[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: 40CFR1508.13]



[Page 892-893]

 

                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

               CHAPTER V--COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

 

PART 1508_TERMINOLOGY AND INDEX--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  1508.13  Finding of no significant impact.



    Finding of no significant impact means a document by a Federal 

agency briefly presenting the reasons why an action, not otherwise 

excluded (Sec.  1508.4), will not have a significant effect on the human 

environment and for which an environmental impact statement therefore 

will not be prepared. It shall include the environmental assessment or a 

summary of it and shall note any other environmental documents related 

to it (Sec.  1501.7(a)(5)). If the assessment is included, the finding 

need not



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repeat any of the discussion in the assessment but may incorporate it by 

reference.