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This Act was passed to monitor the commercial and national defense uses of atomic energy. Government concerns included radiation hazards and the disposal of radioactive waste.
What is Toxic Substances Control Act
100
The act focuses primarily on providing funds, technical and other assistance for fire prevention and control in rural communities and non-Federal forests and rural lands, implementing forestry incentive programs, the development and management of nonindustrial private forest lands, plus insect and disease control in these areas.
What is Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act
100
prohibits shooting or attempting to shoot or harassing any bird, fish, or other animal from aircraft except for certain specified reasons, including protection of wildlife, livestock, and human life as authorized by a Federal or State issued license or permit.
What is Airborne Hunting Act
100
maintenance of healthy populations of migratory birds in North America is depend on the protection, restoration and management of wetland ecosystems and associated habitats in Canada as well in the US and Mexico. Wetland provides essential and significant habitat for fish, shellfish or any other wildlife of commercial value. Approved Dec 13, 1989 amended March 2, 2004
What is North American Wetlands Conservation Act
100
Protects the native mammals, birds, and plants within their ecosystems this act applies to every person.
What is Antarctic Conservation Act
200
The 2015 Drinking Water Protection Act is closely related to the Safe Drinking Water Act. The act is trying to stop the spread of diseases and toxic in the drinking water system. One of the main thing they are trying to stop the spread of is Cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae. Which can be toxic with excessive amounts. The Drinking Water Protection Act first came out in 2001.
What is Drinking Water Protection Act
200
This act stands to protect wooded areas against logging to preserve nature and wildlife.
What is Forest Reserve Act
200
help protect exotic bird species from international trade.
What is Wild Bird Conservation Act
200
also known as “The safe drinking water and toxic enforcement act.” The goal was to protect he drinking water sources from toxic substances that may cause cancer and birth defects.
What is California Proposition 65
200
This act requires the operator of the mine to restore the land enough to be able to support what the land had supported in the past.
What is Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
300
The Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act was created in 1938, to ensure safety of food and products so they are safe to eat for consumers. The law enforces the amount of pesticides used and can cease products if they exceed it. Some pesticides are accepted if show have no harm. IT also enforces the law on drugs and medicine as well to keep them safe.
What is Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
300
This Act is a federal law that authorizes long term planning by the US Forest Service, to be able to ensure future supply of timber and other forest goods, while in the same part maintaining a healthy environment.
What is Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act
300
this act, it gave the federal government the ability to give aid to states for protection and restoration of game fish that are of some value.
What is Federal aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act aka Dingell-Johnson Act
300
This act provides funds and matching grants to federal, state and local governments for the acquisition of land and water, and easements on land and water, for the benefit of all Americans. There are many things that the fund focuses on the main thing it emphasizes on is the recreation and the protection of natural treasures in the forms of parks and protected forest and wildlife areas.
What is Land and Water Conservation Fund Act
300
The goal of this act is to have federal agencies act as responsible stewards of our nation's resources when their actions affect historic properties.
What is National Historic Preservation Act
400
FIFRA was passed to regulate the distribution, sale, and use of pesticides. It also requires that the EPA register all pesticides. In order to be registered, the manufacturer must prove that its pesticide "will not generally cause unreasonable adverse effects on the environment.''
What is Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act?
400
This act was established in 1976 to protect our national forests from timber harvesting, manages renewable resources and states what chemicals may or may not be used on plants. Also the act states that if a road be built on land with connection to a timber harvest, a permit or lease must be made with attempts to have the vegetation regrow and should be reestablished after 10 years of the contract.
What is National Forest Management Act
400
introduced after Congress noticed the population of the Bald Eagle was decreasing rapidly. This act prohibits the ability to possess, sell, hunt, or trap Bald Eagles (at the time it only included the Bald Eagle). This act also included the inability to possess eagle feathers, nests, eggs, or body parts unless obtained before the act was passed in 1940. In 1962 the act was amended to include the Golden Eagle which is closely related to the Bald Eagle.
What is Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act
400
ensure americans that they will have safe drinking water and oversees making sure that all companies are following the regulations for water quality.
What is Clean Water Act
400
was passed in 1924 to protect forest lands, reforest areas that had been cleared, and to extend National Forests.
What is Clark-McNary Act
500
The Clean Air Act is designed to control air pollution. It is one of the most influential environmental laws in the modern era. It’s focus is to keep our air clean. Obviously.. The National Government makes laws that protect the air and keeps our earth clean.
What is Clean Air Act
500
This act was made to reduce the natural fuels that are in the forests and also actions to prevent wide spread wild fires such as clearing vegetation and trees to create shaded fuel breaks, and research to prevent destructive insects.
What is Healthy Forests Initiative Act
500
Act says that migratory birds and their habitat will be managed and kept up with so that these animals will not go extinct.
What is Migratory Bird Treaty Act
500
The act is trying to stop the spread of diseases and toxic in the drinking water system.
What is Drinking Water Protection Act
500
designed to protect human health and the environment from waste hazards. It was also designed to dispose of waste (garbage) in an environmentally safe way, creating less waste. It also categorized hazardous materials with certain codes. This law was set in motion due to the amount of waste being created by the industrial age.
What is Lacey Act