EPA Proposed “Waters of the United States” Ruleartba
EPA’s proposed “waters of the United States” rule extends federal authority too far and would lead to greater project delays, ARTBA explains to a joint House and Senate committees.
Coalition letter to Senate supporting passage of the “Federal Water Quality P...artba
ARTBA and 59 other trade associations support legislation curbing EPA’s efforts to expand federal Clean Water Act jurisdiction to include roadside ditches.
EPA Proposed “Waters of the United States” Ruleartba
EPA’s proposed “waters of the United States” rule extends federal authority too far and would lead to greater project delays, ARTBA explains to a joint House and Senate committees.
Coalition letter to Senate supporting passage of the “Federal Water Quality P...artba
ARTBA and 59 other trade associations support legislation curbing EPA’s efforts to expand federal Clean Water Act jurisdiction to include roadside ditches.
On June 21, 2016, United States District Judge Scott Skavdahl granted BakerHostetler’s petition for review of final agency action and declared the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) hydraulic fracturing rule unlawful. The court’s judgment sets aside BLM’s hydraulic fracturing rule.
Local Government Authority to Enact Inclusionary Zoning in North CarolinaGordon Smith
Pisgah Legal Services produced this examination and report at the request of the City of Asheville's Housing and Community Development Committee. Spoiler alert: Inclusionary Zoning isn't happening anytime soon.
US Chamber Report: What If...Energy Production was Banned on Federal Lands an...Marcellus Drilling News
This report, the first in the Chamber's Energy Accountability series, finds that if the federal government under Obama and Clinton (as they advocate) were to shut down further energy production from public lands, the result would be catastrophic: the U.S. economy would lose 400,000 jobs and $70 billion in annual GDP.
Keynote address by Rebecca Love Kourlis, Executive Director of the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver. Given at Pepperdine School of Law, April 2010. Giving a national focus on the civil justice system and how it needs assessment and repair.
NARO-PA Support for HB 1684 to Ensure Minimum Royalties for LandownersMarcellus Drilling News
The Pennsylvania chapter of the National Association of Royalty Owners has reaffirmed their strong support for House Bill (HB) 1684 which would plug a loophole and ensure landowners will receive a minimum 12.5% royalties regardless of post-production processing expenses. The bill comes in response to allegations that Chesapeake Energy is screwing landowners by deducting expenses not originally foreseen in contracts signed by landowners, resulting in very small royalty checks.
The Port Authority of New York and New JerseyProposal for .docxssusera34210
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Proposal for Performing an Environmental Impact Statement and Alternatives Analysis for Modifying or Replacing the Lincoln Tunnel Helix
Proposal for Performance of an Environmental
Impact Statement and Alternative Analysis
–
For Modifying or Replacing the
Lincoln Tunnel Helix
Prepared by:
Greenfield Environmental Consulting
Issued: April 21st, 2015
The Port Authority of
New York and New Jersey
Table of Contents:
Section A – Firm Qualifications and Experience ……………………………………....3
A.1 – Governmental Regulations and Laws …………………………………………………. 4
A.2 – Guideline Documents …………………………………………………………………. 7
A.3 – Environmental Permits ……………………………………………………………….. 12
A.4 – NEPA Lead Agency ………………………………………………………………….. 13
A.5 – Environmental Documentation ……………………………………………………….. 14
Section B – Staff Qualifications and Experience ……………………………………..16
B.1 – Organizational Chart ………………………………………………………………….. 17
B.2 – Personal Profiles and Individual Experience …………………………………………. 18
Caulfield, Christopher ……………………………………………………………………….. 18
Greenleaf, Luke ……………………………………………………………………………… 23
Anderson, David …………………………………………………………………………….. 25
Zyndorf, Oren ……………………………………………………………………………….. 27
Schroeder, Alison …………………………………………………………………………… 30
Lombardi, John …………………………………………………………………………….... 32
Mahmud, Anna …………………………………………………………………………….... 34
Martin, Jonathan …………………………………………………………………………….. 37
Mugabel, Abdul ……………………………………………………………………………... 38
Section C – Technical Approach ……………………………………………………..40
C.1 – Preparation of Environmental Impact Statement ……………………………………... 41
C.2 – No-Action Alternative ………………………………………………………………... 43
C.3 – List of Alternatives to be Reviewed ………………………………………………….. 44
C.4 – Environmental Impact Statement Table of Contents …………………………………. 48
C.5 – Data Analysis Sources ………………………………………………………………... 54
C.6 – Safety Measures ……………………………………………………………………..... 56
C.7 – Public Participation …………………………………………………………………… 59
Section D – Cost and Timetable ……………………………………………………...60
D.1 – Project Schedule ……………………………………………………………………… 61
D.2 – Cost Estimate and Budget …………………………………………………………..... 62
Firm Qualifications and Experience
A
Section
A.1
Governmental Regulations and Laws
Law is defined as the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision. Laws are actually rules and guidelines that are set up by the social institutions to govern behavior. Laws are made by government officials. Laws must be obeyed by all, including private citizens, groups and companies as well as public figures, organizations and institutions. Laws set out standards, procedures and principles that must be followed. Regulations can be used to define two things; a process of monitoring and enforcing legislations and a written instrument ...
