Preparing NEPA environmental assessments : a user's guide to best professional practices /: a user's guide to best professional practices. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Charles Eccleston, J. Peyton Doub.
• Other Names: Eccleston, Charles H; Doub, J. Peyton; Eccleston, Charles H
• Contents: Section 1: The NEPA Environmental Assessment Process; ; Overview and Historical Development of NEPA; Introduction; Origin of Environmental Movement; The Historical Development of NEPA; Brief Overview of NEPA; The NEPA Regulations; Overview of the NEPA Planning Process; References; ; General Concepts and Requirements; Introduction; NEPA is a Planning and Decision-Making Process; Interim Actions; Integrating NEPA with Other Requirements; Conducting an Early and Open Process; Scoping; Systematic and Interdisciplinary Planning; Writing Documents in Plain English; Incorporation by Reference; Adopting Another Agency’s EA; Methodology; A Fair and Objective Analysis; Dealing with Incomplete and Unavailable Information; References; ; NEPA and Environmental Impact Analysis ; Introduction; Actions; Environmental Disturbances; Receptors and Resources; Impact Analysis; Significance; Mitigation and Monitoring; References; ; The Threshold Question: Determining Whether an EA or an EIS is Required ; Introduction; Proposals; Legislation; Major; Federal; Actions; Significantly; Affecting; Human Environment; Categorical Exclusions; Long Versus Short Environmental Assessments; References; ; The Environmental Assessment Process ; Introduction; Planning the Environmental Assessment; The Analysis in an EA; Streamlining the EA Compliance Process; Issuing a Finding of No Significant Impact; The Administrative Record; Serving as an Expert Witness; References; ; The Environmental Impact Assessment ; Introduction; Sliding-Scale Approach; Identifying Alternatives; Impacts; Human Health Effects; Accident Analyses; Considering Other Environmental Requirements; Environmental Justice; References; ; Writing the Environmental Assessment ; Introduction; General Direction for Preparing an EA; Typical Contents of an Environmental Assessment; Performing the Analysis; Specific Documentation Requirements and Guidance; References; ; Assessing Significance; Introduction; Definitions and Use of the Term "Significance"; General Procedure for Determining Significance; Significant Beneficial Impacts; References; ; The Finding of No Significant Impacts ; Introduction; Reaching a Determination of Nonsignificance; Preparing the FONSI; Mitigated FONSIs; References; ; Section 2: NEPA Case Law and Non-NEPA Environmental Assessment Documents An Overview of NEPA Law and Litigation; Principles Underlying Legal Interpretations of NEPA; Process for Passing Laws and Regulations; Interpreting NEPA’s Regulatory Requirements; A Substantive Versus Procedural Process; Requirements for Bringing a Successful Environmental Lawsuit; The Litigation Process; Legal Standards Applied in Reviewing NEPA; Judicial Remedies in NEPA Suits; Recent Case Law Involving NEPA; EA Case Law and EAs; Study of Alternatives Analysis in NEPA Documents; Other Cases Reflecting on the Preparation of EAs; References; ; Specialized Non-NEPA Environmental Assessment Documents ; Introduction; The Phase I Environmental Site Assessment; The Cell Tower NEPA Review; The Biological Assessment; Environmental Assessments and State NEPA Programs; References; ; Summary ; Introduction; Index
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (186 pages :), illustrations
• Subjects: 333.71/40973; Environmental impact analysis -- United States; Environmental impact statements -- United States; Environmental impact analysis; Environmental impact statements; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781439808900; 1439808902
• Related ISBNs: 9781439808825
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.