National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003: Review of Environmental Protection Mandates : Hearing Before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, on Review of Sections 2105, 2017(a)-(b), 2018, and 2019 of S. 2225, a Bill to Authorize Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2003 for Military Activities of Department of Defense, to Prescribe Military Personnel Strengths for Fiscal Year 2003, July 9, 2002 |
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Page 97 - ... shall comply with Federal, State, interstate, and local requirements respecting control and abatement of air pollution to the same extent that any person is subject to such requirements.
Page 93 - ... that may present an imminent and substantial endangerment to human health or to the environment.
Page 130 - ... have specifically requested such appropriation as a part of the budgetary process and the Congress shall have failed to make available such requested appropriation. Any exemption shall be for a period not in excess of one year, but additional exemptions may be granted for periods of not to exceed one year upon the President's making a new determination.
Page 93 - The President may exempt any effluent source of any department, agency, or instrumentality in the executive branch from compliance with any such a requirement if he determines it to be in the paramount interest of the United States to do so; except that no exemption may be granted from the requirements of section 306 or 307 of this Act.
Page 17 - release" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing into the environment...
Page 90 - In addition to any such exemption of a particular emission source, the President may, if he determines it to be in the paramount interest of the United States to do so, issue regulations exempting from compliance with the requirements of this section any weaponry, equipment, aircraft, vehicles, or other classes or categories of property which are owned or operated by the Armed Forces of the United States (including the Coast Guard) or by the National Guard of any State and which are uniquely military...
Page 91 - STAPPA and ALAPCO urge you and your colleagues to reject actions to exempt DOD from CAA requirements. If, however, such actions are to be further pursued, we respectfully request that Congress allow for full participation by all interested parties, including State and local air pollution control officials, and that other congressional committees with jurisdiction over CAA issues also be included. If you have any questions, or if STAPPA and ALAPCO can provide any further information, please do not...
Page 34 - President of the Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials (ASTSWMO).
Page 110 - Act are to provide a means whereby the ecosystems upon which endangered species and threatened species depend may be conserved, to provide a program for the conservation of such endangered species and threatened species, and...
Page 96 - Sec. 2. That unless and except as permitted by regulations made as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to hunt, take, capture, kill, attempt to take, capture or kill, possess, offer for sale, sell, offer to purchase, purchase, deliver for shipment, ship, cause to be shipped...