Wetlands Conservation: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session ... May 17, 1989 |
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Page 98 - Congress finds and declares that it is the national policy (a) to preserve, protect, develop, and where possible, to restore or enhance, the resources of the Nation's coastal zone for this and succeeding generations...
Page 103 - Engineers regulates construction and other work in navigable waterways under Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, and has authority over the discharge of dredged or fill material into the "waters of the United States...
Page 148 - US Fish and Wildlife Service, Wetlands of the United States: Current Status and Recent Trends 31 (1984) (Wetlands Status and Trends).
Page 111 - P&G. specify that the Federal objective of water and related land resources planning is 'to contribute to national economic development consistent with protecting the Nation's environment, pursuant to national environmental statutes, and applicable executive orders and other Federal planning requirements.
Page 236 - The nation establish a national wetlands protection policy to achieve no overall net loss of the nation's remaining wetlands base as defined by acreage and function, and to restore and create wetlands, where feasible, to increase the quality and quantity of the nation's wetlands resource base.
Page 113 - State agencies in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act and other applicable statutes.
Page 103 - Agreement (MOA) that will insure that the Corps' limited enforcement resources are used more prudently. The agreement provides a clearer definition of each agency's enforcement role, thus preventing needless duplication or wasted effort. In addition the Corps makes about 25,000 jurisdictional determinations each year.
Page 229 - ... short, current programs are too cumbersome and the responsibilities too diffuse to guarantee anyone -- landowners, the regulated community, conservationists, or even the regulators themselves, consistency, predictability, timeliness, or effectiveness. It is a system that allows hundreds of thousands of wetland acres to continue to be lost or degraded annually, almost unnoticed, while substantial resources and time often are devoted to determining the fate of a few relatively small acres.
Page 107 - That process includes issuance of a public notice which requests comments and offers an opportunity to request a public hearing. An environmental assessment or in some cases an environmental impact statement is prepared in accordance with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. If the proposed project involves a discharge of dredged or fill material, the State must either issue or waive a water quality certificate under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act.
Page 128 - MOA was designed to establish a framework for a more effective enforcement program. The enforcement MOA establishes the Corps as the agency primarily responsible for initial investigations of reported violations. Once a violation is confirmed, the MOA sets a procedure for the designation of a lead agency to pursue the enforcement action. That designation is based on the best use of agency resources, expertise, and authorities to pursue the enforcement action to an appropriate conclusion. This MOA...