The overall goal of the Acid Rain Program established by the Act is to achieve significant environmental and public health benefits through reductions in emissions of sulfur dioxide ( SO < sub > 2 </ sub >) and nitrogen oxides ( NO < sub > x </ sub >), the primary causes of acid rain.

His goal was to have Indians acting as individuals ( not as tribes ) and to assume the responsibilities of citizenship granted with the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.

However, on January 7, 2008, George W. Bush appointee H. Dale Hall, Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service ( USFWS ), signed a recommendation to abandon jaguar recovery as a federal goal under the Endangered Species Act.

The tariff has been used as a political tool to establish an independent nation ; for example, the United States Tariff Act of 1789, signed specifically on July 4, was called the " Second Declaration of Independence " by newspapers because it was intended to be the economic means to achieve the political goal of a sovereign and independent United States.

( An alternate view is that the 1946 Act concentrated on employment, and Humphrey-Hawkins, by specifying four competing and possibly inconsistent goals, de-emphasized full employment as the sole primary national economic goal.

To accomplish its goal of parity ( raising crop prices to where they were in the golden years of 1909-1914 ), the Act had to eliminate surplus production.

Regime change in Iraq became a stated goal of United States foreign policy when Public Law 105-338 ( the " Iraq Liberation Act ") was signed into law by U. S. President Bill Clinton.

In response to unrest in the railroad labor industry, Congress passed The Erdman Act of 1898, the overarching goal of which was to regulate railroad labor disputes.

American education policy under the " No Child Left Behind Act " has as an official goal the elimination of the achievement gap between populations.

It shall be the goal of the Survey program to achieve 90 % completion of its near-Earth object catalogue ( based on statistically predicted populations of near-Earth objects ) within 15 years after the date of enactment of this Act.

The Nazis thought that this would make it difficult to achieve their next goal, which was to pass the Enabling Act, a measure that required a two-thirds majority.

The ' 33 Act is based upon a philosophy of disclosure, meaning that the goal of the law is to require issuers to fully disclose all material information that a reasonable shareholder would require in order to make up his or her mind about the potential investment.

The 1968 Gun Control Act added a " sporting purpose " test which barred imports of military surplus rifles ( a goal of many domestic gun makers ) and a " points system " for imported handguns which barred from importation handguns based on penalizing features ( short barrels, small caliber, short overall length or height, non-adjustable sights, etc.

However critics of the law say that providing immunity to a volunteer who has injured someone as a consequence of his carelessness clashes with the charitable goal of helping others, that nonprofits should be held to the same standard of care as for-profit organizations, and that the Act would not be necessary at all if nonprofits carried adequate general liability insurance.

The goal of the recovery program is to conserve and recover the species to the extent that it may be down-listed from endangered to threatened in the near future, and ultimately, that the population be healthy enough to no longer require federal protection under the Endangered Species Act.

Markey praised the recent House passage of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act, which, he said, would be responsible for investing $ 190 billion for clean technology, exceeding the goal set by President Obama.

The act had the goal of creating a 90-day review period in which parts of Sections 4-10 of the USA PATRIOT Act could be removed.

In October 2008, Bush sought, and Congress passed, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 ( commonly referred to as the " bank bailout ") with the goal of protecting the U. S. financial system from complete collapse in the wake of the late-2000s recession, which brought significant declines in the stock market.

The Province of Ontario re-introduced the Skin Cancer Prevention Act ( Bill 74 ) on April 26, 2012, with the goal of protecting youth under the age of 18 from the dangers associated with indoor tanning by restricting youth access and requiring that all indoor tanning facilities post health warnings in clear view of customers.

The other founding Almanac members Pete Seeger and Lee Hays became President and Executive Secretary, respectively, of People's Songs, an organization with the goal of providing protest music to union activists, repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, and electing Henry A. Wallace on the third, Progressive Party, ticket.

In 1985, the Indian Act was amended again with the goal of restoring Indian status to people who had lost it through discriminatory provisions of the Act, and to their children.

The 1982 Act accomplished this goal by eliminating many unintended and obsolete tax incentives, and by strengthening the individual minimum tax on high-income individuals.

The 1986 Tax Reform Act was “ landmark ” legislation, providing comprehensive reform of the federal tax system with the goal of creating a fairer, more efficient, simpler, and more transparent system.

And here again we hear the same refrain mentioned above: `` the paramount goal of the United States set long ago was to guard the rights of the individual, ensure his development, enlarge his opportunity ''.

In one of these, an exploding-wire device to study systems thermodynamically up to 6,000 Af and 100 atmospheres pressure, a major goal was achieved.

This project was carried out under sponsorship of the Ballistic Missile Division of the Air Research and Development Command, U.S. Air Force, and had as its goal the investigation of the transport by diffusion of the heat energy of chemical binding.

A goal was fixed, as given in Table 2, and attention focused on its fulfillment.

Since experience indicates that effluents from oxidation ponds do not create major problems at these BOD concentrations, the goal for the effluent quality of the accelerated treatment system was the same as from conventional oxidation ponds.

She was his goal, she was his reason.

It was the first time we've been ahead this season ( when John Richey kicked what proved to be the winning field goal ) ''.

His goal was to obtain a National League team for this city.

Askington was a kind of goal I set myself ; ;

His goal was now to reunify the nation.

The goal was to demonstrate the superior power of " free labor ", whereby a common farm boy could work his way to the top by his own efforts.

The President said the primary goal of his actions as president ( he used the first person pronoun and explicitly refers to his " official duty ") was preserving the Union:

The damage caused by Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia in 1864 was limited to a swath, but neither Lincoln nor his commanders saw destruction as the main goal, but rather defeat of the Confederate armies.

The goal of clear concise communication is that the receiver ( s ) have no misunderstanding about what was meant to be conveyed.

William Baker Ashton was appointed Governor of the temporary goal in 1839, and in 1840 George Strickland Kingston was commissioned to design Adelaide's new Gaol.

The goal was to enhance the status of the graziers ( operators of big sheep ranches ) and small farmers, and justified subsidies for them.

The goal of the Annales was to undo the work of the Sorbonnistes, to turn French historians away from the narrowly political and diplomatic toward the new vistas in social and economic history.

It seems that the goal of the designer was to avoid straight lines completely.

Their goal was to regain access to Eden by finding the correct formula for perfect living, following specific rules governing agriculture, diet, and reproduction.

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module ( LM ) on the Moon on July 20, 1969 and walked on its surface while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command spacecraft, and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24.

The spread of the Akkadian state as far as the " silver mountain " ( possibly the Taurus Mountains ), the " cedars " of Lebanon, and the copper deposits of Magan, was largely motivated by the goal of securing control over these imports.

Throughout his career, Alaric's primary goal was not to undermine the Empire, but to secure for himself a regular and recognized position within the Empire's borders.