Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations for 2004: Environmental Protection Agency |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
2002 Actuals FY activities Actuals FY 2003 additional Agency will continue Agency's air quality air toxics Annual Performance areas asthma baseline Brownfields chemicals Clean Air Act Clean Water Act cleanup Clear Skies contaminants coordination cost Data or Systems Data Quality Review develop drinking water ecosystems efforts emissions Endocrine Disruptor ENERGY STAR enforcement ensure environment environmental justice Environmental Protection EPA will continue EPA's evaluate exposure facilities Federal agencies Full-time equivalents Full-time equivalents FTE funding FY 2002 Actuals FY 2004 Request goals grants Green Chemistry greenhouse gas hazardous waste Homeland Security human health identify impacts implementation improve increase industry infrastructure integrated Lakes levels million models monitoring MTBE NAAQS National Office ozone partnerships percent pesticides Plan pollution prevention Pres Bud priority QA/QC QA/QC Procedures regional regulations regulatory requirements response risk assessment strategies Superfund technical technologies Tribal tribes water quality watershed
Popular passages
Page 86 - An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
Page 531 - Health, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration have important information concerning the presence and use of toxic substances in various industries.
Page 73 - stationary source" means any building, structure, facility, or installation which emits or may emit any air pollutant. (4) The term "modification" means any physical change in, or change in the method of operation of, a stationary source which increases the amount of any air pollutant emitted by such source or which results in the emission of any air pollutant not previously emitted. (5) The term "owner or operator" means any person who owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises a stationary...
Page 157 - Parties shall adopt national' policies and take corresponding measures on the mitigation of climate change, by limiting its anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and protecting and enhancing its greenhouse gas sinks and reservoirs. These policies and measures will demonstrate that developed countries are taking the lead in modifying longer-term trends in anthropogenic emissions consistent with the objective of the Convention, recognizing that the return by the end of the present decade to earlier...
Page 157 - Each developed country Party and each other Party included in annex I shall make its initial communication within six months of the entry into force of the Convention for that Party. Each Party not so listed shall make its initial communication within three years of the entry into force of the Convention for that Party, or of the availability of financial resources in accordance...
Page 157 - Article 4, paragraphs 2(a) and 2(b); and (b) A specific estimate of the effects that the policies and measures referred to in subparagraph (a) immediately above will have on anthropogenic emissions by its sources and removals by its sinks of greenhouse gases during the period referred to in Article 4, paragraph...
Page 886 - EPA laws such as the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) have the clear potential in certain circumstances to ban substances that are of particular danger.
Page 169 - Implementation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA ) and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) or "Superfund" at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Page 397 - Act and applicable to a point source shall require that the location, design, construction, and capacity of cooling water intake structures reflect the best technology available for minimizing adverse environmental impact.
Page 721 - EPA will carry out assessments and analyses and promote education to provide an understanding of the consequences of global change needed for decision making. • By 2005, ozone concentrations in the stratosphere will have stopped declining and slowly begun the process of recovery. In addition, public education to promote behavior change will result in reduced risk to human health from ultraviolet (UV) overexposure, particularly among susceptible subpopulations such as children. • By 2006, reduce...