85 FR 19660
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.
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The Trump Card: Tarnishing Planning, Democracy, and the Environment
One of the most important and transformative mechanisms the U.S. Congress has ever created to protect the environment is under assault from the Donald Trump Administration. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) ushered in the modern era of U.S. environmental law.
Navigating NEPA 50 Years Later: The Future Of NEPA
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) plays a crucial role in the authorization and approval of more development projects than any other federal law. Proponents believe NEPA protects communities and the environment from potentially detrimental projects, while critics counter the Act prevents timely review of important infrastructure projects.
85 FR 17434
The Tennessee Valley Authority amended its procedures for implementing NEPA.
85 FR 14700
DOI announced its proposal to revise NEPA implementing procedures for BLM with a proposed new categorical exclusion.
85 FR 12760
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.
NEPA's Promise: A Future in Which We All Thrive
NEPA is not about my agenda or your agenda. It is about solutions that work for all of us. This Comment offers a litmus test. The first section explains the promise NEPA makes to each of us, describing the integration, information, and inclusion that NEPA brought to our federal statutory framework in a way not previously seen and describing how NEPA enhances our democracy by holding the government accountable to the people it serves—by giving the public a right to information, as well as the right to provide information.
85 FR 8544
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.
85 FR 5232
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.
85 FR 1684
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.