Cleaner Water

Establishing Individual Fishing Quota Systems

The Bush Administration, in its 2004 proposal to reauthorize the Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Act, included the authority to establish individual fishing quota (IFQ) systems. An IFQ is a management program that provides a quantity of fish (generally a percent share of a harvest quota) exclusively to an individual fisherman. In such a program, each participating fisherman can use his share of the quota at any time during the fishing season. The Administration's proposal on IFQs seeks to strike a balance between flexibility in developing IFQ programs and the need to observe certain constraints or protections for the common good. Encouraging market-based incentives to adjust harvest capacity in a fishery will have the effects of ending the race for fish; improving product quality, and enhancing safety at sea, while providing for greater efficiency in fishing operations and ultimately improving the livelihood of the fishermen who depend on them.

 

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• Introduction

Cleaner Air

• New Protective Air Quality Standards
• Clear Skies – A Clean Air Act for the 21st Century
• Clean Air Interstate Rule
• Clean Air Nonroad Diesel Rule
• Clean Air Mercury Rule
• Cleaner Fuels and Engines
• Clean School Bus USA Program
• Cleaner Air Partnerships
• Improving New Source Review
• Improving Visibility in America’s National Parks

Addressing Global Climate Change

• Ambitious National Goal to Reduce Emissions Intensity
• Cabinet Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration
• Federal Climate Science Program
• Greenhouse Gas Reduction Initiatives
• Targeted Incentives for Greenhouse Gas Sequestration
• Proposed Guidelines for Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• International Outreach and Partnerships
• President’s Initiative Against Illegal Logging
• Cleaner, More Efficient Energy Technologies
• Federal Energy and Carbon Sequestration Programs
• Tax Incentives for Renewable Energy and Hybrid and Fuel Cell Vehicles
• Natural Gas Supply
• Nuclear Energy
• Developing Cleaner Coal Technologies
• Fuel Economy Increase for Light Trucks

Cleaner Water

• Expanding and Protecting America’s Wetlands
• Cleaning Up America’s Waters
• Improving Water Quality: TMDLs
• Cleaning the Great Lakes and Controlling Invasive Species
• Cleaning Up the Hudson River
• Reducing Water Pollution from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
• Setting Standards for Industrial Sources
• Recognizing Clean Water Partners
• Community-Based Watershed Restoration Partnerships
• Restoring the Klamath Basin
• Rural Water Projects
• Restoring the Everglades
• Destin Dome
• Protecting Marine Ecosystems
• Protecting Coral Reefs
• National Marine Sanctuaries
• Establishing Individual Fishing Quota Systems
• Improving Our Coastal Waters
• Clean Beaches Strategy
• Water Conservation
• Water 2025: Preventing Crises and Conflict in the West

Cleaner Lands

• Reclaiming America’s Brownfields
• Redeveloping Coalfields
• Superfund
• Nuclear Waste Site Cleanup
• Cleaning Up Dangerous Abandoned Coal Mines
• Cleaning Up Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
• Hardrock Mining Rule
• Ensuring Pipeline Safety
• Promoting Recycling and Reducing Hazardous Wastes

Healthier Ecosystems

• An Historic Farm Bill – Doubling Support Conservation on America’s Farms and Ranches
• The Healthy Forests Initiative: Protecting People, Wildlife, and Ecosystems
• Stewardship Contracting
• Protecting our Trees and Forests from Invasive Species
• Interagency Wildland Fire Leadership Council
• Firewise: Helping Homeowners Prevent Catastrophic Wildfires
• National Parks – Restoring the Quality of Our Cultural, Natural, and Historic Resources
• A Commitment to Cooperative Conservation
• Drought and Fire Assistance for Natural Resources
• Protecting our National Wildlife Refuges
• Revitalizing the Land and Water Conservation Fund
• Restoring Healthy Pacific Salmon Populations
• Preserve America
• Take Pride In America
• Landowner Incentive Program
• Private Stewardship Grants Program
• New Wilderness
• Invasive Species
• Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program
• Urban Conservation Treaty for Migratory Birds
• Restoring Declining Species
• Reforestation: Planting Trees on Mined Lands

A Cleaner, Healthier World Community

• A Successful World Summit on Sustainable Development
• Methane to Markets Partnership
• International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy (IPHE)
• Other International Energy Activities
• Eliminating Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
• U.S. – Russia Polar Bear Agreement
• Conserving Fish Stocks and Other Living Marine Resources

Healthier People

• Our Children and the Environment
• Reducing Lead Poisoning
• Emergency Reclamation Activities
• Voluntary Children’s Chemical Evaluation Program
• Asthma Research Strategy
• Promoting Food Safety Through Pesticide Management
• Pesticide Risk Assessment
• New Recreational Trails
• Innovation in Action: Performance Track
• Reducing the Generation and Use of Hazardous Substances Through Green Chemistry

President Bush’s Performance-Based FY 2005 Budget

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September 2004

•   PDF File: A Record of Progress