Department of the Interior and related agencies appropriations for 1990: hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session, Volume 9U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989 - United States |
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activities additional Administration agencies Alaska analysis Answer appropriate assessment AUCOIN audit Basin BETTENBERG Bristol Bay budget Bureau of Mines California Chairman coal Committee Congress continue cost Court Department Director drilling earthquake effort environmental estimate fiscal year 1990 Fish and Wildlife funding GENTILE Geological Survey going gray whales Guam HEGGESTAD helium impact increase industry Interior issue ITTEILAG KALLMAN land lease sale Management Mapping million mineral Minerals Management Service North Aleutian Basin Office oil and gas operations OSMRE PECK percent priority problems production projects proposed Question Reclamation reduced regulations request reserved water rights response River ROSEBOOM royalty Secretary LUJAN Sierra Club SLAR Solicitor spill TARR task force tribes U.S. Geological Survey USGS VENTURA Wilderness Act wilderness areas Wildlife Service YATES
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Page 456 - A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.
Page 456 - Act, an area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or human habitation, which is protected and managed so as to preserve its natural conditions...
Page 461 - Act and, except as necessary to meet minimum requirements for the administration of the area for the purpose of this Act (including measures required in emergencies involving the health and safety of persons within the area), there shall be no temporary road, no use of motor vehicles, motorized equipment or motorboats, no landing of aircraft, no other form of mechanical transport, and no structure or installation within any such area.
Page 454 - A person suffering legal wrong because of agency action, or adversely affected or aggrieved by agency action within the meaning of a relevant statute, is entitled to judicial review thereof.
Page 310 - ... the Bureau of Land Management, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Park Service (NPS).
Page 456 - In order to assure that an increasing population, accompanied by expanding settlement and growing mechanization, does not occupy and modify all areas within the United States and its possessions, leaving no lands designated for preservation and protection in their natural condition...
Page 460 - No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States...
Page 34 - Congress declares that it is the policy of the United States to use export controls to the extent necessary (a) to protect the domestic economy from the excessive drain of scarce materials and to reduce the inflationary impact of abnormal foreign demand...
Page 454 - Court as a three-part test: [A]n association has standing to bring suit on behalf of its members when: (a) its members would otherwise have standing to sue in their own right; (b) the interests it seeks to protect are germane to the organization's purpose; and (c) neither the claim asserted nor the relief requested requires the participation of individual members in the lawsuit.
Page 407 - First, that in the absence of specific authority from Congress a State cannot by its legislation destroy the right of the United States, as the owner of lands bordering on a stream to the continued flow of its waters ; so far at least as may be necessary for the beneficial uses of the government property.