Sentences with phrase «without public review»

The city should put a limit on air rights that can be merged without public review.

Cuomo also said the tax law was passed «quickly and without any public review, and now you're seeing the backlash.»

At least the mayor's opposition moved Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito to pull her bill to boost food - truck and other street - vendor licenses: The next council can take a calm look at the idea, rather than rushing a plan through without public review.

Not exact matches

Two types of testing will be reviewed for public roads: fully autonomous cars without a driver, and those with a qualified driver who could take control at any time, similar to laws in the US where driverless cars have been tested on public roads since 2011 in some states.

Companies like this provision because their numbers are reviewed and revised by the S.E.C. without the public's knowing the agency's focus.

Practically every company that goes public these days first files to do so under the JOBS Act, a federal law which gives companies that meet certain criteria the ability to file confidentially while regulators at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission review its documents without subjecting them to public scrutiny.

An ambitious vision of the Supreme Court and constitutional judicial review as serving the ends of public virtue is without legal justification, except as bound tightly to the values incorporated into our national charter.

The group's name would change to the Office of Congressional Complaint Review, they would be barred from releasing information to the public and contacting law enforcement without prior approval and wouldn't be able to have anyone on staff who is responsible for communicating with the public.

That this House notes that the report of the inquiry conducted by Chief Constable Ian Johnston of the British Transport Police, and which was commissioned by the Metropolitan Police in December to review the arrest and investigation of the hon. Member for Ashford, has been withheld from public scrutiny and from Parliament despite the fact that parts of the report were released by the Metropolitan Police on 16 December 2008 and used in comments by Assistant Police Commissioner Bob Quick; and therefore calls on the Home Secretary to take appropriate measures to ensure that a copy of the report be placed in the Library without further delay.»

«Without a full, fair and open review of the potential risks of fracking in the Basin, the public will continue to question the federal government's ability to protect public health and environment.»

If you want to influence the boundary review process (and happen to have an advanced degree in psephology) there are a series of public hearings you're free attend, but with the Boundary Commission themselves having so little freedom to manoeuvre, its unclear if voters - without the time, resources and expertise - can generate a workable alternative.

It is clear that some forces are reviewing those on this benefit purely to make financial savings at the expense of elderly, infirm former officers injured protecting the public they served without a fair and proper process that meets the requirements of the legislation.

«Further, the Senate Republican proposal to create a «working group» to review Senate rules after they have been adopted without any public notice or input is like convening a jury after the prisoner has been sentenced,» Sampson said.

«Public sector workers across the country will be deeply concerned to have a review of their pensions sprung upon them on a Sunday morning — without proper consultation.

With roughly 15,000 Orange County residents still without power, County Executive Edward Diana has called on the State Public Service Commission to review local utility companies» performance in response to damage and outages left by the storm.

Mr. Stringer — who said not making public the contract issue would be «malpractice» — said though contracts have gone without review by the start of school before, he didn't think that should have been allowed.

Yesterday it was widely reported that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has agreed to ban fracking after a state environmental review found that the gas drilling method can not be employed without unacceptable risk to public health and the environment.

Chin added, «Today, I join Manhattan Borough President Brewer to renew our demand that our city provide the Two Bridges community a real opportunity to shape the future of their neighborhood... In order to turn the tide against out - of - control overdevelopment across our city, we need to act decisively and close loopholes that would allow for the construction of out - of - scale luxury towers without a robust and transparent public review.

Leaders of the oversight agency, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, offered public assurances that the department would have limited time — perhaps as few as 20 days — to launch a challenge, but the practice went into effect without any such restrictions.

Kruger (D - Brooklyn) sent former Deputy Mayor Robert Lieber a scathing letter in January 2008 threatening to sue the city because it wanted to begin the mandatory public review process on the dealership's portion of the project, without FCR's part.

Westchester County based - Riverkeeper has filed a lawsuit challenging the state Public Service Commission's approval to reactivate the Danskammer Power Plant in the Town of Newburgh without conducting a full environmental review.

But Kaehny said that forcing committee meetings to be scheduled ahead of time could actually correct a problem not addressed in the changes: making sure high - priority bills like the budget aren't jammed through without time for public review.

Cindy Williams, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher who chaired a study of the S&T directorate at the behest of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), told the House Science Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation that DHS was awarding «many basic research projects» without «competition or peer review.»

In the new review of studies led by Zhen Dong, a student in the Doctor of Public Health program, sulfur amino acid restriction consistently demonstrated a range of beneficial effects including enhanced lifespan — without calorie restriction.

«Those results we think are important because they indicate that if we were to initiate a restricted diet in adult human beings, we would still get the beneficial effects without having to worry about this issue of growth retardation,» said John Richie, professor of public health sciences and pharmacology at Penn State Cancer Institute, who oversaw the review.

