[Code of Federal Regulations] [Title 7, Volume 15] [Revised as of January 1, 2005] From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access [CITE: 7CFR3407.1] [Page 386-387] TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE CHAPTER XXXIV--COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PART 3407_IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT--Table of Contents Sec. 3407.1 Background and purpose. Sec. 3407.1 Background and purpose. 3407.2 Definitions. 3407.3 Policy. 3407.4 Responsibilities. 3407.5 Classes of action. 3407.6 Categorical exclusions. 3407.7 Actions normally requiring an environmental assessment. 3407.8 Actions normally requiring an environmental impact statement. 3407.9 Use of environmental documents in decisionmaking. 3407.10 Preparation of environmental assessments. 3407.11 Preparation of environmental impact statements. Authority: National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.; E.O. 11514, 34 FR 4247, as amended by E.O. 11991, 42 FR 26927; E.O. 12144, 44 FR 11957; 5 U.S.C. 301; 40 CFR parts 1500- 1508; and 7 CFR part 1b. Source: 56 FR 49245, Sept. 27, 1991, unless otherwise noted. (a) The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) establishes national policies and goals for the protection of the human environment. Section 102(2) of NEPA directs all Federal agencies to give appropriate consideration to the environmental consequences of proposed actions in their decisionmaking and to prepare detailed environmental statements on major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment. (b) The purpose of this regulation is to supplement the regulations for implementation of NEPA established by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and codified at 40 CFR parts 1500-1508, as adopted by USDA in 7 CFR part 1b. [[Page 387]] (c) Unless otherwise noted, parenthetical citations throughout this part refer to the CEQ regulations.