Sec. 4. To carry out the policy set forth in this chapter, it is the continuing responsibility of the state to use all practicable means, consistent with other essential considerations of state policy, to improve and coordinate state plans, functions, programs, and resources to the end that the state may do the following:

(1) Fulfill the responsibilities of each generation as trustee of the environment for succeeding generations.

(2) Assure for all citizens of Indiana safe, healthful, productive, and esthetically and culturally pleasing surroundings.

(3) Attain the widest range of beneficial uses of the environment without degradation, risk to health or safety, or other undesirable and unintended consequences.

(4) Preserve important historic, cultural, and natural aspects of our national heritage and maintain, wherever possible, an environment that supports diversity and variety of individual choice.

(5) Achieve a balance between population and resource use that will permit high standards of living and a wise sharing of life’s amenities.

(6) Enhance the quality of renewable resources and approach the maximum attainable recycling of depletable resources.

[Pre-1996 Recodification Citation: 13-1-10-2(b).]

As added by P.L.1-1996, SEC.2.