23 C.F.R. §771.117 - FHWA categorical exclusions
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Environmental Provisions of the FAST Act
...law by indexing to inflation the project limits for the categorical exclusion of projects receiving limited federal assistance. See 23 C.F.R. §771.117(b)(23). Section 1315. Programmatic Agreement Template. In Section 1318 of MAP-21, the Department was required to issue a rulemaking adding c......
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Highway Project Repaving/National Environmental Policy Act: Is an Environmental Impact Statement Required?
...is needed for projects that do not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human environment]). Also cited was 23 C.F.R. § 771.117(c)(26) which provides that highway-renovation projects are within the scope of the § 1508.4 Highway J Citizens Group and others (collectiv......
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I-630 Widening/National Environmental Policy Act: Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Addresses U.S. District Court Decision Denying Motion for TRO
...actions which have been determined to not involve significant environmental impacts. The FHWA categorical exclusions are found at 23 C.F.R. §771.117. Tracing back to the roots of the instant dispute, in October 2016 the defendants reported that the I-630 project qualified for a categorical ......
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NEPA Rules Rewrite: What’s in a Name?
...to MAP-21 (the 2012 transportation reauthorization statute) for small projects or projects with limited federal assistance. See 23 C.F.R. §§771.117(c)(23) and 771.118(c)(18). This provision may similarly narrow the degree to which NEPA applies for non-federal projects requiring some level o......
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NEPA's Promise: A Future in Which We All Thrive
...environmental review or public participation. A new CE would allow commercial 40. Id . 41. 7 C.F.R. §1b.3(a)(3) & (4) (2019). 42. 23 C.F.R. §771.117(c) (2019). 43. See 71 Fed. Reg. 75481 (Dec. 15, 2006); 36 C.F.R. §220.6(e)(16) (2019). 44. See 16 U.S.C. §6591(d). 45. See, e.g ., Harold S. J......
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Quicker But Less Dirty: The Biden Administration Both Streamlines and Seeks to Expand NEPA Environmental Review
...agency as needed—to identify “categorical exclusions” to NEPA in order to “accelerate delivery of a project.” CEs are defined in 23 C.F.R. § 771.117 as actions that, “based on [] past experience with similar actions, do not involve significant environmental impacts.” 63 The Infrastructure B......