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and related projects in view of the prospect for long-term increases in the levels of the ocean. Directs the Secretary to determine the extent of shoreline

advisors for the executive branch and the president, which President Ford concurred to do. The United States Congress then established the OSTP in 1976 with

and the coupling of terrestrial and atmospheric processes. Rhizosphere Function investigates interactions between genes and the environment at the molecular

device in the Great Seal at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, known as The Thing, was the catalyst for developing countermeasures technology. By the end of the

or to the associate attorney general (in the case of the Antitrust, Civil, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, and Tax Divisions and the Office

Department of Transportation. The FHWA took over the functions of the Bureau of Public Roads the following year. The FHWA's role in the Federal-aid Highway Program

among the earliest in the federal government: United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, formed in 1807 Weather Bureau of the United States, formed in 1870

terminals, in addition to licensing non-federal hydropower projects. FERC was created by the U.S. Congress in 1977 in the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis

Toxicology Program. The deputy director is Dr. Trevor Archer. The director of the NIEHS reports to the director of the NIH, of which the NIEHS is a member

General oversees the Antitrust Division, the Civil Division, the Environment and Natural Resources Division, the Tax Division, the Office of Justice Programs

static through most of the period, but had substantial increases in fiscal 2009. The increase in the Fusion budget reinstated the U.S. contribution to ITER

restore public confidence in the agency. Lee M. Thomas succeeded Ruckelshaus as administrator in 1985. In 1986 Congress passed the Emergency Planning and

representing the U.S. at the United Nations. The department is headquartered in the Harry S Truman Building, a few blocks from the White House, in the Foggy Bottom

Service File:Making up the crop report in 1917.jpg The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is the statistical branch of the U.S. Department of

organization with the word "environment" in its title, ESSA was the first such organization chartered to study the global natural environment as whole, bringing

mismanagement of any kind within the executive department. In the United States, other than in the military departments, the first Office of Inspector General

Logistics. The Under Secretary is appointed from civilian life by the President with the consent of the Senate to serve at the pleasure of the President

of 2009 the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act of 1986 the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act of 1984 the Civil Rights

level of contamination in the environment and in people. ATSDR represents the Department of Health and Human Services on the National Response Team and works

The United States deputy attorney general is the second-highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice and oversees the day-to-day