Download or read book National Environmental Policy Act NEPA written by Anne-Marie Fennel and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires all federal agencies to evaluate the potential environmental effects of proposed projects -- such as roads or bridges -- on the human environment. Agencies prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) when a project will have a potentially significant impact on the environment. They may prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA) to determine whether a project will have a significant potential impact. If a project fits within a category of activities determined to have no significant impact -- a Categorical Exclusion (CE) -- then an EA or an EIS is generally not necessary. The adequacy of these analyses has been a focus of litigation. This report reviewed various issues associated with completing NEPA analyses. It describes information on the (1) number and type of NEPA analyses; (2) costs and benefits of completing those analyses; and (3) frequency and outcomes of related litigation. Tables and figure. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book National Environmental Policy Act little information exists on NEPA analyses written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEPA requires all federal agencies to evaluate the potential environmental effects of proposed projects, such as roads or bridges, on the human environment. Agencies prepare an EIS when a project will have a potentially significant impact on the environment. They may prepare an EA to determine whether a project will have a significant potential impact. If a project fits within a category of activities determined to have no significant impact, a CE, then an EA or an EIS is generally not necessary. The adequacy of these analyses has been a focus of litigation. GAO was asked to review various issues associated with completing NEPA analyses. This report describes information on the (1) number and type of NEPA analyses, (2) costs and benefits of completing those analyses, and (3) frequency and outcomes of related litigation. GAO included available information on both costs and benefits to be consistent with standard economic principles for evaluating federal programs, and selected the Departments of Defense, Energy, the Interior, and Transportation, and the USDA Forest Service for analysis because they generally complete the most NEPA analyses. GAO reviewed documents and interviewed individuals from federal agencies, academia, and professional groups with expertise in NEPA analyses and litigation. GAO's findings are not generalizeable to agencies other than those selected. This report has no recommendations.
Download or read book National Environmental Policy ACT Little Information Exists on Nepa Analyses written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " NEPA requires all federal agencies to evaluate the potential environmental effects of proposed projects-such as roads or bridges-on the human environment. Agencies prepare an EIS when a project will have a potentially significant impact on the environment. They may prepare an EA to determine whether a project will have a significant potential impact. If a project fits within a category of activities determined to have no significant impact-a CE-then an EA or an EIS is generally not necessary. The adequacy of these analyses has been a focus of litigation. GAO was asked to review various issues associated with completing NEPA analyses. This report describes information on the (1) number and type of NEPA analyses, (2) costs and benefits of completing those analyses, and (3) frequency and outcomes of related litigation. GAO included available information on both costs and benefits to be consistent with standard economic principles for evaluating federal programs, and selected the Departments of Defense, Energy, the Interior, and Transportation, and the USDA Forest Service for analysis because they generally complete the most NEPA analyses. GAO reviewed documents and interviewed individuals from federal agencies, academia, and professional groups with expertise in NEPA analyses and litigation. GAO's findings are not generalizeable to agencies other than those selected. This report has no recommendations"
Download or read book National Environmental Policy Act little information exists on NEPA analyses written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEPA requires all federal agencies to evaluate the potential environmental effects of proposed projects, such as roads or bridges, on the human environment. Agencies prepare an EIS when a project will have a potentially significant impact on the environment. They may prepare an EA to determine whether a project will have a significant potential impact. If a project fits within a category of activities determined to have no significant impact, a CE, then an EA or an EIS is generally not necessary. The adequacy of these analyses has been a focus of litigation. GAO was asked to review various issues associated with completing NEPA analyses. This report describes information on the (1) number and type of NEPA analyses, (2) costs and benefits of completing those analyses, and (3) frequency and outcomes of related litigation. GAO included available information on both costs and benefits to be consistent with standard economic principles for evaluating federal programs, and selected the Departments of Defense, Energy, the Interior, and Transportation, and the USDA Forest Service for analysis because they generally complete the most NEPA analyses. GAO reviewed documents and interviewed individuals from federal agencies, academia, and professional groups with expertise in NEPA analyses and litigation. GAO's findings are not generalizeable to agencies other than those selected. This report has no recommendations.
Download or read book National Environmental Policy Act Little Information Exists on NEPA Analyses written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preparing NEPA Environmental Assessments written by Charles Eccleston and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations provide surprisingly little direction for preparing environmental assessments (EA). This book addresses this problem by providing a step-by-step guide for preparing EAs. Bridging the regulatory gap, it draws on information scattered throughout NEPA regulations and guidance documents, as well as best professional practices (BPP) and case law. The book progresses from the fundamentals to successfully more advanced topics, making it suitable for beginners, students, and experienced practitioners alike. It provides an indispensable guide for managing, analyzing, and writing legally defensible EAs.
Download or read book The National Environmental Policy Act written by Sabrina Reynolds and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goals of the National Environmental Policy Act are to declare a national environmental policy, provide federal agencies with action-forcing provisions intended to ensure that the goals of the policy are implemented, establish the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to provide advice to the President on environmental matters and to monitor the state of the environment, and require the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the state of the environment. This book describes information on the number and type of NEPA analyses; costs and benefits of completing those analyses; and frequency and outcomes of related litigation.
Download or read book Environmental AnalysisThe NEPA Experience written by Stephen G. Hildebrand and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1993-06-09 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Analysis reviews information gathered during NEPA assessments, summarizes the state of the art in methods and approaches, and defines future opportunities and new approaches required to link high-quality science to the decision-making process. Individual chapters address the process itself, present examples of recent experience with ecological impact assessment, evaluate social impact assessment and the important role the public must play, discuss the difficult challenge of assessing cumulative effects of multiple impacts, consider the regional and global implications of NEPA, and examine the important role of follow-up studies in the process. The authors of the 59 individual papers comprising this book represent the major sectors that have been key participants in the decision-making process from the beginning. These sectors include academia, national laboratories, federal agencies, state agencies, private industry, and foreign nations. Environmental Analysis will be interesting reading for environmental scientists, engineers, policy makers, and lawyers in government and academia; private consultants; and non-government environmental organizations.
Download or read book The role of NEPA in the Southern States written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Task Force on Improving the National Environmental Policy Act and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Environmental Policy Act written by Lynton Keith Caldwell and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-22 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The National Environmental Policy Act has grown more, not less, important in the decades since its enactment. No one knows more about NEPA than Lynton Caldwell. And no one has a clearer vision of its relevance to our future. Highly recommended." —David W. Orr, Oberlin College What has been achieved since the National Environmental Policy Act was passed in 1969? This book points out where and how NEPA has affected national environmental policy and where and why its intent has been frustrated. The roles of Congress, the President, and the courts in the implementation of NEPA are analyzed. Professor Caldwell also looks at the conflicted state of public opinion regarding the environment and conjectures as to what must be done in order to develop a coherent and sustained policy.
Download or read book The Role of NEPA in the Southwestern States written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Task Force on Improving the National Environmental Policy Act and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Facts about the National Environmental Policy Act written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of NEPA in the Intermountain States written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Task Force on Improving the National Environmental Policy Act and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Problems and Issues with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book NEPA in the Courts written by Frederick R. Anderson and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preparing NEPA Environmental Assessments written by Charles Eccleston and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although upwards of 50,000 environmental assessments (EAs) are prepared annually-compared to some 500 environmental impact statements (EISs)-the focus of U.S. National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations is on defining requirements for preparing EISs. Written by Charles Eccleston and J. Peyton Doub, who have established themselves among the
Download or read book The National Environmental Policy Act Process Study written by Council on Environmental Quality (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
