Sentences with phrase «federal water projects»

In that role, she led over 300 attorneys in 16 offices nationwide and acquired significant experience in onshore and offshore energy development (conventional and renewable), the administration of federal water projects, conservation and wildlife legal requirements, and public land law.

The state and federal water projects will be able to hold back 150,000 acre - feet of water that would otherwise be required to flow down rivers and through the delta to maintain salinity standards.

Curtailment of state and federal water project deliveries for agricultural irrigation have already resulted multi-billion dollar losses as thousands of acres of farmland are fallowed.

Not exact matches

An ambitious water supply project in Western Australia's South West is set to proceed after gaining federal government backing, with Collie Water chairman Peter Fogarty saying he was well advanced in securing private investors to complete funwater supply project in Western Australia's South West is set to proceed after gaining federal government backing, with Collie Water chairman Peter Fogarty saying he was well advanced in securing private investors to complete funWater chairman Peter Fogarty saying he was well advanced in securing private investors to complete funding.

While federal panjandrums argue that the tar sands may be key to our economic prosperity, our politicians couldn't put aside their partisan views long enough to complete a national report on the project's formidable water liabilities.

Atlantic Sand Assessment Project — To help coastal communities recover from Hurricane Sandy, promote resilient coastal systems, and help build a national offshore sand inventory, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) sponsored offshore surveys to identify new sources of sand in federal waters from Miami, Florida to Massachusetts in 2015 and several site specific surveys in 2016 and 2017.

Since 2015, infrastructure projects paid for by federal dollars have had to plan ahead for floods and water damage.

Mass Audubon submits comments on select land - based wind projects in Massachusetts and at the federal level with a focus on siting, impacts to protected land, habitat, and water resources.

The projects will be funded by the state Open Space Land Acquisition and Development grants and the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund grants.

A scheduled vote today by the Public Authorities Control Board on a controversial plan to move $ 511 million in clean water funds to the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement project is being closely watched by federal regulators and lawmakers across the state.

Federal budget proposals in the House and Senate threaten water and sewer infrastructure projects that would help clean up polluted waterways, including the planned restoration of Scajaquada Creek, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has urged members of the county's congressional delegation to help secure federal funding to implement projects designed to combat harmful algal blooms and improve water quality.

Particularly disturbing is that if Cuomo succeeds in taking — mainly federal — clean water funds for a bridge project, he will open the door for other governors to do the same.

«I would bring local control back to town government, take advantage of our local resources, especially our water system, fight for the taxpayer at every level, especially state and federal, and get water and sewer projects back on track to be in the best interests of the town, not just a cost burden directed by others.»

PFOA Project asked whether there is a role for the federal government to play in the Hoosick Falls water contamination issue, given the local desire for medical monitoring.

Cuomo urged LIPA to approve an offshore wind farm 30 miles from Montauk and said the state would commit to other offshore projects that would place hundreds of turbines in federal waters off the Long Island coast by 2030.

State lawmakers and the governor are discussing whether to spend billions of dollars on water quality upgrades and projects and Cuomo, too, has decried the proposed federal budget cuts as having a negative impact on New York.

By Isiaq Olumodan The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved a $ 470 million water project for the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

The Environmental Facilities Corp., which lends federal money for sewer plants and other clean - water projects, approved a $ 511 million loan to the Thruway Authority for 17 projects that are part of the building of a twin - span replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River.

In written testimony to Congress, Mayor Stephanie Miner says the number of water main breaks in Syracuse declined 18 percent since 2014, but the city needs federal aid to move forward with a $ 726 million project to fix its aging pipelines.

Bello said that the Federal Executive Council has approved $ 470m for the execution of the Greater Abuja Water project.

Senator Charles Schumer says he's trying to get more federal money to help update local water and sewer projects,.

Riverkeeper, Waterkeeper Alliance, and Environmental Advocates of New York Monday filed a lawsuit in State Supreme Court in Albany against New York State officials, seeking to ensure that federal Clean Water Act funds will not be used in building the new Tappan Zee Bridge or for future projects.

Environmental groups have opposed the loans, saying it's wrong to finance a bridge with federal funds intended for drinking water and sewage treatment projects.

They were calling for increased federal funding for municipal water projects, said Alexander Marion, her spokesman.

The 2007 Federal budget which focused on accelerating investments in Basic Physical and Human Resources Capital, which implies that government expenditure was to be channeled towards completing on - going projects in power, water, roads e.t.c.. However, assessing the 2007 budget, this budget recorded low outcome.

DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos says dredging improved the Hudson but the federal Environmental Protection Agency needs to re-evaluate the six - year project and get objective analysis in its ongoing review of fish, water and sediment data.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone today urged members of the Suffolk County congressional delegation to help secure federal funding that helps implement projects designed to combat harmful algal blooms and improve water quality.

The project is awaiting final federal approval and expects state approval for a water quality certificate by Nov. 23, spokeswoman Michelle Hook said.

Programme; state of the art ICT Centre for Federal Government Girls College, Onitsha; Free eye screening and treatment including provision of glasses for 5000 constituents; Annual charity programme for orphans, disabled persons, widows and less privileged; water borehole projects in many communities in her Constituency; and Primary Healthcare Centre at Umuerum in Ayamelum Local Council.

