Answer Key Environmental Laws Scavenger Hunt By: Elise Voorhis Answer Key Environmental Laws Scavenger Hunt Atomic Energy Act Occupational Safety and Health Act Clean Water Act Taylor Grazing Act Wilderness Act Pollution Prevention Act Toxic Substances Control Act Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act Quiet Communities Act Hazardous Material Transportation Act Nuclear Waste Policy Act Noise Control Act Solid Waste Disposal Act Stockholm Declaration Safe Drinking Water Act Montreal Protocol Federal Insecticide , Fungicide and Rodenticide Act Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation Liability Act Consumer Product Safety Act Clean Air Act Lacey Act Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act Mining Act of 1872 Food Quality Protection Act Kyoto Protocol

Hazardous Material Transportation Act ---------------------------------------------------------------- This act deals with the regulation and development in the uses of NUCLEAR ENERGY through materials and facilities. Clue: Nuclear deals with ATOMS

Atomic Energy Act ---------------------------------------------------------------- This act regulates all DISCHARGE into WATER sources and deals with WETLAND DESTRUCTION Clue: Everyone wants CLEAN WATER for the WETLANDS!

Clean Water Act ----------------------------------------------------------------This act allows the government to set aside FEDERALLY owned LAND for PRESERVATION. Clue: Preserved Land = Wilderness

Wilderness Act ---------------------------------------------------------------- Job given to the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) to track/CONTROL 75,000 INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS = The EPA can ban, regulate, screen, test, etc. for any one of these TOXIC SUBSTANCES. Clue: The EPA controls toxic substances

Toxic Substances Control Act ---------------------------------------------------------------- This act gives the federal government the ability to research and track the coordinates of NOISE sources. Clue: Especially found around AIRPORTS where COMMUNITIES are found and would like it QUIET.

Quiet Communities Act ---------------------------------------------------------------- Government determines the site for NUCLEAR WASTES to be STORED = HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE must be deposited underground or in a safe-building Clue: Federal Government makes POLICIES for NUCLEAR WASTE.

Nuclear Waste Policy Act ---------------------------------------------------------------- Promotes a national environment FREE from NOISE that harms HEALTH or WELFARE = government establishes NOISE STANDARDS and research. Clue: Is to CONTROL harmful NOISE for the Nation not just the Community.

Noise Control Act ---------------------------------------------------------------- This act deals with SOLID WASTE in order to make DISPOSAL more efficient: promote shredding, burning, recycling, and separating in order to generate electricity. Clue: All SOLID WASTE must be DISPOSED someday.

Solid Waste Disposal Act ---------------------------------------------------------------- A simple declaration by the United Nations Conference on Human Environment (UNCHE) that the Human Population on Earth should be inspired and encouraged to preserve and protect the environment. (No duh!) Clue: This conference was held in STOCKHOLM, Sweden.

Stockholm Declaration ---------------------------------------------------------------- Job given to the EPA to set the standards for the quality of SAFE DRINKING WATER. EPA oversees all of the state and local water suppliers. Clue: People must be able to DRINK SAFE WATER.

Safe Drinking Water Act ---------------------------------------------------------------- The world nations banned the production of AEROSOLS and REFRIGERANTS in order to disperse and phase out CFC (chlorofluorocarbons) which deplete the OZONE Clue: This agreement or PROTOCOL was signed in MONTREAL, Canada

Montreal Protocol ---------------------------------------------------------------- Simply requires that all PESTICIDES be registered and approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) = Pesticide registry- tested to see how they affect the environment Clue: Deals with pesticide that kill: INSECTS, FUNGI, and RODENTS

Federal Insecticide , Fungicide and Rodenticide Act ---------------------------------------------------------------- Federal government forces industries to pay for the clean up of spilled, improperly disposed, or polluted areas where the pollution caused by them (LIABILITY). EMERGENCY RESPONSE to clean up hazardous substances. Clue: Forces Industries to remain LIABLE and COMPENSATE for government interference and clean up.

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation Liability Act ---------------------------------------------------------------- This act is meant to protect the public against unreasonable risk or injury from CONSUMER PRODUCTS. Basically, it keeps the people SAFE from harmful PRODUCTS. Clue: People need CONSUMER PRODUCTS that are SAFE.

Consumer Product Safety Act ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Similar to the Clean Water Act, this act deals with the AIR and ATMOSPHERE for primary and secondary quality standards. This act sets limits and goals to reduce MOBILE sources (vehicles) of air pollution. Like the Dirty ½ Dozen: CO, NOx, SO2, etc. Clue: Due to this act Global Warming is now being monitored because we want the AIR CLEAN = CO2 levels

Clean Air Act ---------------------------------------------------------------- This act is a conservation law which prohibits the TRANSPORTATION of ILLEGALLY CAPTURED/KILLED ANIMALS across STATE borders. Primarily used to prevent the spread of NON-NATIVE (INVASIVE) SPECIES. Clue: The name of this act is something you would put on women’s clothing.

Lacey Act --------------------------------------------------------------------This act ensures that industries truthfully LABEL and PACKAGE all FOOD, DRUGS, and COSMETICS that they product. i.e. Industries must label if their product is a GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM (GMO). Clue: Act deals with FOOD, DRUGS, and COSMETICS

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act --------------------------------------------------------------- This act is a federal law that authorizes/governs the MINING of MINERALS for economic purposes on PUBLIC lands. i.e. Digging for gold, platinum, silver. Clue: Think of the GOLD RUSH!

Mining Act of 1872 ---------------------------------------------------------------- This act PROTECTS the QUALITY of the FOOD, meaning it limits (screens/tests) all ingredients that may be harmful to the estrogenic/ endocrine system in the human body. Clue: FOOD QUALITY must be PROTECTED.

Food Quality Protection Act ---------------------------------------------------------------- Agreement (PROTOCOL) between 150 NATIONS which requires GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS to be lowered by 20%. The USA did NOT sign the agreement. Clue: Conference took place at KYOTO, Japan

Kyoto Protocol ---------------------------------------------------------------- This act was created to protect workers (at their OCCUPATION) and human HEALTH. This helped give SAFETY against OCCUPATIONAL hazards. Clue: This act gave way to an administration with the same name. It is similar to a giant Labor Union.

Occupational Safety and Health Act ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Secretary of the Interior (federal government) has the authority to regulate the amount of GRAZING done on PUBLIC LANDS. Clue: Some guy named TAYLOR must have complained about the amount of GRAZING done on his land! (I smell a law-suit, don’t you?)

Taylor Grazing Act ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Simply requires facilities (industries) to REDUCE POLLUTION at the SOURCE, thus PREVENTING the pollution from entering the environment. *This reduction can be measured in either TOXICITY or VOLUME. Clue: This is a better way to protect the environment because it PREVENTS the POLLUTION!

Pollution Prevention Act ---------------------------------------------------------------- Simply the act requires the RESTORATION and RECLAMATION of ABANDONED MINES. Clue: The SURFACE of a MINE should be RECLAIMED for the benefit of the environment.

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act ---------------------------------------------------------------- Play on a protective suit (plastic covering the human body). It is actually an act dealing with the TRANSPORTATION of HAZARDOUS MATERIAL. Clue: To deal with HAZARDOUS waste you must TRANSPORT it wearing a HAZMAT suit.