NEPA National Environmental Policy

HSWA - Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendment NEPA - National Environmental Policy Act... 

National Environmental Policy Act, 1969 The National Environmental Pohcy Act (NEPA) of 1969 was the first federal act that required coordination of federal projects and their impacts with the nation s resources. The act specified the creation of Council on Environmental Quahty in the Executive Office of the President. This body has the authority to force eveiy federal agency to submit to the council an environmental impact statement on eveiy activity or project which it may sponsor or over which it has jurisdic tion. 

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review is performed concurreruly by the staff. After completion, a Draft Environmental Statement (DES) is issued and eirculated lor review and comments by the appropriate Federal, State and local agencies, individuals and public. After receipt of comments and their resolution, the Final Environmental Statement (FES) is issued... 

In the U.S., three pieces of federal legislation that were passed from 1969 to 1980, and the implementing rules and regulations that followed, initiated a series of fundamental changes in the management of waste and byproduct materials. They presently affect the way in which regulatory agencies address waste and byproduct material use. These acts include the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA, 1969), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA, 1976, 1980), and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabilities Act (CERCLA) or Superfund (1980). 

National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 10 228 21 590 National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), 15 767 24 284 National Formulary, 18 701 National Highway Traffic Safety... 

National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 1969 Provides basic national charter for the protection of the environment by providing a mechanism to interact with government on proposed actions that may affect the environment... 

Those federal regulations of interest and importance for addressing subsurface environmental issues in chronological order of establishment include the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC), the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), the Resource, Conservation, and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA), the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FTFRA), and the Petroleum Safety Act (PSA). These regulations are discussed below. 

The purpose of the EDS phase is threefold (1) to support the development of a request for proposal (RFP) for a full-scale facility (2) to support the certification decision of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology, as directed by Public Law 105-261 and (3) to support documentation required for the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the data required for a permit under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Each EDS comprises two parts an EDP and engineering tests and studies to generate required data that were not obtained during the earlier demonstration test phase. 

Council on Environmental Quality CEQ provides policy advice on environmental matters implements National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) coordinates environmental concerns among other agencies... 

In April 2000, the Army published a notice of intent (NOI) to prepare a site-specific environmental impact statement (EIS) for a facility to destroy the mustard agent and munitions stored at Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) in accordance with National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements. Four technology options are under consideration the baseline incineration system, a modified baseline process, and the two neutralization-based2 processes noted... 

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires federal agencies to assess the environmental impact early in the planning process of any project. For those projects that are expected to have an effect on the quality of the environment, the proposing agency is required to file a formal environmental impact statement. In addition, the NEPA has had an impact in certain areas for example, it has ... 

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 has shaped the US environmental protection efforts. It has asserted a collective social responsibility for the quality of the nation s environment, and has provided ... 

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), passed by Congress on December 24, 1969, and signed into law by President Nixon on January 1,1970, mandated the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Council on Environmental Quality. Congressional environmental protection legislation subsequent to NEPA included the Clean Air Act (1970), the Resource Recovery Act (1970), the Water Pollution Control Act (1972), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Amendments (1972), and others. 

Finally, opponents of nanotechnology, especially, may be able to use the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to impede nanotechnology research funded by the U.S. government. A "major Federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment is subject to the environmental impact provision under NEPA. (Various states also have environmental impact assessment requirements that could delay or put a stop to construction of nanotechnology facilities.) Time will tell. 

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