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The National Environmental Policy Act : background, costs and benefits of NEPA analyses /
The goals of the National Environmental Policy Act are to declare a national environmental policy, provide federal agencies with action-forcing provisions intended to ensure that the goals of the policy are implemented, establish the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to provide advice to the Pr...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Nova Science Publishing,
[2014]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT: BACKGROUND, COSTS AND BENEFITS OF NEPA ANALYSES; THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT: BACKGROUND, COSTS AND BENEFITS OF NEPA ANALYSES; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1: THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT (NEPA): BACKGROUND AND IMPLEMENTATION; SUMMARY; INTRODUCTION; NEPA AND ITS HISTORY; THE EVOLUTION OF NEPA'S IMPLEMENTATION; DETERMINING WHEN NEPA APPLIES; OVERVIEW OF THE NEPA PROCESS; AGENCY PARTICIPATION IN THE NEPA PROCESS; DEMONSTRATING PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT; THE USE OF NEPA AS AN ''UMBRELLA'' STATUTE.
- NEPA IMPLEMENTATION AND PROJECT DELAYSCONCLUSION; SELECTED REFERENCES; Chapter 2: NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT: LITTLE INFORMATION EXISTS ON NEPA ANALYSES; WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY; WHAT GAO FOUND; ABBREVIATIONS; BACKGROUND; DATA ON THE NUMBER AND TYPE OF MOST NEPA ANALYSES ARE NOT READILY AVAILABLE; LITTLE INFORMATION EXISTS ON THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF COMPLETING NEPA ANALYSES; SOME INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE FREQUENCY AND OUTCOME OF NEPA LITIGATION; AGENCY COMMENTS AND OUR EVALUATION; APPENDIX I. OBJECTIVES, SCOPE, AND METHODOLOGY.
- APPENDIX II. SUMMARY OF FEDERAL NEPA DATA COLLECTION EFFORTSAPPENDIX III. CEQ NEPA TIME FRAME GUIDELINES; APPENDIX IV. SOURCES OF NEPA LITIGATION DATA; INDEX.