[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 5]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR775.3]

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                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                   CHAPTER VI--DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
 
PART 775_PROCEDURES FOR IMPLEMENTING THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 
ACT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 775.3  Policy.

    (a) It is the DON policy regarding NEPA, consistent with its mission 
and regulations and the environmental laws and regulations of the United 
States, to:
    (1) Initiate the NEPA processes at the earliest possible time to be 
an effective decision making tool in the course of identifying a 
proposed action.
    (2) Develop and carefully consider a reasonable range of 
alternatives for achieving the purpose(s) of proposed actions.
    (3) Assign responsibility for preparation of action specific 
environmental analysis under NEPA to the action proponent. The action 
proponent should understand the plans, analyses, and environmental 
documents related to that action.
    (b) NEPA is intended to ensure that environmental issues are fully 
considered and incorporated into the Federal decision making process. 
Consequently, actions for which the DON has no decision-making authority 
and no discretion in implementing the action, such as those carried out 
under a non discretionary mandate from Congress (e.g., congressional 
direction to transfer Federal property to a particular entity for a 
particular purpose that leaves DON no discretion in how the transfer 
will be implemented) or as an operation of law (e.g., reversionary 
interests in land recorded at the time the property was obtained and 
that provide no discretion in whether to trigger the reversion or how 
the reversion will be implemented), require no analysis or documentation 
under NEPA or its implementing regulations.

[69 FR 8109, Feb. 23, 2004]

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