Examples of CEQ regulations in a sentence
The responsible entity must use the EIS format recommended by the CEQ regulations (40 CFR 1502.10) unless a determination is made on a particular project that there is a compelling reason to do otherwise.
The potential for significant environmental consequences was evaluated utilizing the context and intensity considerations as defined in CEQ regulations for implementing the procedural provisions of NEPA (40 CFR 1508.27).
Some resources are eliminated from detailed analysis following CEQ regulations (40 CFR 1501.7), which state that the lead agency shall identify and eliminate from detailed study the issues that are not significant or that have been covered by prior environmental review, narrowing the discussion of these issues in the document to a brief presentation of why they would not have a significant effect on the human or natural environment.
The CEQ regulations define cumulative effects as “…the impact on the environment, which results from the incremental impact of the action when added to other past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future actions regardless of what agency (Federal or non-Federal) or person undertakes such actions” (40 CFR § 1508.7).
In the case of an agencypreparing an EA, the CEQ regulations require the agency to involve the public to the extent practicable, but each agency has its own guidelines about how to involve the public for EAs. In any case, citizens are entitled to receive “environmental documents”, such as EAs, involved in the NEPA process.55 In terms of a specific agency, required public comment periods associated with an EA or an EIS can be found in its NEPA implementing procedures.
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For informa- tional purposes, the terms ‘‘lead,’’ ‘‘co- operating,’’ and ‘‘joint lead agency’’ are defined in the CEQ regulations at 40 CFR 1508.16, 1508.5, and 1501.5 respec-tively.
The CEQ regulations are very specific as to what is to be determined, but the techniques are left up to the agency.
Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations (40 CFR 1051.7) require that a scoping process be utilized to identify the likely significant issues and the range of those issues.
The CEQ regulations, however, do not require agencies to catalogue or exhaustively list and analyze all individual past actions.