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| show | Should Trees Have Standing
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| In what year was the SZEA issued? | show 🗑
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| show | Par value
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| What is a technique for identifying recharge areas to public wells that uses computer simulations to approximate groundwater flow; can be used to simulate flow and transport of contaminants? | show 🗑
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| What percentage of underground fuel tanks does EPA estimate are leaking? | show 🗑
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| show | Fifth Amendment
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| What are the seven steps in a waste audit? | show 🗑
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| What is required by many states in return for local government property tax abatements for farmland or forest preservation? | show 🗑
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| show | Rock material deposited directly by a glacier and left in piles
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| show | The Zoning Game
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| show | Section 319
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| show | Tribe that did not choose to organize under the 1934 Indian Reorganizatoin Act
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| Name three arguments used to defend the deed restrictions as advancing legitimate state interests in Nollan v. Calif. Coastal Commission? | show 🗑
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| show | State superior level court
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| show | 1880 in Pullman, Illinois
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| show | Someone owns land outright, with all rights associated with land ownership
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| What is an easement? | show 🗑
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| Statutes requiring competitive bids are meant to benefit whom? | show 🗑
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| show | NJ Supreme Court ruled that Rutgers (state university) was not to be thwarted or restricted by local land use regulations.
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| show | The nature and scope of the instrumentality
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| show | City assessor plats
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| What do "inclusionary ordinances" require? | show 🗑
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| What is a "primary recharge area"? | show 🗑
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| What are two water quality considerations of primary recharge areas? | show 🗑
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| What is the key indicator of a variance? | show 🗑
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| A road with a speed limit over 25 mph would service how many dwelling units and be how wide? | show 🗑
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| At what benchmark does housing become unaffordable? | show 🗑
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| What are two ways that wetlands defined? | show 🗑
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| What law refers to wetlands as "waters of the United States"? | show 🗑
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| What is a sand filter system? | show 🗑
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| show | High degree of treatment after initial filtering process (septic tank or primary treatment); low cost; widely used; low operator attention
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| What ROW or layout width is typical of a minor arterial or secondary road? | show 🗑
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| What level of threat do septage lagoons pose to groundwater for drinking? | show 🗑
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| show | Dive the total floor area of a building by the area of the lot
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| show | Karst (limestone) aquifer
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| What would a "supply/push analysis" determine? | show 🗑
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| What is a general fund? | show 🗑
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| show | Small-scale sewage treatment owned by a private entity and processing 10-25 thousand gallons of sanitary waste
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| show | PSTFs use a combination of bio-mechanical treatment unit and subsurface discharge, and are used in residential subdivisions and small commercial/industrial developments.
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| What natural resource does an underground injection well most threaten? | show 🗑
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| show | 35 mm slides
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| What are bimodal numbers? | show 🗑
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| How are active vs. passive recreational activities determined? | show 🗑
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| show | Consider the physical processes and flow velocities of groundwater and contaminants
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| What is the common range for time of travel thresholds? | show 🗑
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| What is contract zoning? | show 🗑
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| What is the EPRCA? | show 🗑
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| What does the EPRCA regulate? | show 🗑
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| show | Attenuation of contaminants before they reach a well. (This has been used in New England to regulate nitrogen loading within delineated recharge areas.)
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| What is an esker? | show 🗑
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| What level of threat do stormwater drains pose to groundwater for drinking water? | show 🗑
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| What is an unconfined aquifer? | show 🗑
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| show | The National Wetlands Inventory
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| show | In 1965 as part of the Great Society program of Lyndon Johnson
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| show | Fund or account established to manage the revenues and expenditures of a self-sufficient activity: parking garage, zoo, etc.
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| What entity typically enforces septic regs? | show 🗑
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| What level of threat do dry cleaning establishments pose to groundwater for drinking? | show 🗑
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| What is the cash method of tax accounting? | show 🗑
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| What are solute transport models? | show 🗑
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| How does nitrogen behave when released to ground? | show 🗑
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| How do hydrocarbon products behave when released to ground? | show 🗑
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| show | Bacteria is filtered out or trapped in pore spaces of an aquifer sediment and do not usually travel significant distances.
