[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 5]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 14CFR1216.314]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

                          SPACE ADMINISTRATION

 

PART 1216_ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY--Table of Contents

 

 Subpart 1216.3_Procedures for Implementing the National Environmental 

                            Policy Act (NEPA)

 

Sec. 1216.314  Tiering.



    Actions which are the subject of an environmental impact statement 

and which represents projects of broad scope may contain within them 

component actions of narrower scope, perhaps restricted to individual 

sites of activity or sequential stages of a mission, and which 

themselves may require environmental assessments and, where necessary, 

environmental impact statements. The CEQ Regulations provide that 

agencies may use ``Tiering'' (Sec. 1508.28 of the CEQ Regulations) of 

environmental impact statements to relate such broad and narrow actions. 

When employing tiering, Headquarters officials shall, by reference, make 

maximum use of environmental documentation already available, and avoid 

repetition.