...after consultation with affected agencies and after such public hearings as may be appropriate. They will be designed to make the environmental impact...decisionmakers and the public; and to reduce paperwork and the accumulation of extraneous background data, in order to emphasize the need to focus on real...

...regulations, so as to streamline the NEPA process. Executive Order 1 1991 called for the regulations to "make the environmental impact statement process...decisionmakers and the public; and to reduce paperwork and the accumulation of extraneous background data, in order to emphasize the need to focus on real...

...inconsistent implementation of NEPA. The Council was directed to issue regulations designed "to make the EIS process more useful to decisionmakers and the public; and to reduce paperwork and the accumulation of extraneous background data ... to focus on real environmental issues and alternatives."64...

...after consultation with affected agencies and after such public hearings as may be appropriate. They will be designed to make the environmental impact...decisionmakers and the public; and to reduce paperwork and the accumulation of extraneous background data, in order to emphasize the need to focus on real...

...Carter directed the Council to issue these regulations in order to accomplish the following purposes: To make the environmental impact statement process more useful to decisionmakers and the public; To reduce paperwork and the accumulation of extraneous background data ; and To emphasize the need...

...procedural provisions of NEPA. These regulations are to be designed to accomplish the following purposes : To make the environmental impact statement process more useful to decisionmakers and the public ; To reduce paperwork and the accumulation of extraneous background data ; and To emphasize the need...

...on coal. As recently as May 24, 1977, President Carter issued EO 11991, directing CEQ, inter alia, to "make the environmental impact statement process more useful to decision-makers and the public", to "reduce paperwork and the accumulation of extraneous background data . . . " , and to provide for...

...procedural provisions of NEPA. These regulations are to be designed to accomplish the following purposes : To make the environmental impact statement process more useful to decisionmakers and the public ; To reduce paperwork and the accumulation of extraneous background data ; and To emphasize the need...

...Carter directed the Council to issue these regulations in order to accomplish the following purposes : To make the environmental impact statement process more useful to decisionmakers and the public ; To reduce paperwork and the accumulation of extraneous background data; and To emphasize the need...

...requirement of NEPA." In May 1977, by Executive Order 11991, the President amended Executive Order 11511 and directed CEQ "to issue regulations to Federal...309 of the Clean Air Act under which agencies refer environmental disputes to CEQ. In addition to NEPA, Congress has enacted several statutes which assign...