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| show | Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon, 1922--Justice Holmes' famous quote
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| show | "Balancing of interests" approach
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| show | Requirement that developers set aside, or dedicate, open space, land for roads and infrastructure, etc. within a subdivision
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| show | 43,560 square feet
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| show | Used to secure full title to land below appraised value, a bargain sale is a combination of a donation and sale of land that may result in tax deductions when given to a govt. or land trust
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| What is a negative easement? | show 🗑
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| What is a positive easement? | show 🗑
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| Is an oral easement enforcable? | show 🗑
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| show | A technique for identifying recharge areas in which a circle of a specified radius is drawn around the well being protected; does not rely on site-specific information.
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| show | Grant Park
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| show | Golden Gate Park
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| What is Boston's most famous public park? | show 🗑
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| show | Fairmount Park
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| How many advisory rulings has been issued by AICP? | show 🗑
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| show | Local property tax reduction; federal income tax deduction; federal estate tax reduction. Requires an appraisal.
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| Name seven "protections" typically included in wetlands protection programs? | show 🗑
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| show | Housing demand analysis uncovers income levels of homeowners and renters within a study area.
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| Describe the unique groundwater threat posed by Karst geology? | show 🗑
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| show | The elevation at the top of the hypothetical wave of at least 3 feet in height, occurring during the 100-year storm.
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| What do the numbers represent in the following: A12 (el.11') Flood Zone? | show 🗑
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| What is often required of a nonconforming septic system upon transfer of title? | show 🗑
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| What is a performance standard (or performance requirement)? | show 🗑
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| When was NEPA passed? | show 🗑
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| Name three ways a computerized traffic model can be used. | show 🗑
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| show | Minor arterials
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| show | Appurtenant easement
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| What analysis would generate results indicating the community's population cohorts? | show 🗑
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| What are bills? | show 🗑
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| show | Surface water systems (not wetlands)
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| show | Coming to the nuisance
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| show | Nonconforming uses can be regulated, but the property interest cannot be destroyed without compensation
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| In what year was ASPO founded and who was the first president? | show 🗑
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| show | 30%
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| What law and subtitle banned new unprotected USTs? | show 🗑
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| show | Wetlands include open water bodies and vegetated wetlands; many state/local rules define wetlands in their own manner
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| In groundwater modeling to delineate wellhead areas, what dimension is most important? | show 🗑
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| show | 25%
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| show | A zero-coupon bond accrues interest and is paid upon maturity; no interest is paid while the loan is outstanding.
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| Name three components that should be analyized to determine whether a real estate investment will make financial sense? | show 🗑
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| show | Groundwater
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| show | Bond anticipation notes (BANs) are retired by proceeds from the sale of the bonds.
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| What unit of government typically establishes the regulation of septic systems? | show 🗑
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| What are the three scales used in the USGS topographic map series? | show 🗑
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| What federal law requires the registration and labeling of pesticides that may affect the environment? Who enforces it? | show 🗑
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| What is a legal right or claim upon property which attaches to the property called? | show 🗑
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| What is an easement held by a party who is NOT an abutter called? | show 🗑
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| What is regulated "from the cradle to the grave" under the RCRA--Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976? | show 🗑
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| What is a measure of the organic material that can be readily oxidized through microbial decomposition, consuming oxygen dissolved in water ? | show 🗑
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| What is the land area that contributes recharge immediately adjacent to a public water supply well? | show 🗑
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| Stating that "phased growth is well within the gambit of enabling legislation," what case confirmed the principle that communities can regulate growth based upon their ability to provide services demanded by the growth? | show 🗑
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| show | Shift-share approach
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| What map identifies both soil types and slope indications? | show 🗑
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| What in high concentrations, such as greater than .10 mg/liter, may cause algal blooms in lakes and ponds? | show 🗑
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| The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) required states to prepare what program or plan as a prerequisite for federal dollars? | show 🗑
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| What growth management technique would likely be used to control growth to coincide with a capital improvements plan? | show 🗑
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| What map is most useful as a base map for overlay constraint mapping? | show 🗑
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| show | NEPA (1969)
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| What does an income statement project? | show 🗑
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| What does a cash flow statement project? | show 🗑
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| show | Quantitative groups variables into ordered class intervals; qualitative groups variables into disparate categories.
