Guidelines and techniques for improving the NEPA process
Abstract
The Council on Environmental Quality`s (CEQ`s) principal aims in implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) are (1) to reduce paperwork, (2) to avoid delay, and most importantly (3) to produce better decisions that protect, restore, and enhance the environment. This paper presents four strategies for improving the NEPA process along with tools that can be used to implement each strategy. The tools include guidelines for project management and problem definition, tips for acquiring existing information and identifying issues of public concern, worksheets on how to identify and analyze potential impacts on resources, ideas for enhancing NEPA documents, and a NEPA process checklist. The tools can be used at various stages of the NEPA process and provide a toolbox of guidelines and techniques to improve implementation of the NEPA process by focusing the pertinent information for decisionmakers and stakeholders.
- Authors:
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- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States). Environmental Sciences Div.
- Publication Date:
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 343573
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-96OR22464
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal Name:
- Environmental Management
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 23; Journal Issue: 4; Other Information: PBD: May 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 29 ENERGY PLANNING AND POLICY; US NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT; RECOMMENDATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; DECISION MAKING
Citation Formats
Salk, M S, Tolbert, V R, and Dickerman, J A. Guidelines and techniques for improving the NEPA process. United States: N. p., 1999.
Web. doi:10.1007/s002679900201.
Salk, M S, Tolbert, V R, & Dickerman, J A. Guidelines and techniques for improving the NEPA process. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002679900201
Salk, M S, Tolbert, V R, and Dickerman, J A. 1999.
"Guidelines and techniques for improving the NEPA process". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002679900201.
@article{osti_343573,
title = {Guidelines and techniques for improving the NEPA process},
author = {Salk, M S and Tolbert, V R and Dickerman, J A},
abstractNote = {The Council on Environmental Quality`s (CEQ`s) principal aims in implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) are (1) to reduce paperwork, (2) to avoid delay, and most importantly (3) to produce better decisions that protect, restore, and enhance the environment. This paper presents four strategies for improving the NEPA process along with tools that can be used to implement each strategy. The tools include guidelines for project management and problem definition, tips for acquiring existing information and identifying issues of public concern, worksheets on how to identify and analyze potential impacts on resources, ideas for enhancing NEPA documents, and a NEPA process checklist. The tools can be used at various stages of the NEPA process and provide a toolbox of guidelines and techniques to improve implementation of the NEPA process by focusing the pertinent information for decisionmakers and stakeholders.},
doi = {10.1007/s002679900201},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/343573},
journal = {Environmental Management},
number = 4,
volume = 23,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1999},
month = {Sat May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1999}
}