Sentences with phrase «cumulative impacts required»

Assisted in defending, in a hotly contested federal administrative appeal, a project partner's NEPA review and determination of indirect and cumulative impacts required for analysis;

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«The cumulative cost could be far greater, but can not be determined, because two - thirds of the bills are not accompanied by the required fiscal impact statement,» David Friedfel of the budget commission said in a report released Tuesday.

Increasingly, environmentalists have been pressing the federal leasing agency to consider those cumulative impacts, and increasingly judges have been ruling that the 1970 NEPA statute, the foundation of modern environmental law, requires it.

The EA fails to acknowledge similar existing or planned projects throughout the Great Lakes that could increase the cumulative impacts on birds and bats — an evaluation required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

In addition, I - 1631 requires that 35 % of all funds provide «direct and meaningful» benefits to «pollution and health action areas» — regions where residents face a significant cumulative environmental health impact as measured by income, pollution and other challenges.

A third option would be to require the establishment of an «industrial association» specifically charged with mitigation of the cumulative impacts of Marcellus Shale development;

Understanding of low - probability / high - impact events and the cumulative impacts of sequences of smaller events, which is required for risk - based approaches to decision - making, is generally limited.