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The Tongass Timber Reform Act (TTRA) is an act that was intended to amend the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), with the primary intention to increase the protection of the Tongass National Forest from logging.
The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) is a United States federal law signed by President Jimmy Carter on December 2, 1980. [1] ANILCA provided varying degrees of special protection to over 157 million acres (640,000 km 2 ) of land, including national parks , national wildlife refuges , national monuments , wild and scenic ...
Local hiring is a goal or requirement to hire people who live close to the place of work. This aim is often more specifically structured as a requirement for contractors awarded certain types of publicly funded projects to recruit a certain proportion of the people working on the project from a particular area.
An agency shop is a form of union security agreement where the employer may hire union or non-union workers, and employees need not join the union in order to remain employed. [1] However, the non-union worker must pay a fee to cover collective bargaining costs. [1] The fee paid by non-union members under the agency shop is known as the "agency ...
This category collects articles on protected areas established under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) of 1980. Pages in category "ANILCA establishments" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
The settlement established Alaska Native claims to the land by transferring titles to twelve Alaska Native regional corporations and over 200 local village corporations. [1] A thirteenth regional corporation was later created for Alaska Natives who no longer resided in Alaska. [1] The act is codified in chapter 33 of title 43 of the US Code. [4]
In 1977 Representative Morris K. Udall introduced the first version of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) as H.R. 39, in which a 14-million-acre (57,000 km 2) Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and a 1.8-million-acre (7,300 km 2) Chisana National Preserve were proposed. Although supported by the Park Service, the bill ...
The Boston Harbor reclamation project that began in the 1980s became the focus of debate over the legality of PLAs. [12] [13] When the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority elected to use a PLA for the project that mandated union-only labor, [14] the Associated Builders and Contractors of Massachusetts/Rhode Island, Inc. challenged its legality, asserting that the use of a PLA was prohibited ...