Around 1.5 million Armenians were killed during the Armenian Genocide by the Imperial Ottoman Authority. They were killed as a result of an official policy of the Ottomans that consisted in the deportation of millions of Armenias to desertic regions of the Empire, where many of them were used as forced labor, and deprived of basic food, shelter, and sanitation.
A variety of Federal programs, including the Clean Water Act, have delegated authority built in which means that the States enact the Federal programs.