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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Clean Water Act"”.
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Sediment Management for Aquatic Life Protection Under the Clean Water Act
… sediment presents a threat to natural freshwater ecosystems. Sediment management is complicated because sediment can be dissolved in the water column, suspended as particles in the water column, or rest on the bottom of the stream bed, and can move between these forms (e.g. bedded sediment …
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The Influence of the Clean Water Act and Tributaries on the Fish Community of the Big Sioux River, South Dakota
… site near the mouth that represented the entire watershed. Levels of nitrate and phosphorus were higher since 1974. Other water quality parameters (i.e., suspended solids and fecal coliform) have not changed across years. Species migrating up tributaries to spawn were white suckers Catostomus …
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Wetland mitigation banking as a tool for conservation
… mitigation banking under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act be employed by land trusts and conservation groups to generate revenue for funding land acquisitions and on-going stewardship for both wetland and wetland-related upland habitats threatened or impacted by development. Conservation …
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Neoliberalism, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Chesapeake Bay
… within the political process, has impacted environmentalism on a variety of levels. Without regulation, the neoliberal capitalist drive to maximize production, consumption, and profits is antagonistic to environmental sustainability. The influences that corporations and economic elites …
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Opportunities for Standardization in Monitoring of Best Management Practices in the Southeastern United States
Silvicultural activities, particularly forest harvesting operations, have the potential to negatively impact water quality. In order to lessen the probability that water quality degradation will occur, a suite of best management practices has been developed and adopted by southeastern states. The …
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A Cost Effective Approach to Taxonomic Resolution For Bioassessment and Monitoring Programs in the State of Georgia
… decisions can be made in accordance with the Clean Water Act. A cost-effective approach to accomplish mandates set forth by the Clean Water Act must be employed, as state budgets are limited. One means of examining costs is to assess taxonomic resolution. Taxonomic resolution not only assesses …
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Determinants of facility level environmental inspections
… This thesis investigates the scheduling of Clean Water Act inspections in Illinois and the extent to which these inspections are memoryless. Using facility level and local EPA agency level data, we test inspection strategies for common decision factors, such as environmental performance, and …
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Trading pollution for water quality : assessing the effects of market-based instruments in three basins
… of pollution reduction under the federal Clean Water Act has resulted from technology-based limits imposed on point source dischargers. However, most U.S. water bodies are unmonitored and of those that are, between 40 and 50 percent remain impaired. Given this limited progress, the U.S. …
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Regulatory competition and the politics of environmental enforcement
… instruments vis-a.-vis other states for attracting economic investment, the empirical literature has lagged far behind in testing the direct predictions of the race to the bottom argument. The purpose of this project is test the applicability of the race to the bottom argument in U.S. state …
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Assemblages of salamanders (Family Plethodontidae) in CWA 305(b) fully-supporting, partially-supporting, and non-supporting streams on Walden's Ridge, Tennessee
… communities in AMD affected streams. The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires that each navigable body of water in the United States be assigned a use designation and a support status based upon the stream's use designation and how it is affected by local pollution to be published in the CW A …
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A Comparison of Four Wetlands Assessment Procedures Relevant to the Alluvial Valleys of East Texas
… condition in support of the Section 404 Clean Water Act program. Four of these are: <em>Forested Wetlands in Alluvial Valleys of the Coastal Plain of the Southeastern United States</em> (SEHGM); <em>A Regional Guidebook for Applying the Hydrogeomorphic Approach to the Functional …
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Challenges of permitting ballast water discharges from commercial vessels in U.S. waters
… the Vessel General Permit (VGP), under the Clean Water Act (CWA), for discharges incidental to the normal operation of vessels, including ballast water discharges. This set forth permit requirements for most commercial vessel discharges within 3 nautical miles of U.S. shore. Since it will …
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Causes of the decline in the loss of vegetated palustrine wetlands in the U.S. 1955 - 2009
… performed to identify the major contributory factors in loss rates in the Midwest, Lower Mississippi River Valley and the Southeast United States. The variables considered are: Swampbuster provisions of the Food and Security Act of 1985, Conservation Reserve Program enrolled acreage and rental …
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All it takes is a nudge: pushing environmental federalism to tackle the massive non-point source pollution problem
… nutrient pollution in America's most prominent waters through the Clean Water Act continues to challenge administrators both on the ground and in the courts. Widespread hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico, impaired waterways in Florida, and a declining fishing industry in the Chesapeake Bay illustrate …
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Federal, state, and local government interactions in the administration of wetland protection measures in Virginia
… of Federal, state and local government interactions in administration of tidal wetland protection measures in Virginia. Federal protection for wetlands is authorized by the Clean Water Act [33 U.S.C.A. 1251 et seq. (1986), as amended (Supp. 1987)] and the Rivers and Harbors Act [33 U.S.C.A. …
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Improving Urban Watershed Health Through Suburban Infill Design and Development
… 2030 may â be redirected inward or into more compact, mixed-use suburban developments (Nelson, 2004). If this assertion is even nearly true, and if the goals of the Clean Water Act are to be met in the next generation of American cities, then we must find feasible and effective ways of improving …
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Sustainable development or just plain development? An analysis of sustainability indicators for Chattanooga, Tennessee
… environmental areas, including improved air and water quality since the 1970's, much of this improvement is largely due to federallyadopted laws such as the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). Many …
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Development of a Risk Assessment Model to Assess TMDL Implementation Strategies
High levels of fecal indicator bacteria (e.g. E. coli) are the leading cause of identified surface water impairments in the United States. The US Clean Water Act of 1972 requires that jurisdictions establish priority rankings for impaired waterways and develop a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) plan …
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Essays On Strategic Choices Over Impaired Water Quality
… private citizens in relation to impairment of water quality over both surface and drinking water in the United States. In the first chapter, I investigate whether delegating responsibility for surface water quality management to state governments generates negative externalities against …
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Environmental justice and public participation: Implementing source water protection in eastern Ontario
… explored through the lens of the Ontario Source Water Protection (SWP) Initiative in the Raisin Region Source Protection Area. As Source Water Protection is ongoing, it provides an outstanding opportunity to observe the implementation of public participation within a decision-making process. …
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