By Stephen Dycus
A cogent exam of the problems curious about employing environmental legislation to nationwide protection actions.
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They are cited by number, along with the volume and page of the Federal Register where they were publishedfor example, Exec. Order No. 12,856, 58 Fed. Reg. 41,981 (1993). Document numbers are provided for agency publications wherever possible. : Harvard Law Review Association, 1991). Most of the legal materials cited here, other than agency publications, can be found in any large law library. Most federal government documents are held by Government Depository Libraries, which are open to the public, or may be obtained by contacting the agencies listed in Appendix B.
Regulations to implement existing laws, many of them intended to guide operations of federal defense facilities, would be put on hold. And both President Clinton and a majority in Congress have said they would like to reduce the federal deficit and provide funds for a middle-class tax cut by slashing Pentagon and Department of Energy budgets for environmental compliance and cleanup. These proposed changes have nothing whatever to do with the nation's defense. They have everything to do with the immediate struggle for domestic political supremacy.
Yet their commitment may not be enough to protect public health and the environment from needless injuries in the name of national security. A new Republican Party leadership in Congress has pledged to enact weakening amendments to federal environmental laws that regulate government and private activities alike. Regulations to implement existing laws, many of them intended to guide operations of federal defense facilities, would be put on hold. And both President Clinton and a majority in Congress have said they would like to reduce the federal deficit and provide funds for a middle-class tax cut by slashing Pentagon and Department of Energy budgets for environmental compliance and cleanup.
