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The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires federal agencies
to integrate environmental values into their decision making processes
by considering the environmental impacts of their proposed actions and
reasonable alternatives to those actions. To meet this requirement, federal
agencies prepare a detailed statement known as an Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS).
EPA focuses on three main areas regarding NEPA compliance:
- coordinating EPA's review of all Environmental Impact Statements (EISs)
prepared by other federal agencies;
- maintaining a national EIS filing system and publishing weekly notices
of EISs available for review and summaries of EPA's comments; and
- assuring that EPA's own actions comply with NEPA and other environmental
requirements.
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