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Impoundment reporting and review. Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, first session, on H.R. 5193 and related bills (with appendix, H.R. 8480, as amended, with report) ... by United States.Congress.House.Committee on Rules.(CARDINAL)275197;

Subjects: Executive impoundment of appropriated funds;

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Report of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives (together with minority views and additional views) to the Committee on the Budget pursuant to the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act. by United States.Congress.House.Committee on Agriculture.(CARDINAL)160694; United States.Congress.House.Committee on the Budget.(CARDINAL)267492;

Subjects: Executive impoundment of appropriated funds; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture;

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Presidential spending power / by Fisher, Louis.(CARDINAL)121625;

Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Presidential budgeting (1789-1921) : Establishment of Treasury Department : Reforms by Jeffersonian Republicans ; Executive control. Congressional organization : Fragmentation and appropriations committees. "Protector of the purse" ; Studies on economy and efficiency : Commissions on economy and efficiency. Budget and accounting -- 2. Presidential budgeting : Precedents during 1920's ; Reorganization under Roosevelt : Brownlow committee. Growth of budget bureau powers ; Changes during Nixon administration : Office of management and budget ; Confirmation of OMB director ; OMB's record -- 3. Lump-sum appropriations : Advocacy of line-itemization ; Emergency periods ; Management studies ; Unforeseen expenditures : Contingency funds ; Emergency funds. General congressional controls -- 4. Reprogramming of funds : General principles : Nonmilitary reprogramming. Military reprograming : Procedures ; Magnitudes ; Irregular uses. Closer legislative control : Indirect controls ; Committees keeping faith with Congress ; Screening by GAO -- 5. Transfers between accounts : Congressional resistance ; 19th century restrictions ; 20th century practices ; Cambodian intervention. Foreign assistance transfers (1970) ; Defense transfers (1973) ; Litigation ; Impeachment -- 6. Timing of obligations : Unexpended funds :Two-year constitutional limit ; Reappropriation. Obligations : Accrued expenditures ; Accelerated spending ; Agency tactics ; Continuing resolutions -- 7. Impoundment: politics and the law : Efficient management : To effect savings ; Changing events ; Managerial responsibilities. Statutory authority : Spending ceilings ; Public debt limit ; Employment act of 1946 ; Antideficiency Act ; Other statutory provisions. Constitutional powers : Foreign affairs ; National defense. Administrative policy-making. Unwanted projects ; Anti-inflation policy ; Changing priorities. Statistical games -- 8. Impoundment: the Nixon legacy : Agriculture :REAP and Water Bank ; FmHA disaster loans ; REA program ; Rural water and sewer grants.Clean-water funds : Statutory language ; Commitment and timetable ; In the courts. Housing and urban development : Community development ; Housing moratorium. Impoundment Control Act of 1974 -- 9. Covert financing : Statement and account clause ; Confidential funds : 20th century usage. Secret funds : Central Intelligence Agency ; Congressional oversight ; Litigation. Other dark corners : Free world forces ; Military assistance -- 10. Executive commitments : Early precedents ; Coercive deficiencies : Antideficiency act ; Anti deficiency violations. Feed food forage law : Origin of the law ; Legislation in 1860-61 ; Contemporary form. Contract negotiation : General accounting office . Military commitments.

Subjects: Budget; Finance, Public;

