The President's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the agency responsible for oversight of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), has released a "Deliberative Draft" of proposed guidance to federal agencies on how to establish, revise, and apply Categorical Exclusions under NEPA.
The NEPA regulations, adopted in 1978, have never been amended to clarify how federal agencies should go about determining, justifying, and using Categorical Exclusions. In 2002, recognizing that NEPA practices have changed over time, CEQ convened the federal agency NEPA Task Force, which among other things, recommended improving the process of determining Categorical Exclusions.
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