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The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires that federal agencies' funding or permitting decisions be made with full consideration of the impact to the natural and human environment. It further requires agencies to disclose these impacts to interested parties and the general public. The central element in the environmental review process is a rigorous evaluation of alternatives including the "no action" alternative. EPA Region 4's NEPA Office has three important roles in the NEPA process. These responsibilities include providing environmental reviews and comments on major federal actions prepared by other federal agencies, cooperating and participating directly in the lead agencies NEPA process on EPA regulatory issues and complying with NEPA on federal actions led by EPA in the Regions eight state area.
Following are links to numerous sites which will provide more specific information about NEPA. If you wish to go directly to EPA's Office of Federal Activities (NEPA National Program Office), click on the following link EPA's Office of Federal Activities. For a specific category of information, choose one of the following topics:
Submit Environmental Impact Statements to EPA Region 4.
What you need to know.
There are some simple steps you can take to file and submit your EIS to EPA.
- File and submit your environmental impact statements with EPA's OFA. Click here for details!
- Submit your environmental impact statements with EPA Region 4.
- Statutes and Executive Orders
- Regulations for Implementation
- NEPA Guidance
- Federal Agency NEPA Links
- Environmental Data Links
Regulations and Procedures for Implementing NEPA
- The process for determining impact issues: Scoping
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Most Frequently Asked Questions
- Guidance
regarding NEPA Regulations
- NEPA Crosscutting Guidance
- Council on Environmental Quality NEPAnet
- Dept. of Defense DENIX - DOD Sites
- Army Corps of Engineers
- Federal Highway Administration
- General Services Administration
- U.S. Geological Survey
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- U.S. Department of Energy
- U.S. Forest Service
The following site provides topic-specific environmental information links that can help you understand and prioritize types and locations of information on point and non-point sources of pollution as well as environmental and human health impacts that have resulted from these and other pollutant sources:
Environmental
Impact Analysis Data Links