Environmental Issues Facing the State of New Mexico: Hearing Before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, July 6, 1983, Albuquerque, N. Mex |
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Page 219 - point source" means any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft, from which pollutants are or may be discharged.
Page 131 - 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 219 - Act shall be construed to supersede or abrogate rights to quantities of water which have been established by any State, Federal agencies shall co-operate with State and local agencies to develop comprehensive solutions to prevent, reduce and eliminate pollution in concert with programs for managing water resources.
Page 218 - All other waters of the United States not identified in paragraphs (l)-(4) above, such as isolated wetlands and lakes, intermittent streams, prairie potholes, and other waters that are not part of a tributary system to interstate waters or to navigable waters of the United States...
Page 305 - Baltz, EH, 1967, Stratigraphy and regional tectonic implications of part of Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks east-central San Juan Basin New Mexico: US Geological Survey Professional Paper 552, 101 p.
Page 261 - A British thermal unit (Btu) is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit. A Btu equals 252 calories. 5. For example, see C. Komanoff, "Increased Energy Efficiency: 19781986,
Page 219 - It is the policy of Congress that the authority of each State to allocate quantities of water within its jurisdiction shall not be superseded, abrogated or otherwise impaired by this Act.
Page 219 - ... or transmission facilities, composed entirely of flows which are from conveyances or systems of conveyances (including but not limited to pipes, conduits, ditches, and channels) used for collecting and conveying precipitation runoff and which are not contaminated by contact with, or do not come into contact with, any overburden, raw material, intermediate products, finished product, byproduct, or waste products located on the site of such operations.
Page 152 - Project Officer Dr. Alan Carl in Office of Exploratory Research Office of Research and Development US Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC 20460 OFFICE OF EXPLORATORY RESEARCH OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY WASHINGTON, DC 20460...
Page 134 - best available control technology" means an emission limitation based on the maximum degree of reduction of each pollutant subject to regulation under this Act emitted from or which results from any major emitting facility, which the permitting authority, on a case-by-case basis, taking into account energy, environmental, and economic impacts and other costs, determines is achievable for such facility through application of production processes and available methods, systems, and techniques, including...