Contemporary Examples. 1  reality check: Perfect is never on the menu, especially in Albany. 2  reality check No. 1: Immigration reform is only dead if the House of Representativesâspecifically Speaker Boehnerâdecides it is. 3  Progressives who hope, in 2014, to regulate their way out of this problem need a reality check. The Answer to the McCutcheon Decision Is More Big Money in Politics Jonathan Rauch April 3, 2014 reality check: 90 percent of Americans rarely agree on anything.
Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-raised Fish (ELAP) ELAP provides financial assistance to eligible producers of livestock, honeybees and farm-raised fish for losses due to disease, certain adverse weather events or loss conditions, including blizzards and wildfires, as determined by the Secretary.
The Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) was a research program run by EPAâs Office of Research and Development to develop the tools necessary to monitor and assess the status and trends of national ecological resources. EMAP collected field data from 1990 to 2006. EMAP's goal was to develop the scientific understanding for translating environmental monitoring data from multiple spatial and temporal scales into assessments of current ecological condition and forecasts of future risks to our natural resources.