Sentences with phrase «need federal water»

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The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act requires the Secretary of the Interior, through BOEM, to prepare and maintain a schedule of proposed oil and gas lease sales in federal waters, indicating the size, timing, and location of auctions that would best meet national energy needs for the five - year period following its approval.

From the shelter, the presidential motorcade travel to First Church to help load water and food on vehicles bound for flood victims in need, and the president, who was asking Congress for almost $ 8 billion in emergency funding, also repeatedly applauded the federal relief efforts thus far.

I tend to come down on the side of: Why do we need a federal law that says the school must provide free water with lunch??

It's the first time the federal government suggested we need to know more about BPA, a handy substance used to make plastic rigid and found in such products as plastic baby bottles, sippy cups, sports water bottles, dental sealants, cans of baby formula and bike helmets.

The subject of that call: asking the federal government to increase funding for local governments to support water infrastructure needs.

Although interstate gas pipelines are largely the purview of the federal government, the state DEC is hedging on the water - quality permits the developers need to begin construction.

Though billions in federal monies are being allocated to communities for water infrastructure, Schumer argues that billions more are needed.

Drinking water systems across the state need to be upgraded, said the governor, due to standard aging paired with increased state and federal safeguards.

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.

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.

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.

Floss, however, contends that without professional expertise, it's harder for a Water Authority administrator to effectively lobby for state and federal support of water system nWater Authority administrator to effectively lobby for state and federal support of water system nwater system needs.

As for reallocating the U.N. payments to fix America's water and environmental infrastructure, Trump would need Congressional buy in, as Congress determines how federal money is spent.

The final BDCP is intended to provide the scientific underpinning needed to gain authorizations under federal and state endangered species laws to build the water diversion tunnel.

You'll need a separate federal policy to cover yourself against this type of water damage.

«The risks to (California's) water are real; and the state and federal agencies looking at our water problems need to do a better job of addressing them.

(Sec. 213) Amends the EPCA to: (1) revise the definition of «energy conservation standard» to include energy efficiency for certain covered equipment, water efficiency for certain covered equipment, and both energy and water efficiency for certain equipment; (2) allow the adoption of consensus and alternative test procedures for purposes of the Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products Other Than Automobiles; (3) require the Secretary to prescribe a new test method for televisions; (4) expand the list of criteria for prescribing new or amended energy conservation standards, including requiring Energy Guide labels to include the carbon output of each covered product; (5) require manufacturers of covered products to submit annual reports and information to DOE regarding compliance, economic impact, annual shipments, facility energy and water use, and sales data that could support an assessment of the need for regional standards; and (6) require state and local building codes to use appliance efficiency requirements that are no less stringent than those set by federal standards.

We are working with stakeholders, including federal, state and local officials, water management agencies, irrigators and conservationists, on innovative water - sharing and trading schemes that would allow water to move more freely from place to place and user to user, depending on need and supply in any given year.

Many proposed solar power plants are planned for federal land, and the need to undergo federal environmental review has complicated the licensing process as disputes have arisen over the industrial projects» impact on endangered wildlife like the desert tortoise and on scarce water supplies.

You'll need a separate federal policy to cover yourself against this type of water damage.

The organization hopes to see the review of the rule eliminate the need for costly and time - consuming permits on waters that were previously unregulated by the federal government.