MÔI TRƯỜNG CHÍNH SÁCH QUỐC GIA ACT (NEPA) của 1969 NEPA là đạo luật tác động môi trường đầu tiên của thế giới và đã được ban hành ngày 1 tháng 1 năm 1970. Pháp luật đã được thông qua đáp ứng nhu cầu cho chính phủ liên bang để đánh giá tác động môi trường của các hành động của nó và thiết lập một chính sách quốc gia về môi trường. Đại hội công nhận những ảnh hưởng của tăng dân số, đô thị hóa cao, mật độ, mở rộng công nghiệp, khai thác tài nguyên, và tiến bộ. | Part IV Environmental Protection in the United States 1999 CRC Press LLC 11 . Laws and Regulations CONTENTS National Environmental Policy Act NEPA of 1969 Historic Scientific and Cultural Resources Toxic Substance Control Act TSCA Clean Air Act Water Resources Resource Conservation and Recovery Act RCRA Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act SARA and Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act TITLE III Federal Insecticide Fungicide Rodenticide Act FIFRA NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT NEPA OF 1969 NEPA is the world s first environmental impact statute and was enacted January 1 1970. The law was passed in response to the need for the federal government to evaluate the environmental effects of its actions and establish a national policy for the environment. Congress recognized the effects of population growth high-density urbanization industrial expansion resource exploitation and new and expanding technological advances. NEPA is a broad mandate for federal agencies to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony and fulfill the social economic and other requirements of present and future generations. NEPA s purpose was to declare a national policy which will encourage productive and enjoyable harmony between man and his environment to promote efforts which will prevent or eliminate damage to the environment and biosphere and stimulate the health and welfare of man to enrich the understanding of the ecological systems and natural resources important to the Nation and to establish a Council on Environmental Quality CEQ . NEPA applies to all agencies of the federal government and every major action taken by the agencies that significantly affects the quality of the human environment. The application of NEPA to federal actions is not limited to actions occurring or having effects in the United States. NEPA is designed to control the decision making process not the substance of the agency decision. Because .
