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Bill· HRH.R. 4196 (110th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 2007
National Public Notification of Environmental Hazards Act of 2007 - Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to require the President to revise the national contingency plan to provide for improved public notification and community relations in the case of a response action. Requires the head of the lead agency for a response action to: (1) designate a spokesperson, who shall provide notice of the action, respond to inquiries, and provide information to the public; (2) issue a press release within a specified time frame; (3) ensure coordination of press releases and other statements; (4) establish a public information office at or near the response site; (5) establish at least one local information repository; (6) make the administrative record file available for public inspection; (7) provide a public comment period; (8) conduct public meetings; (9) establish a toll-free telephone number and a public Internet website; (10) ensure that each residence and business within a half-mile radius of the response site is visited by a lead agency representative; and (11) mail printed materials containing information about the removal action to such residences and businesses. Directs the head: (1) to take specified actions if the President determines, based on a site evaluation, that an action is appropriate and the head determines that a planning period of at least 180 days exists prior to initiation of on-site activities, including making the engineering evaluation and cost analysis available to the public; and (2) for actions lasting more than 120 days, to interview local officials, community residents, and specified others about their concerns, information needs, and how they would like to be involved and prepare a formal community relations plan.
Bill· HRH.R. 4238 (110th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 2007
Bottle Recycling Climate Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to prohibit retailers and distributors from selling beverages (water, mineral water, soda water, flavored water, sports drinks, juice, iced tea, wine coolers, beer, or carbonated nonalcoholic beverages) in containers that do not display a statement of a refund value of five cents. Requires: (1) distributors to collect the refund value for each beverage sold to retailers; and (2) retailers to collect the refund value for each beverage sold to consumers. Requires: (1) retailers to pay the refund on returned unbroken containers of brands sold for up to a specified number of containers per day based on the square footage of the retailer's space (excluding any container contaminated by a hazardous waste); and (2) distributors to pay the refund on returned containers of brands sold, plus at least three cents per container for handling costs. Directs distributors to pay to a state, annually, unclaimed refund amounts, which shall be available to the state for programs designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Prohibits distributors and retailers from disposing of containers subject to this Act or any metal, glass, or plastic from such containers (other than the top or seal) in landfills or solid waste disposal facilities. Exempts states that have implemented laws requiring beverage container deposits or that have demonstrated achievement of specified recycling or reuse rates for beverage containers. Prohibits states or political subdivisions that impose taxes on the sale of beverage containers from imposing any tax on the amount attributable to the refund value of such containers. Provides for the adjustment for inflation of the refund amounts at ten-year intervals. Prescribes civil penalties for violations of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 4209 (110th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 2007
Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide specified funds to Kansas in FY2009 to purchase (with the owners' consent), and to provide relocation assistance to the residents of: (1) properties in Treece, Kansas, that are in danger of being destroyed by subsidence relating to the Cherokee County National Priorities List Site that may endanger the health of occupants; and (2) residential properties of water customers of Picher, Oklahoma, residing in or near Treece, Kansas.
Bill· HRH.R. 4244 (110th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 2007
Clean Stove Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a tax credit, up to $500, for the cost of replacing a residential wood stove with: (1) a wood-burning stove that complies with current Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards; and (2) a pellet or corn burning stove. Terminates such credit after 2010.
Bill· HRH.R. 4245 (110th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 2007
Saving American Lives and Investing in Protecting Land and Nature Act - Amends the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to allow the categorical exclusion of authorized hazardous fuel reduction projects and other forest projects that are proposed to be conducted on adjacent federal land or that are recommended in community wildfire protection plans from documentation in an environmental impact statement or environmental assessment when: (1) the project is consistent with the resource management plan; and (2) the decision to categorically exclude the project is made according to extraordinary circumstances procedures. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to enter into contracts and agreements with non-federal entities to conduct authorized hazardous fuel reduction projects and other projects that are proposed to be conducted on federal land that is within not more than 1 1/2 miles of non-federal land owned by the non-federal entity or that is covered by community wildfire protection plans that also cover such non-federal land when: (1) the conditions on the federal land, such as the risk of wildfire, an insect or disease epidemic, or the presence of invasive species, pose a risk to the adjacent federal land; (2) the contract or agreement is in the government's and landowner's interest and will promote the goals of this Act; and (3) the project is consistent with the resource management plan.
