The most substantial effect of the new guidelines — which the agency will promulgate to regional offices that issue permits — will be to benchmark the permissible levels of mining runoff likely to be introduced into the waterways surrounding a proposed project.
Scottish Land and Estates chief executive Douglas McAdam said: "These latest figures from SASA [Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture] represent the most substantial progress on this issue for many years.
In the interests of making this blog a continuing conversation about journalism issues, large and small, I'm posting a few of the most substantial pieces on this subject that I've seen in recent weeks.
"Most institutions are having some issues, and the really substantial issue seems to be around contact hours: what they mean and how you collect the information and make it auditable, from the point of view of the reliability, transparency and accessibility".
Dale Ho, director of the ACLU's voting rights project, questioned Hans von Spakovsky, a former Justice Department official and member of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, who is one of the most prominent people arguing that noncitizen voter registration is a substantial issue.
The most substantial change in the paper, however, has been its more aggressive, sometimes cheeky approach to local issues, especially those of particular interest to the paper's proprietors.
At its most substantial, the play dramatizes a debate among members of the left about the importance of fighting for marriage as opposed to other civil rights issues.
China's increase has been the most substantial.
Portraiture accounts for the most substantial works here.
