Resources

Implementaion of Guidance Memorandum to Federal Agencies on Indigenous Knowledge. It supports agencies in recongiing and including Indigenous Knowledge in reserach, policy, and other decision making. It is intended to promote and enable a government-wide effort to improve the recognition and inclusion of Indigenous Knowledge in such proceses. Council of Environmental Quality, 2022.

The quality of river recreation opportunities is dependent upon instream flows. This handbook provides a “road map” to the ideas and methods that are the basis of effective studies. NPS, Whitaker, et al, 1993.

Federal Power Act full text with amendments through 2018.

The 2015 standards under the Architectural Barriers Act (ABA). US Congress, 2015.

Access Board’s website describing the standards under the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). Department of Juice, 2010.

This Flows and Recreation Guide is intended to facilitate decision-making to define flows for recreation on regulated rivers.

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was created to prevent the extinction of plants and animals while helping to recover those species that have been listed as being threatened or endangered.

Section 307 of the Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA) requires licensees to obtain a valid certification approved by the State to assure that project construction and operation will be consistent with the State's coastal zone management program.

Section 401 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) bars FERC from issuing a license for a hydropower project until the state or states where the project is located certify that the project will comply with applicable state water quality standards.

NEPA requires all federal agencies to analyze the environmental impacts of their actions along with alternatives to those actions.