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Environmental Protection and Conflicts and Costly Delay
Author(s) -
Ogilvie James L.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1979.tb04355.x
Subject(s) - national environmental policy act , business , set (abstract data type) , inflation (cosmology) , environmental impact assessment , public economics , natural resource economics , environmental planning , economics , political science , computer science , law , environmental science , physics , theoretical physics , programming language
A serious shortcoming of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) is its failure to set specific timetables. Many see the act as a delaying tactic to impede a necessary public project. Prolonged delay of a project in this age of inflation adds to the ultimate cost consumers must pay.