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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administer programs that qualify under sec. 102(2)(D) of the Act or under sec. 104(h) of the
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 an additional four months shall be
allowed for the State or local agencies to adopt their implementing procedures.
(a) These regulations shall apply to the fullest extent practicable to ongoing activities and
environmental documents begun before the effective date. These regulations do not apply to
an environmental impact statement or supplement if the draft statement was filed before the
effective date of these regulations. No completed environmental documents need be redone
by reason of these regulations. Until these regulations are applicable, the Council's guide-
lines published in the FEDERAL REGISTER of August 1, 1973, shall continue to be
applicable. In cases where these regulations are applicable the guidelines are superseded.
However, nothing shall prevent an agency from proceeding under these regulations at an
earlier time.
(b) NEPA shall continue to be applicable to actions begun before January 1, 1970, to the
fullest extent possible.
PART 1507-AGENCY COMPLIANCE
Sec.
1507.1 Compliance.
1507.2 Agency Capability to Comply.
1507.3 Agency Procedures.
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).
1507.1 Compliance.
All agencies of the Federal Government shall comply with these regulations. It is the
intent of these regulations to allow each agency flexibility in adapting its implementing
procedures authorized by SS 1507.3 to the requirements of other applicable laws.
1507.2 Agency capability to comply.
Each agency shall be capable (in terms of personnel and other resources) of complying
with the requirements enumerated below. Such compliance may include use of other's
resources, but the using agency shall itself have sufficient capability to evaluate what others
do for it. Agencies shall:
(a) Fulfill the requirements of Sec. 102(2)(A) of the Act to utilize a systematic,
interdisciplinary approach which will insure the integrated use of the natural and social
sciences and the environmental design arts in planning and in decisiomaking which may have
an impact on the human environment. Agencies shall designate a person to be responsible
for overall review of agency NEPA compliance.
(b) Identify methods and procedures required by Sec. 102(2)(B) to insure that presently