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Since then, starting in 1982, the primary responsibility to addressing noise pollution shifted to state and local governments. [2] The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) retains authority to conduct research and publish information on noise and its effects on the public, which is often included nowadays in environmental impact assessments ...
After the watershed passage of the United States Noise Control Act of 1972, [2] other local and state governments passed further regulations. A noise regulation [citation needed] restricts the amount of noise, the duration of noise and the source of noise. It usually places restrictions for certain times of the day. [3]
Title 40 is a part of the United States Code of Federal Regulations. Title 40 arranges mainly environmental regulations that were promulgated by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), based on the provisions of United States laws (statutes of the U.S. Federal Code). Parts of the regulation may be updated annually on July 1. [1]
The laws listed below meet the following criteria: (1) they were passed by the United States Congress, and (2) pertain to (a) the regulation of the interaction of humans and the natural environment, or (b) the conservation and/or management of natural or historic resources. They need not be wholly codified in the United States Code.
The EPA phased out the office's funding in 1982 as part of a shift in federal noise control policy to transfer the primary responsibility of regulating noise to state and local governments. The Noise Control Act of 1972 and the Quiet Communities Act of 1978 were never rescinded by Congress and remain in effect today, although essentially unfunded.
Primary among these is Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, containing the regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Other important CFR sections include Title 10 (energy), Title 18 (Conservation of Power and Water Resources), Title 21 (Food and Drugs), Title 33 (Navigable Waters), Title 36 (Parks, Forests and Public ...
Law on Waste Management 2003 (State Gazette No 86/2003) Medicinal Plants Act 2000 (State Gazette No 29/2000) Nature Protection Act; Protected Areas Act 1998 (State Gazette No 133/1998) Protection of Waters and Soil against Pollution Act; Regulation on the terms and conditions for carrying out Environmental Impact Assessment (SG 25/18.03.2003)
1967 – California Air Resources Board established; set emissions standards predating EPA. 1967 – Air Quality Act (amendment to CAA) 1969 – Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act; 1969 – National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 1970 – Reorganization Plan No. 3 created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by Presidential Executive ...