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| show | Land that is permanently frozen
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| What is a location quotient? | show 🗑
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| show | To determine the ratio of total local employment of a specific industry to that of the industry on a national basis
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| show | Purchase undeveloped land for passive conservation
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| show | This test requires a rational or logical connection of approval for a project and the minimization of harm the condition seeks to accomplish.
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| show | Nollan v. Calif. Coastal Commission, 1987 (rational nexus test); Dolan v. City of Tigard, 1994 (rough proportionality)
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| What kind of local government decisions are limited by the rational nexus and rough proportionality tests? | show 🗑
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| show | The extraction must be "roughly proportional" in both size and scope relative to the harm the condition or extraction seeks to miminize.
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| show | Zoning is prospective, meaning forward-looking, not retroactive; protects legal nonconforming uses
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| show | Analysis of housing supply
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| show | A "sensory quality". Communities and regions are best understood and protected by understanding the sensory quality of places; how they look, feel, smell, and sound.
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| A cumulative nitrogen loading analysis could be required of a developer to protect what resource? | show 🗑
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| show | An aquifer is a geologic unit capable of yielding usable amounts of drinking water.
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| When was the CZMA adopted? | show 🗑
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| show | Coastal state programs designed to coordinate and regulate specific activities within defined coastal zones.
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| What map is useful in illustrating aerial relationships? | show 🗑
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| What type of rate is the annual rate of interest payable on a bond, usually expressed as a percentage of the principal amount, which the borrower promises to pay to the bondholder? | show 🗑
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| show | Special exceptions or special permits, which allow for flexibility in the otherwise rigid application of Euclidean zoning.
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| show | Gambrel roof--an adaptation and expansion of the gable roof that is double pitched on both sides (front and back) to provide for maximum use of the space under the roof
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| What is a surface to which water in an aquifer would rise by hydrostatic pressure called? | show 🗑
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| show | The water table
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| show | The hydrostatic pressure
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| show | Federal and state government reign supreme in their separate spheres; local governments are creatures of the states, lacking inherent powers.
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| show | Individuals 16 years of age and older divided by individuals employed plus those unemployed who are 16 years of age and older
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| What is the value assigned to a piece of property by a municipality for real estate purposes called? | show 🗑
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| show | Free oxygen
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| How do you calculate the median of an even amount of numbers? | show 🗑
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| When was HUD created? | show 🗑
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| show | Observed conditions and field data; test the model against more than one set of known conditions
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| show | High threat. Gasoline service stations, auto body repair shops and "parts yards", similar to junkyards, represent a serious threat to groundwater quality.
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| show | The 1934 Act allowed Native Americans to adopt a constitution and organize for their common welfare.
