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| Provides for the development and regulation of the uses of nuclear materials and facilities in the U.S. | Atomic Energy Act |
| Established primary and secondary air quality standards. Required states to develop implementation plans. Sets limites and goals to reduce mobile source air pollution and ambient air quality standards. | Clean Air Act |
| Regulates and enforces all discharge into water sources and wetland destruction/construction. | Clean Water Acts |
| Established federal authority for emergency response and clean-up of hazardous substances that have been spilled, improperly disposed, or released into the environment. | Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation Liability Act |
| Purpose is to protect the public against unreasonable risks of injury associated with consumer products. | Consumer Product Safety Act |
| Controls the exploitation of endangered species through international legislation. Bans hunting, capturing, and selling of threatened species and bans the import of ivory. | Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species |
| Requires reporting of toxic releases: the Toxic Release Inventory; Encourages response for chemical releases | Emergency Planning & Community Right-To-Know Act |
| Protects species that are considered to be threatened or endangered. Includes migratory birds and their habitats. | Endangered Species Act |
| The Act originally publicizes radation protection standards for the Yucca Mountain repository. | Energy Policy Act |
| Authorizes the president to draw from the petroleum reserve as well as establishes a permanent home-heating oil reserve in the Northeast. Clarifies when the president can draw from these resources. | Energy Policy and Conservation Act |
| Assures the safety, wholesomeness, efficacy, and truthful packaging and labeling of food, drugs, cosmetics, and medical devices. | Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act |
| Requires that all pesticides are registered and approved by the FDA and creates a pesticide registry. | Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act |
| Authorized the surgeon general of the Public Health Service, with others, to prepare comprehensive programs for eliminating or reducing the pollution of interstate waters and tributaries and improving the sanitary condition of surface and underground waters. | Federal Water Pollution and Control Act |
| Set pesticide limits in food and all active and inactive ingredients must be screened for estrogenic/endocrine effects. | Food Quality Protection Act |
| The bill provides that the secretary of the interior will establish a royalty rate of from 2% to 5% of the value of locatable mineral production from any new mines on federal mineral lands. | Hardrock Mining and Reclamation |
| Governs the transportation of hazardous materials and wastes. | Hazardous Material Transportation Act |
| Authorized the president to assist countries in protecting and maintaining wildlife habitat and provides an active role in conservation by the Agency for International Development. | International Environmental Protection Act |
| Agreement among 150 nations requiring greenhouse gas emission reduction. | Koyoto Protocol |
| A conservation law prohibiting the transportation of illegally captured or prohibited animals across state lines. It was the first federal law protecting wildlife, and is still in effect, though it has been revised several times. Today the law is primarily used to prevent the importation or spread of potentially dangerous non-native species. | Lacey Act |
| International agreement that sets rules for the use of the world's oceans, which cover 70 percent of the Earth's surface. | Law of the Sea Convention |
| All states must have facilities to handle low level radioactive wastes. | Low Level Radioactive Policy Act |
| Moratorium on mineral exploration for 50 years in Antarctica. | Madrid Protocol |
| Regulates the dumping of wastes into oceans and coastal waters. | Marine Plastic Pollution Research and Control Act |
| Requires purchase of a stamp by waterfowl hunters. Revenue generated is used to acquire wetlands. Since its inception, the program has resulted in the protection of approximately 4.5 million acres of waterfowl habitat. | Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act |
| United States federal law that authorizes and governs prospecting and mining for economic minerals, such as gold, platinum, and silver, on federal public lands. | Mining Act of 1872 |
| Banned the production of aerosols and initiated the phase out of all CFCs. | Montreal Protocol |
| Set minimum efficiency standards for numerous categories of appliances. | National Appliance Energy Act |
| Authorized the Council on Environmental Quality as the oversight board for general conditions; directs federal agences to take environmental consequences into account in decision making; requires EIP statement be prepared for every major federal project having environmental impact. | National Environmental Policy Act |
| Created Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks. | National Park Act |
| Promotes a national environment free from noise that jeopardizes health and welfare. Establishes research, noise standards, and informaiton dissemination. | Noise Control Act |
| Established a site to identify for, and construct, and underground repository for spend nuclear reactor fuel and high-level radioactive waste from federal defense programs. | Nuclear Waste Policy Act |
| Created to protect workers' health. Its main aim was to ensure that employers provide their workers with an environment free from dangers to their safety and health, such as exposure to toxic chemicals, excessive noise levels, mechanical dangers, heat or cold stress, or unsanitary conditions. | Occupational Safety and Health Act |
| Makes it unlawful for any person to dump or transport for the purpose of dumping, sewage, sludge, or industrial waste into ocean waters. | Ocean Dumping Act |
| It states "a company cannot ship oil into the United States until it presents a plan to prevent spills that may occur. It must also have a detailed containment and cleanup plan in case of an oil spill emergency." | Oil Pollution Act |
| Requires facilities to reduce pollution at its source. Reduction cna be in volume or toxicity. | Pollution Prevention Act |
| Provides for the coordination of federal research and activities in noise control. Authorized FAA funds for development of noise abatement plans around airports. | Quiet Communites Act |
| Management of non-hazardous solid waste including landfills and storage tanks. Set minimal standards for all waste disposal facilities and for hazardous wastes. | Resource Conservation and Recovery Act |
| The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is allowed to set the standards for drinking water quality and oversees all of the states, localities, and water suppliers who implement these standards. | Safe Drinking Water Act |
| Provides for a continuing appraisal of U.S. soil, water, and related resources, including fish and wildlife habitats, and a soil and water conservation program to assist landowners. | Soil and Water Conservation Act |
| Established the soil conservation service, which deals with soil erosion problems, carries out soil surveys, and does research on soil salinity. | Soil Conservation Act |
| To find better and more efficient ways to dispose of solid waste; promotes shredding and separation of waste and burning of remaining materials to produce steam or generate electricity; promotes recycling | Solid Waste Disposal Act |
| United Nations Conference on Human Environment having considered the need for a common outlook and principles to inspire and guide the peoples of the world in the preservation and enhancement of the human environment. | Stockholm Declaration |
| Requires restoration of abandoned mines. | Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act |
| A United States federal law that regulates grazing on federal public land. The Secretary of the Interior has the authority to handle all of the regulations, and he bacame responsible for establishing grazing districts. Before these districts are created, there must be a hearing held by the state. | Taylor Grazing Act |
| EPA is given the ability to track the 75,000 industrial chemicals currently produced or imported into the United States. EPA repeatedly screens these chemicals and can require reporting or testing of those that may pose and environmental or human-health hazard. EPA can ban the manufacture and import of those chemicals that pose an unreasonable risk. | Toxic Substances Control Act |
| Provides for a plan to formulate and evaluate water and related land resources. | Water Resources Planning Act |
| Selected rivers in the United States are preserved for possessing outstandingly, remarkable scenic, recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural, or other similar values. | Wild and Scenic Rivers Act |
| Allowed Congress to set aside federally owned land for preseravation. | Wilderness Act |
