In 2009, DeKalb earned the Atlanta Regional Commission's " Green Communities " designation for its efforts in conserving energy, water and fuel ; investing in renewable energy ; reducing waste ; and protecting and restoring natural resources.

The Chairman's staff includes the Office of the Inspector General, which conducts audits of CFTC programs and operations, and the Office of International Affairs, which is the focal point for the Commission's global regulatory coordination efforts.

While much of the area still retains a suburban nature, efforts led by former Mayor of North York and Toronto Mel Lastman were made to intensify development in the North York Centre area along Yonge Street between Finch and Sheppard Avenues, coinciding with the path of the Toronto Transit Commission's Yonge subway line.

Broad Street no longer exists, as it was part of the National Capital Commission's efforts at improving the capital area.

The Joint Commission's predecessor organization was an outgrowth of the efforts of Ernest Codman to promote hospital reform based on outcomes management in patient care.

In November 2010 the European Commission's annual progress report on Croatia's candidacy stated that that Croatia's numerous homophobic incidents are worrying since inquisitions need to make further efforts in combating hate crimes.

The summit did, however, promise to implement 50 of the Commission's 90 recommendations including: $ 36bn of debt relief in 100 % debt cancellation delivered for 19 countries ; the launch of the UN Central Emergency Response Fund ( CERF ); doubling previous levels of aid for basic education, to remove school fees, and to scale up efforts to boost girls ’ participation and female literacy ; two million additional Africans given antiretroviral treatment for HIV / AIDS ; immunisation programmes which have stopped the transmission of polio everywhere except Nigeria ; training 20, 000 more African peacekeepers ; tightening controls on the trade in small arms ; working more closely with the African Union and its New Partnership for Africa ( Nepad ) programme to make African governments more accountable to their people ; pressing rich nations to ratify the UN Convention on Corruption ; putting in place measures to return cash looted by dictators from Western banks to the legitimate owners ; and using export credits to clamp down on Western companies who pay bribes.

The Temporary Commission was also instructed to coordinate its efforts with the National Capital Planning Commission's master plan for the city.

He added that at present the Commission's activity is not limited to the service of those Catholics, nor to " the efforts undertaken to end the regrettable schismatic situation and secure the return of those brethren belonging to the Fraternity of Saint Pius X to full communion.

The Commission's recommendations led to the Immigration Act of 1917.

In October 1966, following years of legal disputes over the Greylock Commission's perceived abuses of allowing public land for commercial use, a conservation group called the Mount Greylock Protective Association led a campaign that transferred ultimate responsibility for management and operation the mountain from Berkshire County to the state park system.

In 1885, the Commission's finding of misuse of funds at the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey led to the dismissal of several officials but exonerated Charles Sanders Peirce.

The Commission's report described systemic analytical, collection, and dissemination flaws that led to the intelligence community's erroneous assessments about Iraq's alleged WMD programs.

The rejection of the Peel Commission's proposal by both parties led to the establishment of the Woodhead Commission, which rejected the non-applicable proposal of the Peel Commission.

This Commission's recommendations led directly to congressional consideration and enactment into law of the Help America Vote Act of 2002.

Microsoft CEO Bill Gates claimed that Noorda had a " tremendous vendetta " against Microsoft and that Noorda had supported the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust investigations of Microsoft in the early 1990s that led to a consent decree restricting its operating system licensing practices.

The International Law Commission's work has led to the creation of a number of treaties and other works of international law that are key to the present international legal order ( see generally ), for example:

In March 2006 the Commission's objections to some of those proposed by Prime Minister Tony Blair for working peerages led to the " Cash for Peerages " scandal.

The Act was not based on the recommendations of the Commission, but the process by which the Commission collected evidence, and the Commission's report, did foster and inform the public, Parliamentary and Cabinet debate which led, eventually to the legislation.

The Commission's remit was to survey the West African Commonwealth countries for suitable locations for the creation of universities.

After much political debate, the Commission's proposals resulted in the abolition of the counties of Avon, Cleveland, Hereford and Worcester and Humberside, created in 1974, the county council of Berkshire, and the creation of unitary authorities covering many of the larger urban districts of England.

That need brought about the creation of the War Shipping Administration on February 7, 1942, which took over from the Maritime Commission virtually all of the Commission's major statutory functions with the exception of shipbuilding.

Milford also borders the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is connected to Upper Black Eddy, Bridgeton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission's free Upper Black Eddy-Milford Bridge over the Delaware River.

Harris were able to have their way, and the lower deck eventually proved to save millions of dollars when the Toronto Transit Commission's Bloor – Danforth subway, opened in 1966, was able to use the Don Valley phase with no major structural changes to cross the Don River Valley.

According to the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission's 2002 Southerly Crossings Corridor Study, Scudders Fall Bridge carries roughly 55, 000 vehicles per day ( traffic counts have increased since then ), well beyond the design load of 40, 000 vehicles per day.

The unincorporated village of Upper Black Eddy aka " UBE " is located in northern Bucks County, Pennsylvania 58 miles ( 95 kilometers ) west south west of New York City and 45 miles ( 68 kilometer ) north of Philadelphia and is officially part of Bridgeton Township which also directly borders adjacent Borough of Milford, Hunterdon County, New Jersey via by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission's free Upper Black Eddy-Milford Bridge over the Delaware River

As this would put Shapiro over the Federal Communications Commission's ownership limits in the Lebanon-Rutland-White River Junction market, WWOD and WEXP will be acquired by Electromagnetic Company, a company controlled by William and Gail Goddard ; WFYX is not included in that transaction.

