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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methodology in an appendix.
1502.25 Environmental review and consultation requirements.
(a) To the fullest extent possible, agencies shall prepare draft environmental impact
statements concurrently with and integrated with environmental impact analyses and related
surveys and studies required by the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (16 U.S.C. Sec. 661
et seq.), the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (16 U.S.C. Sec. 470 et seq.), the
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. Sec. 1531 et seq.), and other environmental
review laws and executive orders.
(b) The draft environmental impact statement shall list all Federal permits, licenses, and
other entitlements which must be obtained in implementing the proposal. If it is uncertain
whether a Federal permit, license, or other entitlement is necessary, the draft environmental
impact statement shall so indicate.
PART 1503-COMMENTING
Sec.
1503.1 Inviting Comments.
1503.2 Duty to Comment.
1503.3 Specificity of Comments.
1503.4 Response to Comments.
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).
1503.1 Inviting comments.
(a) After preparing a draft environmental impact statement and before preparing a final
environmental impact statement the agency shall:
(1) Obtain the comments of any Federal agency which has jurisdiction by law or special
expertise with respect to any environmental impact involved or which is authorized to
develop and enforce environmental standards.
(2) Request the comments of:
(i) Appropriate State and local agencies which are authorized to develop and enforce
environmental standards;
(ii) Indian tribes, when the effects may be on a reservation; and
(iii) Any agency which has requested that it receive statements on actions of the
kind proposed.
Office of Management and Budget Circular A-95 (Revised), through its system of
clearinghouses, provides a means of securing the views of State and local environmental