40 CFR 1508.13 - Finding of no significant impact
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Removal of Environmental Considerations Regulations
...1508.4; DHS Instruction section II. \18\ 40 CFR 1508.9; DHS Instruction section II. \19\ 40 CFR 1508.11; DHS Instruction section II. \20\ 40 CFR 1508.13; DHS Instruction section \21\ 40 CFR 1508.14; DHS Instruction section II. \22\ 40 CFR 1505.2; DHS Instruction section II. ----------------......
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Meetings: National Environmental Policy Act compliance and environmental protection procedures,
...1508.10) Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) (40 CFR 1508.11) Federal Agency (40 CFR 1508.12) Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) (40 CFR 1508.13) Human Environment (40 CFR 1508.14) Jurisdiction by Law (40 CFR 1508.15) Lead Agency (40 CFR 1508.16) Legislation (40 CFR 1508.17) Major Fe......
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National Environmental Policy Act Compliance for Proposed Tower Registrations; Effects of Communications Towers on Migratory Birds
...a proposed action will have no significant environmental impact, then the agency issues a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI), see 40 CFR 1508.13, and the proposed action can proceed. However, if an EA indicates that the action will have a significant environmental impact, the agency m......
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Update to the Regulations Implementing the Procedural Provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act
...regulations to consolidate and provide more detailed direction relating to FONSIs. CEQ proposes to consolidate the operative language of 40 CFR 1508.13, ``Finding of no significant impact,'' with 40 CFR 1501.4, ``Whether to prepare an environmental impact statement,'' in the proposed Sec. 1......
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406 cases
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OKL. WILDLIFE FEDERATION v. US ARMY CORPS OF ENG., No. 87-C-237-B.
...issues and either reaches a conclusion that preparation of an EIS is necessary or concludes with a Finding of No Significant Impact. 40 C.F.R. § 1508.13 (1986). 7. In preparing the EA under its regulatory authority, the Corps has broad jurisdiction to consider environmental impacts. However......
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Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms, No. 09-475.
..."environmental assessment" (EA), that the proposed action will not have a significant impact on the environment. 40 CFR §§ 1508.9(a), 1508.13 (2009). Even if a particular agency proposal requires an EIS, applicable regulations allow the agency to take at least some action in furtherance of ......
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Western Land Exchange Proj. v. U.S. Bureau of Land, No. CVN02-0343-DWH(RAM).
...If no significant impact will occur, the agency may issue a finding of no significant impact ("FONSI") rather than prepare an EIS. 40 C.F.R. § 1508.13. A plaintiff seeking to show that an agency should have prepared an EIS instead of a FONSI "need not demonstrate that significant effects wi......
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Black Warrior Riverkeeper, Inc. v. Ala. Dep't of Transp., CASE NO. 2:11-CV-267-WKW (WO)
...will not be prepared. It shall include the [EA] or a summary of it and shall note any other environmental documents related to it." 40 C.F.R. § 1508.13.• Highway Defendants: Collectively, FHWA, Mark Bartlett in his official capacity as Division Administrator of FHWA, ALDOT, and John Cooper ......
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2 firm's commentaries
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US Environmental Laws Increasingly Lead to Litigation Concerning the Siting and Construction of New Infrastructure Projects
...EA and prepare an EIS); 1501.4(b). 40 C.F.R. § 1508.9; Friends of Fiery Gizzard v. Farmers Home Admin, 61 F.3d 501 (6th Cir. 1995). 40 C.F.R. § 1508.13. Department of Transp. v. Public Citizen, 541 U.S. 752, 763 (2004) (decision not to prepare an EIS); National Parks & Conservation Ass'......
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Trump Administration Revamps the NEPA Regulations
...result in any significant environmental impacts, a Finding of No Significant Impact (“FONSI”) is issued, terminating the NEPA process. 40 C.F.R. § 1508.13. Environmental Impact Statements. An environmental impact statement (“EIS”) is required if, based upon the EA, the agency determines tha......
3 books & journal articles
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Addressing water pollution from livestock grazing after O.N.D.A. v. Dombeck: legal strategies under the Clean Water Act.
...not have a significant effect on the human environment and for which an environmental impact statement therefore will not be prepared." 40 C.F.R. 1508.13 (1999). The agency makes this determination on the basis of the environmental assessment (EA). Id. [sections] (305) NWF v. BLM, 151 I.B.L......
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Unapproved Genetically Modified Corn: It's What's for Dinner
...and analysis for determining whether to prepare an environmental impact statement or a finding of no significant impact. . . .”); 40 C.F.R. § 1508.13 (2014) (“Finding of no significant impact means a document by a Federal agency briefly presenting the reasons why an action, not otherwise ex......
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Endnotes
...text, see also, A Citizen’s Guide to the nePA, supra note 97, at 11 (summarizing the contents of an environmental assessment). 114 40 C.F.R. § 1508.13 (2018) (circumstances that necessitate a 115 Id.; see Environmental Assessment/ Finding of No Significant Impact, supra note 112 (explaining......