THE APPLICATION OF NEPA (NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT) TO FEDERAL HIGHWAY PROJECTS

State highway departments and transportation agencies have a continuing need to keep abreast of operating practices and legal elements of specific problems in highway law. This report is a new paper which continues NCHRP's policy of keeping departments up to date on laws that will affect their operations. This paper will be published in a future addendum to "Selected Studies in Highway Law." The contents are as follows: (I) Introduction; (II) What is a "Federal Action"; (III) The NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) Document Required: When is an Action Major and What are Significant Impacts; (IV) Scope and Content of an Environmental Impact Statement; (V) Supplemental Environmental Impact Statements; (VI) Administrative Record; (VII) Other FHWA Approvals - Issues Relating to One-Stop Processing and Avoidance of Duplication; and (VIII) Conclusion.

• Record URL:
  http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/docs/nchrp_lrd_15.pdf
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• Publication Date: 1990-9

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: 22 p.
• Serial:
  • NCHRP Legal Research Digest
  • Issue Number: 15
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Environmental impact statements; Federal aid highways; Highway law
• Identifier Terms: National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
• Old TRIS Terms: Administrative record
• Subject Areas: Design; Environment; Highways; Law; Planning and Forecasting; I10: Economics and Administration; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00497377
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Sep 30 1990 12:00AM