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    The Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions is necessary to help compliance the requirements of the MSA to end and prevent overfishing, rebuild overfished stocks...
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  • Congress in the 1996 amendments to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, or Magnuson-Stevens Act, as "those waters and substrate necessary...
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    The MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSFCMA), commonly referred to as the MagnusonStevens Act (MSA), is the legislation providing...
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  • regulatory disputes. In 1976, Congress passed the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, which was intended to provide for the management...
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    It reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and included Title I provisions applying to disadvantaged students. It mandated standards-based...
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    Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, as a $3.5 trillion Democratic reconciliation package that included provisions related to climate change in the United...
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    Egan, Bob Atwood, and Ted Stevens. The law was first introduced by James Wickersham in 1916, shortly after the First Organic Act. However, due to a lack...
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    Seas Driftnet Fishing Moratorium Protection Act and the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to improve the conservation of sharks. The...
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    research provisions of the Act by tens of billions of dollars. The CHIPS and Science Act combines two bipartisan bills: the Endless Frontier Act, designed...
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    relied on the definition of "fishing vessel" in the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. This included not only those engaged in fishing...
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    Prohibition Act (SFPA) into law in 2000 shortly before leaving office. It amended the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the primary...
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    Service (NMFS). The councils were established by the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act in 1976. In 1996, revisions to the laws governing...
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    Water Quality Act (WQA) of 1987. The Clean Water Act does not directly address groundwater contamination. Groundwater protection provisions are included...
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    "foreign entities of concern" under the Act's car battery materials provisions, in line with the Inflation Reduction Act's Section 30D. On December 8, the Biden...
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  • Congressional rewrite of the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act in 1996, which changed how fisheries are managed. The act remains the nation's...
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    another civil war. Emulating the Civil Rights Act of 1875, Kennedy's civil rights bill included provisions to ban discrimination in public accommodations...
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    authorities to help conserve listed species. The Act also serves as the enacting legislation to carry out the provisions outlined in The Convention on International...
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  • amendment added coverage for timber and timber products. Various provisions of the Act are enforced by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National...
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  • The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 (MBTA), codified at 16 U.S.C. §§ 703–712 (although §709 is omitted), is a United States federal law, first enacted...
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    Air Act in 1977 (1977 CAAA) (91 Stat. 685, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 95–95). The 1977 Amendments primarily concerned provisions for the...
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    The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the Asian Exclusion Act and National Origins Act (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 68–139...
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  • written by justice John Paul Stevens, the Court ruled that the ambiguous meaning of the term "source" in the Clean Air Act indicated that Congress had...
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    Regulations. The Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act added several provisions to the SDWA, along with providing financial assistance to the...
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    the Civil Rights Act of 1866, or to ensure that no subsequent Congress could later repeal or alter the main provisions of that Act. Thus, the Citizenship...
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    of Major Provisions. Side-by-Side Comparison of Climate Change Provisions in Omnibus Energy Legislation in the 110th Congress. FREEDOM Act 2009. Tax...
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    blackout); it includes nuclear-specific provisions; it extends the Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act through 2025; it authorizes cost-overrun...
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    "Update to the Regulations Implementing the Procedural Provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act; Final rule." Federal Register, 85 FR 43304 Friedman...
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  • and larger, while the Clean Power Act covers facilities 15 megawatts and larger. The bills have differing provisions regarding the coverage of combined...
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    pesticide registration provisions requiring re-registration of many pesticides that had been registered before 1984. The act was amended again in 1996...
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    The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), enacted in 1976, is the principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid...
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