Bill· HRH.R. 4202 (110th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 2007
Inclusive Home Design Act of 2007 - Requires, with exceptions, newly constructed, federally assisted single family houses and town houses to include at least one level that complies with the following accessibility features for persons with disabilities: (1) accessible entrance; (2) accessible interior doors; (3) accessible environmental controls; and (4) accessible habitable space and an accessible bathroom. Requires: (1) each applicant for federal financial assistance to submit compliance assurances to the relevant federal agency; and (2) each person who arranges for design or construction of a covered dwelling to submit architectural and construction plans for state or local approval. Prohibits federal financial assistance to a state or local government unit unless the recipient is taking certain enforcement actions with regard to covered dwellings. Permits: (1) private civil actions in a U.S. District Court or state court for violations under this Act; and (2) the Attorney General to commence civil actions or intervene in civil actions under this Act.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 832 (110th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 2007
Honors the Texas Water Development Board on its selection as the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) 2007 Clean Water State Revolving Fund Performance and Innovation Award recipient.
Question· Schriftliche Anfrage2073/Jschriftliche anfrage
Austria · National Council · 14 November 2007
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dr. Ruperta Lichtenecker, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft betreffend Klimafonds <i>(projekte)</i> des mit 1. Juli 2007 eingerichteten Klimafonds
Question· Schriftliche Anfrage2074/Jschriftliche anfrage
Austria · National Council · 14 November 2007
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dr. Ruperta Lichtenecker, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft betreffend Geschäftsführung des Klimafonds
Question· writtenPQ 220asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
244 Deputy Lucinda Creighton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the basis on which he believes that with a developed MBT system the quantity of residual waste requiring disposal other than landfill would be reduced to 400,000 tonnes by 2016; the figures and reports on which he has made that calculation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 219asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
243 Deputy Lucinda Creighton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the reports referred to in the Dáil indicating that four incinerators was the number mentioned in a number of reports, are reports compiled on behalf of or for his Department; his views on these reports; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 218asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
241 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the extent to which he expects to provide the necessary funding to the various local authorities in County Kildare in the coming years to meet the accommodation requests of all those on housing lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 217asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
242 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has studied the results of air quality monitoring from various points throughout County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 216asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
239 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has been informed of any areas throughout the country which appear to have particular problems with air pollution; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 215asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
236 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received technical advice on the degree to which the River Liffey continues to provide supplies of drinking water and cater for waste water treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 214asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
232 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the Government policy in regard to the extent to which it is expected to cater for waste management and disposal in future through landfills, recycling or incineration; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 213asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
230 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he is satisfied that adequate funding will be provided by his Department to ensure that waste management and disposal conform to Government policy as set out in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 212asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
226 Deputy Dan Neville asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason newly established agencies (details supplied) in County Limerick who have recently advertised in the public press and on tenders for the provision of a range of services did not include the provision of legal services; if legal advisers or services have been engaged by the agencies; if so, the reason there was no tendering process; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 211asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
225 Deputy Willie Penrose asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will confirm that his Department has received an application from Westmeath County Council seeking approval to construct an isolated house for a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; if he will convey the approval thereof to the council without delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 210asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
224 Deputy Willie Penrose asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of an application by Westmeath County Council for the upgrading of Moate sewerage scheme; the expected timetable for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 209asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
223 Deputy Willie Penrose asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his Department’s assessment and evaluation of an application for approval by Westmeath County Council for the scheme to upgrade Kilbeggan sewerage scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 208asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
222 Deputy Willie Penrose asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of the application by Westmeath County Council for the installation of a sewerage scheme for Delvin, County Westmeath and in particular the necessary upgrading of the treatment plant; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 207asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
221 Deputy Willie Penrose asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of an application for a new sewerage scheme for Rathowen, County Westmeath; if he will take steps to expedite same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 206asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
220 Deputy Willie Penrose asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when full approval will be given to Westmeath County Council to enable Athlone main drainage to commence; if he will take steps to have same expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 205asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
219 Deputy Willie Penrose asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress on the application for approval by Westmeath County Council of Finea sewerage scheme, County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 204asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
217 Deputy Pat Breen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the Ennis sewerage scheme has reached capacity; if so, if there are plans to provide funding for a temporary solution until the proposed new system is installed in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 203asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
218 Deputy Pat Breen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the Ennis water augmentation scheme; the funding available for same; when the scheme will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 202asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
216 Deputy Pat Breen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the Ennis water augmentation scheme will be delivered on time; if there are plans to fast track the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 201asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
215 Deputy Phil Hogan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the urgent measures he will adopt to ensure that private apartment schemes have adequate fire safety provision in view of the recent Dublin City Council survey of private apartment schemes which highlighted that three-quarters of private apartment schemes in Dublin have inadequate fire safety provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 164asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
178 Deputy Beverley Flynn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo under the REP scheme has received their 2006/07 payment.
