Sentences with phrase «federal responsibility»

Several Committee members assured the Australian delegation that they were indeed familiar with federalism, and emphasised the importance of federal responsibility for compliance with the Convention:

His abdication of federal responsibility leaves a void of conservation leadership which states and cities must fill.

The US Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 established federal responsibility for all civil used nuclear fuel and obliged the government to begin removing used fuel from nuclear facilities by 1998 for disposal in a federal facility.

Executive director Ed Whittingham lambasted the government's «five - year track record of failing to meaningfully tackle greenhouse gas pollution and avoiding federal responsibility for oil sands development.»

It's unclear what federal responsibilities are going to be trampled by this effort to provide basic information to those who really need it.

There was public pressure for federal action in many areas, and the White Paper on Employment and Income advocated federal responsibility for these areas.

Things that would be split up between federal responsibility and state responsibility in the USA would be just Danish responsibility in Denmark.

In its first issue, Education Week disclosed details of a 91 - page Reagan administration memo that called for downgrading the year - old U.S. Department of Education to sub-Cabinet status and shifting key federal responsibilities to the state and local levels.

FEMA will continue to have primary federal responsibility for emergency preparedness, response and recovery in major disasters and emergencies.

The document, as seen by CNN, justifies the liquidation of the body on the grounds that the arts already receive «notable funding support provided by private and other public sources» and because the current US administration «does not consider NEA activities to be core Federal responsibilities».

The US Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 established federal responsibility for all civil used nuclear fuel and obliged the government to begin removing used fuel from nuclear facilities by 1998 for disposal in a federal facility.

protection by the Federal Criminal Police Office against the dangers of international terrorism when a threat transcends the boundary of one Land, when the jurisdiction of a Land's police authorities can not be perceived, or when the highest authority of an individual Land requests the assumption of federal responsibility;

It amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act which came into law in 1982, establishing federal responsibility for all civil used nuclear fuel and obliging the government - through the Department of Energy (DOE)- to begin removing used fuel from nuclear facilities by 1998 for disposal in a federal facility.

The WA ministers in Julia Gillard's new government will have their hands full juggling the competing interests of their state and federal responsibilities.

Such a review might ask the following questions: is there adequate evidence to show there an urgent public need; does it support economic growth; does it serve the public interest; is it a federal responsibility; and is it affordable?

Andrew Weaver, BC Green Party leader, said that while what happens on the ocean is clearly a federal responsibility, spilled oil washing up on the coast is well within provincial jurisdiction.

According to the Federal Court's recent decision in Taseko Mines Ltd v Canada (Environment), «a project of such magnitude as the one considered in the present case [an open - pit gold and copper mine in British Columbia] will likely have impacts in areas of both provincial and federal responsibility.»

While many aspects of the new legal market involve coordination between levels of government across the country, regulation and licensing of producers to supply the recreational market is a federal responsibility administered by Health Canada.

Sean is a supporter of Congressman Jerry Nadler's Respect for Marriage Act, which would ensure that valid marriages are respected under federal law, providing couples with much - needed certainty that their lawful marriages will be honored under federal law and that they will have the same access to federal responsibilities and rights as all other married couples.

«We're going to pursue that aggressively because I believe this is a federal responsibility,» he said.

He said questions surrounding its constitutionality lie in whether securing the border should be a state or federal responsibility.

They say New York taxpayers should not shoulder the cost for a federal responsibility.

The DOL works with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency which has federal responsibility for asbestos exposure generally, under the Clean Air Act and the Toxics Substance and Control Act, and specifically in schools, under the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act.

We're going to pursue that aggressively because this is a federal responsibility,» believes Cuomo.

The Bavarian government has resisted a rapid conversion to MEU fuel — and insists that pricey nuclear - waste storage is a federal responsibility.

Basic research into teaching and learning is rightly considered a federal responsibility.

Education research can no longer be seen as solely a federal responsibility.

Re-adjust state and federal responsibilities.

Should this even be a federal responsibility?

Filing taxes is your federal responsibility.

I think that leads very clearly to the federal responsibility to step into this gap and what the feds could actually do and stay within their jurisdiction.

It was determined that, once a Federal decision - making process was properly engaged, the Federal environmental assessment could and should contemplate all impacts on areas of Federal responsibility, but no more than that.

But appointment to the Superior Court and Court of Appeal is a federal responsibility.

And, true enough, cross-border commerce does constitute a federal responsibility.

Employment insurance has been a federal responsibility since a 1940 constitutional amendment (made with the agreement of the provinces) that allowed Ottawa to establish a national unemployment insurance program.

At the time of Confederation in 1867, the British North America Act made «Indians, and Lands reserved for the Indians» a federal responsibility in the new Dominion of Canada.