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- See National Ambient Air Quality Standards
- Browse Related Terms: Air Quality Control Region (AQCR), Attainment, Class I area, Class II area, Clean Air Act (CAA), Criteria air pollutants, Exceedance, In attainment, NAAQS, Nonattainment area, Permit, Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Program, PSD increments
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The maximum power-generating capacity of a generator or power-generating facility.
- Browse Related Terms: Application for Certification (AFC), Capacity Factor, Dispatchable power (dispatchability), Distributed Generation, Maximum output, Nameplate rating, Power block, Power production capacity, Rated battery capacity, Renewable Resource Generation Development Area (GDA), STG, Thermoelectric (power) water use, Utility scale facilities, Withdrawal
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Air quality standards established by the Clean Air Act, as amended. The primary NAAQS are intended to protect the public health with an adequate margin of safety; and the secondary NAAQS are intended to protect the public welfare from any known or anticipated adverse effects of a pollutant.
- Browse Related Terms: Air quality, Air Quality Standards, Ambient Air Quality Standards, California Ambient Air Quality Standard (CAAQS), Embryotoxicity, Hazardous air pollutant (HAP), Maximum contaminant level (MCL), National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), OSHA, receptor
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Requires federal agencies to prepare a detailed statement on the environmental impacts of their proposed major actions that are significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.
- Browse Related Terms: Affected environment, American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978 (AIRFA), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Cumulative impacts, Environmental assessment (EA), Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), Executive Order, Federal Register, National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), Record of Decision (ROD), Scoping
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A federal law providing that property resources with significant national historic value be placed on the National Register of Historic Places. It does not require permits; rather, it mandates consultation with the proper agencies whenever it is determined that a proposed action might impact an historic property.
- Browse Related Terms: Affected environment, American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978 (AIRFA), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Cumulative impacts, Environmental assessment (EA), Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), Executive Order, Federal Register, National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), Record of Decision (ROD), Scoping
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These trails are designated by Congress under the National Trails System Act of 1968 and follow, as closely as possible, on federal land, the original trails or routes of travel that have national historical significance.
- Browse Related Terms: Archaeological site, artifact, Eligible properties, Historic properties, Multiple use, National Historic Trails, National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS), National Recreation Area, Patterned-body anthropomorphs, Peanut-body anthropomorphs, Seismicity, Special areas, State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), Wilderness characteristics
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Created by the BLM in June 2000 to increase public awareness of BLM lands with scientific, cultural, educational, ecological, and other values. It consists of National Conservation Areas, National Monuments, Wilderness Areas, Wilderness Study Areas, Wild and Scenic Rivers, and National Historic and Scenic Trails.
- Browse Related Terms: Archaeological site, artifact, Eligible properties, Historic properties, Multiple use, National Historic Trails, National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS), National Recreation Area, Patterned-body anthropomorphs, Peanut-body anthropomorphs, Seismicity, Special areas, State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), Wilderness characteristics
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A federal permitting system controlling the discharge of effluents to surface water and regulated through the Clean Water Act, as Amended.
- Browse Related Terms: Air quality, Air Quality Standards, Ambient Air Quality Standards, California Ambient Air Quality Standard (CAAQS), Embryotoxicity, Hazardous air pollutant (HAP), Maximum contaminant level (MCL), National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), OSHA, receptor
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An area designated by Congress to assure the conservation and protection of natural, scenic, historic, pastoral, fish, and wildlife values, and to provide for the enhancement of recreational values.
- Browse Related Terms: Archaeological site, artifact, Eligible properties, Historic properties, Multiple use, National Historic Trails, National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS), National Recreation Area, Patterned-body anthropomorphs, Peanut-body anthropomorphs, Seismicity, Special areas, State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), Wilderness characteristics
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A comprehensive list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects that are significant in American history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, and culture. The NRHP is administered by the National Park Service, which is part of the Department of the Interior.
- Browse Related Terms: All-American Roads, Cultural disturbance, Cultural resources, Diagnostic, Indian trust assets, Minority population, National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), National Scenic Byway, Native American, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Sacred landscapes, Traditional cultural property, Tribe, Voluntary relinquishment
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- See All-American Roads
- Browse Related Terms: All-American Roads, Cultural disturbance, Cultural resources, Diagnostic, Indian trust assets, Minority population, National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), National Scenic Byway, Native American, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Sacred landscapes, Traditional cultural property, Tribe, Voluntary relinquishment
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- Of, or relating to, a tribe, people, or culture that is indigenous to the United States. (See Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act)
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This act established the priority for ownership or control of Native American cultural items excavated or discovered on federal or tribal land after 1990 and the procedures for repatriation of items in federal possession. The act allows for the intentional removal or excavation of Native American cultural items from federal or tribal lands only with a permit or upon consultation with the appropriate tribe.
- Browse Related Terms: All-American Roads, Cultural disturbance, Cultural resources, Diagnostic, Indian trust assets, Minority population, National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), National Scenic Byway, Native American, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Sacred landscapes, Traditional cultural property, Tribe, Voluntary relinquishment
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Natural systems that convey water (such as a stream channel) that may be perennial, intermittent, or ephemeral.
- Browse Related Terms: Arroyo, Desert wash, Diversion, Drop structure, Dry wash, Headwater, Intermittent stream, Land area, Lineament, Natural drainages, Riverine wetland, Tributary, underflow, Wash
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A nonprofit organization that provides the scientific information and tools needed to guide effective conservation action. NatureServe and its network of natural heritage programs are a leading source of information about the species and ecosystems of the United States, Canada, and Latin America.
- Browse Related Terms: Abiotic, Anthropogenic emissions, Demand-side management, Direct effects, Ecosystem, Effects, Full-time equivalent (FTE), Indirect effects, NatureServe, Noise criteria, Reclamation, Stressors
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A Web site from NatureServe that provides authoritative conservation information in a searchable database for more than 70,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities in the United States, Canada, and Latin America.
- Browse Related Terms: Appropriate Management Level (AML), Aquaculture, Aquatic biota, Aquatic ecosystem, Biogenic source (emissions), Biota, Browse, Bryozoan, Burrow, cavity, Collection, Community, Crustaceans, Ecoregion, Fauna, Habitat, Harassment, Invertebrate, Montane, NatureServe Explorer, Plankton (planktonic), Terrestrial, Wetlands, Zoomorphic
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Birds (especially songbirds) that summer in North America but migrate to the tropics for the winter.
- Browse Related Terms: Corridor-transmission, Corridor-wildlife, Ecological segmentation, Flyway, Migration corridor, Neotropical migrants, Passerine, Prey base, RAPTOR
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- See National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
- Browse Related Terms: CERCLA, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), Environmental justice, EPA, Hazardous waste, Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), NEPA, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), take, Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), toxicity, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Applied to greenhouse gas emissions inventory in this report. "Net emissions" means gross emissions (including all industrial activities, mostly fossil fuel combustion) minus carbon sinks from forestry activities and agricultural soils.
- Browse Related Terms: Atmosphere, Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Carbon sink, GHGs, Global Warming, Greenhouse gase (GHG), Net emissions, Perfluorocarbon (PFC), Sink, Soil horizon mixing
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An interference with enjoyment of dark night skies resulting from light pollution.
- Browse Related Terms: Color, Corona/corona noise, Glint, Light fixture, Light pollution, Light spillage, Light trespass, Luminaire, Night-sky impact, Photon, Spill light, Uplighting