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| show | Corporate Average Fuel Economy – Energy Policy Conservation Act 1975
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| show | increased CAFÉ standards to fleetwide average of 35mpg for new cars sold by 2020 (40% increase).
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| show | State Implementation Policy for compliance with clean air act- consists of narrative, rules, technical documentation, and agreements that an individual state will use to clean up polluted areas.
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| show | – Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act 1996 – requireds registration and lableling of certain pesticides an limits their application and use
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| US EPA - when was it formed? | show 🗑
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| show | Comprehensive emergency response, compensation, and liability act – “superfund” – 1980’s
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| show | Ag land accounts for 2/3 of all privately held land in US
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| When was the first earth day? | show 🗑
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| Land Suitability Analysis (define) | show 🗑
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| Four main steps of LSA | show 🗑
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| Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) | show 🗑
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| show | 1969 – any major federal action or policy that has a significant impact on the environment will require the preparation of an environmental impact statement.
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| Council on Environmental Quality | show 🗑
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| 6 steps of an EA | show 🗑
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| 6 steps of an EIS | show 🗑
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| show | Most recent amendment 1990 – but began with the Air Pollution Control Act 1955 - The federal government sets ambient standards and the states must devise methods that enables these standards to be met. Permit required to release pollutants.
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| show | quality of air that must be maintained after pollutants are introduced
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| Effluent regulations | show 🗑
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| show | Prevention of Significant Deterioration standards- prevent the significant deterioration of very high quality airsheds. Ensure every airshed has a total increment of new air pollution sources that cannot be exceeded unless offset is also made.
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| show | Air Quality Control Region
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| show | Supreme court says clean air act includes regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.
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| According to the EPA since 1970 national emissions of the six most common air pollutants have been reduced by how much? | show 🗑
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| show | 1972 - requires anyone wanting to discharge pollutants into a body of water to obtain a permit to do so. It also regulates the amount of water that may be discharged and the types of pollutants that may be released
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| Ambient regulations (water) | show 🗑
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| show | regulations to impose treatment requirements on the actual pollutant
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| show | gives extraordinary protection to freshwater and tidal wetlands.
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| Endangered Species Act | show 🗑
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| show | Biochemical oxygen demand-chemical procedure for determining how fast biological organisms use up oxygen in a body of water. It is used in water quality management and assessment. used as a gauge of the effectiveness of wastewater treatment plants
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| Environmental justice | show 🗑
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| show | whisper 30, 60 moderate, 90, very loud, 120 extremely loud, 150 rock music at its peak Painful
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| Wetland depletion | show 🗑
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| show | 0-0.5%not suited for development;0.5-1%ideal for all types of development;1-3% slight problems for large commercial areas,residential ok;3-5% Major problems for commercial/industrial/large scale residential;5-10% Suitablefor specially designed development
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| show | (created in 1927 built between 33 and 41) – created the Colorado River Aqueduct running a water pipeline to southern cal
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| Point Source Pollution vs. Non-Point Source pollution | show 🗑
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| Effluent Standards | show 🗑
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| show | one or more strata of rock or sediment that is saturated and sufficiently permeable to yield economically significant quantities of water to wells or springs.
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| show | an area where fresh water meets salt water.
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| Lagoon | show 🗑
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| Marsh | show 🗑
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| Reservoir | show 🗑
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| Surface Water | show 🗑
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| Swamp | show 🗑
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| show | a region drained by, or contributing water to, a surface water body.
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| show | swamps, marshes, bogs, and other similar areas.inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions.can be natural or constructed.
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| The Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 | show 🗑
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| show | allowed the Federal Works Administrator to assist government agencies in constructing treatment plants that could help to prevent discharges of inadequately treated sewage and other wastes into interstate waters or tributaries.
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| The Water Quality Act of 1965 | show 🗑
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| show | provided construction grants for wastewater treatment facilities.
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| The Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 | show 🗑
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| The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program | show 🗑
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| The Federal Water Pollutant Control Act of 1972 | show 🗑
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| show | provided protection of animal and plant species that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designate as threatened or endangered. This act was later amended in 1988.
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| The Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act (PURPA) of 1978 | show 🗑
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| The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 | show 🗑
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| show | – control the emission of otoxic substances into the environment primarily from the work place, and the procedures for disposing of solid and hazardous wastes.
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| Safe drinking water act | show 🗑
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| Resource coservation and recover act | show 🗑
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| Wild and scenic rivers act | show 🗑
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| waste disposal hierarchy according to policy guide | show 🗑
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| amount of earth coverd with water; amt. of that water that is salty; percent of water frozen into polar ice caps; percent fresh water; | show 🗑
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| percent of fresh water found in rivers and lakes; percent of fresh water found in groundwater; | show 🗑
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| show | a calculation of the maximum amount of a pollutant that a waterbody can receive and still safely meet water quality standards.
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| show | Superfund Amendments and Re authorization Act
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| limnology | show 🗑
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| show | 278 reservations, 95 million acres, 40 million acres in alaska, navajo reservation is 16 million acres.
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| show | 562
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