To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to allow Federal agencies to rely on certain previously completed environmental assessments and environmental impact statements to satisfy the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Lets federal agencies satisfy NEPA for substantially similar new actions by relying on or modifying previously completed environmental reviews.
Who Benefits and How
Project sponsors and agencies could move similar projects through NEPA faster by reusing or modifying prior environmental assessments or impact statements.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Communities and other parties that rely on full project-specific review could face less fresh analysis and public process for new actions.
Key Provisions
- Allows a lead agency to rely on a previously completed environmental assessment or impact statement for a substantially similar new major federal action.
- Lets the lead agency modify an existing review instead of starting from scratch when the new action is not substantially the same.
- Requires any modified review to be made public as a new environmental assessment or impact statement.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Lets federal agencies satisfy NEPA for substantially similar new actions by relying on or modifying previously completed environmental reviews.
Key Policy Areas
Environment, Government Operations, Infrastructure
Primary Purpose
Lets federal agencies satisfy NEPA for substantially similar new actions by relying on or modifying previously completed environmental reviews.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Project sponsors seeking faster NEPA review for similar projects
- Federal agencies managing repeated environmental reviews
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Communities and stakeholders relying on project-specific environmental review
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Valadao introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Project sponsors seeking to reuse prior NEPA analysis for similar projects
Communities and stakeholders relying on project-specific environmental review
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_lead_agency"
- → Lead federal agency conducting NEPA review
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