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APES Laws

QuestionAnswer
Conservation controlled use, scientific managment of natural resources
Preservation remaining wilderness ares on public land should be left untouched
Restoration to bring back to former condition, seeks to restore degraded sites
Remediation most often used with the cleanup of chemical contaminants in a polluted area
Mitigation repairing/rehabilitating a damaged ecosystem or compensation for damage. Most often by providing a substitute or replacement area, frequently involves wetland ecosystems
Atomic Energy Act Provides for the development and regulation of the uses of nuclear materials and facilities in the US.
Clean Air Act Established primary and secondary air quality standards. Required states to develop implementation plans. Sets limits and goals to reduce mobile source air pollution and ambient air quality standards
Clear Water Acts Regulates and enforces all discharge into water sources and wetland destruction/construction.
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation Liability Act Established federal authority for emergency response and clean up of hazardous substances that have been spilled, improperly disposed, or released into the environment
Consumer Product Safety Act Purpose is to protect the public against unreasonable risks of injury associated with consumer products
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species Controls the exploitation of endangered species through international legislation. Bans hunting, capturing, and selling of threatened species and bans the import of ivory
Emergency Planning Abd Community Right-To-Know Act Requires reporting of toxic releases: the Toxic Release Inventory encourages response for chemical releases.
Endangered Species Act Protects species that are considered threatened or endangered. Includes migratory birds, and their habitats.
Energy Policy Act The Act originally publicizes radiation protection standards for the Yucca Mountain Repository
Energy Policy and Conservation Act Authorizes the president to draw from petroleum reserves as well as established permanent home-heating oil reserve in the northeast. Clarifies when the president can draw from these resources
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act Assures the safety,wholesomeness,efficacy, and truthful packaging and labeling of food, drugs, cosmetics, and medical devices.
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act Requires that all pesticides are registered and approved by the FDA and creates pesticide registry
Federal Water Pollution Control Act Authorized the surgeon of the Public Health Service with others to prepare comprhensive prgrams for eliminating or reducing the pollution of itnerstate waters and tributatries and improving the sanitary condition of surface and underground waters
Food Quality Protection Act Set pesticide limits in food and all active and inactive ingrediants must be screened for estrogenic/endocrine effects
Hardrock Mining Reclamation The bill provides that the secretary of the interior will establish a royalty rate from 2%-5% of the value of locatable mineral production from any new mines on federal mineral lands
Hazardous Material Transportation Act Governs the transportation of hazardous material and wastes.
International Environmental Protection Act Authorized the president to assist countries in protecting and maintaining wildlife habitat and provides an active role in sonservation by the Agency for international Development
Kyoto Protocol Agreement among 150 nations requiring greenhouse gas emission reduction
Lacey Act A conservation act prohibiting the transportation of illegally captured or prohibited animals across state lines. It was the first federal law protecting wildlife and is still in effect, though it has been revised several times.
Law of the Sea Convention International agreement that sets rules for the use of the world's oceans
Low Level Radioactive Policy Act All states must have faculities to handle low level radioactive wastes
Madrid Protocol Moratorium on mineral exploration for 50 years in Antartica
Marine Plastic Pollution Research and Control Act Regulates the dumping of wastes into oceans and coastal waters
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act Requires purchase of a stamp by waterfowl hunters. Revenue generated is used to aquire wetlands.
Mining Act of 1872 United States federal law that authorizes and governs prospecting and mining for economic minerals
Montreal Protocol Banned the production of aerosols and initiated the phase out of all CFC's
National Appliance Energy Act Set minimum efficiency standards for numerous categories of appliances
National Environmental Policy Act Authorized the cOuncil on Environmental Quality as the oversight board for general conditions directs federal agencies to take environmental conqequences into account in decision making; requires EIP statement be prepared for every major federal project
National Park Act Created Yosemite and Yellowstone
Noise Control Act Promotes a national environment free from noise that jeaprodizes health and welfare. Establishes research, noise standards, and info dissemination
Nuclear Waste Policy Act Established a site to identify for, and contruct an underground repository for spent nuclear reactor fuel and high-level radioactive waste from federal defense programs
Occupational Safety and Health Act Created to protect worker and health. Its main aim was to ensure that employees provide their workers with an environment free from dangers to their safety and health, such as exposure to toxic chemicals, excessive noise level, mechanical dangers, heat pr
Ocean Dumping Act Makes it unlawful for any person to dump or transport for the purpose of dumping sewage,sludge, or industrial waste into ocean waters
Oil Pollution Act A company cant ship oil into the US until it provides a plan stating what they would do in case of a spill
Pollution Prevention Act Requires facilities to reduce pollution at its source. Reduction can be in volume or toxicity
Quiet Communities Act Provides for the coordination of federal research and activities in noise control
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Management of non-hazardous and hazardous solid waste including landfuills and storage tanks. Set minimal standards for all waste disposal facilities and for hazardous wastes
Safe Drinking Water Act EPA sets the standards for drinking water quility and oversees all of the states localities and water suppliers who implement these standards
Soil and Water Conservation Act established soil conservation service which deals with soil erosion problems, carries out soil surveys, and does research on soil salinity
Solid waste Disposal Act To find better and more efficient ways to dispose of solid wsste; promotes shredding and seperation of waste and burning of remaining materials to produce steam. promote recylcing
Stockholm Declaration United Nations COnference on Human Environment having considered the need for a common outlook and principles to inspire and guide the peoples of the world to preservation and enhancment of the human environment
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act Requires restoration of abandoned mines
Taylor Grazing Act a Us federal law regulates grazing on public lands. The Sec of Interior has the authority to handle all of the regulations and he became responsible for establishing grazing districts.
Toxic Substances EPA is given the ability to track the 75,000 industrial chemicals currently produced or improted into the Us. EPA screens these chemicals and can require testing and ban harmful chemicals
Water Resource Planning Act Provides for a plan to formulate and evaluate water and related land resources
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act Selected rivers in the US preserved for being pretty
Wilderness Act allowed congress to set aside federally owned land preservation
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