[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 41, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 41CFR51-7.3]

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           TITLE 41--PUBLIC CONTRACTS AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
 
CHAPTER 51--COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR SEVERELY 
                                DISABLED
 
PART 51-7_PROCEDURES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 51-7.3  Ensuring environmental documents are actually considered in 
agency determinations.

    (a) 40 CFR 1505.1 of the NEPA regulations contains requirements to 
ensure adequate consideration of environmental documents in agency 
decision-making. To implement these requirements, the Committee staff 
shall:
    (1) Consider all relevant environmental documents in evaluating 
proposals for agency action;
    (2) Ensure that all relevant environmental documents, comments and 
responses accompany the proposal through the agency review processes;
    (3) Consider only those alternatives discussed in the relevant 
environmental documents when evaluating proposals for agency action; and
    (4) Where an EIS has been prepared, consider the specific 
alternative analysis in the EIS when evaluating the proposal which is 
the subject of the EIS.
    (b) For each of the Committee's actions authorized by the JWOD Act, 
the following list identifies the point at which the NEPA process 
begins, the point at which it ends, and the key agency official or 
office required to consider the relevant environmental documents as a 
part of their decision-making:
    (1) Action: Request.
    (2) Start of NEPA process: Upon receipt of request.
    (3) Completion of NEPA process: When the deciding official reviews 
the proposal and makes a determination.
    (4) Key official or office required to consider environmental 
document: When a positive determination is made under Sec. 51-7.2(b), 
the applicant in conjunction with the Committee staff will prepare the 
necessary papers.