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Appendix A: Summary of Related NRC Reports
Pages 261-265

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... Appendix A Summary of Related NRC Reports 261
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... It recommends that an aquatic ecosystem restoration strategy be developed for the nation, which includes innovation in financing and use of land and water markets Assigning Economic Explores the major issues and controversies associated with incorporating natural resources Value to Natural Re- and the environment into economic accounts. It also responds to the many discussions sources (1994)
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... , a comprehensive ment for Potable watershed management plan that allows the city to avoid filtration of its large upstate surface Water Supply: water supply. Many of the report's recommendations are broadly applicable to surface water Assessing the New supplies across the country, including those concerning target buffer zones, stormwater York City Strategy management, water quality monitoring, and effluent trading.
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... based approach to address water resource problems in order to arrive at a more integrative diagnosis of the cause of degradation Compensating for Wet- Evaluates mitigation practices as a means to restore or maintain the quality of the nation's land Losses Under wetlands in the context of the Clean Water Act. The report discusses the array of ap the Clean Water Act proaches to and issues associated with wetlands functional assessment in relation to the na (2001b)
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... Washing ton, D.C.: National Academy Press.
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