Preparing NEPA environmental assessments: a user's guide to best professional practices

✍ Scribed by Charles H Eccleston; J Peyton Doub

Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 307
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Although upwards of 50,000 Environmental Assessments (EA) are prepared annually, the focus of the National Environmental Policy Acts (NEPA) Regulations is clearly on defining requirements for preparing environmental impact statements. Surprisingly, until now, there has been no authoritative and comprehensive guide on how to prepare Environmental Assessments (EAs). Preparing NEPA Environmental Assessments: A Users Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Overview and historical development of NEPA; Chapter 2: General concepts and requirements; Chapter 3: NEPA and environmental impact analysis; Chapter 4: Threshold question: Determining whether an EA or an EIS is required; Chapter 5: Environmental assessment process; Chapter 6: Environmental impact assessment; Chapter 7: Writing the environmental assessment; Chapter 8: Assessing significance; Chapter 9: Finding of no significant impacts; Chapter 10: An overview of NEPA law and litigation. Chapter 11: Specialized non-NEPA environmental assessment documentsChapter 12: Summary; Back Cover.
Abstract: Although upwards of 50,000 Environmental Assessments (EA) are prepared annually, the focus of the National Environmental Policy Acts (NEPA) Regulations is clearly on defining requirements for preparing environmental impact statements. Surprisingly, until now, there has been no authoritative and comprehensive guide on how to prepare Environmental Assessments (EAs). Preparing NEPA Environmental Assessments: A Users Guide to Best Professional Practices fills that gap. Authored by one of the nations leading experts, and recipient of the President's Award for Outstanding Performance by the National

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