Sentences with phrase «waters under the jurisdiction»

The legal maximum length of drift nets in waters under the jurisdiction of the European Union is 2.5 kilometres.

Not exact matches

The province's ban on unsolicited, door - to - door sales covers most heating, air and water services, but the MPP who pushed for it said it stops short of encompassing companies in other sectors because they don't all fall under provincial jurisdiction or generate as many complaints with Consumer Protection Ontario.

• Restore full collective bargaining rights; • Restore strong health and safety protections in workplaces under federal jurisdiction, watered down by the previous government; • Repeal anti-labour Bills C - 525 and C - 377; C - 10; C - 4; C - 59; • Restore pay equity in the public service, with full union right of representation; • Re-open the nine veterans» affairs offices shut down in 2014.

«The state should use its existing authority under our laws, as outlined above, to assert regulatory jurisdiction in order to protect the health and safety of New Yorkers and to protect the fragile water and lands of the Adirondack Park,» Janeway wrote.

Mr. Apoya expressed concern over the silence of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency about the development, since most of the areas listed to have the boreholes fall under their jurisdiction.

Under the Clean Water Act, the federal government had expanded their jurisdiction over waterways that expanded onto private property.

It is not the first time New York State has used the Clean Water Act to control energy infrastructure typically under federal jurisdiction.

But the president says they're just following the law: «The EPA is under a court order that says greenhouse gases are a pollutant that fall under their jurisdiction,» Barack Obama said after he declared legislation on cap and trade dead in the water in the wake of the elections.

Even if continental shelf extensions were conferred all the way to the North Pole — unambiguously in the overlying water column — high seas still would exist beyond sovereign jurisdictions, where more than 160 nations have rights and responsibilities under international law.

Upon Mr. Pruitt's confirmation, the Trump administration intends to waste little time issuing directives scaling back high - profile EPA regulations, including a rule cutting carbon emissions from power plants and another bringing more bodies of water under federal jurisdiction, according to several people close to the administration.

«UNITED STATES SENATE REPORT: From Preventing Pollution of Navigable and Interstate Waters to Regulating Farm Fields, Puddles and Dry Land: A Senate Report on the Expansion of Jurisdiction Claimed by the Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Water Act» (PDF), United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, September 20, 2016.

The main issue was whether phrases referring to «the territory of Morocco» and «waters under Moroccan jurisdiction» (Article 11 FPA), «fishing zones» of Morocco (Article 5 FPA), and «waters falling within the sovereignty or jurisdiction» of Morocco (Article 2 (a) FPA) were to be understood as including the waters adjacent to Western Sahara.

(1) For the purpose of this Treaty the territory of a Contracting Party shall include all territory under the jurisdiction of that Contracting Party, including air space and territorial waters and vessels and aircraft registered in that Contracting Party or aircraft leased without crew to a lessee who has his principal place of business, or, if the lessee has no such place of business, his permanent residence in, that Contracting Party if any such aircraft is in flight, or if any such vessel is on the high seas when the offense is committed.

The Clean Water Act guidance, which would increase the number of waters, streams and wetlands under the jurisdiction of the 1972 law, has been stalled at the White House Office of Management and Budget for more than a year.

The Obama administration is currently reviewing a controversial guidance document that it says will clarify what waters of the U.S. are under federal jurisdiction.

First, jurisdiction under the CWA is a fundamental and controversial concept to the law, and that the agencies have used their administrative powers to adopt broader and broader definitions of «waters of the U.S.» even though the statute has remained unchanged.

Changing the scope of federal law is solely the responsibility of Congress, and over the past several Congresses, the legislative branch has repeatedly determined not to expand federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act.

The EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have released a proposal to rescind the Waters of the United States rule that expanded federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act.

NAR has opposed this rule from its inception and will continue to push for a legislative solution to determine which waters are considered to be under federal jurisdiction and which are not.