The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), enacted in 1970,
requires federal agencies to analyze the environmental effects of
all proposed major Federal actions significantly affecting the
quality of the human environment. Because the law is so broadly
written and has wide application, it is impossible to understand
how to comply with NEPA merely by reading the statute. In addition
to the statute, NEPA'S implementing regulations written by the
Council on Environmental Quality must be consulted as well as the
relevant judicial decisions and regulations of individual federal
agencies. This book draws together these various sources of NEPA
law and presents the law in a clear and readable format designed to
be both a practical reference and guide to compliance with the NEPA
process and a comprehensive legal analysis of every aspect of NEPA
law.
Among the topics addressed by the author are the criteria that
make a project subject to NEPA and the procedures mandated by NEPA
and its regulations. Issues that frequently arise in NEPA
legislation such as standing, ripeness, mootness, and exhaustion of
administrative remedies receive extended treatment as do the scope
of remedies available under NEPA. The author then provides a
complete review and analysis of three state statutes with similar
purposes to NEPA and compares them with NEPA. She also includes
detailed instructions on the preparation of environmental
assessments, environmental impact statements, and supplemental
environmental impact statements. The volume concludes by examining
major themes in NEPA law. An indispensable handbook for attorneys
who deal with environmental transactions and litigation, and for
people who prepare NEPA documentation, this book will also be an
invaluable reference for members of citizens' groups interested in
participating meaningfully in the NEPA process.
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