Download or read book Final Guidance for Federal Departments and Agencies - Establishing, Applying, and Revising Categorical Exclusions Under National Environmental Policy ACT (Us Council on Environmental Quality Regulation) (Ceq) (2018 Edition) written by The Law The Law Library and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Final Guidance for Federal Departments and Agencies - Establishing, Applying, and Revising Categorical Exclusions under National Environmental Policy Act (US Council on Environmental Quality Regulation) (CEQ) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Final Guidance for Federal Departments and Agencies - Establishing, Applying, and Revising Categorical Exclusions under National Environmental Policy Act (US Council on Environmental Quality Regulation) (CEQ) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is issuing its final guidance on categorical exclusions. This guidance provides methods for substantiating categorical exclusions, clarifies the process for establishing categorical exclusions, outlines how agencies should engage the public when establishing and using categorical exclusions, describes how agencies can document the use of categorical exclusions, and recommends periodic agency review of existing categorical exclusions. A categorical exclusion is a category of actions that a Federal agency determines does not normally result in individually or cumulatively significant environmental effects. This guidance clarifies the rules for establishing, applying, and revising categorical exclusions. It applies to categorical exclusions established by Federal agencies in accordance with CEQ regulations for implementing the procedural provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act. The guidance was developed to assist agencies in making their implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) more transparent and efficient. This book contains: - The complete text of the Final Guidance for Federal Departments and Agencies - Establishing, Applying, and Revising Categorical Exclusions under National Environmental Policy Act (US Council on Environmental Quality Regulation) (CEQ) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section