The Article Critique is required to be a minimum of two pages to a m.docxSANSKAR20
The Article Critique is required to be a minimum of two pages to a maximum of four pages, double-spaced, APA style,
from the journals and articles available in our CSU Library Databases. The article should deal with any of the material
presented in the first three units of this course. The article itself must be more than one page in length. The article critique
should include the following components:
A brief introduction of the article
Analysis of the key points in the article
Application and comparison of some points in the article that might be applied to the company you work for, or
have worked for
Summary of the article's conclusions and your own opinions
the article is:
Policy fíriefing
Senate Bill Aims to Prevent Chemical
Contamination of Surface Water
IHE CHEMICAL
spill that
' recently occurred in West
Virginia and interrupted
water deliveries to approximately
300,000 of that
state's residents has led to the introduction
of federal legislation aimed at preventing
the recurrence of such events.
Although improved protection of surface
water enjoys broad support, questions
have arisen as to who should oversee
and fijnd the additional regulatory
efforts called for in the bill.
On January 9 it was discovered that
thousands of gallons of chemicals used in
coal processing had leaked from storage
facilities at a tank farm located along the
Elk River in Charleston, West Virginia.
The chemicals entered the waterway approximately
1.5 mi upstream of a public
water supply intake, forcing officials
to recommend that residents of a ninecounty
area in and around Charleston
not use their drinking water. Lasting for
more than a week, this situation caused
considerable concern about health effects
and spurred calls for regulatory
protections.
On January 27 Senator Joe Manchin
(D-West Virginia) introduced the
Chemical Safety and Drinking Water
Protection Act of 2014 (S. 1961), legislation
that aims to protect surface water
from contamination from chemical
storage facilities. The bill would revise
the Safe Drinking Water Act to establish
state programs for overseeing and
inspecting chemical storage facilities
that are deemed to pose a risk to public
water sources. Within one year of enactment
of the legislation, states would
have to set requirements for chemical
storage facilities covered by the new
programs. These requirements would
address such topics as "acceptable standards
of good design, construction, or
maintenance," along with leak detection,
spill and overfill control, inventory
control, inspections of facility integrity.
and life-cycle maintenance, according to
the legislation.
Additional requirements would pertain
to emergency response and communication
plans, employee training and
safety plans, and the financial responsibility
of the owners of chemical storage
facilities. States would share with drinking
water providers the emergency response
plans fo.
role of women and girls in various terror groupssadiakorobi2
Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
01062024_First India Newspaper Jaipur.pdfFIRST INDIA
Find Latest India News and Breaking News these days from India on Politics, Business, Entertainment, Technology, Sports, Lifestyle and Coronavirus News in India and the world over that you can't miss. For real time update Visit our social media handle. Read First India NewsPaper in your morning replace. Visit First India.