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| How many contaminants does EPA regulate under the 1986 amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act? | show 🗑
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| What term refers to tides that are higher than normal? | show 🗑
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| show | 2.2 million acres
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| How much agricultural land is in the U.S.? | show 🗑
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| How many acres does it take to feed a U.S. resident vs. globally? | show 🗑
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| show | Agriculture
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| show | 240 million acres (25% is in metro areas)
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| show | 275
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| How many reservations are entirely tribal-owned land? | show 🗑
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| What is the largest Indian reservation? | show 🗑
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| show | 56.2 million acres (40 million in Alaska)
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| show | Secretary of the Interior
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| What portion of the U.S. is federally-owned? | show 🗑
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| show | Dept. of Interior's Bureau of Land Management and USDA's Forest Service
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| show | 191 million acres
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| show | High Plains Aquifer
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| What is the average daily water consumption for household use? | show 🗑
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| What is the total per capita daily usage of water? | show 🗑
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| What is now the main threat to U.S. water supplies? | show 🗑
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| What percentage of U.S. waterways do not meet Clean Water Act "drinkable/swimmable" standards? | show 🗑
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| show | Nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, ("NOX and SOX"); carbon monoxide, lead, ozone, and particulates
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| show | Temperature and wind speed; ozone (smog) builds up in head and humidity
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| What is a common maximum noise standard for communities? | show 🗑
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| show | Man and Nature, 1864. Explored human impacts on natural environment; inspired conservationist movement
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| John Wesley Powell: Book, year, contribution? | show 🗑
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| John Muir: Major contribution? | show 🗑
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| show | Took office in 1901; staunch supporter of burgeoning conservationist movement
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| Inland Waterway Commission: Year, purpose? | show 🗑
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| show | First professionally trained forester; in 1905, became first director of U.S. Forest Service; leader of the conservation movement; advocated conservation and scientific management of natural resources
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| show | 1959, The Last Landscape; coined the term greenway; wrote pioneering study about conservation easements
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| Rachel Carson: Year, book, contribution? | show 🗑
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| show | 1879; survey and classify all public domain lands
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| show | 1903, Pelican Island, Florida; established by Teddy Roosevelt to protect the Brown Pelican
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| National Park Service: Year, purpose? | show 🗑
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| Metropolitan Water District of Southern California: Year, purpose? | show 🗑
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| show | Created in 1933 to provide work for unemployed youth and preserve natural resources
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| show | 1933; rehabilitate and redevelop the Tennessee Valley; most famous experiment in river-basin planning
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| Taylor Grazing Act: Year, purpose? | show 🗑
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| Natural Resources Planning Board: Year, purpose? | show 🗑
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| Grand Coulee Dam: Year, location, significance? | show 🗑
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| First Earth Day: Date? | show 🗑
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| show | Landsat, 1972
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| What is a DRI? | show 🗑
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| What case established the "hard look" doctrine for environmental impact review? | show 🗑
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| What was the central finding of 1971, Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe? | show 🗑
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| What was the central finding of 1971, Calvert Cliffs Coordinating Committee vs. US Atomic Energy Commission? | show 🗑
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| show | Wisconsin: Environmental protection regs are a reasonable exercise of the police power; do not amount to a taking without just compensation; natural state of the shore land is a public interest superseding individual property rights
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| show | Sierra Club did not have standing to sue the US Forest Service to stop a ski resort in Sequoia National Forest because it had not suffered economic, aesthetic, or environmental injury
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| What was the significance of 1978, TVA v. Hill? | show 🗑
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| What was the significance of 1980, Agins v. Tiburon? | show 🗑
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| show | 2005, Lingle v. Chevron; the "substantially advances" principle is not appropriate for evaluating a regulatory taking claim
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| show | 1982, Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp.
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| What case established the "total takings" test for a regulatory taking requiring compensation? | show 🗑
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| show | Line Functions deal primarily with direct services such as police and fire services.
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| What does a Staff Function deal with? | show 🗑
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| show | 1909
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| show | In 1964, the Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination based on race, creed, and national origin in places of public accommodation.
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| show | Developed in the 1960s; focused on planning, not budgeting
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| What are the three steps in PPBS? | show 🗑
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| What was the first metropolitan plan in the U.S.? | show 🗑
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| show | Forecasting future populations (as opposed to estimating current population)
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| What are the 4 basic steps of the cohort survival method? | show 🗑
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| show | Electrical hookups; building permits issued
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| show | Estimating current population (not forecasting)
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| What year was the ADA signed into law? | show 🗑
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| Where was Clarence Perry's Neighborhood Unit published? | show 🗑
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| show | 1979, Golden v. Planning Board of Ramapo, NY
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| show | Census Tracts
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| show | The 1949 Housing Act
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| show | The 1949 Housing Act
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| show | Urban redevelopment program; aimed to construct 800,000 units
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| show | "The Intelligence of Democracy," 1965
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| show | Project Management (PM), developed in the 1960s; looked at value of outputs rather than cost inputs
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