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in December 2013 However DOI and DOE continue to support the V I through the V I Energy Office and Water and Power Authority s V I energize Services Unit In the summer of 2013 the U S Virgin Islands announced...communities roughly 220 are considered rural in that they lack roads and 8 are only served by air or water borne transportation Of the 220 rural communities 180 are primarily or solely reliant on diesel fuel...percent renewable contribution The remaining 100 000 will be used to develop a detailed analysis of how water treatment and pumping could be used as an energy storage mechanism within the context of these hybrid...
maintain diesel tank farms in each community Because fuel is delivered by barge during the short open water season we must be able to store fuel for an entire year at a minimum Since weather can delay the arrival...We install diversion systems that deflect excess wind generation to passive loads such as water boilers in water treatment plants and other public buildings and reduce the use of diesel fuel in those facilities...
AND NATURAL RESOURCES and THE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS SUBCOMMITTEE ON FISHERIES WATER AND WILDLIFE UNITED STATES SENATE ON Federal Mitigation Requirements and Interagency Coordination...offset environmental losses resulting from unavoidable impacts to waters of the United States caused by activities authorized by Clean Water Act permits Compensatory mitigation enters the analysis only after...General Permit Program General permits streamline the process of meeting the requirements of the Clean Water Act for projects with no more than minimal environmental impacts Of the 431 projects authorized 17...
ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS SUBCOMMITTEE ON FISHERIES WATER AND WILDLIFE UNITED STATES SENATE AUGUST 17 2015 Thank you Senator Murkowski and Senator Sullivan...negotiations lead Kuukpik to the conclusion that despite the inherent conflict between ANCSA and the Clean Water Act we needed the 404 permit We eventually agreed to set aside a 127 acre parcel in the area known...still in the process of finalizing the easement One of the many byzantine requirements of the Clean Water Act is that a qualified third party entity hold the easement and that an endowment be set up to fund...
CLARK VICE PRESIDENT OF LANDS AND SHAREHOLDER SERVICE OLGOONIK CORPORATION SUBCOMMITTEE ON FISHERIES WATER AND WILDLIFE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS AND COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES...full entitlement to our ANCSA lands It took BLM over twenty years to patent our lands to us Clean Water Act was amended to address wetland mitigation just as we were receiving the balance of our full entitlement...these purposes in mind we support the proposed legislation that provide ANCs exemption from Clean Water Act requirements where the applicant is an ANC and proposed projects are on ANC lands and have the...
and Natural Resources Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Fisheries Water and Wildlife Federal Mitigation Requirements and Interagency Coordination Related to Economic Development...protect the quality of scientific scenic historical ecological environmental air and atmospheric water resource and archeological values 1 In defining multiple use and sustained yield Congress called for...example because much of the lands in Alaska contain wetlands under the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act CWA the BLM works closely with the U S Army Corps of Engineers to ensure mitigation requirements...
Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Subcommittee of Fisheries Water and Wildlife Federal Mitigation Requirements by BLM and USACE Thank you for the opportunity to testify...miners certainly have struggles with the U S Army Corps of Engineers jurisdiction over the Clean Water Act Section 404 wetlands regulation The reality is a vast acreage of Alaska is wetlands so developing...
have focused on the harm to streams caused by valley fills and mine runoff I have analyzed scores of water discharge permits valley fill permits and mining permits I have also co chaired trials in federal...being implemented in southern Appalachia for coal mining are not meeting the objectives of the Clean Water Act to replace lost or degraded streams ecosystems and their functions Palmer 2014 Study Abstract...Letter at 4 West Virginia s 2014 water quality report found that over one quarter of the streams in central Appalachia are impaired by mine drainage and violate water quality standards WVDEP 2014 Report...
first and foremost about water quality It s about holding the industry to consistent baseline standards of protection and reclamation When Congress passed SMCRA in 1977 the Clean Water Act was already on the...reclamation under these new regulations I want to make sure we are doing everything we can to clean our waters As we re seeing in the industry today coal companies are not too big to fail With more than 3 billion...that everybody can be assured that polluters are paying and that we are moving forward with clean water in the United States Thank you very much...
conducting non federal oil or gas operations on lands or waters within an NPS unit regardless of the ownership or jurisdictional status of those lands or waters The proposed rule includes a procedure for bringing...in ANILCA The states are responsible for the conservation and sustainability of fish wildlife and water having entered the union on equal footing That responsibility can only be diminished by specific acts...management regulations do not apply to state and private inholdings including state owned navigable waters From 1980 through 1996 the agency had respected ANILCA s prohibition against applying regulations...
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