CLICK:- https://firstindia.co.in/
#First_India_NewsPaper
हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
03062024_First India Newspaper Jaipur.pdfFIRST INDIA
Find Latest India News and Breaking News these days from India on Politics, Business, Entertainment, Technology, Sports, Lifestyle and Coronavirus News in India and the world over that you can't miss. For real time update Visit our social media handle. Read First India NewsPaper in your morning replace. Visit First India.
CLICK:- https://firstindia.co.in/
#First_India_NewsPaper
ys jagan mohan reddy political career, Biography.pdfVoterMood
Yeduguri Sandinti Jagan Mohan Reddy, often referred to as Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, is an Indian politician who currently serves as the Chief Minister of the state of Andhra Pradesh. He was born on December 21, 1972, in Pulivendula, Andhra Pradesh, to Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy (popularly known as YSR), a former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, and Y.S. Vijayamma.
27052024_First India Newspaper Jaipur.pdfFIRST INDIA
Find Latest India News and Breaking News these days from India on Politics, Business, Entertainment, Technology, Sports, Lifestyle and Coronavirus News in India and the world over that you can't miss. For real time update Visit our social media handle. Read First India NewsPaper in your morning replace. Visit First India.
CLICK:- https://firstindia.co.in/
#First_India_NewsPaper
Welcome to the new Mizzima Weekly !
Mizzima Media Group is pleased to announce the relaunch of Mizzima Weekly. Mizzima is dedicated to helping our readers and viewers keep up to date on the latest developments in Myanmar and related to Myanmar by offering analysis and insight into the subjects that matter. Our websites and our social media channels provide readers and viewers with up-to-the-minute and up-to-date news, which we don’t necessarily need to replicate in our Mizzima Weekly magazine. But where we see a gap is in providing more analysis, insight and in-depth coverage of Myanmar, that is of particular interest to a range of readers.
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
31052024_First India Newspaper Jaipur.pdfFIRST INDIA
Find Latest India News and Breaking News these days from India on Politics, Business, Entertainment, Technology, Sports, Lifestyle and Coronavirus News in India and the world over that you can't miss. For real time update Visit our social media handle. Read First India NewsPaper in your morning replace. Visit First India.
CLICK:- https://firstindia.co.in/
#First_India_NewsPaper
Future Of Fintech In India | Evolution Of Fintech In IndiaTheUnitedIndian
Navigating the Future of Fintech in India: Insights into how AI, blockchain, and digital payments are driving unprecedented growth in India's fintech industry, redefining financial services and accessibility.
‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
Coalition Letter to Senate on Failure to Advance S. 1140, the “Federal Water Quality Protection Act.”
1. November 18, 2015
Dear [Senator]:
If anything has emerged from the Senate’s recent debate on the federal rule to define “waters of
the U.S.” (WOTUS) and its aftermath, it is a broad and striking degree of consensus that the rule
is broken and must be fixed. In a November 3 letter, 11 additional Senators joined those who
called for a remedy through their votes on S. 1140, the Federal Water Quality Protection Act,
and S.J. Res 22, the Congressional Review Act resolution. The difference is now merely one of
how best to provide a remedy: through a new rulemaking or guidance.
As you know, the undersigned organizations strongly support the bipartisan, Barrasso-Donnelly
bill, S.1140, and were heartened by the bipartisan action in the House approving H.R. 1732, the
Regulatory Integrity Protection Act. Since promulgation of the WOTUS rule, we have
repeatedly met with staff to explain the impact this regulation will have on business interests in
the respective states, underscore how this regulation departs from congressional intent by
expanding jurisdiction, and explain why passage of S. 1140 is critical.
While the November 3 letter underscores the profound need to fix the rule, it creates the false
impression that the critical scientific, technical, legal, and policy defects in the rule can somehow
be remedied through agency guidance. Agency guidance is not and cannot be the answer to
addressing the rule’s major defects.
In fact, it is years of agency guidance that created the current legal quagmire and the need for a
rule. Even assuming some of the flaws could be lawfully addressed through guidance, allowing
the agencies to address such significant legal and policy issues in this way will only increase the
danger, as the 11 Senators put it, that regulators will “enforce this rule in a way that erodes
traditional exemptions.” Furthermore, agency guidance does not offer stakeholders the public
participation protections of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). When crafting guidance,
the agency is not obligated, and rarely seeks, public participation. Therefore, the only remedy to
flawed guidance—if any—is either expensive litigation or the hope of congressional
intervention.
