[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1b.4]

[Page 101]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1b_NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1b.4  Exclusion of agencies.

    (a) The USDA agencies and agency units listed in paragraph (b) of 
this section conduct programs and activities that have been found to 
have no individual or cumulative effect on the human environment. The 
USDA agencies and agency units listed in paragraph (b) of this section 
are excluded from the requirements of preparing procedures to implement 
NEPA. Actions of USDA agencies and agency units listed in paragraph (b) 
of this section are categorically excluded from the preparation of an EA 
or EIS unless the agency head determines that an action may have a 
significant environmental effect.
    (b)(1) Agricultural Marketing Service
    (2) Economic Research Service
    (3) Extension Service
    (4) Federal Corp Insurance Corporation
    (5) Food and Consumer Service
    (6) Food Safety and Inspection Service
    (7) Foreign Agricultural Service
    (8) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
    (9) National Agricultural Library
    (10) National Agricultural Statistics Service
    (11) Office of the General Counsel
    (12) Office of the Inspector General

[60 FR 66481, Dec. 22, 1995]