Protecting Our Nation's Groundwater: The Need for Better Program Coordination : Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Federalism, and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, on S. 1992 ... April 22 and May 18, 1988, Volumen4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 - 521 páginas |
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Página 153 - Nation may: 1 fulfill the responsibilities of each generation as trustee of the environment for succeeding generations 2 assure for all 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...
Página 295 - Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking WAter Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act...
Página 139 - That nothing in this act shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use, or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder...
Página 139 - What we hold is that following the act of 1877, if not before, all nonnavigable waters then a part of the public domain became public! juris, subject to the plenary control of the designated states...
Página 343 - ... naturally sub-irrigated. . . (B) not materially damage the quantity or quality of water in surface or underground water systems that supply these valley floors. . . . Moreover, Section 515 (b) (10) (F) provides for (F) preserving throughout the mining and reclamation process the essential hydrologic functions of the alluvial valley floors in the arid and semi-arid areas of the country; Operations currently mining in such areas, as well as many others, are required to install sophisticated monitoring...
Página 342 - Probable Hydrologic Consequences" (PHC) of the mining and reclamation activities — both on and off the mine site. Specifically, Section 507(bXM) requires: (II) a determination of the probable hydrologic consequences of the mining and reclamation operations, both on and off the mine site...
Página 342 - ... the collection of sufficient data for the mine site and surrounding areas so that an assessment can be made by the regulatory authority of the probable cumulative impacts of all anticipated mining in the area upon the hydrology of the area and particularly upon water availability...
Página 344 - ... reasonable likelihood, so long as such use or uses do not present any actual or probable hazard to public health or safety or pose any actual or probable threat of water diminution or pollution, and the permit applicants...
Página 343 - Minimize the disturbances to the prevailing hydrologic balance at the mine site and in associated offsite areas and to the quality and quantity of water in surface and ground water systems both during and after surface coal mining operations and during reclamation...
Página 291 - Treasurer of the Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators...