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DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice of Availability, ``A Citizen's Guide to the National
SUBJECT CATEGORY: The National Environmental Policy Act
DOCUMENT SUMMARY: The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) has published ``A Citizen's Guide to the NEPAHaving Your Voice Heard.'' The guide explains the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and how it is implemented, as well as how people outside the Federal government individual citizens, private sector permit applicants, members of organized groups, and representatives of Tribal, State, or local governmentscan better participate in the Federal environmental impact assessment process. This informational guide contains no new requirements.
SUMMARY: Availability of Citizen's Guide to the National Environmental Policy Act,
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Environmental Policy ActHaving Your Voice Heard.''
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
CEQ established a NEPA task force and is implementing its recommendations to modernize the implementation of NEPA and make the NEPA process more effective and efficient. This guide responds to public requests and comments received during the development of the ``National Environmental Policy Act Task Force Report to the CEQModernizing NEPA Implementation,'' and from participants in the four NEPA Regional Roundtables that reviewed the report. More information about the task force is posted at http://ceq.eh.doe.gov/ntf. CEQ requested public comments on the proposed guideon February 21, 2007, 72 FR 7876. Those comments are posted at http://ceq.eh.doe.gov/ntf/implementation.html .
The ``A Citizen's Guide to the NEPAHaving Your Voice Heard'' describes the NEPA process and suggests ways in which citizens and non Federal entities can participate in Federal agencies' implementation of NEPA. The final guide, revised in response to public comments, includes a discussion of the environmental policies set out in section 101 of NEPA, clarifying specific points in the process when public comments and input are effective, explaining variations in planning processes for Federal highways, and distinguishing between required and optional implementation.
The procedural steps in analyzing proposed Federal actions through
the three levels of analysis provided in the CEQ Regulations
Implementing the Procedural Requirements of the National Environmental
Policy Act (40 CFR parts 15001508)the categorical exclusion, the
environmental assessment, and the environmental impact statementare
described. The guide also advises how to obtain assistance from CEQ and
other government agencies, in addition to available options to those
concerned whether an agency is properly implementing its NEPA responsibilities.
Dated: February 4, 2008.
James L. Connaughton,
Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality.
[FR Doc. E82554 Filed 21108; 8:45 am]
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