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Groundwater contamination in the United States / by Pye, Veronica I.(CARDINAL)168815; Patrick, Ruth,1907-2013.(CARDINAL)171834; Quarles, John.(CARDINAL)171658;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-307).ONE: GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES: AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE TECHNICAL REPORT -- The importance of the groundwater resource -- What is groundwater? -- Types of aquifers -- Factors affecting the natural quality of water -- Relationships among groundwater quality and quantity, surface water, and land use -- Sources of groundwater contamination -- The movement of contaminants -- Types of groundwater contamination -- Risks posed by different types of contamination -- Attenuation -- The geographical extent of the problem -- The severity of the problem -- Aquifer rehabilitation -- Measures for protecting groundwater -- Monitoring for groundwater contamination -- Federal regulations applicable to groundwater -- State and local groundwater-quality regulations -- The classification of aquifers -- Groundwater protection strategies that have been proposed -- Conclusions -- TWO: OPTIONS FOR DEALING WITH THE CONTAMINATION OF GROUNDWATER -- The disposal of hazardous wastes -- Septic tanks -- Agricultural practices -- Accidental spills and leaks - The land spreading and spraying of sludges -- Mining -- Highway deicing-salts -- The infiltration of surface water -- Brine disposal associated with the petroleum industry -- The development of groundwater -- Contamination from radioactive sources -- Conclusion -- THREE: THE GROUNDWATER RESOURCE -- What is groundwater? -- The occurrence and natural quality of groundwater -- The use of groundwater -- The profile of an aquifer -- FOUR: GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION -- Sources of contamination -- Changes in the composition of groundwater due to natural processes -- Contamination due to waste-disposal practices [Individual sewage disposal systems -- The land disposal of solid wastes -- The collection, treatment, and disposal of municipal wastewater -- Industrial and other wastewater impoundments -- Land spreading of sludge -- Brine disposal associated with the petroleum industry -- The disposal of mine wastes -- Deep-well disposal of liquid wastes -- The disposal of wastes from animal feedlots -- Groundwater contamination from radioactive sources] -- Other sources of conatmination [Accidental spills and leaks -- Agricultural activities -- Mining -- Highway deicing-salts -- Atmospheric contaminants and acid rain -- The infiltration of surface water -- The development of groundwater -- Improper construction and maintenance of wells] -- FIVE: THE SEVERITY OF GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION -- Estimates of the percentage of groundwater that is contaminated -- The population affected by groundwater contamination -- SIX: THE EFFECTS OF GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION ON PUBLIC HEALTH -- The incidence of disease -- Acute illness due to pathogenic contaminants [Bacteria -- Viruses -- Parasites] -- Acute illness due to the chemical content of water -- Chronic effects of groundwater contamination on public health [Chronic disease due to the mineral content of groundwater -- Chronic disease due to contamination by toxic organic chemicals] -- SEVEN: THE GEOGRAPHICAL EXTENT OF GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION -- Regional assessments of groundwater contamination in the United States conducted by EPA -- State summaries compiled in 1981-82 by the Environmental Assessment Council for this report [Arizona -- California -- Connecticut -- Florida -- Idaho -- Illinois -- Nebraska -- New Jersey -- New Mexico -- South Carolina] -- EIGHT: MONITORING THE QUALITY OF GROUNDWATER -- Methods of well construction -- Types of wells -- Casing materials and sampling procedures -- Data management and information retrieval -- Possibilities for improving monitoring systems -- Research needs -- NINE: REMEDIAL ACTION AND THE REHABILITATION OF AQUIFERS -- In-situ remedial alternatives -- Conventional alternatives of withdrawal, treatment, and final disposal -- Treatment options -- Reverse osmosis (RO) -- Ultrafiltration (UF) -- Ion exchange -- Wet-air oxidation (WAO) -- Combined ozonation/ultraviolet radiation (O3/UV) -- Chemical treatment -- Aerobic biological treatment -- Activated carbon (AC) -- TEN: PROPOSED STRATEGIES FOR THE PROTECTION OF GROUNDWATER -- EPA proposed groundwater protection strategy, 1980 [Strategy background -- The strategy -- Suggested management approach] -- Summary of the chemical manufacturers association's position on EPA's proposed groundwater protectiong strategy [Goal -- Management approach -- Technical approach -- Federal, state, and other roles -- Questions regarding groundwater policy] -- Critique of the CMA position paper -- The Environmental Defense Fund's position on EPA's proposed groundwater protection strategy [Phase I - Federal efforts -- Phase I - State efforts -- Phase II - Federal and state roles] -- Critique of EDF's comments -- EPA groundwater policy since 1980 -- ELEVEN: AQUIFER CLASSIFICATION -- The process of classification [The definition of aquifer boundaries -- Groundwater classification] -- EPA model for aquifer classification -- Critiques of the proposed EPA aquifer-classification system from the Environmental Defense Fund and the American Water Works Association -- State aquifer-classification systems [Connecticut -- North Carolina -- New York -- Wyoming -- New Jersey -- Florida -- Nebraska -- New Mexico -- Maine -- New Hampshire -- Massachusetts] -- Summary of state aquifer-classification systems [Non-degradation policy -- Classification based on numerical standards -- Classification based on land use and numerical standards] -- TWELVE: FEDERAL STATUTES RELEVANT TO THE PROTECTION OF GROUNDWATER -- The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, 42 USC 6901 et seq., Pub. L. No. 94-580 [Solid-waste disposal program -- Hazardous-waste disposal program {Interim-status standards -- Permitting standards -- Imminent-hazard authority}] -- Safe drinking water act of 1974, 42 USC 300f to 300j-9, Pub. L. No. 93-523 -- The Clean Water Act of 1977, 33 USC 1251 et seq., Pub. L. No. 95-217 -- Comprehensive environment response, compensation and liability act of 1980, 26 USC 4611 et seq., Pub. L. No. 96-510 [National contingency plan -- Enforcement and implementation] -- Toxic substances control act, 15 USC 2601 et seq., Pub. L. No. 94-469 -- The surface mining control and reclamation act of 1977, 30 USC 1201 et seq., Pub. L. No. 95-87 -- Federal insecticide, fungicide and rodenticide act, 7 USC 136 et seq., Pub. L. No. 92-516 -- National environmental policy act of 1969, 42 USC 4321 et seq., Pub. L. No. 91-190 -- Conclusion -- THIRTEEN: STATE AND LOCAL MEASURES FOR THE PROTECTION OF GROUNDWATER QUALITY -- Specific source controls [Sources of groundwater contamination related to waste disposal {Waste-management sites -- Well disposal of wastes -- Septic-tank systems -- Land spreading of pollutants -- Animal feedlots} -- Sources of groundwater contamination not related to waste disposal {The construction and operation of wells -- Mine drainage -- Saltwater intrusion -- Spills and leaks -- Highway deicing-salts}] -- Standards and classification systems for groundwater -- Land-use regulations -- Groundwater-allocation law [Common law approaches -- The prior appropriation system] -- Monitoring and enforcement programs -- State groundwater protection programs: summaries for selected states [Arizona -- California -- Connecticut -- Florida -- New Jersey -- New Mexico -- New York -- Virginia] -- FOURTEEN: STATUTORY AND REGULATORY PROVISIONS THAT HAVE BEEN PROPOSED TO ENABLE STATES TO PROTECT AND MANAGE GROUNDWATER RESOURCES -- Statutory provisions -- Regulations designed to prevent groundwater pollution -- Interstate compacts -- Federal-state cooperation on groundwater protection.

Subjects: Groundwater;

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