The rule is riddled with flaws and ambiguities that create confusion and uncertainty. For
example, the rule fails to define essential terms, such as “water” and “dry land,” that are critical
for determining whether a landscape feature is a regulated “water of the United States.”
Moreover, the rule fails to clarify key concepts, such as “floodplain” and “ordinary high water
mark” that have been widely recognized to cause confusion and lead to inconsistent
jurisdictional decisions in the field. These flaws are not superficial; they go to the rule’s basic
foundation and cannot be addressed effectively through guidance.
2. November 18, 2015
Page 2
Legal precedent establishes that guidance cannot be used to make substantive changes to a rule.
For the agencies to properly address these legitimate issues, a new rule is required. See U.S.
Telecom. Ass'n v. FCC, 400 F.3d 29, 35 (D.C. Cir. 2005); Shalala v. Guernsey Mem'l Hosp., 514
U.S. 87, 100 (1995). Under the APA, if the agencies made the necessary revisions to the rule,
they would be required to provide the public with notice of the new proposal and an opportunity
for comment. Indeed, in the myriad legal challenges against the rule—brought by 31 states and
over 50 industry and local water management groups—many parties have asserted that the final
rule is not a logical outgrowth of the proposed rule because the agencies improperly made
significant changes to the final rule that a reasonable person would not have anticipated. See
Small Refiner Lead Phase-Down Task Force v. EPA, 705 F.2d 506, 549 (D.C. Cir. 1983). At
this point, guidance would widen the gap between the proposed rule and the final rule, and
compound noncompliance with the APA.
Unfortunately, this rulemaking is history repeating itself. When faced with criticism over the
ambiguity of the Rapanos Guidance in 2008, the agencies claimed that specifics could only be
provided through rulemaking. Yet, the agencies have now promulgated a rule even vaguer than
the underlying statute, and one that raises more questions than it answers regarding the
jurisdictional status of different waterbodies. Calling for more guidance only perpetuates the
endless loop of the agencies avoiding the tough issues.
The final rule’s inherent ambiguity on fundamental issues does not provide the basis for effective
and consistent jurisdictional decisions, but is instead a recipe for arbitrary and capricious
enforcement. Because violations of the Clean Water Act carry the potential for criminal liability,
the possibility of a cure by non-binding guidance provides cold comfort to any American who
must navigate the uncertainties of the rule and is a recipe for arbitrary and capricious
enforcement decisions.
We continue to support S. 1140 and H.R. 1732, and the need for legislative action. While we
were disappointed that the Senate was not allowed to proceed to a full debate and final vote on S.
1140, the interests of such a diverse and large segment of the U.S. economic engine, including
the construction, real estate, mining, agriculture, transportation, forestry, manufacturing, energy,
wildlife conservation and recreation sectors, should not be ignored.
We need your help to obtain real and meaningful solutions to a broken rule.
Sincerely,
Agricultural Retailers Association
American Exploration & Mining Association
American Farm Bureau Federation
American Gas Association
American Petroleum Institute
American Public Power Association
American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA)
Associated Builders and Contractors
The Associated General Contractors of America
Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM)
3. November 18, 2015
Page 3
Association of Oil Pipe Lines
Club Managers Association of America
Corn Refiners Association
CropLife America
Edison Electric Institute
Federal Forest Resources Coalition
The Fertilizer Institute
Golf Course Superintendents Association of America
The Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA)
Industrial Minerals Association – North America
International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)
International Liquid Terminals Association (ILTA)
Leading Builders of America
National Association of Home Builders
National Cattlemen's Beef Association
National Club Association
National Corn Growers Association
National Industrial Sand Association
National Mining Association
National Multifamily Housing Council
National Oilseed Processors Association
National Pork Producers Council (NPPC)
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA)
Public Lands Council
Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment (RISE)
Southeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association
Sports Turf Managers Association
Texas Wildlife Association
Treated Wood Council
United Egg Producers
U.S. Chamber of Commerce