Sentences with phrase «amounts of public lands»

We expect they will seek help for «gateway communities» to use the park's huge amounts of public lands, wild waterways and public trails as an economic advantage.

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Swedish food waste app Karma has landed in the UK, with 50 of London's restaurants and eateries signing up for the opportunity to sell surplus food to the public and reduce the amount of edible food needlessly thrown away.

The proposal would allocate portions of the cost of engineering services to design and prepare construction plans for public improvements, such as roads, sewer and water lines, sidewalks and streetlights, according to the amount of land owned.

Empire Government Strategies took in $ 284,500, a minuscule amount when compared with the largest New York lobbying firms but enough to land it third on a list of fastest - growing firms, according to the New York Public Interest Research Group report.

The university owns a significant amount of untaxed land within Syracuse, meaning city taxpayers bear the price of providing fire and police protection, public works and other municipal services.

SU owns «a significant amount of untaxed land» within the city, so Syracuse taxpayers must pay for providing fire and police protection to the university, among other public works and municipal service, according to The Associated Press.

On average, the federal government contributes about 10 percent to the total amount spent on public education, but these dollars account for a larger portion of many high - poverty districts» budgets.11 For example, Los Angeles Unified School District and Chicago Public Schools — both high - poverty districts — receive about 15 percent of their budgets from the Education Department.12 These dollars serve essential purposes, such as supplementing services for low - income students, defraying the cost of individualized education programs for students with disabilities, and compensating for a loss of property tax due to federally ownedpublic education, but these dollars account for a larger portion of many high - poverty districts» budgets.11 For example, Los Angeles Unified School District and Chicago Public Schools — both high - poverty districts — receive about 15 percent of their budgets from the Education Department.12 These dollars serve essential purposes, such as supplementing services for low - income students, defraying the cost of individualized education programs for students with disabilities, and compensating for a loss of property tax due to federally ownedPublic Schools — both high - poverty districts — receive about 15 percent of their budgets from the Education Department.12 These dollars serve essential purposes, such as supplementing services for low - income students, defraying the cost of individualized education programs for students with disabilities, and compensating for a loss of property tax due to federally owned land.

The Rocky Mountains, commonly referred to as the «Rockies», are a mountainous region that stretch 3,000 miles from the northern-most part of British Columbia in Western Canada, to New Mexico in the Southwest United States.The striking landscape is surrounded by public parks and forest lands, which over the years have drawn in mass amounts of tourism, particularly -LSB-...]

In this case, though, the land and building were acquired and built with a large amount of public money (New York State Dormitory Authority, etc.) Cooper Union is turning what was intended to a reasonably profitable public amenity into its own private mint.

Put another way, Congress could raise all of the funds needed to support long - term investments in this Energy Security Trust by increasing royalties paid for producing oil and gas from public lands and waters by an amount less than the typical daily fluctuations of oil and gas commodity prices.

«Today's ruling makes sure that coal mines can't build roads in Colorado's precious national forest roadless areas unless and until the Forest Service makes an honest accounting of the huge amounts of climate pollution that such mining may cause,» said Alli Melton, Public Lands Direction for Crested Butte - based High Country Conservation Advocates.

up to 1 hectare of land for each 300 dwelling units proposed for residential development, as may be specified by by - law in accordance with section 42 (3) of the Planning Act, provided that in no case shall the amount of land required to be conveyed for park or other public recreational purposes exceed the equivalent of 25 % of the land proposed for development.