Well, if you mashed - up the worst parts of the infamous «Howard the Duck,» «Gigli,» «Ishtar» and every other awful movie I've seen since I started reviewing professionally in 1981, it wouldn't begin to approach the sheer soul - sucking badness of the cringe - inducing «Movie 43,» which has been dumped on an unsuspecting public without advance press screenings.

The High Court on May 1 declined without comment to review the case, Bloomingdale Public Schools v. Washegesic (Case No. 94 - 1383).

It prefers unilateral announcements of agency policy without any form of public participation or review by other government agencies.

Review techniques to defeat an errant or hostile UAS without causing any collateral damage to essential navigation systems, wireless communications, the general public, or airport operations.

periodically reviewing public feedback online, without taking note of any PII made available to DOT on the web site or application;

Plaintiffs are environmental protection groups with a common goal to prevent defendant City of Los Angeles (the City) from implementing a program to trap, neuter and release feral cats to the outdoors without conducting an adequate environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act, Public Resources Code section 21000 et seq. (CEQA).

Third is its implementation; by making the list available for review without imposing any kind of confrontation requirement, they provide valuable information to the general public without turning average citizens into deputized law - enforcement officers.

«The Trump White House seems intent on letting corporations squeeze every last drop of oil from our shared, public lands — without proper scientific review,» added Tim Donaghy, Senior Research Specialist for Greenpeace USA.

It has been our experience that with vigorous review and oversight, projects like the proposed Keystone XL pipeline can be constructed and operated without jeopardizing public health or the environment.

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But the study has drawn controversy not just because of its findings but the manner in which they were made public without going through a prior peer - review process.

The federal government made a stunning 179,000 «categorical exclusions» that allowed corporations — many with disastrous environmental records — to use stimulus funding to sponsor projects without submitting them to review under the nation's «most basic form of environmental oversight», a new report from the Center for Public Integrity found.Making matters worse, many of these projects were approved under the auspices of being «green» or clean energy projects (many more are transportation - related)-- thus helping to comprise the billions of dollars in funding for green projects that sent progressives» hearts aflutter two years ago.

By June, 2015, it was clear to me that CGSB intended to put out for its mandatory public review stage, a draft standard that had been very improperly created and contained misstatements of law due to the re-writing of the legal section because of CGSB's declared «right of last edit,» i.e., editing without providing an opportunity for the lawyer - drafters of the legal section to review the results of such «last edit.»

The public continues to seek legal assistance online, often turning to online legal service companies that provide auto - generated legal documents or legal forms for a fee either with or without attorney review.

The Leahy - Smith America Invents Act created three new administrative proceedings to allow members of the public to challenge the validity of issued patents without the expense of federal court litigation: Inter partes review («IPR»), Post grant review («PGR»), and the Transitional Program for Covered Business Method Patents («CBM»).

The process to review Kinder Morgan's proposed pipeline expansion and tanker project was designed without First Nations consultation or public participation.

Public entities seeking to recover fees and costs under Code of Civil Procedure section 1038 — a fee - shifting section allowing such entities to recoup fees and costs if they can demonstrate a suit was brought in bad faith or without reasonable cause — should take extra care to review the next decision.

The American Bar Association in April of this year issued Ethics Opinion 466 stating that a lawyer may passively review a juror or potential juror's public presence on the Internet without violating Rule 3.5 (b) which prohibits ex parte communications with a juror.

One of the criticisms made in the Ontario Legislature (at about 13:45) of the current Bill 52, the Protection of Public Participation Act, which provides a fast - track review of alleged «strategic litigation» or SLAPP suits, is that it does nothing to prevent the threatening letters from lawyers that often have the desired chilling effect without the need for a lawsuit that could be subject to the review.

We reviewed the important purposes for which some commenters said government agencies needed protected health information, and we believe that most of those needs can be met through the other categories of permitted uses and disclosures without authorization allowed under the final rule, including provisions permitting covered entities to disclose information (subject to certain limitations) to government agencies for public health, health oversight, law enforcement, and otherwise as required by law.

We reviewed the important purposes identified in the comments for government access to protected health information, and believe that the disclosures of protected health information that should appropriately be made without individuals» authorization can be achieved through the other disclosures provided for in the final rule, including provisions permitting covered entities to disclose information (subject to certain limitations) to government agencies for public health, research, health oversight, law enforcement, and otherwise as required by law.

The existence of measures to allow and encourage a person servicing a sentence of imprisonment for public protection imposed under the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (CJA 2003), s 225 to progress is as inherent in the justification for his continued detention as the Parole Board reviews themselves; without them detention falls to be condemned as unlawful as if there were no such reviews at all.

An Article 36 review can not tell us if it is acceptable to the public conscience for a machine to kill without meaningful human control.

In BC we don't let applicants get a license without a criminal record check and once licensed, conviction of a criminal charge would get a review which could suspend the license in the public interest.

The action, filed in March in U.S. District Court in Washington, alleges that three critical changes to Nationwide Permit 26 were made final by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers without a public notice, comment, or review period, a violation of the Administrative Procedure Act and the Clean Water Act.