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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Recovery Act"”.
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Dual mandates or dueling mandates : federal energy efficiency programs and the Recovery Act
… 2009, President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) into law, providing billions of dollars in funding for federal energy efficiency programs. ARRA represented different things to different people and the programs it funds are being used to accomplish more than …
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Some redistributive and macroeconomic impacts of the National Industrial Recovery Act, 1933-1935.
Thesis. 1979. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics.
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The Political Future of Cities: Camden, New Jersey and the Municipal Rehabilitation and Economic Recovery Act of 2002
… The Municipal Rehabilitation and Economic Recovery Act ("Camden Recovery Act") passed in 2002 was state-level legislation designed to intervene in Camden's municipal operations and re-structure economic development in the city in a way not seen since the Great Depression. Through the Camden …
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Economic Revolution From Within: Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt And The Emergence Of The National Industrial Recovery Act Of 1933
… AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY ACT OF 1933</p> <p>By</p> <p>Angella LaNette Smith</p> <p>August of 2015</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Faue</p> <p>Major: History</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p> This dissertation seeks to place the National Recovery …
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Environmental justice and participatory democracy: An emancipatory policy proposal
… guidelines for the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The author argues that four challenges must be addressed before the goal of environmental justice can be achieved. These challenges include the challenge of citizen participation, the epistemological challenge, the challenge of …
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Pollution control upgrade of a hazardous waste incinerator to comply with regulatory requirements
… Ammunition Plant (RAAP) is an industrial manufacturing facility which produces propellants used in conventional munitions. Two rotary kiln incinerators are used to destroy waste propellant generated during the manufacturing process. These two units are the only hazardous waste incinerators …
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Solidification and Stabilization of Contaminated Soil
… Substances under Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The site discussed in this paper was contaminated with Naphthalene, heavy metals and other VOCs. In order to find an effective remediation solution it was decided to explore the feasibility of using S/S. Research conducted …
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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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The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit : HERA, ARRA and beyond
… housing. Since its creation in the Tax Reform Act of 1986 as Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 42, the LIHTC program has helped finance over 1,670,000 housing units. LIHTC has endured the test of time due to its strength both in the public policy and political spheres as well as its …
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The Challenges Associated with the Implementation of the New Teacher Evaluation Model, Achieve NJ: A Building- Based Administrators Perspective
… of K-12 education. It is funded by the Education Recovery Act as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and was announced by President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on July 24, 2009. States were awarded points for satisfying certain educational policies, …
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Solid Waste Management in Indian Country: Multiple Sovereigns and Multiple Relationships At the Nexus of Federalism and Tribal Governance
… Under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, the issue of solid waste management in what is known as Indian country is used as a lens to examine the multiple relationships among these multiple sovereigns. Interviews were conducted with forty-five key informants from …
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Business innovation and regulatory enforcement: case studies of the big box retail industry and enforcement of RCRA
… how has enforcement of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) adapted to the Big Box business system innovation? Additionally, the study explored the possible nature of regulatory choke points that may emerge from the enforcement of RCRA in the Big Box retail system. This study used …
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Capitalizing on a third wave of federal investment : reenvisioning an energy efficiency retrofit strategy for Oakland, California
… Oakland leaders believe that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 can help relieve the city of these ailments. Thus far, the City has received over $200 million in Stimulus awards from the government. Over one third of the grant total is designated for workforce and economic …
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Connecting Communities: Factors Influencing Project Implementation Success in the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program
This dissertation explores factors that influenced key performance indicators for project implementation success in broadband infrastructure projects funded by the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP), part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). Key …
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Superintendent and School Board Relationships: Applying Leadership Strategies to Maintain Quality Public Schools During an Economic Recession
… revenue shortfall. This study describes those actions that promoted and improved trust between the School Board and the Board of Supervisors. This study addresses the following research questions: 1. What political and relationship factors contributed to maintaining level local funding in …
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Evaluation of Stability Parameters for Landfills
… of landfills, called leachate recycle and bioreactor landfills, have been designed and tested as an enhanced environment for biochemical degradation of municipal solid waste. All the landfills are regulated under Subtitle D of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The shortage of …
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Field methods for rapidly characterizing contaminant mobility in paint waste during bridge rehabilitation
… which were constructed before 1989. This practice stems from the fact that there is no approved reliable, fast, and efficient method for classifying paint waste in-situ as non-hazardous. The main objective of this study was to develop a model that can predict the leachability of trace metals …
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The economic impacts of alternative underground storage tank regulations on the vulnerable segments of the retail motor fuel market in Virginia
… and the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA) amended subtitle I of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). RCRA now requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate regulations applicable to all owners and operators of underground storage tanks …
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Environmental liability, policy and technology in real estate development
… Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ("CERCLA"), 42 U.S.C. [paragraph]9601 et seq., "owner/operators" of contaminated real property may face cleanup costs that greatly exceed the value of the property. CERCLA liability is retroactive, is imposed without regard to fault, and - …