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42 U.S.C. 4371-4374. The Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970 is a United States environmental law which was passed to work in conjunction with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). One of the two major purposes of the Act was to authorize the creation of an Office of Environmental Quality to provide the professional ...
1970 – Williams-Steiger Occupational Safety and Health Act (created OSHA and NIOSH) 1970 – Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act; 1970 – Environmental Quality Improvement Act; 1972 – Federal Water Pollution Control Amendments of 1972 (P.L. 92-500). Major rewrite. 1972 – Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA ...
Richard Nixon, who proposed the EPA via Reorganization Plan No. 3. Reorganization Plan No. 3 was a United States presidential directive establishing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), effective December 2, 1970. [1] The order, published in the Federal Register on October 6, 1970, consolidated components from different federal agencies ...
Federal Power Act. Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act. Food Quality Protection Act. Fisheries Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens) Lacey Act. Marine Mammal Protection Act. Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Mineral Leasing Act. National Environmental Policy Act.
The United States Congress established the CEQ within the Executive Office of the President as part of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), during the Richard Nixon administration. [1] The CEQ was assigned additional responsibilities by the Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970. In enacting NEPA, Congress recognized ...
The California Environmental Quality Act is passed into law. January. The United States National Environmental Policy Act becomes effective. February. US President Richard Nixon gave the nation's first presidential message on the environment. April. The first Earth Day took place. Twenty million people participated in teach-ins in the United ...
The history of environmental law in the US can be traced back to early roots in common law doctrines, for example, the law of nuisance and the public trust doctrine. The first environmental statute was the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, which has been largely superseded by the Clean Water Act (CWA). However, most current major environmental ...
The Act also set forth guidelines for abatement of water that may flow into international territory and prohibited the dumping of oil into navigable waters of the United States. [16] The Water Quality Improvement Act of 1970 required the development of certain water quality standards and expanded federal authority in upholding the standards. [17]