From Etobicoke Creek to the Humber River, the street is the route of the Toronto Transit Commission's 501 Queen and 508 Lake Shore streetcar routes as far as the Long Branch Loop ; the 80 Queensway bus also travels along Lake Shore Boulevard between Ellis Avenue and Parkside Drive.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's estimate of the risk each year of an earthquake intense enough to cause core damage to the reactor at Crystal River was 1 in 45, 455, according to an NRC study published in August 2010.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's estimate of the risk each year of an earthquake intense enough to cause core damage to the reactor at River Bend was 1 in 40, 000, according to an NRC study published in August 2010.

A purge of military officers accused of human rights abuses and corruption was completed in 1993 in compliance with the Ad Hoc Commission's recommendations.

The peace agreement would be completed with the implementation of the Border Commission's ruling, which would also end the task of the peacekeeping mission.

A purge of military officers accused of human rights abuses and corruption was completed in 1993 in compliance with the Ad Hoc Commission's recommendations.

In 1981, ADL produced the European Commission's first white paper on telecommunications deregulation, having completed the first worldwide telecommunications database on phones installed, markets, technical trends, services and regulatory information.

** the Government decision in December 2002 to review the Commission's mandate which was to be completed in February 2003 but which has not yet been published ;

By 1924, the California Highway Commission's engineers had realized that building Route 50 through the canyon was impractical, and adopted a substitute plan for two highways connecting Lower Lake and Rumsey with the planned Route 15 ( Tahoe-Ukiah Highway, now State Route 20 ) to the north in September 1925.

The first satellites bear the names of eleven-year-old Thijs from Belgium and nine-year-old Natalia from Bulgaria who are the first winners of the European Commission's Galileo children's drawing competition.

The Commission's first president was Walter Hallstein ( see Hallstein Commission ) who started consolidating European law and began to impact on national legislation.

National governments took little heed of his administration at first with the President having to stamp the Commission's authority early on.

Argonne National Laboratory was one of the first laboratories authorized under this legislation as a contractor-operated facility dedicated to fulfilling the new Commission's mission.

The Alice Holt research station was the Commission's first research station, established in 1946 ; it is the main research station of Forest Research.

In May 1976, the first plenary meeting of all of the Commission's regional groups took place in Kyoto.

The cartoon made television history, as it was the first to meet the Federal Communications Commission's then-new educational / informal programming requirements.

On November 29, 2011 the Expert Commission for the Future of the Valley of the Fallen, formed by the Socialist Party government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero on May 27, 2011 under the Law of Historical Memory and charged to give advice for converting the Valley of the Fallen to a " memory center that dignifies and rehabilitates the victims of the Civil War and the subsequent Franco regime ," rendered a report recommending as its principal proposal for the Commission's stated end the removal of the remains of Francisco Franco from the Valley of the Fallen for reburial at a location to be chosen by his family, but only after first obtaining a broad parliamentary consensus for such action.

Reaction to the Menin Gate, the first and most important of the Imperial War Graves Commission's Memorials to the Missing, ranged from its condemnation by the war poet Siegfried Sassoon, to praise by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.

The NZ Tertiary Education Commission's first Performance Based Research Fund ranking exercise in 2003 — equivalent to the UK's RAE — ranked the quality of Lincoln University's research at sixth place.

In 1968, the International Convention of Christian Churches ( Disciples of Christ ) adopted the Commission's proposed “ Provisional Design of the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ).” The restructuring was implemented in 1969 by the first General Assembly, and the name officially changed to the " Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ )".

At the same time, the Or Commission's statements were perhaps the first public official acknowledgment of discrimination faced by the Arab citizenry of Israel ; Adalah and Mossawa commended the Or Commission for this admission.

During his first presidency, the following important issues were on the Commission's agenda:

Boylan was appointed the Commission's first chairman and Congress eventually appropriated $ 3 million for a memorial to Jefferson.

This sandbar, which would eventually become Granville Island, was first mapped by Captain George Henry Richards in the British Boundary Commission's naval expedition in 1858-59, and the island today conforms roughly to the size and shape documented at that time.

This was further strengthened in July 2008 when the Irish and UK governments announced that NATS and IAA had jointly introduced the first Functional Airspace Block under the European Commission's Single European Sky initiative.

The Landmarks Preservation Commission's first hearing occurred in September, 1965 over the future of the Astor Library on Lafayette Street and the building was given a new use and preserved as The Public Theater.

1990 marked the first time in the Commission's history that a proposed landmark: the Guggenheim Museum, one of the youngest declared landmarks, received a unanimous vote by the Commission members.

In 1953, the university established KUHT — the first educational television station in the nation — after the four-year long Federal Communications Commission's television licensing freeze ended.

At first, the Commission did not directly operate transport services-these were the responsibility of the Commission's Executives.

The Commission's first chairman was Lord McGregor of Durris.

When it was first established, there was much judicial and governmental unrest about the scope of the Commission's investigatory powers.

Lee Oswald — Assassin ( 1966 ) was a drama-documentary telling the story of Lee Harvey Oswald, based on the Warren Commission's findings, while Conversation at Night ( 1969 ) saw the first television acting appearance of Alec Guinness.