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Disadvantaged Businesses: A Review of Federal Assistance

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Jan 14, 2002

Environmental Protection Agency.72 The Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 198673 authorizes funds to clean up hazardous waste sites throughout the country. … CRS-22 historically black colleges and universities.74 This provision was continued in EPA’s FY1993 appropriations act75 and remains in effect.76 The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990,77 while specifically

Critical Minerals and U.S. Public Policy

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Jun 28, 2019

P.L. 95-341) Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. §7401 et seq. … Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. §1251 et seq. Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. §1531 et seq.

Israel: Possible Military Strike Against Iran’s Nuclear Facilities

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Sep 28, 2012

For some period of time, Israeli leaders have conveyed their view that Israel may similarly be compelled to act to prevent a potentially nuclear-armed Iran. … Air Force officers were killed.

Cyclones Idai and Kenneth in Southeastern Africa: Humanitarian and Recovery Response in Brief

Congressional research report · CRS Report · May 10, 2019

Heavy reliance on and demand for air transport capacity initially created an aid delivery bottleneck. … On March 24, DOD announced that Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan had authorized U.S.

Legislative Approaches to Defining “Waters of the United States”

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Dec 29, 2010

In June 2009, a Senate committee approved S. 787, the Clean Water Restoration Act. … that were the subject of the SWANCC ruling. 16 “How America’s Commitment to Clean Water Act Addresses Comments to Prior Legislation,” http://transportation.house.gov/Media/file/water/ACCWA/Comparison

Spectrum Management: Public Safety and the Transition to Digital Television

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Nov 24, 2003

CRS-4 undefined period of time if three major conditions were met. … to end the licenses for analog, over-the-air broadcasting.

Foreign and Defense Policy: Key Issues in the 106th Congress

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Jan 4, 1999

The Department of Defense (DOD) has six basic theater missile defense weapons programs: Patriot (PAC-3), Navy Area (NA) defense, Medium-Extended Air Defense System (MEADS), Theater High Altitude Air Defense … , funding for developing countries under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), compliance, and enforcement.

How Changes in the Economics of Broadcast Television Are Affecting News and Sports Programming and the Policy Goals of Localism, Diversity of Voices, and Competition

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Oct 20, 2010

Ownership Rules and Other Rules Adopted Pursuant to Section 202 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, MB Docket No. 09-182, Comments of the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters, July 12, … In the six-month period ending September 30, 2009, compared to the same period a year earlier, newspaper circulation fell 10.6% daily and 7.1% Sundays.

Organized Crime: An Evolving Challenge for U.S. Law Enforcement

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Jan 11, 2013

She turned from exclusive reliance on air transit to include the use of maritime shipping as her operation matured. … Several pawn shops bought these stolen goods from boosters, cleaned them, and then transported them to other locations for resale.

Energy in 2001: Crisis Again?

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Jul 31, 2001

During the period 1986 to 1999, oil and gas consumption increased by about 23%, while GDP increased 51%. … The effect such advances may have in any one period is largely unmeasurable and completely unpredictable.

Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Issues and Arguments

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Mar 12, 2008

some “clean” earth penetrator weapons. … or periods” (Article X).

Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2015

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Feb 2, 2015

period established by the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010. … FY2015 H.R. 5171 Chairman Enacted As Reported Recommended (P.L. 113-235) FY2014 Enacted (P.L. 113-76) FY2015 Request $120.4 $118.5 $112.7 $117.5 $116.5 Clean Air Allowance Trading Program 8.6

Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR-TB): Quarantine and Isolation

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Jun 5, 2007

These proposed regulations were available for a 60-day comment period, and later extended for an additional 30 days, closing on March 1, 2006. See 71 Fed. Reg. 4544 (January 27, 2006). … These standards are incorporated into the regulations for the Air Carriers Access Act at 14 C.F.R. §382.51.

USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (H.R. 3199): A Brief Look

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Feb 3, 2006

It does include a clarifying amendment that provides an adjusted procedure for capital air piracy cases occurring between 1974 and 1994. … chemicals; enhanced criminal sanctions; expanded meth lab clean up measures; and grant programs to address problems associated with methamphetamine (meth) abuse.

Commercial Space: Federal Regulation, Oversight, and Utilization

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Nov 29, 2018

Commercial Spaceports with Active Licenses Site Operator First Licensed Comments California Spaceport Vandenberg AFB, CA Harris Corporation 1996 Located at an Air Force launch facility Mid-Atlantic … This limitation, sometimes referred to as a moratorium or learning period, was initially enacted in 2004 for an eight-year period.22 It has been extended several times and is currently in effect until

Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2006

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Feb 1, 2006

Department of Agriculture R&D ($ in millions) FY2004 Act. FY2005 Act. Agric. … The FY2006 amount of $19.8 million for global change clean air research is slightly greater than the FY2005 level of $19.6 million.

Pesticide Registration and Tolerance Fees: An Overview

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Nov 5, 2013

For example, the Clean Air Act (CAA) Title V permitting program operates in part using fees collected from permit applicants and permittees, based on authority for EPA and state agencies to collect “.. … . all reasonable (direct and indirect) costs required to develop and administer the permit program” (CAA §502(b)(3)(B)(1); see CRS Report RL33632, Clean Air Permitting: Implementation and Issues, by (name

H.R. 1 (Implementing the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007) and S. 4 (Improving America’s Security Act of 2007): A Comparative Analysis

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Mar 29, 2007

See CRS Report RL32022, Air Cargo Security, by (name redacted). … The report also is to include the changes in vulnerability for each sector over the time period covered by the report (current and the preceding two fiscal years); explanations or comments by the Secretary

China-U.S. Relations in the 109th Congress

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Dec 31, 2006

U.S. policymakers generally continued to try to maintain a delicate balancing act between Taiwan and the PRC, periodically admonishing each side not to take provocative action that could destabilize the … -Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992 (P.L. 102-383).

Clean Water Act Issues in the 109th Congress

Congressional research report · CRS Report · May 24, 2006

Clean Water Act Issues in the 109th Congress SUMMARY Legislative initiatives to comprehensively amend the Clean Water Act (CWA) have stalled for some time as interested parties have debated whether … Several other Clean Water Act issues could receive congressional attention.