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Shipley News
NEPA Indicators as an Agency's Scorecard
By Larry Freeman, PhD.
The Shipley Group, Senior Consultant
Choosing accurate and revealing measurement indicators for NEPA impacts has been and remains a challenge. Often, a resource specialist declares that impacts will occur but finds it difficult to measure these impacts quantitatively. And then the specialist needs to interpret such quantitative values for readers of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documents. ...more
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ENVIRONMENTAL/NEPA
News from across the Agencies
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To further EPA's goal of safe and healthy air for every American community, EPA has released the final scientific assessment document on airborne particulate matter, entitled Air Quality Criteria for Particulate Matter.
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to view Rebecca
Watson, assistant secretary of the Interior for Land and
Minerals Management, today announced a new land-management
policy designed to encourage the development of solar energy
resources on America’s public lands. Watson made the
announcement during the Solar Power 2004 conference in San
Francisco, Calif click
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 Doyon, Limited, an Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) Corporation, currently owns 1.25 million acres within the exterior boundary of Yukon Flats NWR. Negotiators for Doyon and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska Region, have agreed in principle to provide Doyon title to some refuge lands that may hold developable oil and gas resources. In exchange, the Service will receive habitat currently owned by Doyon within the refuge boundary. This will consist of wetlands previously identified by the Service as quality fish and wildlife habitat.
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WHAT HAPPENS IF NEPA OR OTHER
ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS ARE VIOLATED
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- NEPA has no statute of
limitations for violations.
- Substantive
environmental laws usually have regulatory agencies with
authority to enforce compliance.
- Penalties for
substantive laws involve injunctions and often civil and
criminal penalties.
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