2021-13770: Deadline for Agencies To Propose Updates to National Environmental Policy Act Procedures
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The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is extending the deadline by two years for Federal agencies to develop or revise proposed procedures for implementing the procedural provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
The agency’s own summary, as published.
What this changes
Amends 1 part of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.
Rulemaking docket
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Rule June 29, 2021Deadline for Agencies to Propose Updates to National Environmental Policy Act Procedures
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Supporting & Related Material July 01, 2021Special Environmental Assessment-Deadline for Agencies to Propose Updates to NEPA Procedures
Public comments
What people are saying
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Anonymous commenter 2021-08-02
“See Attached”
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America First Policy Institute & the Life:Powered Project 2021-07-30
“See attached file RE: Deadline for Agencies To Propose Updates to National Environmental Policy Act Procedures, 86 Fed. Reg. 34154, June 29, 2021, [Docket No. CEQ-2021-0001] Please see the attached comments from the America First Policy Institute and the Life:Powered project Re: the June 29, 2021 Interim Final Rule, Deadline for Agencies To Propose Updates to National Environmental Policy Act Procedures, issued by the Council on Environmental Quality, Docket No. CEQ–2021–0001. Thank you for the opportunity to comment.”
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Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (ESMC) 2021-07-30
“See attached file(s)”
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American Clean Power Assoc. 2021-07-30
“See attached file(s)”
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Mary O'Brien 2021-07-30
“I support this common sense extension so that agencies will continue to comply with their current NEPA procedures rather than spending time and energy trying to conform to the very troubling 2020 regulations. I depend on NEPA procedures around consideration of cumulative impacts, non-agency alternatives, encouragement of rather than onerous sideboards on public comments, and independent agency approval of all its documents - among so many other provisions in the current (pre-Trump Administration) CEQA regulations.”
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