National Environmental Policy Act Reference Handbook

Welcome to the Fish and Wildlife Service's on-line version of the NEPA Reference Handbook. The purpose of this Handbook is to provide Fish and Wildlife Service personnel with the full text of various NEPA and NEPA-related authorities, checklists, and samples for the preparation and review of environmental documents. The Handbook includes documents cited in Service NEPA guidance and Departmental procedures and memoranda.

The files in this Handbook are provided in Adobe's portable document format (.pdf). The pages are also linked within the .pdf format. To read or print these documents, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader set up as a plug-in to your browser.

Click here to proceed to the Table of Contents for the Service's NEPA Reference Handbook. To access files from the index, click on the button in front of the desired item. (CEQ's 40 Most Asked Questions are linked in groups of 10, thereby requiring some scrolling to reach many questions.) To return to this page from the Table of Contents, you must use the "BACK" button on your browser.

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