STATE-OF-THE-ART OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS IN TRANSPORTATION

The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) is a direct outgrowth of the significance Congress has attached to environmental impacts of government actions and policies. The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) has written guidelines for Federal agencies to follow when establishing policies concerning the environment. These guidelines also instruct agencies as to the content of impact statements, which may have a wide variation of content. In order to determine how well transportation impact statements conform to NEPA, forty statements were randomly selected, reviewed and summarized in this report. Sites chosen were both urban and rural, magnitudes ranged from statewide to local, modes included highway and mass transit, and report sizes were from a few pages to a few hundred.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Oklahoma, Norman

  Department of Civil Engineering
  Norman, OK  United States  73069

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Johanning, J
  • Talvitie, A
• Publication Date: 1974-11

Media Info

• Pagination: 75 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Environment; Environmental impact statements; Environmental impacts; Evaluation; Government agencies; Guidelines; Highway transportation; Management; Policy; Public transit; Regional planning; Regulations; Rural areas; State of the art studies; Surveys; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
• Identifier Terms: National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
• Uncontrolled Terms: Agencies
• Old TRIS Terms: Environmental policy act; Environmental surveys; Government policies; Government regulations
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Design; Environment; Highways; Law; Policy; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00092419
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: UMTA-OK-11-0016-74-2
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Nov 5 1981 12:00AM