Responsibility for Preparation of Environmental Impact Statements: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Transportation of the Committee on Public Works and the Environment and Land Resources Subcommittee ..., 94-1, May 5, 1975 |
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Page 111 - ... shall consult with and obtain the comments of any Federal agency which has jurisdiction by law or special expertise with respect to any environmental impact involved. Copies of such statement and the comments and views of the appropriate Federal, State, and local agencies, which are authorized to develop and enforce environmental standards...
Page 111 - Prior to making any detailed statement, the responsible Federal official shall consult with and obtain the comments of any Federal agency which has jurisdiction by law or special expertise with respect to any environmental impact involved.
Page 117 - SUITS Sec. 505. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, any citizen may commence a civil action on his own behalf — (1) against any person (including (i) the United States, and (ii) any other governmental instrumentality or agency to the extent permitted by the eleventh amendment to the Constitution) who is alleged to be in violation of (A) an...
Page 116 - Code, and shall accompany the proposal through the existing agency review processes; (D) study, develop, and describe appropriate alternatives to recommended courses of action in any proposal which involves unresolved conflicts concerning alternative uses of available resources...
Page 111 - The Congress authorizes and directs that, to the fullest extent possible: (1) the policies, regulations, and public laws of the United States shall be interpreted and administered in accordance with the policies set forth in this Act, and (2) all agencies of the Federal Government shall...
Page 117 - No action may be commenced — (1) under subsection (a)(l) of this section — (A) prior to sixty days after the plaintiff has given notice of the alleged violation...
Page 112 - In attempting to secure federal approval of a project, "self -serving assumptions" nay ineluctably color a state agency's presentation of the environmental data or Influence its final recommendation. Transposing the federal duty to prepare the EIS to a state agency is thus unlikely to result in as dispassionate an appraisal of environmental considerations...
Page 113 - Where an agency relies on an applicant to submit initial environmental information, the agency should assist the applicant by outlining the types of information required. In all cases, the agency should make its own evaluation of the environmental issues and take responsibility for the scope and content of draft and final environmental statements.
Page 5 - ... 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa, 2 fives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 SECTION 1.
Page 36 - Mr. Henry M. Jackson, the principal Senate sponsor of NEPA. stated: "1f an environmental policy is to become more than rhetoric, and if the studies and advice of any high-level, advisory group are to be translated into action, each of these agencies must be enabled and directed to participate in active and objective-oriented environmental management. Concern for environmental quality must be made part of every phase of Federal action.