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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Public Comments"”.
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Handling and Analysis of Public Comments in Natural Resource Planning
… Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1970 required public input in any federal planning process or action. Consequently, natural resource planning can be characterized as more of a complex situation in recent years due to the increasing involvement of the number of constituents who want to be heard. …
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Comparing Apples: Predicting the effect of public comments on administrative rules
… questions about administrative rulemaking: • Do comments submitted on proposed rules vary in identifiable ways? • Do these differences directly relate to the likelihood that recommendations will be associated with changes to regulations? • Can these characteristics be incorporated into a model …
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A Descriptive Analysis of Public Comments Submitted in Response to Notice of Proposed Rules on Air Carrier Pilot Qualification
… In response, the U.S. Congress enacted Public Law 111-216, which requires a pilot to hold an Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) certificate in order to be qualified as a flight crewmember under 14 CFR, part 121, and also allows the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to modify the …
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Public Involvement in Forest Service Project-level Decision-making: A Qualitative Analysis of Public Comments, Administrative Appeals, and Legal Arguments from Case Studies on the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests
Public involvement and participation in Forest Service decision-making is a contentious issue attended by charges and countercharges, unsubstantiated accusations and counterclaims, and value-based arguments by all entities involved. Yet, the numbers of studies to substantiate the debate is …
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The rise and fall of open market emissions trading in New Jersey
… flaws discovered through interviews with, and public comments from, NJDEP and EPA officials, industry representatives, environmental advocates and former members of the New Jersey State Legislature. The results of this work are also placed against the political background that gave rise to open …
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NEPA implementation and trust: linking stakeholder trust to substantive effectiveness in U.S. Forest Service fuels reduction projects
… environmental effects and including the public in the process. Using documents and public comments from two U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Fuels Reduction projects in the Boulder Ranger District in Colorado, I assessed stakeholder trust judgements by coding trust types and frequencies. I then …
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Donogh O’Malley And The FreePost Primary Education Scheme
… dissertation is to analyse previously available public comments and the recently available private cabinet/ministerial and secondary school managerial papers regarding Minister O’Malley’s free education scheme. This is supplemented by letters, interviews and recollections of persons familiar with …
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Brandy Nan and Farmer George: Public Perceptions of Royal Health and the Demystification of English Monarchy During the Long Eighteenth Century
<p>This dissertation investigates how public comments related to the body natural and the body politic of the English monarchs, particularly in newspapers and other forms of print culture, changed between 1688 and 1789. It argues that by examining the depth and type of reportage on royal health and …
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Catholic Priests and Political Violence in Ireland, 1919-21
… the Catholic church's relationship with Irish republicanism has been fraught with contradictions. The present thesis has examined this relationship for a time when republicans fought a guerrilla war against the British forces. It has looked at the attitude of priests to the use of political …
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Beyond Consensus: A Rhetorical Genre Analysis of the Mountain Valley Pipeline's 401 Public Hearings
This study seeks to understand public and institutional uptake of the public hearing genre. More specifically, this study examines how public hearing genre conventions are established and how those conventions inform and often govern tensions that arise in public discourse about a contested …
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Corporate Reputation Management during a Social-Mediated Crisis: The Case of Clicks-TRESEmme Controversy
… use to manage its reputation? And how were public segments and stakeholder engagement reflected in Clicks’ TRESEmmé controversy social media responses during the crisis? The empirical data for this study were collected through a qualitative case study approach. Four Clicks’ official …
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Language technologies for understanding law, politics, and public policy
… into document structure in a large collection of public comments on regulations proposed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on net neutrality. These techniques aim to help citizens better understand political processes and help governments better understand political speech.
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Confined in the margins of the margins : the urban form of mass incarceration
… isolated and disconnected. Looking at the public comments and design descriptions for the facilities among the highest ranking and lowest ranking sites, I find that the design intention is to blend the facility into the rural landscape, and that the ability of residents to "forget that it's …
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The Policy, People, and Place Impacts of Mining for the Clean Energy Transition in the US
… through a series of interviews and pulling public comments. The first case study is of the East Boulder and Stillwater Mines. In this case, stakeholders came together to form a Good Neighbor Agreement, or a legally binding contract between the mine owner and grassroots community …
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Legal consideratios in developing and implementing the 2018 draft intergrated resources plan (IRP): a case study of the nuclear sector
… latest draft IRP 2018 which was published for public comments in the Government Gazette dramatically revises the forecast for SA’s energy demand downwards from a projection of 525 Terawatt hours (TWh) of power in 2050 to 430 TWh for the most optimistic ‘high’ scenario. This revision is the main …
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CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN FOREST SERVICE PLANNING IN ARIZONA
… and following Forest Service use of public comment in the planning process. Data from existing questionnaires and a short questionnaire developed specifically for planning forums were used to investigate forms of participation, determine which publics participate and ascertain levels …
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A Case Study of Political Participation in District-Level LGBTQ-Inclusive Policymaking
… or CSE. I also trace how the school district public forums, meant to solicit public comments and feedback on the curricular updates, became highly contested spaces through the outside involvement of an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group that organized a coordinated disinformation campaign in opposition to …
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An Evaluation of Ecosystem Management and Its Application to the National Environmental Policy Act: The Case of the U.S. Forest Service
… better reflection of reviewing agency and public comments and concerns; more influence of environmental data on project decisions; increased consideration of unquantifiable issues; and better integration of ecological, economic and social considerations through a decisionmaking framework. …
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The end of core : should disruptive innovation in telecommunication invoke discontinuous regulation?
… and qualitatively. For the analysis, public comments in response to the Telecommunications Act of 1996 Notice for Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) are compared with those in response to the IP-Enabled Services NPRM published in 2004. The analysis demonstrates how the differences in the …