Effective environmental assessments: how to manage and prepare NEPA EAs
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1. An Overview of NEPA 1
1.1 NEPA s Purpose 1
1.1.1 Title I - Declaration of a National Environmental
Policy Act 2
1.1.2 Complying to the Fullest Extent Possible 3
1.2 Overview of the NEPA Compliance Process 3
1.2.1 When Must NEPA Begin? 4
1.2.2 When Must NEPA Be Completed? 4
1.2.3 Three Levels of NEPA Compliance 4
1.2.4 Initiating the NEPA Process 5
1.2.5 The Environmental Assessment 7
1.2.6 The Environmental Impact Statement 8
2. General Concepts and Requirements 11
2.1 NEPA is a Planning and Decisionmaking Process 11
2.1.1 Reasonable Alternatives 12
2.2 Interim Actions 12
2.2.1 Eligibility for Interim Action Status 13
2.3 Integrating NEPA with Other Requirements 13
2.3.1 Integrating Environmental Design Arts 14
2.4 Conducting an Early and Open Process 15
2.5 Public Involvement 15
2.5.1 Public Notice 15
2.6 Scoping 16
2.7 Systematic and Interdisciplinary Planning 16
2.7.1 Systematic 16
2.7.2 Interdisciplinary 16
2.8 Writing Documents in Plain English 17
2.9 Incorporation by Reference 17
2.10 Adopting Another Agency s EA 18
2.10.1 Department of Energy s Adoption Process 18
2.11 Methodology 18
2.11.1 A Rigorous, Accurate, and Scientific Analysis 19
2.12 A Fair and Objective Analysis 19
2.12.1 Disclosing Opposing Points of View 19
2.13 Dealing with Incomplete and Unavailable Information 19
2.13.1 Incomplete Information 20
2.13.2 Unavailable Information 20
3. NEPA s Concept of Environmental Impact Analysis 23
3.1 Actions 23
3.2 Environmental Disturbances 24
3.3 Receptors and Resources 25
3.4 Impact Analysis 25
3.5 Significance 26
3.6 Mitigation and Monitoring 26
3.6.1 Mitigation 26
3.6.2 Monitoring 27
4. Determining Whether an EA or EIS is Required 29
4.1 Proposals 30
4.2 Legislation 30
4.3 Major 30
4.4 Federal 31
4.5 Action 31
4.6 Significantly 32
4.6.1 Context 32
4.6.2 Intensity 32
4.7 Affecting 34
4.8 Human Environment 34
5. The Environmental Assessment Process 37
5.1 Preparing the Environmental Assessment 37
5.1.1 Public Involvement 38
5.1.2 Preparing the EA 39
5.1.3 Determining the Potential for Significance 40
5.1.4 The Three Purposes That an EA May Serve 41
5.1.5 Timing 41
5.1.6 EAs are Public Documents 41
5.1.7 Applicants and Environmental Assessment
Contractors 44
5.2 The Analysis 44
5.2.1 Decision-Based Scoping 45
5.2.2 Analysis of Impacts 45
5.2.3 Attention Centered on Proposed Action 45
5.2.4 Significance Determinations are Reserved
fortheFONSI 46
5.3 Streamlining the EA Compliance Process 47
5.3.1 Reducing the Length of an EA 48
5.3.2 Cooperating with Other Agencies 48
5.3.3 Is Time Money? 48
5.3.4 Tiering 49
5.4 Issuing a Finding of No Significant Impact 50
5.4.1 FONSI is a Public Document 50
5.4.2 Waiting Period 50
5.5 The Administrative Record 51
5.5.1 Administrative Record and Case Law 52
5.6 Serving as an Expert Witness 52
5.6.1 Are You an Expert Witness? 53
5.6.2 Discovery 53
5.6.3 Depositions and Reports 53
5.6.4 Trial 54
6. Writing The Environmental Assessment 57
6.1 General Direction for Preparing an EA 57
6.1.1 Documenting Assumptions 57
6.1.2 Will Versus Would 58
6.1.3 Readability 58
6.1.4 How Long Should the EA Be? 61
6.2 Required Outline for an Environmental Assessment 61
6.2.1 Suggested EA Outline 62
6.3 Performing the Analysis 63
6.3.1 A Five-Step Methodology 63
6.4 Specific Documentation Requirements and Guidance 68
6.4.1 Need Section 68
6.4.2 Affected Environment Section 69
