9629

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9629
• Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
• Title: Selected NEPA Documents.
• USFW Year: 1993.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

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(g) Integrating NEPA requirements with other environmental review and consultation
requirements (SS 1502.25).
(h) Eliminating duplication with State and local procedures by providing for joint
preparation (SS 1506.2) and with other Federal procedures by providing that an agency may
adopt appropriate environmental documents prepared by another agency (SS 1506.3).
(i) Combining environmental documents with other documents (SS 1506.4).
(j) Using accelerated procedures for proposals for legislation (SS 1506.8).
(k) Using categorical exclusions to define categories of actions which do not individually
or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human environment (SS 1508.4) and which
are therefore exempt from requirements to prepare an environmental impact statement.
(1) Using a finding of no significant impact when an action not otherwise excluded will
not have a significant effect on the human environment (SS 1508.13) and is therefore exempt
from requirements to prepare an environmental impact statement.
1500.6 Agency authority.
Each agency shall interpret the provisions of the Act as a supplement to its existing
authority and as a mandate to view traditional policies and missions in the light of the Act's
national environmental objectives. Agencies shall review their policies, procedures, and
regulations accordingly and revise them as necessary to insure fun compliance with the
purposes and provisions of the Act. The phrase "to the fullest extent possible" in section 102
means that each agency of the Federal Government shall comply with that section unless
existing law applicable to the agency's operations expressly prohibits or makes compliance
impossible.
PART 1501-NEPA AND AGENCY PLANNING
Sec.
1501.1 Purpose.
1501.2 Apply NEPA early in the process.
1501.3 When to prepare an environmental assessment.
1501.4 Whether to prepare an environmental impact statement.
1501.5 Lead agencies .
1501.6 Cooperating agencies.
1501.7 Scoping.
1501.8 Time limits.
Authority: NEPA, the Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970, as amended (42
U.S.C. 4371 et seq.), Section 309 of the Clean Air Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 7609), and
Executive Order 11514, Protection and Enhancement of Environmental Quality (March 5,
1970, as amended by Executive Order 11991, May 24, 1977).
1501.1 Purpose.
The purposes of this part include: