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What Must be Considered?• Natural and “built” environments• Agencies must take a “hard look” atconsequences of actions and keep publicinformed• <strong>NEPA</strong> goal: prevent uninformed decisionsversus unwise ones
What are Classes of Actions?• Categorical Exclusion (CE)– actions which do notindividually or cumulatively have a significant effecton the human environment• Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) – detailedwritten statement on major Federal actionssignificantly affecting the human environment• Environmental Assessment (EA) – significance ofenvironmental impact is not clearly established; todetermine the appropriate environmental documentrequired
Page 1 and 2: NEPA OverviewWV DOT / MPO / FHWATra
Page 3: Where Did NEPA Come From?• Post W
Page 6 and 7: Effects of DDT onspecies; RachelCar
Page 8 and 9: Cleveland’s l Cuyahoga River catc
Page 10 and 11: NEPA - the so-called “Hard Look
Page 12 and 13: When Does NEPA Apply?• Broadly, w
Page 16 and 17: Where’s the Instruction Manual?
Page 18 and 19: Where the Umbrella Comes In• “T
Page 20 and 21: Decisions Made During NEPA• Proje
Page 22: Moses meets NEPA
Page 25 and 26: Other Developments & Initiatives•
Page 27 and 28: NEPA is theMagna Cartaofenvironment

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