[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 40, Volume 31]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 40CFR1506.3]



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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

               CHAPTER V--COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

 

PART 1506_OTHER REQUIREMENTS OF NEPA--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  1506.3  Adoption.



    (a) An agency may adopt a Federal draft or final environmental 

impact statement or portion thereof provided that the statement or 

portion thereof meets the standards for an adequate statement under 

these regulations.

    (b) If the actions covered by the original environmental impact 

statement and the proposed action are substantially the same, the agency 

adopting another agency's statement is not required to recirculate it 

except as a final statement. Otherwise the adopting agency shall treat 

the statement as a draft and recirculate it (except as provided in 

paragraph (c) of this section).

    (c) A cooperating agency may adopt without recirculating the 

environmental impact statement of a lead agency when, after an 

independent review of the statement, the cooperating agency concludes 

that its comments and suggestions have been satisfied.

    (d) When an agency adopts a statement which is not final within the 

agency that prepared it, or when the action it assesses is the subject 

of a referral under part 1504, or when the statement's adequacy is the 

subject of



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a judicial action which is not final, the agency shall so specify.