Interior Department Budget Requests for FY '98: Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of the Committee on Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session ... March 4, 1997--Washington, DC. |
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Page 77 - Rather, if the statute is silent or ambiguous with respect to the specific issue, the question for the court is whether the agency's answer is based on a permissible construction of the statute.
Page 56 - When a court reviews an agency's construction of the statute which it administers. it is confronted with two questions. First, always, is the question whether Congress has directly spoken to the precise question at issue. If the intent of Congress is clear, that is the end of the matter; for the court, as well as the agency, must give effect to the unambiguously expressed intent of Congress.
Page 63 - Section 1266 of this title, surface operations and surface impacts incident to an underground coal mine, the products of which enter commerce or the operations of which directly or indirectly affect interstate commerce; such activities include excavation for the purpose of obtaining coal, including such common methods as contour, strip, auger, mountaintop removal, box cut, open pit, and area mining, the...
Page 63 - Area of land to be affected or area of land affected means the area of land from which overburden is to be or has been removed and upon which the overburden...
Page 1 - Rule 4(g) of the Committee Rules, any oral opening statements at hearings are limited to the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member.
Page 63 - ... and excavations, workings, impoundments, dams, ventilation shafts, entryways, refuse banks, dumps, stockpiles, overburden piles, spoil banks, culm banks, tailings, holes or depressions, repair areas, storage areas, processing areas, shipping areas and other areas upon which are sited structures, facilities, or other property or materials on the surface, resulting from or incident to such activities; and (29) "unwarranted failure to comply...
Page 60 - Act shall be permitted — (1) on any lands within the boundaries of units of the National Park System, the National Wildlife Refuge Systems, the National System of Trails, the National Wilderness Preservation System, the Wild and Scenic Rivers System, including study rivers designated under section 5(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act and National Recreation Areas designated by Act of Congress...
Page 62 - surface coal mining operations" means — (A) activities conducted on the surface of lands in connection with a surface coal mine or subject to the requirements of section 516 surface operations and surface impacts incident to an underground coal mine, the products of which enter commerce or the operations of which directly or indirectly affect interstate commerce. Such activities include excavation for the purpose of obtaining coal including such common methods...
Page 8 - Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, I appreciate very much the opportunity to appear before you today on a matter which I consider to be of utmost importance to Fort Benning, Ga.
Page 1 - Committee rules any oral opening statements at hearings are limited to the chairman and the Ranking Minority member. This will allow us to hear from our witnesses sooner and help members keep to their schedules.