Sentences with phrase «agency say their land»
Officials with the Adirondack Park Agency say their land - use plans are designed to encourage clustered development like this in order to protect natural resources.
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«Writing pieces for free / trade got my foot in the door and gave me a great working portfolio,» says Laura Viviana, copywriter, «which helped land my first agency gig.»
«The Israeli aggression on the T - 4 airport was carried out with F - 15 planes that fired several missiles from above Lebanese land,» the state news agency SANA said.
A notice slated to be published Friday in the Federal Register by the Bureau of Land Management said the agency «has concerns regarding the statutory authority, cost, complexity, feasibility, and other implications» of the 2016 rule, which is set to go fully into effect next month.
The UK government's waste agency has said that alternative protein sources will be needed for humans and livestock to reduce land and energy use.
The UK Government's waste agency has said that alternative protein sources will be needed for humans and livestock to reduce land and energy use.
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The Park District remains open to buying remaining portions of Sunny Ridge's campus if the adoption agency's officials choose to sell any more land, Dunsmuir said.
The park district is one of 46 agencies statewide awarded a total of more than $ 16.5 million from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources» Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development program, which helps local governments pay for the purchase and / or development of land for parks and open space, officials said.
St. Charles Park District Director Jim Breen said his agency proposed the land swap plan because it is the only way it can afford to buy and preserve a pair of former family farms totaling 160 acres near Bolcum and Crane Roads.
«Park land is not a land bank for other government agencies,» said Erma Tranter, of the Friends of the Park organization.
«Parkland is not a land bank for other government agencies,» said Erma Tranter of the Friends of the Park organization.
St. Charles Park District Director Jim Breen said his agency proposed the land swap plan because it is the only way it can afford to buy and preserve a pair of former family farms totaling 160 acres near Bolcum and...
Betts said Sunny Ridge's board declared the land surplus after the agency learned that there is no longer a projected need for a residential treatment program for teenage boys.
Mass Audubon President Gary Clayton said, «This designation enhances Mass Audubon's reputation as a model for responsible land conservation and stewardship, not only in how we approach our own projects, but as a willing partner with other conservation groups and government agencies.»
«Massachusetts can be proud it ranks in the top 15 among states in total amount of land protected — given that the Commonwealth is the seventh smallest state in the nation, and has relatively little land conservation activity by federal agencies,» Wilber said.
DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos said that while the agency encouraged the use of public land, concern over the Blue Hole — a popular swimming spot in the Catskills — had grown, as the «postage stamp - sized area» recently began drawing up to 1,000 visitors a day, resulting in new regulations.
«I'm excited for the opportunity to lead this great agency as we continue to protect and preserve the state's land, air and water resources for future generations,» said Seggos.
A former official in the administration of ex-Republican Gov. George Pataki confirmed the fact that many governors have engaged in this practice, saying: «Planting staff in agency land been going on for decades.»
Marc Gerstman, the department's acting commissioner, said government agencies routinely lobby the Legislature on issues they determine are in the state's interest, and NYCO's proposal to mine state land easily met that standard.
In the early 1970s, when the Adirondack Park Agency was created, people weren't used to zoning and land controls, said Neil Surprenant, director of library services at Paul Smith's College and the institution's resident historian.
The statement released by the agency said hydrofracking would be permitted on private lands «under rigorous and effective controls.»
Adirondack Park Agency Executive Director Terry Martino said, «Governor Andrew Cuomo's approval, of this Adirondack Park State Land classification package, represents significant protection for critical natural resources while balancing opportunities for outdoor recreation within the Adirondack Park.
Governor Aregbesola said in a bid for his administration to integrate on its various empowerment programmes, he set up an inter-ministerial agency, the Osun Rural Empowerment and Agriculture Programme (OREAP), the agency which comprises of the ministries of agriculture, lands, commerce, rural development, finance, health, works and so on.
The agency that oversees the Adirondack Forest Preserve is offering what stakeholders say is a compromise regarding the extent of wilderness that should be in a 20,530 - acre tract of land the state acquired in 2016.
