40 CFR 1502.1 - Purpose
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The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule for Model Years 2021-2026 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks
...42 U.S.C. 4321-47. The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) NEPA implementing regulations are codified at 40 CFR parts 1500-08. \2886\ 40 CFR 1502.1. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- As explained in the NPRM, NEPA is ``a procedural statute that m......
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Part II
...public of the reasonable alternatives which would avoid or minimize adverse impacts or enhance the quality of the human environment.'' 40 CFR 1502.1. NEPA is ``a procedural statute that mandates a process rather than a particular result.'' Stewart Park & Reserve Coal., Inc. v. Slater, 3......
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2017 and Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards
...public of the reasonable alternatives which would avoid or minimize adverse impacts or enhance the quality of the human environment.'' 40 CFR 1502.1. NEPA is ``a procedural statute that mandates a process rather than a particular result.'' Stewart Park & Reserve Coal., Inc. v. Slater, 3......
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2017 and Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards
...public of the reasonable alternatives which would avoid or minimize adverse impacts or enhance the quality of the human environment.'' 40 CFR 1502.1. NEPA is ``a procedural statute that mandates a process rather than a particular result.'' Stewart Park & Reserve Coal., Inc. v. Slater, 3......
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293 cases
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California Trout v. F.E.R.C., No. 07-73664.
...human environmental factor." LaFlamme v. FERC, 852 F.2d 389, 397 (9th Cir.1988) (internal alterations and quotation marks omitted). See 40 C.F.R. § 1502.1 (describing the basic contents of an EIS). An EA "need not conform to all the requirements of an EIS, [but] it must be sufficient to est......
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Oceana v. Bureau of Ocean Energy Mgmt., Civil Action No.: 12-0981 (RC)
...to insure that the policies and goals defined in the Act are infused into the ongoing programs and actions of the Federal Government." 40 C.F.R. § 1502.1. The "heart of the environmental impact statement" is the analysis of alternatives. 40 C.F.R. § 1502.14. 40 C.F.R. § 1502.14 provides tha......
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Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation v. U.S. Dep't of the Interior, Case No. 12cv1167–GPC(PCL).
...public of the reasonable alternatives which would avoid or minimize adverse impacts or enhance the quality of the human environment.” 40 C.F.R. § 1502.1. The Court's role is to ensure that the agency took a “hard look” at the potential environmental consequences of the proposed project. Bro......
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Buck Mountain Cmty. Org. v. Tennessee Valley Auth., Case No. 2:08-cv-0040.
...Statement, or EIS, and is required only where the proposed action would significantly affect the quality of the human environment. 40 C.F.R. §1502.1; Save Our Cumberland Mountains v. Kempthorne, 453 F.3d 334, 338 (6th Cir.2006) [hereinafter SOCM]. The CEQ Regulations provide guidance as to ......
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US Environmental Laws Increasingly Lead to Litigation Concerning the Siting and Construction of New Infrastructure Projects
...suits are likely to continue to be a common reaction by neighbors to new projects. Footnotes 42 U.S.C. § 4332. 42 U.S.C. § 4332(2)(C). 40 C.F.R. § 1502.1. 40 C.F.R. § 40 C.F.R. § 1501.3(a) (the agency can skip the EA and prepare an EIS); 1501.4(b). 40 C.F.R. § 1508.9; Friends of Fiery Gizza......
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Bats in the Balance: Northern Long-Eared Bat Listing and Interim 4(d) Rule
...will have a significant environmental effect, or an EIS, if it determines that the action may significantly affect the environment. 40 C.F.R. 1502.1 [21] Complaint, supra note 17, at 2. [22] Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Threatened Species Status for the Northern Long-Eared......
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National Environmental Policy Act/Endangered Species Act: Federal Appellate Court Addresses Challenge to U.S. Forest Service Smokey Project
...when it issued the limited remand. See League of Wilderness Defenders v. Connaughton, 752 F.3 755, 762-3 (9th Cir. 2014) (citing 40 CFR § 1502.1). Conservation Congress was deemed to have failed to show why the District Court’s determination that a full EIS was not necessary to lift the inj......
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Obtaining Stimulus Funds Comes With 'Green' Strings Attached
...agency and key decision makers will help provide the best opportunity to secure funding. Footnotes 40 C.F.R. 1508.4. 40 C.F.R. 1508.9 40 C.F.R. 1502.1 et. The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your ......
5 books & journal articles
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Dangerous Waters? The Future of Irreparable Harm Under NEPA After Winter v. NRDC
...have a signiicant efect on the human environment and for which an environmental impact statement therefore will not be prepared.”). 35. 40 C.F.R. §1502.1: It shall provide full and fair discussion of signiicant environmental impacts and shall inform decisionmakers and the public of the reas......
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Pesticide Litigation
...that the goal of NEPA is to prohibit uninformed agency action, and ensure fully informed and well-considered decision making). 225. 40 C.F.R. § 1502.1. 226. Merrell v. Thomas, 807 F.2d 776 (9th Cir. 1986); accord San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Auth. v. Jewell, 747 F.3d 581, 651 (9th Cir......
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NEPA and Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
...http://ceq.hss.doe.gov/nepa/regs/ Consideration_of_Efects_of_GHG_Draft_NEPA_Guidance_FINAL_ 02182010.pdf. 5. 42 U.S.C. §4332(2)(C). 6. 40 C.F.R. §1502.1; Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council, 490 U.S. 332, 348-50, 19 ELR 20743 (1989). 7. 40 C.F.R. §1508.14; Metropolitan Edison Co. v.......
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Environmental Assessments: Guidance on Best Practice Principles
...authority, cooperating agencies, and private parties, at one or more stages during the NEPA process, 5. 40 C.F.R. §1502.13; see also 40 C.F.R. §1502.1 (expressing a need for good writing in documents, and requiring that “[s]tatements shall be concise, clear, and to the point”). 6. 40 C.F.R.......
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