The report, by the independent Authorities Budget Office, says the Cuomo Administration mishandled its attempts to use $ 500 million dollars in federal Clean Water monies to help finance work on the massive Tappan Zee Bridge reconstruction, including ignoring a warning letter from the EPA that the bridge project was an inappropriate use of the revolving loan fund, which is supposed to go to communities who need to clean up pollution.

Before the methane storage project was approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in October 2014, hundreds of citizens tried every possible legal means to prevent the expansion of fracked gas storage at Seneca Lake, a source of drinking water for 100,000 people and to object to a form of industrialization that places us in harm's way.

It's the next phase in the $ 87 million consent decree, a water and sewer separation project that is mandated by the state and federal governments to prevent future sewage runoff into Lake Ontario.

You can access the table from the draft of chapter 7 that describes the federal, state, and large - scale local water quality projects that have been recently completed or are underway in the watershed.

The proposed cuts include $ 269.78 billion from energy programs, including $ 158.7 billion of fossil fuel subsidies; $ 167.09 billion of agricultural subsidies, including $ 89.82 billion of federal crop insurance disaster aid; $ 212.02 billion of transportation subsidies, including $ 125.80 billion of general revenue transfers to the Highway Trust Fund; $ 101.8 billion of federal flood, crop and nuclear insurance subsidies; and $ 24.99 billion from wasteful or environmental damaging public lands and water projects.

The federal and state government water projects are the two biggest suppliers in California.

That could set the stage for other offshore wind projects all along the East Coast as the federal government expands the waters available for new offshore wind farm development.

It's also the population level that makes it easier for a community to qualify for federal funding to support infrastructure projects like streets, water systems and parks.

The Strategy Municipal bonds, also known as munis, are issued by states, cities, counties and other government entities below the federal level in order to raise money for public improvements like highways, bridges, schools, hospitals, sewer systems, water treatment plants and other such projects.

Parties to the Basin Agreement include American Rivers and 8 other conservation organizations; four tribes (Karuk, Yurok, Klamath and Hoopa); Klamath County (OR), Siskiyou and Humboldt Counties (CA), the Klamath Water Users Association, farmers outside of the federal irrigation project, the Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman's Associations, the states of Oregon and California, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Commerce.

The proposed area is the largest in federal waters and will nearly double the area available for offshore wind energy projects in the U.S..

The State Water Project delivers only 10 percent, and the Federal Central Valley Project only 23 percent, for a total of 33 percent of the state's urban and agricultural water supplies (called «developed water&raqWater Project delivers only 10 percent, and the Federal Central Valley Project only 23 percent, for a total of 33 percent of the state's urban and agricultural water supplies (called «developed water&raqwater supplies (called «developed water&raqwater»).

An August 2010 joint study by the Environmental Integrity Project, Earthjustice, and the Sierra Club reported that 39 coal ash dump sites in 21 states have contaminated local drinking water or surface water with arsenic, lead, and other heavy metals at levels that exceed federal safe drinking water standards.

They promote spending $ 22 billion just in federal money during FY - 2014 on climate change studies; costly solar projects of every description; wind turbines that blight scenic vistas and slaughter millions of birds and bats annually, while wind energy developers are exempted from endangered species and other environmental laws that apply to all other industries; and ethanol programs that require millions of acres of farmland and vast quantities of water, fertilizer, pesticides and fossil fuel energy to produce a gasoline additive that reduces mileage, harms engines, drives up food prices... and increases CO2 emissions.

ACWA, a project of the Earth Island Institute (formerly the Campaign to Safeguard America's Waters (CSAW)-RRB-, works to prevent the degradation of public waters through advocacy, education, litigation, legislation and market campaigns in support of the fundamental goals of the federal Clean Water Act: (1) all Alaska waters should protect aquatic life and be safe for recreation, (2) the discharge of all pollutants into public waters should be eliminated.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FECR) forensic audit of the Oroville Dam Spillway crisis project found that failures were due to inadequate California Department of Water Resources (DWR) maintenance, repair of cracks, thin concrete slabs, poor drainage, and use of weathered rock.

The bill was in response to an earlier Bureau of Reclamation policy that warned hemp growers against using water stored in federal projects, because the plant was federally illegal.

Socially Responsible Agricultural Project (SRAP): To expand the Water Rangers Project which will recruit and train residents living downstream from factory farms, equipping them with the tools and expertise required to hold polluting operations accountable to state and federal environmental laws.

They say New York State environmental officials granted permits for the project in violation of a provision of the Federal Clean Water Act, which prohibits new releases of anything into a lake or river that is included on a list of «impaired» water boWater Act, which prohibits new releases of anything into a lake or river that is included on a list of «impaired» water bowater bodies.

She has prepared Environmental Impacts Statements, Operations Plans, Monitoring and Mitigation Plans, and Deep Water Port Applications and is very familiar with the requirements of and compliance with federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and guidelines for projects related to offshore energy development including National / State Environmental Policy Acts (Environmental Assessment / Environmental Impact Statements), Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act, Clean Water Act (including National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System), Coastal Zone Management Act, Water Resources Development Act, Endangered Species Act, Magnuson - Stevens Act, Rivers and Harbors Act, and the Oil Pollution Act.