The National Environmental Policy Act

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). 

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. 

Provides that an environmental impact statement prepared in accordance with the FDA regulations shall be considered to meet the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act, notwithstanding any other provision of law. 

The National Environmental Policy Act requires certain procedures for public input on and documentation concerning the preparation of a thorough environmental impact statement regarding activities undertaken by the federal government that have environmental impacts. 

The process to select a technology for the Pueblo Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (PUCDF) was defined in a notice of intent (NOI) published in the Federal Register on April 20, 2000. Environmental impact statements required by the National Environmental Policy Act will be developed for all the candidate technologies. The final choice will be made by the DoD from the technologies certified to be as safe and cost efficient as the baseline incineration system, as well as capable of completing destruction of the Pueblo stockpile either by the CWC treaty deadline (April 29, 2007) or the date that would be achievable by the baseline system, whichever is later. The decision tentatively will be made in early fiscal year 2002. 

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 ... 

Environmental impact statement A document required of federal agencies by the National Environmental Policy Act for major projects or legislative proposals significantly affecting the environment. A tool for decision-making, it describes the positive and negative effects of the undertaking and cites alternative actions. 

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. 

National Environmental Policy Act, 1969 The National Environmental Policy 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 the Council on Environmental Quality in the Executive Office of the President. This body has the authority to force every federal agency to submit to the council an environmental impact statement on every activity or project which it may sponsor or over which it has jurisdiction. 

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. 

The National Environmental Policy Act (Table I) states that nothing will be put into the environment which has an adverse effect on the health of man, domestic animals, wildlife, vegetation, property or cultural values. 

Two acts are pertinent to any discussion regarding the regulation of food contact materials in the US. These are the 1958 Food Additives Amendment to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969. A brief discussion of the authority granted the Pood and Drug Administration (PDA) under each follows. 

The National Environmental Policy Act requires that all legislation must consider environmental impact. Government agencies must prepare environmental impact assessments. The president must make an annual Environmental Quality Report to Congress, discussing current status and recent trends in the air, water, and terrestrial environments natural resources and government programs that have impacts on the environment. 

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was signed into law in 1970, and established a national policy to protect the environment, created a Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), and required that environmental impact statements be prepared for major federal actions having a significant effect on the environment. The CEQ s efforts laid the groundwork for almost all current US environmental legislation. 

The National Environmental Policy Act was passed in 1969 and signed into law on January 1, 1970, as public law 91-190 (now found in 42 U.S.C. 4321-4370c). It was, and still remains, the first federal statute that required agencies to evaluate the impact of implementing major programs and alternatives in the early planning stages. This approach makes it the first, truly proactive environmental law. There are two titles in NEPA. Title I contains the declaration of National Environmental Policy while Title II establishes the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). 

Under the National Environmental Policy Act, a final environmental... 

The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970 along with the National Environmental Policy Act, which created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), put some strong measures into air pollution control enforcement. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is responsible for implementation of the statutes of this law. The first air pollutants covered by this law of concern to the fuels industry were SOx and NOx. Since the passage of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970, a series of additional U.S. Federal environmental laws affecting various industries have been passed ... 

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 ensures that all branches of government give proper consideration to the environment prior to undertaking any major federal action that significantly affects the environment. NEPA requires that any project with the potential to harm the environment must have an environmental impact statement... 

The first steps that need to be taken in the direction of environmental development of the crude oil industry were already done more than thirty years ago. In January 1, 1970 in the USA, a new ecological law called the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was accepted. The main objectives of this law are to ensure that the necessity to estimate all the possible influences of any industrial activity on the environment is carried out, and to decrease the negative influence of the industry on the biosphere. The highlights of this law are given as follows. An analysis of the influence of the industrial activity on the environment must be done before starting the activity. Also, the analysis must be done not only by specialists from the industry, but also by independent specialists from the area where this industrial activity is to be carried out. 

The administration authorized hundreds of millions of dollars worth of oil, gas, and mining projects in national forests and other public lands while also exempting those projects from the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act. 

Under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, the Center for Veterinary Medicine must consider the potential environmental impact of the actions (decisions) that it takes. The types of action that most commonly require an environmental evaluation are... 

Development of Compliance Plans. The R,D D tasks, for environmental as well as the other three activities included in the Management Plan are carried out in conjunction with, or as part of, major field projects. These projects, which involves engineering and construction activities, must comply with Federal, state, and local standards, and in particular, with provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). 

Following the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the drive of federal, state, and local regulations toward zero sulfur emissions has... 

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