6.4.3 The Proposed Action and Alternatives Section 70
6.4.4 Environmental Impact Section 72
6.4.5 Listing Permits, Approvals, and Regulatory
Requirements 77
6.4.6 Listing of Agencies and Persons Consulted 77
7. Special Topics In Environmental Analysis 81
7.1 Cumulative Effects Analysis inEAs 81
7.1.1 Purpose of the Analysis 82
7.1.2 Performing the Analysis 82
7.1.3 Considering Related Actions 84
7.1.4 Considering Connected Actions 85
7.1.5 Differences in Cumulative Impact Analyses
Between EAs and EISs 86
7.2 Accident Analyses 87
7.2.1 Sliding Scale 88
7.2.2 Overview 89
7.2.3 Accident Scenarios and Probabilities 90
7.2.4 Accident Consequences 92
7.2.5 Intentionally Destructive Acts 93
7.3 Incorporating Environmental Justice 94
7.3.1 Background 95
7.3.2 Determining the Appropriate Level of NEPA Review 97
7.3.3 Analyzing Environmental Impacts 97
7.3.4 Suggestions for Enhancing Public Participation 103
8. Assessing Significance 107
8.1 Definitions and Use of the Term Significance 107
8.1.1 Significance Determines the Depth of Analysis 108
8.1.2 Developing a Systematic Approach 108
8.2 General Procedure for Determining Significance 109
8.2.1 Description and Basis of the Tests 109
8.2.2 Assessing the Seven Tests of Significance 110
8.2.3 Additional Significance Considerations in Practice 124
8.2.4 Evidence of Significance 124
9. The Finding of No Significant Impact 127
9.1 Reaching a Determination of Nonsignificance 127
9.1.1 Principles Governing Sound Decisionmaking 128
9.1.2 Criteria that Must be Met in Reaching a Decision
to not Prepare an EIS 128
9.1.3 The Agency s Administrative Record 129
9.2 Preparing the FONSI 129
9.2.1 Documentation Requirements 130
9.2.2 A Checklist for Preparing the FONSI 131
9.3 Mitigated FONSIs 132
9.3.1 Mitigation and the Courts 132
9.3.2 Criteria for Adopting Mitigation Measures 133
10. Summary 137
Appendices 139
A: Reprint of the NEPA Act 141
B: Reprint of the CEQ NEPA Regulations 147
C: Environmental Assessment Checklists 181
Tables:
C.I Summary (Optional) 182
C.2 Purpose and Need for Action 182
C.3 Description of the Proposed Action
and Alternatives 183
C.4 Description of the Affected Environment 185
C.5 Environmental Effects 187
C.6 Overall Considerations 189
C.7 Procedural Considerations 190
C.8 Format, General Document Quality,
User-Friendliness 191
C.9 Key to Supplemental Topical Questions 192
CIO Water Resources and Water Quality 193
C.ll Geology and Soils 194
C.12 Air Quality 195
C.13 Wildlife and Habitat 196
C.14 Human Health Effects 196
C.15 Transportation 199
C.16 Waste Management and Waste Minimization 200
C.17 Socioeconomic Considerations 201
C.18 Cultural Considerations 201
D-F: Examples and Critiques of RealEAs 203
D.I Example 1: Critique of the Environmental
Assessment for Relocation of Station (Small)
Ashtabula, Ashtabula, Ohio 205
D.2 Environmental Assessment for the Relocation
of Station (Small) Ashtabula, Ashtabula, Ohio 209
E.I Example 2: Critique of the Sitewide Environmental
Assessment for Continued Development of Naval
Petroleum Reserve No. 3 263
E.2 Environmental Assessment for Continued
Development of Naval Petroleum
Reserve No. 3 267
F.I Example 3: Environmental Assessment
for the Transfer of the Department of Energy-
Grand Junction Office To Non-DOE Ownership
(Preliminary Final) 371
F.2 Environmental Assessment for the Transfer
of the Department of Energy Grand Junction
Office to Non-DOE Ownership 375
Index 453
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