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environmental impact statement : a technical report that details the effect proposed legislation or action will have on the natural and human environment and that is sometimes required to be furnished esp. by a governmental body (as an administrative agency or a municipality) for official and public review in the regulatory and decision-making process called also environmental impact report ...
major federal action
major federal action : a proposed federal undertaking that pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act must be the subject of an environmental impact statement if it would significantly affect the environment ...
Land use planning
Land use planning, means the deliberate, systematic development of real estate through methods such as zoning, environmental-impact studies, and the like. Also termed urban planning, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 884....
Environmental pollutant
Environmental pollutant, means any solid; liquid or gaseous substance present in such concentration as maybe, or tend to be, injurious to environment. [Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986), s. 2 (b)]Means any solid, liquid or gaseous substance present in such concentration as may be, or tend to be, injurious to environment. [Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 (46 of 1993), s. 2(e)]Environmental pollution means the presence in the environment of any environmental pollutant. [Employment of Manual Scavangers and Construc-tion of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 (46 of 1993), s. 2(f)]Means the presence in the environment of any environmental pollutant. [Environment (Protec-tion) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986), s. 2 (c)]...
Affidavit
Affidavit [fr. affidare, M. Lat., to pledge one's faith, fr. fides, Lat.], a written statement sworn before a person having authority to administer an oath.By the practice of the Supreme Court of Judicature, all evidence is, as a rule, to be given viva voce; but this may be altered by agreement of the parties, or the Court or a judge may for sufficient reason order that any particular fact or facts may be proved by affidavit, or that the affidavit of any witness may be read at the hearing or trial on such conditions as are thought reasonable; provided that no such order be made where a witness can be produced and is bona fide required for cross-examination (R. S. C. 1883, Ord. XXXVII., r. 1). A new Procedure is provided for by R. S. C., Ord. XXXVIII. A., r. 8 J. affidavits must be confined to such facts as the witness is able of his own knowledge to prove, except on interlocutory motions, on which statements as to his belief, with the grounds thereof, may be admitted.As to time for fil...
disparate impact
disparate impact : an unnecessary discriminatory effect on a protected class caused by a practice or policy that appears to be nondiscriminatory compare bona fide occupational qualification, disparate treatment ...
environmental crime
environmental crime : an act that is destructive to the environment and that has been criminalized by statute ...
environmental protection agency
environmental protection agency (EPA) The federal agency created in 1970 to coordinate government action to protect the environment. Source: FindLaw ...
environmental
of or pertaining to the environment as environmental factors...
Impaction
The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other as impaction of the skull or of the hip...
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