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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not in conflict with those in NEPA, Federal agencies shall cooperate in fulfilling these
requirements a.s well as those of Federal laws so that one document will comply with all
applicable laws.
(d) To better integrate environmental impact statements into State or local planning
processes, statements shall discuss any inconsistency of a proposed action with any approved
State or local plan and laws (whether or not federally sanctioned). Where an inconsistency
exists, the statement should describe the extent to which the agency would reconcile its
proposed action with the plan or law.
1506.3 Adoption.
(a) An agency may adopt a Federal draft or final environmental impact statement or
portion thereof provided that the statement or portion thereof meets the standards for an
adequate statement under these regulations.
(b) If the actions covered by the original environmental impact statement and the
proposed action are substantially the same, the agency adopting another agency's statement is
not required to recirculate it except as a fmal statement. Otherwise the adopting agency shall
treat the statement as a draft and recirculate it (except as provided in paragraph (c) of this
section) .
(c) A cooperating agency may adopt without recirculating the environmental impact
statement of a lead agency when, after an independent review of the statement, the
cooperating agency concludes that its comments and suggestions have been satisfied.
(d) When an agency adopts a statement which is not fmal within the agency that prepared
it, or when the action it assesses is the subject of a referral under part 1504, or when the
statement's adequacy is the subject of a judicial action which is not final, the agency shall so
specify.
1506.4 Combining documents.
Any environmental document in compliance with NEPA may be combined with any other
agency document to reduce duplication and paperwork.
1506.5 Agency responsibility.
(a) Information. If an agency requires an applicant to submit environmental information
for possible use by the agency in preparing an environmental impact statement, then the
agency should assist the applicant by outlining the types of information required. The
agency shall independently evaluate the information submitted and shall be responsible for its
accuracy. If the agency chooses to use the information submitted by the applicant in the
environmental impact statement, either directly or by reference, then the names of the
persons responsible for the independent evaluation shall be included in the list of preparers
(SS 1502.17). It is the intent of this subparagraph that acceptable work not be redone, but
that it be verified by the agency.
(b) Environmental assessments. If an agency permits an applicant to prepare an