WSP05912

• File Number: 8059
• Description: Section D General Studies-State Water Plan
• State: CO
• Date: 1/12/1972
• Title: Writing the Report 1969-Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation Transmittal of Reclamation Instructions-Environmental Quality-Preservation and Enhancement
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Operating Principles/Plan

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Reclamation Instructions

Part 376 Environmental Quality -
Preservation and Enhancement

Series 350 General Instructions

376. 5. 11

CHAPTER 5 STATEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL Th1PACT

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. 11 Preparation of Statements. Unless otherwise determined by the Office of the
Commissioner, statements shall be prepared by an entity responsible to offi-
cials designated in . 5A, who shall form a multiple-disciplinary team as may
be needed for a properly balanced statement. Information helpful to the pre-
paration of the statement may be obtained from all appropriate sources,
including contractors, study reports submitted by applicants for grants, con-
tracts, loans, leases, licenses, or permits, and study reports of bureaus or
offices within the Department, other Federal agencies or States. However,
the environmental statement is a Bureau of Reclamation product, and the
official designated in . 5A is fully responsible for its content.

Each statement shall contain the following:

(]) Cover sheet - see Appendix A-I for draft statement;
Appendix A-2 for final statement.

(2) Summary sheet - see Appendix A-3 for draft statement;
Appendix A-4 for final statement.

(3) Body of the Statement, containing eight sections in the order
shown in Appendix A- 5.

(4) Consultation and coordination with others - see Appendix A-6.

(5) Attachments - see Appendix A-7.

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Draft statements shall be double spaced and final statements shall be sin'Jle
spaced.

. 12 Processing Environmental Statements.

A. General. The Regional D'..rec.tcr or the Ee",R Center division chief with
principal functional interest in the action should identify the stage or
stages of a series of actions at whic.}} tho? prr)"..risions of this ChaptE-!' 'Hill
be ap1->lie1j. Environmental statemr~'nts n:lay be nec.essary both in the
dev8.i"..T .:mt of a national pro;Jram and i:1 the review of proposed projects
within tile 'ctional progl'3.nl. Care should be taken not to duplic8.te the
revie'i!l pl'oc~:-:,:;.. but v/hen actions being considered differ significantly
frorn those that 11a12 already been reviewed pursuant to this ch3.'Jter.. an
environmental .statement shall be provided.

B. Specific Procedures. The S8\le1'al steps for the review, clearance, and
approval of draft and final environmental statements are set forth in
tabular form in Appendi"":: C.

c. Advance Copies of Statements. Since a 3ubstantial num tel' of copies of
both the draft and the fLnal statements is to be transmitted to Washington,
it is requested that ad'lance copies of each statement be sent to the Com-
missioner for final review and approval before the statement is reproduced
in numb<:;rs. Advance copies should also be sent to the E6R Center.
Code 800, for revievl and comment.. and to the respecti'Je Regional'
Solicitor I s office for information.

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