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Question· writtenPQ 163asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
177 Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount of money to be spent on the REP scheme in 2007.
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Question· writtenPQ 159asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
173 Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of farmers who have joined REP scheme four to date; and the steps she will take to deal with Natura designated lands and the adverse impact this has on basic rate of REP scheme payments.
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Question· writtenPQ 85asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
98 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make a statement on the need for all local fire services to be provided with standardised training.
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Question· writtenPQ 84asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
97 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the new revised housing adaptation scheme for adapting houses for people with disabilities is still inadequate as it does not provide 100% funding to owner-occupiers affecting low-income households greatly and that the 5% funding shortfall and the maximum grant of €30,000 will often not cover the cost of works which often produces problems due to the well documented links between poverty and disability.
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Question· writtenPQ 82asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
229 Deputy John O’Mahony asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will carry out a review of the boundaries for the local election in 2009; if so, when this review will be carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 81asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
94 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he plans to review local authority electoral area boundaries in advance of the next local elections particularly having regard to the significant population changes experienced in many areas since the boundaries were last reviewed in 1998 and the need for certainty in regard to the areas, with elections now less than two years away; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 80asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
93 Deputy Willie Penrose asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he will take to ensure that Ireland complies with the environmental impact assessment directive 1, including the bringing in of legislation that will require environmental impact assessments for significant archaeological finds and the need to ensure proper environmental impact assessments for proposed incinerators; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 79asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
91 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will enact the provision in the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 to subject local authorities’ sewage treatment activities to an Environmental Protection Agency licensing regime in order that the agency will be better placed to regularly monitor and initiate prosecutions in relation to sewage treatment activities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 78asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
90 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his real intentions regarding the provision of social housing units until 2010 in view of the fact that there have been 13,000 fewer social housing units constructed than committed to in the last national development programme; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Government has repeatedly committed itself to eradicating homelessness by 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 77asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
88 Deputy James Bannon asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans he has to counteract the plans to cut funding for the Environmental Protection Agency, the Irish Heritage Trust and the Heritage Council in budget 2008.
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Question· writtenPQ 76asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
87 Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when his promised examination of the issues related to pyrite in homes in north County Dublin will be concluded; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 75asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
86 Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the powers of local authorities to deal with illegal parking of Travellers on public or private property that results in safety risks to road users and Traveller families; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 74asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
85 Deputy Brian O’Shea asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of social houses and affordable houses provided in 2006 and to date in 2007; the number expected to be provided by the end of 2007; if his attention has been drawn to the increase in the numbers applying for affordable housing in some areas; the steps he is taking to deal with the backlog.
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Question· writtenPQ 73asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
84 Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the markets he has identified as being interested in purchasing the product of mechanical biological treatment in view of the need for such markets to be available if mechanical biological treatment is to be sustainable as a waste management option; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 72asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
83 Deputy David Stanton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has established a Disability Act sectoral plan advisory committee under his Department’s sectoral plan; the membership of this committee; if it has met since its establishment; if each of the local authorities has established procedures for the monitoring and review of the Disability Act 2005 and sectoral plans at local level; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 71asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
79 Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 70asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
78 Deputy Joe Costello asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress of his consideration of legislation to regulate lobbyists as promised in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 69asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
77 Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the Government is planning changes to the law governing financial donations to politicians or political parties; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 68asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
76 Deputy Jan O’Sullivan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if county and city councils will be enabled and required to employ additional building control inspectors and enforcement staff to ensure that the Part L building regulations, including the draft regulations, are properly policed and adhered to; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 67asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2007
75 Deputy Michael D. Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the legislative restrictions in which the Private Residential Tenancies Board operates, he is considering putting in place a licensing system for landlords which will ensure a minimum standard for the renting of residential properties.
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