DOI announced the establishment of a categorical exclusion for BLM as directed by the amendment of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018; the categorical exclusion revises BLM policies and procedures for compliance with NEPA, Exec. Order No. 11514, Exec. Order No. 12114, and CEQ regulations.

DOE proposed to update its NEPA implementing procedures regarding authorizations under §3 of the Natural Gas Act in order to improve efficiency of the DOE decisionmaking process by saving time and money in the NEPA review process and eliminating unnecessary environmental documentation.

USDA streamlined Forest Service procedures for evaluating applications to locate or modify communications facilities on National Forest System lands as required by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018.

The Tennessee Valley Authority amended its procedures for implementing NEPA.  

DOI announced its proposal to revise NEPA implementing procedures for BLM with a proposed new categorical exclusion. 

USDA seeks input regarding an update to its technical guidelines and science-based methods to quantify greenhouse gas sources and sinks from the agriculture and forest sectors, Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Agriculture and Forestry: Methods for Entity-Scale Inventory, to ensure that relevant information and data are considered, improve the rigor of the guidelines, and enhance the usability of the methods in the updated guidelines.

The U.S. Forest Service announced the establishment of a categorical exclusion (CE) as directed by the amendment of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, which revises Service policies and procedures for compliance with NEPA; the CE will be incorporated into the Forest Service Handbook.

BLM prepared a record of decision under NEPA for a right-of-way for the portions of the Keystone XL pipeline project that cross BLM and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lands in Montana.

CEQ proposed to update regulations for implementing the procedural requirements of NEPA to modernize and clarify the regulations and facilitate more efficient, effective, and timely NEPA reviews by federal agencies; revisions include removing the requirement that a project's cumulative effects be analyzed; adding a threshold accountability analysis for determining whether NEPA applies; establishing a two-year time limit on EISs and a one-year time limit on EAs; permitting joint records of decisions (RODs) for two or more federal agencies; and requiring joint schedules, a single ROD, and a single EIS for major infrastructure projects in which multiple agencies are involved pursuant to Exec. Order. No. 13807.

The Department of the Army proposed to revise its procedures for implementing NEPA and CEQ NEPA regulations by clarifying and updating the regulations, incorporating current procedures and practices, and revising and adding categorical exclusions.