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Aging Infrastructure: Dam Safety
To help inform discussions on the federal role in dam safety, this report provides background information on the nation’s dam safety activities and funding mechanisms.
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
Lane, Nic
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Agriculture Conservation Programs: A Scorecard
This report provides basic information on several agriculture conservation programs, primarily drawn from agency budget presentations and websites, about each program using a consistent format. This information should help respond to basic questions and resolve many common sources of confusion about the purposes of the program, program participation and policy topics.
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
Zinn, Jeffrey A. & Cowan, Tadlock
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Air Quality: EPA’s 2006 Changes to the Particulate Matter (PM) Standard
In order to better understand EPA’s actions, this report provides an analysis of the agency’s final 2006 revisions to the particulates NAAQS, and the estimated costs and benefits of the new standards and of a more stringent alternatives analyzed. The report concludes by highlighting concerns and issues raised regarding the revisions to the particulates standards, including those of the science advisory committee (Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, or CASAC), and actions in Congress.
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
Esworthy, Robert & McCarthy, James E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Air Quality Issues and Animal Agriculture: A Primer
This report reviews the types of air emissions from livestock and poultry operations and their human health and environmental impacts. It then discusses provisions of several federal laws concerned with environmental impacts, beginning with the Clean Water Act, because protecting water resources has been the primary regulatory focus regarding livestock and animal operations.
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
Copeland, Claudia
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Air Quality Issues and Animal Agriculture: EPA’s Air Compliance Agreement
This report discusses a plan announced by EPA in January 2005, called the Air Compliance Agreement, that would produce air quality monitoring data on animal agriculture emissions from a small number of farms, while at the same time protecting all participants (including farms where no monitoring takes place) through a “safe harbor” from liability under certain provisions of federal environmental laws.
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
Copeland, Claudia
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Animal Agriculture: Selected Issues for Congress
This report is a brief overview of some selected issues related to animal agriculture that are drawn from CRS reports.
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Animal Waste and Hazardous Substances: Current Laws and Legislative Issues
This report is about the importance of animal identification and its issues.
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Animal Waste and Water Quality: EPA Regulation of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)
This report provides background on the revised environmental rules, the previous Clean Water Act rules and the Clinton Administration proposal, and perspectives of key interest groups on the proposal and final regulations.
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
Copeland, Claudia
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Animal Welfare Act: Background and Selected Legislation
This report is on The Animal Welfare Act: Background and Selected Legislation.
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Biofuels Incentives: A Summary of Federal Programs
None
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
Yacobucci, Brent D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Clean Air Act Issues in the 110th Congress: Implementation and Oversight
This report provides a discussion of several interrelated air issues of interest in the 110th Congress, including revision of the particulate standards, the role of independent scientific review in the setting of air quality standards, multi-pollutant legislation for electric power plants, mercury from power plants, and New Source Review. This report provides an overview of these issues; CRS reports that contain additional information and detailed sources are referenced in the appropriate sections.
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
McCarthy, James E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Clean Water Act: A Summary of the Law
This report presents the Summary of the Clean Water Act Law describing the essence of the statute.
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
Copeland, Claudia
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change Legislation in the 109th Congress
This report provides information about the Climate Change Legislation in the 109th Congress.climate change and greenhouses were issues in the 109th congress as they have been in the past congress.
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
Yacobucci, Brent D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Oversight Manual
This report provides information about the Congressional Oversight Manual. Congressional Oversight of the executive is designed to fulfill a number of purposes like ensuring executive compliance with legislative intent etc.
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
Kaiser, Frederick M.; Oleszek, Walter J.; Tatelman, Todd B.; Halstead, T. J. & Rosenberg, Morton
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA): A Summary
This report summarizes the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act and the major regulatory program that mandate reporting by industrial facilities of releases of hazardous chemicals to the environment, as well as local planning to respond in the event of significant, accidental releases.
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
Schierow, Linda-Jo
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Protection Agency: FY2007 Appropriations Highlights
This report presents a table detailing EPA appropriations for FY2006 and FY2007. Among individual activities, both the full House and the Senate Appropriations Committee approved decreases and increases throughout EPA's eight appropriations accounts in their respective versions of H.R. 5386, when compared with the President's FY2007 request and the FY2006 appropriation.
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
Bearden, David M. & Esworthy, Robert
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Exemptions from Environmental Law for the Department of Defense: Background and Issues for Congress
Over time, Congress has included exemptions in several environmental statutes to ensure that requirements of those statutes would not restrict military training needs to the extent that national security would be compromised. This report discusses these exemptions and congressional disagreement over the need for broader exemptions in the absence of data on the overall impact of environmental requirements on training and readiness.
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
Bearden, David M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The “Farm Bill” in Brief
Federal farm support, food assistance, agricultural trade, marketing, and rural development policies are governed by a variety of separate laws. Although many of these policies can be and sometimes are modified through freestanding authorizing legislation, or as part of other laws, the omnibus, multi-year farm bill provides an opportunity for policymakers to address agricultural and food issues more comprehensively.
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Horse Slaughter Prevention Bills and Issues
This report provides an overview of the bills and issues of the Horse Slaughter Prevention Bills.
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
India-U.S. Relations
This report briefs the context of India - U.S relations and also discusses its bilateral issues
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
Kronstadt, K. Alan
System:
The UNT Digital Library
International Terrorism: Threat, Policy, and Response
None
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
Perl, Raphael F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks: Prevention and Cleanup
This report reviews the Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) program, related issues, and legislative changes made by the 109th Congress.
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
Tiemann, Mary
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Livestock Marketing and Competition Issues
None
Date:
January 3, 2007
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library