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Simply A Matter Of Growing Pains? Evaluating The Controversy Surrounding The Growth Management Hearings Boards, Derek W. Woolston
Simply A Matter Of Growing Pains? Evaluating The Controversy Surrounding The Growth Management Hearings Boards, Derek W. Woolston
Washington Law Review
In 1990, the Washington Legislature enacted the Growth Management Act (GMA) intending to reduce urban sprawl and manage development throughout the state. In 1991, the GMA was amended to include an administrative dispute resolution system, involving three independent regional Growth Management Hearings Boards ("Boards") empowered to hear petitions and to determine whether a county or city is complying with the GMA. The breadth of discretion given to the Boards to scrutinize local government land use policies has prompted a barrage of criticism from both local governments and the regulated community. The tension is attributable to factors within the control of …
Environmental Protection Agreements In Japan And The United States, Susan Ridgley
Environmental Protection Agreements In Japan And The United States, Susan Ridgley
Washington International Law Journal
In an environmental protection agreement, local government regulatory authorities and the regulated industry enter into a binding written agreement that specifies limits on pollution and supplements the applicable regulatory requirements. They have been utilized in Japan for over twenty years. This Comment discusses the content and practical uses of these agreements as they have been used in Japan, and postulates their legal status under three theories: that such agreements are relational social contracts; that they are informal administrative guidance; and that they are civil contracts. The legal character of environmental protection agreements in Japan has never been well-defined, primarily because …
The Federal Advisory Committee Act: An Obstacle To Ecosystem Management By Federal Agencies, Sheila Lynch
The Federal Advisory Committee Act: An Obstacle To Ecosystem Management By Federal Agencies, Sheila Lynch
Washington Law Review
Ecosystem management, the new guiding concept for federal land management, requires collaboration and information sharing across ownership boundaries, facilitation of changes in social values, and adaptation to new scientific and social information. Particularly in the western states, the federal land management agencies have been involved to varying degrees in innovative collaborative processes with the goal of implementing ecosystem management. However, the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), which places numerous procedural requirements on certain federal interactions with non-federal parties, has been cited as an obstacle to federal participation in these efforts. This Comment presents an analytic framework for determining when FACA …
Russian Dumping Of Radioactive Wastes In The Sea Of Japan: An Opportunity To Evaluate The Effectiveness Of The London Convention 1972, James R. Mccullagh
Russian Dumping Of Radioactive Wastes In The Sea Of Japan: An Opportunity To Evaluate The Effectiveness Of The London Convention 1972, James R. Mccullagh
Washington International Law Journal
By dumping 900 tons of radioactive waste into the Sea of Japan on October, 13, 1993, the Russian navy violated the moratorium on low-level radioactive waste dumping of the London Convention (the international treaty controlling ocean dumping). However, legal liability under the London Convention, the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and international customary law arguably does not attach to this activity. Indeed, even though the London Convention was amended in November of 1993 to prohibit all ocean dumping of radioactive waste, Russia remains legally entitled to use the ocean as a disposal site for low-level …
Deforestation In Cambodia And Malaysia: The Case For An International Legal Solution, Heather A. Wolf
Deforestation In Cambodia And Malaysia: The Case For An International Legal Solution, Heather A. Wolf
Washington International Law Journal
The logging of tropical timber for the export market is the primary cause of deforestation in Southeast Asia. The problem of controlling the tropical timber trade has been addressed on both the national and international level. The existing legal mechanisms, however, have proven to be inadequate. A new multilateral agreement based on the import and export permit system of the Basel Agreement is necessary to control the timber trade and to aid in halting deforestation.