Nepa eis3/31/2024 3 But for NEPA reporting, CEQ is only an observer. NEPA also created the Council on Environmental Quality 2 (CEQ) within the White House to advise the President on environmental policy. Thus, the NEPA reports seemed no more important than many other agency reports ordered by Congress that produce nothing except dusty boxes of unread paper. Rather, “NEPA imposes only procedural requirements on federal agencies ….” 1 What an agency does with an environmental report is left entirely to the agency’s discretion. Importantly, NEPA imposes no duty for federal agencies (or anyone else) to use the reports to protect the environment. §§ 4321 et seq., signed into law in 1970, imposed a requirement for every federal agency to prepare a report called an “Environmental Impact Statement” (EIS) describing the environmental consequences of federal agency proposals for “major federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.” 42 U.S.C. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C.
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