1. 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

2. 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

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

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

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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

17. 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.

18. 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

19. 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!

20. 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.

21. 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

22. 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.

23. 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?)

24. 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!

25. 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.

26. 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.