of. or otherwise managed.
Page 144 - Environmental Protection Agency, Waterside Mall, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460.
Page 6 - The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized and directed to make a comprehensive study and report on the system of waterway improvements under his jurisdiction.
Page 170 - Adapting the doomsday rhetoric of the environmentalists to his own purposes, he announced that "the nineteenseventies absolutely must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters and our living environment. It is literally now or never
Page 56 - Act of 1970 recognized that the primary responsibility for achieving clean air is with state and local governments. To date, many local governments have been given little state and federal support and cooperation.
Page 98 - As enacted, it called for the achievement of the "best practicable control technology currently available" by July 1, 1977 and the "best available technology economically achievable
Page 59 - The basic principle for dealing with water pollution must be that no one has the right to pollute - that pollution continues because of technological limits, not because of any inherent right to use the nation's waterways for the purpose of disposing of wastes.
Page 273 - (C) it will perform its intended function without unreasonable adverse effects on the environment; and "(D) when used in accordance with widespread and commonly recognized practice, it will not generally cause unreasonable adverse effects on the environment.
Page 126 - The 1972 amendments established a commission (the National Commission on Water Quality) to study the technological aspects of achieving the effluent limitations and goals set forth for 1983, as well as all aspects of the economic, social, and environmental effects of achieving or not achieving these limitations and goals.