The Environmental Law Reporter will continue to fill all orders from ELR subscribers and users for facsimile copies of environmental impact statements, but beginning with the July issue, ELR will no longer maintain a separate Digest Facsimile listing for each environmental impact statement prepared by federal agencies under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Rather, ELR subscribers are encouraged to receive the monthly 102 Monitor, which is prepared by the Council on Environmental Quality and will soon be published by the Government Printing Office. The 102 Monitor lists all impact statements received by the Council on Environmental Quality. Requests for the 102 Monitor may be addressed to the 102 Monitor, Council on Environmental Quality, 722 Jackson Place, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006. Until the Government Printing Office begins publication of the 102 Monitor sometime in the summer of 1971, it is available free of charge from the Council. The Government Printing Office plans to charge $6.50 for an annual subscription of 12 issues. Monthly issues currently average 60-80 pages in length. The 102 Monitor has agreed to list the total number of pages in each impact statement, so that ELR subscribers and others may continue to obtain facsimile copies of all impact statements from ELR through the Digest Facsimile Service. Persons wishing to order impact statements from the Digest Facsimile Service are encouraged to identify the requested document by agency, date, title and number of pages. As indicated in "How to Order Documents" at 1 ELR 65000 of the Digest Facsimile Service, orders under $25 should be accompanied by payment. Subscribers to ELR and users anticipating annual orders from the Facsimile Service in excess of $100 may request accounts. Outer envelopes bearing document orders should, for prompt handling, be marked "Document Service" and mailed to the Environmental Law Institute, Suite 614, Dupont Circle Building, 1346 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.

This change in ELR's editorial policy comes about as the result of two developments. First, the Council on Environmental Quality has decided to commit the resources necessary to see that a timely, detailed, and official descriptive listing of impact statements will be available to the public through the 102 Monitor. Until this commitment was made, ELR felt obligated to maintain the only monthly complete listing available to the public. Second, the number of new impact statements submitted to the Council has exceeded 500 per month. Listing each statement in ELR's Digest Facsimile Service drained staff effort away from other publication commitments made to ELR subscribers and required a disproportionately large share of ELR's annual page budget.