The Effect of Channelization on the Environment, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Flood Control - Rivers and Harbors ... 92-1, July 27, 1971 |
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acres agricultural Alcovy Alcovy River annual aquatic Arizona bank benefit-cost ratio benefits Chairman channel improvement channelization projects completed construction Corps of Engineers cost County Creek watershed crops dams Department District ditches downstream drainage drained dredging economic effects environment Environmental Quality estimated evaluation facilities fish and wildlife Fish Commission fishery flood control flood damage flood plain flood prevention floodwater-retarding structures flow Forked Deer Rivers Game and Fish Georgia Gila River habitat increased installed irrigation lake land treatment landowners losses Lost River ment multiple-purpose National National Wildlife Federation natural Obion Obion River Painted Rock PAINTED ROCK RESERVOIR percent plant pollution present problems production proposed recreation reduced reservoirs result sediment Senator BUCKLEY Senator JORDAN Soil Conservation Service specific stream channelization tion tributaries U.S. Army values vegetation water quality water resource water supply waterfowl watershed projects West Tennessee wetlands wildlife habitat wildlife resources
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Էջ 67 - ... the critical importance of restoring and maintaining environmental quality to the overall welfare and development of man, declares that it is the continuing policy of the Federal Government, in cooperation with State and local governments, and other concerned public and private organizations, to use all practicable means and measures, including financial and technical assistance, in a manner calculated to foster and promote the general welfare, to create and maintain conditions under which man...
Էջ 68 - ... (D) study, develop, and describe appropriate alternatives to recommended courses of action in any proposal which involves unresolved conflicts concerning alternative uses of available resources'; (E) recognize the worldwide and long-range character of environmental problems and, where consistent with the foreign policy of the United States, lend appropriate support to initiatives, resolutions, and programs designed to maximize international cooperation in anticipating and preventing a decline...
Էջ 67 - Americans safe, healthful, productive, and esthetically and culturally pleasing surroundings; 3. attain the widest range of beneficial uses of the environment without degradation, risk to health or safety, or other undesirable and unintended consequences; 4. preserve important historic, cultural, and natural aspects of our national heritage, and maintain, wherever possible, an environment which supports diversity and variety of individual choice; 5.
Էջ 68 - The Congress authorizes and directs that, to the fullest extent possible: (1) the policies, regulations, and public laws of the United States shall be interpreted and administered in accordance with the policies set forth in this Act...
Էջ 69 - President studies relating to such conditions and trends; (3) to review and appraise the various programs and activities of the Federal Government in the light of the policy set forth in title I...
Էջ 69 - Nation; (3) the adequacy of available natural resources for fulfilling human and economic requirements of the Nation in the light of expected population pressures; (4) a review of the programs and activities (including regulatory activities) of the Federal Government, the State and local governments, and nongovernmental entities or individuals, with particular reference to their effect on the environment and on the conservation, development and utilization of natural resources ; and (5) a program...
Էջ 86 - Department of Agriculture Department of Commerce Department of Defense Department of Health, Education, and Welfare . Department of Housing and Urban Development . . Department of the Interior Department of Justice Department of Labor Department of State Department of Transportation Department of the Treasury Atomic Energy Commission Environmental Protection Agency General Services Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration Veterans...
Էջ 66 - Monitor, evaluate, and control on a continuing basis their agencies' activities so as to protect and enhance the quality of the environment. Such activities shall include those directed to controlling pollution and enhancing the environment and those designed to accomplish other program objectives which may affect the quality of the environment.
Էջ 84 - Code, and shall accompany the proposal through the existing agency review processes; (D) study, develop, and describe appropriate alternatives to recommended courses of action in any proposal which involves unresolved conflicts concerning alternative uses of available resources...
Էջ 69 - ... identify and develop methods and procedures, in consultation with the Council on Environmental Quality established by title II of this Act, which will insure that presently unquantified environmental amenities and values may be given appropriate consideration in decisionmaking along with economic and technical considerations...