[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 15, Volume 3]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 15CFR930.37]



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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE

 

CHAPTER IX--NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 

                               OF COMMERCE

 

PART 930_FEDERAL CONSISTENCY WITH APPROVED COASTAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS

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           Subpart C_Consistency for Federal Agency Activities

 

Sec. 930.37  Consistency determinations and National Environmental 

Policy Act (NEPA) requirements.



    A Federal agency may use its NEPA documents as a vehicle for its 

consistency determination or negative determination under this subpart. 

However, a Federal agency's federal consistency obligations under the 

Act are independent of those required under NEPA and are not necessarily 

fulfilled by the submission of a NEPA document. If a Federal agency 

includes its consistency determination or negative determination in a 

NEPA document, the Federal agency shall ensure that the NEPA document 

includes the information and adheres to the timeframes required by this 

subpart. Federal agencies and State agencies should mutually agree on 

how to best coordinate the requirements of NEPA and the Act.