[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: 40CFR1507.2]



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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

               CHAPTER V--COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

 

PART 1507_AGENCY COMPLIANCE--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  1507.2  Agency capability to comply.



    Each agency shall be capable (in terms of personnel and other 

resources) of complying with the requirements enumerated below. Such 

compliance may include use of other's resources, but the using agency 

shall itself have sufficient capability to evaluate what others do for 

it. Agencies shall:



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    (a) Fulfill the requirements of section 102(2)(A) of the Act to 

utilize a systematic, interdisciplinary approach which will insure the 

integrated use of the natural and social sciences and the environmental 

design arts in planning and in decisionmaking which may have an impact 

on the human environment. Agencies shall designate a person to be 

responsible for overall review of agency NEPA compliance.

    (b) Identify methods and procedures required by section 102(2)(B) to 

insure that presently unquantified environmental amenities and values 

may be given appropriate consideration.

    (c) Prepare adequate environmental impact statements pursuant to 

section 102(2)(C) and comment on statements in the areas where the 

agency has jurisdiction by law or special expertise or is authorized to 

develop and enforce environmental standards.

    (d) Study, develop, and describe alternatives to recommended courses 

of action in any proposal which involves unresolved conflicts concerning 

alternative uses of available resources. This requirement of section 

102(2)(E) extends to all such proposals, not just the more limited scope 

of section 102(2)(C)(iii) where the discussion of alternatives is 

confined to impact statements.

    (e) Comply with the requirements of section 102(2)(H) that the 

agency initiate and utilize ecological information in the planning and 

development of resource-oriented projects.

    (f) Fulfill the requirements of sections 102(2)(F), 102(2)(G), and 

102(2)(I), of the Act and of Executive Order 11514, Protection and 

Enhancement of Environmental Quality, Sec. 2.