We're looking for government agencies to be stewards of the land,» said Rachel Wieder, GSOR's director for the buyout and acquisition programs.
She said the DEC is the best agency to lead the review, especially since the Thruway Authority has never done a review of a major petroleum pipeline and some of the land involved is outside the authority's control.
The swap would open up efficiencies and relieve regular assessments by local officials, said the state agency, and payments on the state - owned land would likely increase under the new system.
«There's some discretion to the agency itself on which lands, if any lands, they would like to lease for that particular use,» Abbey said in an interview yesterday.
Henry Hogo, assistant deputy executive officer of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, said his agency offers guidelines for choosing school sites, but there are no regulations since it has no authority over land use planning.
Instead, the agency issues guidelines intended to minimize the risk of contamination: no more than 300 specks per square meter, say, for a landing pod actively involved in the life - detection process.
Although the disease hasn't been seen in North America, «the chance of someone infected with MERS landing on US shores is possible since international travelers that have been to the Arabian peninsula and exposed to the MERS CoV may be asymptomatic at the time of their travel» said Marasco, whose research on the virus is funded in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Institutes of Health.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is investigating what happened, and early reports suggest heavy thunderstorms that moved through the region over the past week could be to blame, agency spokeswoman Megan Crandall said.
Zehner says that the agency plans to build and launch at least five «sentinel» satellites to monitor not only trace gases that indicate pollution in the atmosphere, but also the surface temperature of the oceans, the movement of ice and the shifting of land masses.
The Trump administration is «not just going after the climate science in the agency, but going after the scientists... that do fundamental air and water and land work,» says Gina McCarthy, the last EPA administrator under former President Barack Obama.
«This is an agency in dire need of leadership from the new administration,» says Taylor McKinnon, public lands program director at the Center for Biological Diversity.
«If within the next five years, new sources of helium are not brought to market, there will be a helium shortage» if demand continues to grow at current rates, says Joseph Peterson of the Bureau of Land Management, the agency that manages the reserve.
«It's an unprecedented engagement that happened with private landowners and with state agencies to make sure that bird was not listed,» says Land Tawney, president of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, a Montana - based group that advocates for public lands access and wildlife protections.
More than 40 percent of China's arable land is suffering from degradation, official news agency Xinhua said, reducing its capacity to produce food for the world's biggest population.
NASA scientists are already utilizing Mars Trek to help select candidate landing sites for the agency's Mars 2020 rover mission, and say they plan to also use it to analyze and select candidate sites for manned missions to the planet in the 2030s.
Leigh Welling, the National Park Service's Climate Change Response Program chief and one of the agency's NAWPA representatives, said that in a warming world, it's critical that public lands and their ecosystems remain intact.
The agency says it plans to rotate photos showing various uses for federally managed lands.
Mike Pina says that with the help of DRC's Departmental Selective Placement Program Manager and the agency SPCs, he landed his perfect job.
And while from time to time you can hear someone say that it's rare for an agency to land a real catch at a pitch session, there are more than 50 working agents signed to listen to pitches at this year's conference.
We don't think the LaLa - land location is any accident, so we're expecting that the event will include some real Hollywood star power, perhaps in support of original video content that might be free to Amazon Prime customers for viewing on the Kindle Fire and other devices — say, an original docudrama series based loosely on the agency model pricing conspiracy, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Meryl Streep, and John Lithgow?
Henry Cabbage, spokesman for the commission, said the agency's main concern is feral - cat colonies on public lands, not those in neighborhoods.
The letter from the DOT — a response to an appeal from Greco's organization to allow the cats to remain on the land — said the agency would bring in a licensed landscaper to ensure the wetlands are properly taken care of; work with the health department to relocate the cats; and enlist the help of the Department of Sanitation to remove debris and «abandoned structures.»
In January, Greco said she received a letter from the Department of Transportation, which owns the land, that said the agency planned to relocate the cats.
«Encroachment into mangrove forests, which used to serve as a buffer between the rising tide, between big waves and storms and residential areas; all those lands have been destroyed,» the AFP news agency reported him as saying.
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